Teach for India
 |
|
| Founded | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Shaheen Mistri |
| Type | Education, Nonprofit organisation |
| Focus | Eliminating Educational Inequity in India |
| Location | |
|
Area served
|
New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore |
|
Key people
|
Shaheen Mistri - Founder & Chief Executive Officer |
| Website | www.teachforindia.org |
Teach For India (TFI) is a non-profit organisation that is a part of the Teach For All network. The Fellowship recruits college graduates and working professionals to serve as full-time teachers in low-income schools for two years. Teach For India is striving to end the problem of educational inequity in India and provide an excellent education to all children.
India has made strides in primary school enrollment but despite an initially high rate of enrollment, drop-out rates are very high. India continues to have 2.27 million children out of school. In India today, 4% of all children never start school, 58% don’t complete primary schools, 90% don’t complete secondary school, and only 10% of children go on to college. A number of reasons have been attributed for this situation, but the most popularly accepted reason is the quality of education in schools. 17% of teachers are absent from classrooms every day. India is currently facing one of the worst educational crises in the world. There are approximately 400 million children under the age of 14 with 12 million young adults joining the workforce every year. However, 52% of grade 5 children cannot read a grade 2 text. 32% of grade 2 children cannot recognize numbers and 50% of grade 5 children cannot do basic subtraction.
The TFI Fellows work across 209 schools in seven cities of India - Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad , Bengaluru and Hyderabad reaching approximately 38,000 students. The organisation's plan is to expand by 2016 to 2000 fellows working across 10 cities teaching at least 60,000 students. TFI was started in 2008 by a group of activists led by Shaheen Mistri who wanted to bring about a systemic change in the Indian education sector by infusing committed teachers into the system. The group met Wendy Kopp, CEO and Founder of Teach For America (TFA), and following a McKinsey study, started adapting Teach For America’s Theory of change in India.
...
Wikipedia