Prashant Gade is an Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist, author and speaker. He is the founder of Inali Foundation, an NGO that provides artificial arms to poor people at low cost and free of cost.
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Wiki/Biography
Prashant Gade was born in 1995 (age 25 years; as in 2020) in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh. He did his schooling from St. Pius School, Khandwa. He left electronic engineering when he was in his third year of graduation. Later, he did a six-month FAB training course in Pune. He then did a distance course in robotics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 8″
Eye colour: black
Hair Color: Black
relationships
He named his artificial invention Inali Vahane after his girlfriend. While talking about his ladylove during an interview he said,
After I left college and FAB course, there came a time when even my own parents lost faith in me. There were a lot of struggles and obstacles. He fully supported me in this.
livelihood
After leaving college, he did a job for Rs 500 in Pune. Only Rs 5000. While he was pursuing his course from Pune, he came to know about bionic hand maker Nicholas Hatchett, who had lost his hand in an accident and had made a bionic hand for himself. Later, he meets Shreya, a seven-year-old girl who was born without hands, but learns that the artificial limbs will cost more than Rs 24 lakh. Then he decided to do some work in this field and provide artificial limbs at low cost.
Prashant Gade with Nicholas Hatchett
Initially, it was difficult for him to arrange funds, but his ideas impressed the technical secretary of the Jaipur Foot Foundation (which works to aid people with disabilities), who soon asked him to help him design seven artificial hands. of. In 2016, he launched ‘Innovating New Abilities’ (INALI) to create artificial limbs at affordable prices. He worked as a research fellow in various organizations including FAB Lab and Enable Foundation. In 2016, a retired professor from the USA contacted him and provided him ten machines to make prosthetics. He named his invention Inali which is one of the most affordable bionic arms for disabled people. As of 2019, he has designed over 700 weapons and distributed them free of cost among the needy and over 300 weapons have been sold across the country. Talking about his foundation in an interview, he said,
Our mission is to travel to remote villages across India and organize free electronic weapons distribution camps every month. We are supporting Inali by selling artificial weapons at nominal prices to those who can afford to buy. But there are a lot of people out there who don’t have the money or access. We, at Inali, want to help them build their lives.
work address
Inali Foundation, 2nd Floor, Civil Lines, H-50, Sarvodaya Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh – 450001
Facts/General Knowledge
- He was very close to his grandfather, who died when Prashant was very young. After his grandfather’s funeral, Prashant asked his mother,
Why were grandfather’s clothes removed and why did he not take anything with him?”
His mother’s answer inspired him to do something for the society, his mother said,
When we die we leave everything on earth, we take nothing with us; “Even the richest people can’t take their money with them.”
- While he was in college, he started Curiosity Lab in which he taught how to build projects that were required while studying engineering.
- In an interview, he shared that his parents were not very supportive of his decision to leave engineering, saying,
Many people said I was a fool to give up the comfortable life that engineering promised. Even my parents were not convinced. He thought it was too early to work for social change. My father advises me to work on myself before working for others and hence, he enrolled me in another computer science course. But I was not going to go. I continued and tried to get money through various means. Although I got nothing at first, my idea impressed the Technical Secretary of Jaipur Foot, who soon gave me an initial grant to design seven such hands.
- He has appeared as a guest speaker at TEDx NMINS Shirpur and INK talks in 2019 and 2020.
Prashant Gade in TEDx Talks
- In 2019, he received the REX Karmaveer Global Fellowship and Karmaveer Chakra Award, instituted by iCONGO in partnership with the United Nations.
Karmaveer Chakra award to Prashant Gade
- In 2021, he was seen in the special Karmaveer episode of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 12’.
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