Tejashree Pol
Co-founderFounder of The Dharavi Dream Project
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Tejashree Pol is the co-founder of The Dharavi Dream Project (2013)[1], an Indian non-profit working on arts & culture and education from Mumbai.
The Dharavi Dream Project
The Dharavi Dream Project (legally registered as Voice of Street Music Education and Learning Foundation) has run India's first 'AfterSchool of Hip-Hop' since 2014, based in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest informal settlements. It mentors young people through hip-hop culture, dance, music, and the arts, with its site reporting more than 150 students taught by 8 instructors across 5 disciplines, and documented festival performances in Arunachal Pradesh, Bangalore, and Delhi.
The Dharavi Dream Project reports the following, on its own site:
- 150+ students nurtured by 8 instructors across 5 fields
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Mumbai
- Founded
- 2013
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “The idea of the project was sown by Samir Bangara and Dolly Rateshwar alongwith Mumbai's 2 Hip-Hop crews” — The Dharavi Dream Project. Source
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