Teaching for a better tomorrow

Hyderabad: Compelled to address the matter of educational inequality, Shaheen Mistri, initiated a youth movement – Teach For India – in 2007. Today, with over 4,000 fellowship alumni working hand-in-hand with the governments of various States, including Telangana, this organisation has been providing quality education to the kids from economically weaker backgrounds for years. Having […]

Hyderabad: Compelled to address the matter of educational inequality, Shaheen Mistri, initiated a youth movement – Teach For India – in 2007.

Today, with over 4,000 fellowship alumni working hand-in-hand with the governments of various States, including Telangana, this organisation has been providing quality education to the kids from economically weaker backgrounds for years.

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Having completed 10 years of their presence in Telangana, city director, Teach For India, Hyderabad Chapter, Vignesh Krishnan, shares that their efforts have helped several students take a strong step towards a better future. “The teachers in our network have been working tirelessly to ensure a better future for all the kids,” shares Krishnan, who joined Teach For India after he completed their fellowship in 2011, at Delhi.

“One of the most important things is that we were able to engage so many people to work with the system – right from working as a teacher in schools to working with the State governments to help form educational policies that affect the students. Our volunteers are working actively with the Telangana government to ensure a better future for all the kids in the State,” he adds.

The foundation has been working with the tribal students along with the Telangana Tribal Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society and several other programmes.

He points out that staying with the same set of students for about six to ten years has been very helpful for the kids. The first batch of students gave their tenth standard examinations in May 2020, and the second batch followed in 2021.

“One of our students from the old city was able to get into the United World College, in Pune and another student was able to secure a 100 per cent scholarship at the Aga Khan Academy,” he says.

With schools and colleges welcoming their students after being shut down for about two years due to pandemic, Krishnan says the focus now will be on ensuring all-round development of our students.

“In Hyderabad we have three priorities – getting alumni to work systematically, helping those who are showing interest in entrepreneurship and working with the State government to improve the government schools,” Krishnan concludes.

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