Provide an Excellent Education for Children in Low Income Communities

India is facing a crisis in Education. 55% of ten-year-olds in the country cannot read a basic text; the pandemic has only exacerbated this.

Over the last two years, most Indian students faced full and partial school closures. With every month of school closure leading to two months of learning loss, Indian students have lost up to 1.5 years of learning.

As schools open, there is an urgent need for Students to reverse the learning loss they have suffered from and reach the levels of their current grades, i.e., a grade six student needs to catch up on over two years of learning to understand the syllabus of a grade six classroom. 

Reversing this learning loss is a priority - yet still not enough to bridge the huge learning gap and secure the future of India's children. We need to get our children back to grade-level learning after two years of interrupted education.

At Teach For India, we believe leadership for education is the solution to this crisis. We are building a movement of leaders who will eliminate educational inequity in India. 

Started in 2009, the Fellowship is an opportunity for India's brightest and most promising people, from the nation's best universities and workplaces, to serve as full-time teachers to children from low-income communities in some of the nation's most under-resourced schools for two years. 

Through two years of teaching and working with key education stakeholders, our Fellows are exposed to the grassroots realities of India's education system. Through their work, Fellows cultivate the knowledge, skills, and mindsets needed to attain leadership positions in and beyond education, working collectively to build a vibrant movement for educational equity across India.

We at Teach For India are working towards an ambitious vision - 'One day, all children will attain an excellent education.' 

Our recent efforts have led to significant impact, which we want to sustain over this academic year:

Improved access to learning - During the pandemic, 94% of students had access to devices, and teaching hours have doubled since last year, even when school closures were unpredictable and erratic.

Learning continued even in the Pandemic: ~70% of Students have grown or maintained their English Grade Reading levels through the pandemic. 65% of secondary school Students have increased absolute Math scores in the past six months. This means Teach For India Students have stagnated the increase in learning losses and largely managed to stay at the same pre-pandemic levels.

A scaling Alumni Movement - 71% of our Fellow Alumni stay in the Education and Development sector. Our 4000+ Alumni impact 33 million children in India.

Now more than ever, we need our Fellows in our classrooms to deliver the vision of excellent education we have set out for and make sure all our students can understand and learn at the grade levels they should be. To do this, we need support. Your contribution will help us go a long way to reverse the learning losses faced by our Students.

Your donation will ensure that we can onboard enough Fellow teachers, train and support them, and provide the supplies they need in their classrooms to ensure our Students #dontstoplearning. 

Teach For India is building a movement of leaders who will eliminate educational inequity and provide excellent education to all children.

You can support us by donating today.