LG girl and friend raise $8K for eye surgeries in rural India | Los Gatan | Los Gatos, California

LG girl and friend raise $8K for eye surgeries in rural India | Los Gatan | Los Gatos, California

Last month, Los Gatos 14-year-old Dhiya Padmanabhan and her friend Anithra Shradha Narayanan, who is going into Grade 12 at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, held a dance fundraiser based on classical South Asian dance forms to raise money for people who need eye surgery in rural India. “The girls reached their fundraising goal one day before the event,” says Padmanabhan’s mom, Vidhya Venkitakrishnan. “We stand at $8,094 as of today.” Narayanan …