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Michael Babu Raj
AREA OF FOCUS
Children & youth affected and infected with HIV
ABOUT
Michael believes strongly in the power of education in building leadership and enabling spaces. Working with the Sneha Charitable Trust (SCT) his work has a specific focus on children with HIV infections. The Fellowship they’re working to launch will facilitate the completion of schooling in the context of stigma, specialized healthcare needs as well as economic challenges, psycho-social support, vocational training and life skill education.
Bengaluru
Tabish Bilal
AREA OF FOCUS
Prevention of Crime
ABOUT
Tabish's experiences working with underprivileged children from a variety of backgrounds made him realize the transformative power of education. A strong believer that the actions of the past should not define their future, he set up 'Project Second Chance.' A project under Turn Your Concern Into Action (TYCIA), working to educate the incarcerated. Through their Fellowship Model, they help build capabilities and life skills, making them ready for the outside world.
New Delhi
Vaishnavi Srinivasan
AREA OF FOCUS
Holistic Education
ABOUT
Vaishnavi’s personal experiences with the education gap, left her determined to end this cycle of low confidence and low-quality education. With this end goal in mind, ‘Bhumi’ works to transform school systems into more holistic learning systems. Their Fellowship Program presently allows for Fellows to contribute their own innovative teaching methods and to build a forum for idea exchange and proof of value. Ultimately, they hope to create leaders in education and to build a self-sustaining system of change.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Pratap Kumar Pradhan
AREA OF FOCUS
Holistic Education
ABOUT
The organization ‘Gramothhan’ has a dual focus on both education and ecology, working to create learning spaces that promote sustainable local livelihoods. Pratap believes in the power of empathetic education and the capacity for teachers to be social change makers. This change is soon to be implemented by fellows and students based within these communities. With over five years of experience across the development sector and skill development, he has made it his life's goal to be engaged in meaningful service to others.
Sonepur, Odisha
Sakshi Srivastava
AREA OF FOCUS
Out of School Children
ABOUT
Sakshi's organisation, Anubhuti, works to exponentially minimize school dropouts with their integrated, community-driven curriculum. With her diverse set of experiences working with organizations and Programs like Goonj, Gandhi Fellowship and the Chief Minister Good Governance Program, she is uniquely placed in creating holistic educational interventions.
Ghaziabad, UP
AREA OF FOCUS
Academics through peer learning
ABOUT
Samyak's personal experiences in peer mentorship gave him a new perspective on educational inequity in India. As the first organisation in India focused on delivering a contemporarily relevant syllabus based on collaborative, peer-learning ‘Involve Learning Solutions’ is creating an all-new learning ecosystem. By empowering students within the community to act as educators, they have a unique model of Fellowship which inculcates values such as agency and responsibility.
Chennai & Bengaluru
Samyak Jain
Dr. Kamlesh Atwal
AREA OF FOCUS
Academics
ABOUT
Kamlesh strongly believes that social equity goes hand in hand with education. To that end, his school ’Nanakmatta’ focuses on teaching not just academics but also a way of life. At this school, traditional rote learning takes a back seat to a meaningful understanding of the subject matter. They’re presently looking to achieve this vision through the launch of a Fellowship Program. Having a diverse set of students, he works to cultivate a learning space of inclusion and sensitivity to minorities.
Uttarakhand
Vidhya Das
AREA OF FOCUS
Academics and Holistic Education
ABOUT
Her unique understanding of the systemic and multi-layered exploitation of the poor inspired Vidhya to create ‘Agragamee.’ With a dual focus on economic development and social mobilization, it has a reach across the most backward blocks of Odisha. They presently have an open volunteering service but are looking to launch a Fellowship Program soon. With credentials ranging from the Jamnalal Bajaj Award to the Odisha Legends Award, Agragamee has certainly left its mark in the education sector.
Rural Odisha
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Venkatesan N
AREA OF FOCUS
Out of School Children
ABOUT
Venkatesan's personal experiences with vernacular schooling in a small town, made him realize the revolutionary power of education. Through Vidya Poshak, he works to provide support structures to young, meritorious students constrained only by a systemic lack of resources. Vidya Poshak is almost entirely community driven with donors, resource persons and student volunteers. Through finances, guidance, skill training as well as educational resources, Vidya Poshak works to empower the youth to be change makers and leaders going forward.
Dharwad, Karnataka
Ganesh Birajdar
AREA OF FOCUS
Holistic Education
ABOUT
With a specialization in cognitive science and psychology, Ganesh approaches holistic education from a uniquely informed perspective. Learning Companions’ Fellowship Program involves young graduates who not only facilitate learning but also document the entirety of the process to streamline it further. With a focus on children from rural backgrounds, Ganesh is working to create the next generation of Agripreneurs.
Nagpur, Maharashtra
Summaiya Afreen
AREA OF FOCUS
Holistic Education
ABOUT
Tired of these socially constructed gender roles, Summaiya was inspired to revolutionise the system from within. She co-founded a Social Enterprise Lakshya Jeevan Jagriti working not only with children but also their mothers. With a Masters Degree in Social Work and over ten years of experience in the women empowerment spaces, she has a unique perspective and understanding of these issues. With a wide range of programs from developing IT capabilities to vocational and corporate skills, she works to empower women to be leaders in their communities.