In the face of the COVID 19 situation, there are many children who face the possibility of losing out on education and becoming child labourers. Here’s one organization that is making a difference! Teach for India is here to help.
Education is the base for all career opportunities. Without proper knowledge and education, it is impossible for a person to survive in the corporate world. The world is transforming into a technology hub and so is our educational system. But, there are many under-resourced areas where education does not reach and students there don’t get the chance to explore their skills and talent. The TEACH FOR INDIA motto hopes to make education available to one and all.
Teach For India believes that India’s students need and deserve a holistic educational experience – one that equips them with the knowledge, skills and mindsets to succeed.
Teach for India (TFI) is a non-profit organization that is a part of the Teach for All network. The fellowship recruit’s college graduates and working professionals to serve as full-time teachers in low-income schools for two years.
The Teach for India is a fellow partnership program, where India’s promising youth and brightest teachers from the nation best universities and institutions will be appointed to serve and teach students who come from low- income backgrounds. The Teach for India is organizing these classroom sessions with the education stakeholders like the students, parents and principles of various schools, helps the fellow learners to get exposed to India’s education system. Their main aim is to cultivate an environment of education adaptability.
The Teach for India functions on two main theories:
- The short-term theory is that, through the fellowship program they will provide an opportunity to India’s best educational individuals to do a full time teaching for students from low-income communities and who come from India’s most under-resourced schools. This way they will be able to expose the fellow learners to the education system that prevails in our country and also make them identify their role in changing the idea of educational equality.
- In long run, the Teach in India wishes to create their alumina of competent teachers, students, educationalists, lawyers, reporters, journalists, school principals, school-trainers, curricular designers and many more people, wherein they all can come together and accelerate their powers to achieve educational equality that will lead a positive change in many lives all around India. This act will help students attain what they truly deserve and obtain the opportunity to shine bright in the near future.
About Teach for India
The Teach for India is a pure initiative by Shaheen, who started social work 17 years back. Teach for India aims to create bright spots with the possibility of inculcating education for all. Their main aim is to create a society full of skill, knowledge and expertise. They aim to change society in such a way that every student gets the opportunity to study and explore the intellectual within them.
You too can volunteer and become a part of this commendable journey. You can also donate a small amount toward the bright future of these students. You can help them achieve their motive of making education available to each and every child of this nation.
Reference: https://www.globalgiving.org/pfil/14924/projdoc.pdf
