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Akshay Saxena
Co-founderFounder of Avanti Fellows
Akshay Saxena is the co-founder of Avanti Fellows[1], an Indian non-profit working on education from Bengaluru.
Avanti Fellows
Avanti Fellows provides free, peer-mentored coaching in maths and science to help talented students from low-income government and low-fee schools crack competitive entrance exams such as JEE and NEET. Based in Bengaluru, it recruits senior students and young professionals as near-peer mentors and blends this with technology-based practice to close the coaching-access gap.
Avanti Fellows reports the following, on its own site:
- Self-Paced Online program reaches 900 students
- Online Live Classes reach 500 students across 4 states
- 39 Centres of Excellence serving 2,591 students
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