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Shaheen Mistri is the founder of Teach For India (2008)[1] and The Akanksha Foundation[2], Indian non-profits working on education and women & children from Mumbai.
Teach For India
Teach For India is a nonprofit that recruits college graduates and working professionals as full-time Fellows to teach for two years in low-income schools. Part of the Teach For All network, it works to build a movement of leaders addressing educational inequity in India.
Teach For India reports the following, on its own site:
- 5,800+ people have completed the two-year Fellowship
- 19,000+ leaders (Fellows, Alumni and Student Alumni) across 9 cities
- 80%+ of Alumni continue working in education and social development
- 16,000+ Student Alumni from Teach For India classrooms
The Akanksha Foundation
Akanksha runs a network of schools in Mumbai and Pune in partnership with municipal bodies, providing quality education to children from low-income communities. It focuses on strong academics, values and life skills.
The Akanksha Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 14,600 students across 27 schools
- 760+ educators
- 88% of Akanksha alumni are employed or self-employed
- 78% of students graduate performing better than the state average
- Organisations
- 2
- Based in
- Mumbai
- Founded
- 2008
- Press
- 8
References
- [1] “Shaheen Mistri Founder and CEO” — Teach For India. Source
- [2] “Shaheen Mistri Founder of Akanksha; CEO, Teach for India” — The Akanksha Foundation. Source
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