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Search Begins For More Volunteers, New Batch To Begin Teaching From June
By akanshaa, Section Training
Do you need a break from corporate life? Do you want to spend a couple of years doing your bit to change the world? Well, here's your chance.
The Teach For India (TFI) project a social initiative that calls upon young professionals and college graduates to devote two years of their lives teaching in some of the country's underprivileged schools is scouting around for its second batch of Fellows who will start teaching from June next year. Those who wish to apply can do so online via www.teachforindia.org by November 22. Teach For India is headed by Shaheen Mistri, founder of Akanksha, an NGO that works with kids. It is modelled around the Teach For America programme in the US. ``I think the most compelling reason to join the programme is so that you can be part of a movement where you can see the difference you are making to the world, and truly affect change. Secondly, I think the situation is truly win-win. While doing something for your country, you can actually see a transformation in yourself,'' says Mistri. The programme was launched in India for the first time this year. The response was phenomenal. The first batch of TFI Fellows a motley bunch of youngsters from the country's most coveted corporates and colleges donned the role of a teacher in rundown, dilapidated schools in Mumbai and Pune. And they say they're loving it. Source: Times Of India Search begins for more volunteers Click On "Full Story" For More....
Ever since he joined the TFI programme, Amit Sharma has kids on his mind 24/7. ``Every time I see a picture, I think of how I could use it in the classroom,'' he says. Not so long ago, this MBA from IMT Ghaziabad had a high-profile job with Mahindra.
TFI is a full-time paid programme. After two years, TFI Fellows will get placed in corporates, social sector jobs, the government and in higher educational institutions through the TFI network. Currently, over 6,000 youngsters have applied for the second batch of TFI. They are from institutions such as the IITs, IIMs Harvard, Princeton, as well as corporates like Deloitte, Thermax, ICICI, Accenture.
Several corporates and educational institutions like Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd and the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research have thrown their lot behind Teach for India.
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