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Vedika Agarwal
FounderFounder of Yein Udaan
Vedika Agarwal is the founder of Yein Udaan[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and women & children from Chennai.
Yein Udaan
Yein Udaan is a grassroots education initiative founded by Vedika Agarwal, working in Chennai's Chetpet dhobighat community to provide 'cradle to college' education support for under-resourced children, alongside co-curricular programs and community learning spaces for women. It is a small, community-rooted organisation rather than a large one.
Yein Udaan reports the following, on its own site:
- 100% pass rate in public exams and school graduation
- 84% of students identify our centres as their only safe space
- 65% of the team is from Chetpet's dhobighat community
- 2.5 lakh+ people reached with critical aid and relief supplies
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Chennai
- Founded
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- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Listen to our founder Vedika Agarwal highlighting why understanding a child's background matters in teaching in her TEDx talk titled "The Transformative Power of Belonging"” — Yein Udaan. Source
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