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Teach For India (TFI) is a non-profit founded by Shaheen Mistri in 2009. It is a part of the Teach For All network. [1] Teach For India runs a two-year Fellowship and supports an Alumni movement. The Fellowship recruits college graduates and working professionals to serve as full-time teachers in low-income schools for two years. [2]
Shaheen Mistri (born 16 March 1971) is an Indian social activist and educator known as the founder of Akanksha Foundation, and social activist, an Indian non-profit educational initiative in Mumbai and Pune, Occupation in CEO of Teach for India since 2008. [1] [2] Books Redrawing India, The Teach for India story, Miss Muglie Goes to Mumbai.
The Friends of Tribals Society (FTS), or Vanbandhu Parishad, is a volunteer organization formed in 1989 with the goal of improving literacy and health among the Adivasi, rural tribal people in India. The society operates one-teacher schools in the villages, led by trained members of the local community. [1]
The Akanksha Foundation founded by Shaheen Mistri [1] is a non-profit organization in India, which works with children from low-income communities. The foundation works primarily in the field of education, through its "School Project" model.
Feroze was also an ambassador for World Wildlife Fund, with a particular interest in the welfare of the Indian elephant. She is a volunteer for Teach for India and the curator for TEDx Delhi. [21] She has also been brand ambassador and advisor to numerous leading international fashion brands including Burberry, [22] Tod's etc.
Redrawing India: The Teach For India Story opened up to mostly positive reviews. Column Writer Mudar Patherya of Mumbai Mirror wrote in his review, " If I could get a dress circle view into one of India's fastest growing NGOs without knowing the chairperson or chapraasi, then someone at the NGO has been doing a smart job."
Khel Khel Mein Foundation (KKMF or KKM Foundation) is a non-profit organisation, currently operating in the "Sports for development" space and aims to bring competitive sport to children studying at low-income city schools, rural schools and communities in India.
Robert Blackwill, former U.S. Ambassador to India and United States National Security Council Deputy for Iraq at the beginning of the Iraq War (Malawi 1964–66) Richard Boucher , American diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Senegal, 1973–75)