Risha Borooah

Founder

Founder of North East Educational Trust (NEET)

Risha Borooah is the founder of North East Educational Trust (NEET)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education from Guwahati.

Risha Borooah is the founder and managing trustee of the North East Educational Trust, a public charitable trust based in Guwahati, Assam, that works on children's language learning, teacher education and community libraries in north-east India.

Career

Borooah established the North East Educational Trust in 2009. The trust states that its aim is to create educational cultures that support autonomous, creative and critical thinkers.

Its language learning programme works in schools in the Kamrup and Sonitpur districts of Assam, using child-centred teaching methods and supporting teachers' professional development. A separate teacher education programme trains government and private school teachers across several districts of Assam in language teaching and in setting up and running school libraries. The trust also runs a community library in Guwahati.[2][3]

North East Educational Trust (NEET)

North East Educational Trust (NEET) is a Guwahati, Assam public charitable trust founded in 2009. It works to enhance children's capacity for critical thinking and creative expression through innovative teaching and learning methods, engaging directly with children, communities, educators, and schools.

North East Educational Trust (NEET) reports the following, on its own site: