Elizabeth Mehta
FounderFounder of Muktangan
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Elizabeth Mehta is the founder of Muktangan[1], an Indian non-profit working on education from Mumbai.
Muktangan
Muktangan runs a network of seven fee-free English-medium municipal schools in Mumbai's G-South Ward, training local low-income women as teachers to deliver child-centred, inclusive education to over 4,000 underprivileged children, plus outreach teacher-training reaching thousands more.
Muktangan reports the following, on its own site:
- 3,800+ children directly benefitted through active learning year on year
- 97,000+ children indirectly benefitted through outreach projects
- 1,000+ teachers and teacher educators developed
- 99% average school pass percentage over 9 years in SSC examinations
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- Mumbai
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References
- [1] “Muktangan was founded by Mrs. Elizabeth Mehta, who is a renowned educationist with over five decades of experience in teaching, curriculum development, education management and pedagogical research.” — Muktangan. Source
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