I am currently a Fellow with Teach For India and have committed the next two years of my life to full time teaching 30 kids from low income households in an under-resourced school in Seelampur New Delhi.
As an individual I come to you as a spokesperson for 30 individuals of tomorrow of this nation as I try my best to provide them an excellent education over the next two years. At Teach For India we believe that every child deserves an excellent education and we work towards providing equal opportunities to children from under-privileged communities across 5 cities in India.
Share a little joy, a little dream, share some hope and a little belief. Donate now to bring a change in the lives of the children of India. I Teach For India, Support me in a movement against educational inequity in this country.
As a fellow, I am striving to provide my children of 2A at Gangotri Public School, Seelampur a better life path.
I have always believed in the power and strength of dreaming and conviction. As children we always had dreams to become someone big and successful and I remember dreaming to be an astronaut when I was in grade 4. When I started working with children from under-resourced communities I realized that the ability to dream is also a luxury that only a few educated individuals can afford because for most of these children their communities are their world and they do not know at all about the world that lies outside their restricted environment and this curtails their ability to hope, dream or aspire.
With Dream A Little CampaignI am deeply invested and working towards imparting my students the ability to dream, and to dream big and towards imparting requisite skills necessary to fulfill their dreams.
I present to you an opportunity to help and support me in my initiative to bring excellent education to these kids.
How to help?
- Come Volunteer in my classroom at Seelampur. If the distance is an issue for you let me know about your whereabouts and I’ll let you know about the nearest classroom you could volunteer in and will get you in touch with a Teach For India Fellow working near you.
- Donate money– You can donate in both cash and cheque. You can write a cheque in favor of Teach To Lead. Please note that you will be given requisite receipts for your donation money. This money will be used in purchase of books for children and to improve classroom and school infrastructure. If you want to donate money for a specific purpose, please specify it and I shall comply to your request. Details of expenditure will also be provided upon request. Any amount is welcome and the smallest of contributions can help pave the way for an excellent education for these kids.
- Donate Books – Donate children books or books that you think can add value to a Child’s education. You can also donate magazines, Readers digest, Comic Books, Science magazines, News Magazines, etc are all welcome.
- Donate Board Games– The school has just one swing and Board games bring not only joy to the classroom but also are great for learning. Ludo can help understand numbers and helps learn quick addition and subtraction and monopoly requires math skills too. So donate a Board Game.
- Donate Stationery – Any and every kind of stationery is very useful in a classroom. Feel free to drop in anything from pens to crayons to notebooks etc.
- 6. If you have any other idea, please feel free to share it. I would love to hear from you !
Please note that while I am directly responsible for 30 kids at Gangotri school, there are 6 Teach For India Fellows in the same school, and given that these resources will be shared among all Teach For India Classrooms, YOU have the potential to impact 180 Children and that is a pretty good feeling.
Teach For India’s note on India’s Educational Crisis
- 8 millionchildren never go to school
- Of those that do, only 58% complete primary school
- At Teach For India, the fact that only 10% of our children go on to college both saddens and angers us.
Teach For India exists because of a deep belief that every child can and must attain an excellent education. Teach For India exists to prove that no child’s demographics should determine their destiny. To us, the end of educational inequity is the freedom for all children to have the opportunity to reach their potential. And the day that all children reach their potential is the day that India reaches her potential.
Teach For India believes that that day will come in our lifetime.
Teach For India believes that it will take a movement of leaders with the idealism, belief, skills and commitment to actualize this vision. We are committed to finding, developing and supporting India’s brightest, most promising leaders for this to happen.
Impact and Academic Growth observed in Teach For India Classrooms
Teach For India currently employs 516 fellows and impacts 16,216 children across the country and is aiming towards increasing this impact.
We structure our program around the rigorous curriculum developed by Educational Initiatives, in addition to teaching the SSC curriculum. Most of our students have skill-levels 2-4 years behind their current grade level and we aim for a minimum of 1.5 years, on average, of skills-growth from their incoming skill level for each student in Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Math, Grammar and Writing.
In 2010-2011 academic year students in Teach For India classrooms achieved an average of:
1.7 years of skill growth in Grammar
1.4 years in Writing
1.2 years in Speaking and Listening
1.1 years in Reading Fluency
1.0 years in Reading Comprehension
60% of Teach For India classrooms made over 1.2 years of growth in Math
Contact Details :
If you want to know more about Teach For India please visit www.teachforindia.org
If you have any queries about Dream A Little Campaign please feel free to reach out to me at mayank.vashistha2012@teachforindia.org or mayankisv@gmail.com
I would love to hear from you if you have anything to share !
Thank you for your time and patience.
Mayank Vashistha
Fellow, Teach For India.
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