Small Hands Do Big Things-Teach For India (TFL)
It is a Not-For-Profit organization and Non-Business entity, it is an organization conservatively dedicated to furthering an exacting social cause or advocating for a mutual point of view is a part of Teach for All networks. The fellowships can recruit as college graduates and work as full-time teachers in low-income schools just for two years.
The main purpose of Teach for India was to end the problem of education inequality in India and provide the most excellent education in India to all the children.
Early Life
Shaheen Mistri was born on 16 March in Mumbai, India 1971 in a Parsi family. She is an Indian social activist, children educator, founder of Akanksha Foundation, and Chief Executive Officer of Teach for India (TFI). She is the author of a book Re-drawing India 2014. She grows-up in five different countries as she moves with his father to different countries. His father was a senior banker. At the age of 18, she returns back to Mumbai as she wants to learn more about the city and enroll in the University of Mumbai. She graduated in Sociology from St. Xavier’s College with a BA degree and later on got the degree of MA from the University of Manchester.
Beginning of Struggle
Shaheen Mistri is the founder of The Akanksha Foundation, an Indian non-profit learning scheme in Mumbai and Pune. In 2006, after 17 years of opening the Akanksha Foundation, Shaheen feels obliged to concentrate on educational inequity the most important issue at that rank.
As she has the solution, she thought that the answer was put down in a people’s movement that needed to collaborate to provide every child in India a premium education. In 2007, Shaheen gathers with the Founder of Teach for America (TFA) and Wendy Kopp and start following a McKinsey study, and start adapting Teach for America (TFA) Theory to make a change in India.
However, in the 2008 summer season, Shaheen Mistri wishes for a systemic change in the Indian education sector by infusing teachers into the organization.
She founded an organization known as Teach for India, with a bold dream of providing an excellent education to all the children across India by building a channel of leaders committed to ending educational inequity. The Teach for India (TFI) enlists most talented college graduate students and young professionals to teach in low-income schools and effort to overpass the educational space in the country.
Global Movement
The Teach for India (TFI) is a division of the Teach for All Networks, a rising grouping of self-governing organizations that works to increase educational opportunities in the nation. Teach for All network is a stage for mutual learning and profound meeting across many countries. The 40 countries in the network at the moment share a common dream that one day all children will attain an outstanding education.
Commitments
The fellows of Teach for India assign for two years, full-time service, to provide the students with the best education which can put them on different life paths. The Fellowship passage is one of teaching, working for children while budding your guidance.
Each Fellow is assigned a classroom in one of Teach for India’s position cities and charged to teach academics, principles, and standards to give the students the access and experience they need to accomplish their individual, long-standing visions. A framework at Teach for India (TFI) is known as Leadership Development Journey, and has three important commitments:
- The Commitment to Personal Transformation: Exploring who you really are, your principle, and determined to be a better person.
- The Commitment to Collective Action: Building associations and organizing partners to multiply and intensify the impact.
- The Commitment to Educational Equity: Deepen sympathetic of educational equity and committing to attaining it.
Awards
· Ashoka Fellow (2001)
· Global Leader for Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum (2002)
· Asia Society 21 Leader (2006)
