Teach for India

Teach For India works to help children from poor urban families gain access to an education that will enable them to reach their full potential and contribute to India's development. Most of the communities Teach For India Fellows work in are characterized by poor living conditions. The parents of students are mostly illiterate, working in low-paid insecure jobs. Some Fellows are placed in schools in areas where there is a history of communal violence between different religious groups.

Teach To Lead assesses the model regularly using both internal and external indicators. The organization has set growth targets for both Fellows and children. The aim is to ensure that every year each student improves by 1.5 years in English and Math. Teach For India documents the qualitative and quantitative growth for each student in terms of the inculcation of values and academics, evaluating the attitudes of the children before and after the first 12 months of the 2-year Fellowship program.

Since starting in 2009 with 78 Fellows in 34 schools with 2,731 students, Teach For India has grown to 506 Fellows in 164 schools with 16,216 students. The model has expanded from 2 cities in 2009 to include 6 cities across India (Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, and Hyderabad).