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Yogesh Bhavani Shankar (born 13 March 1991) commonly referred to as Yogesh or Yogi is an Indian Corporate employee-turned-social worker who does free services in the disabled sector (specially with visually challenged and hearing Impaired).

Early Life ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Yogesh was born at Bowring hospital in Bengaluru Karnataka on 13 March 1991. His father, Shiva Shankar was a Legal advisor and his mother Bhavani House maker. Yogesh has three siblings: two elder brothers Santosh and Harish, and a Twin Sister Renuka. All three siblings are married.

His dream was to become an Indian army officer and serve the nation but unfortunately due to his fathers death he stepped back looking at his mother. His Inspiration was major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Swamy Vivekananda, Mother Theresa and Sachin Tendulkar.

Career ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Yogesh started doing his first social service in 2005 when he was in 10th standard they had been taken to a charity home called sishu bhavan (orphan age of mentally retarded kids started by mother theresa) at lingarajpuram bengaluru. On that day he decided that he want to do something special for the disabled sector. After the completion of his degree BBM(Bachelor of business management) he joined IBM company Bengaluru, within 6 months he quit the job and joined Zen power technologies Simultaneously he completed his MBA(Master of business administration). When he was doing his degree he started writing exams for the visually impaired students (Scribe) and also he was arranging scribes for 20-30 visually challenged students. After the completion of his degree he founded EYESAHAI team in 2015, which has a good number of volunteers and organize events for visually challenged students and other disabled people.

After his 3 years service in Zen power technologies pvt ltd. He decided to do full time social service for the society. He joined as mentor in Snehadeep trust for the disabled which is an NGO(Non government organization) gives free hostel, accomodation, food, computer training and soft skill training for the visually impaired students. He used to teach english communication, soft skills, and Interview training for the visually impaired and hearing impaired students through sign language. He and his EYESAHAI team has been very active in organizing many events of Snehadeep trust for the disabled.