Company: Akanksha Foundation

The Akanksha Foundation is a non--profit organization with a mission to provide children from low--income communities with a high--quality education, enabling them to maximize their potential and transform their lives. Akanksha works primarily in the field of education, addressing formal education by initiating school reform through its School Project. The Akanksha School Project represents our first effort to work with the formal school system in Mumbai and Pune. It is an effort by Akanksha to extend its activities in the field of education, leveraging our experiences from nearly twenty years of work with children from low-income communities to improve the quality of learning in public schools. Specifically, Akanksha hopes to provide inputs in the fields of teaching, extra-curricular activities and community engagement that will significantly enhance the learning opportunities for children in these schools, demonstrating what is possible for children from low-income communities to achieve given the right opportunities. Currently, Akanksha runs 26 schools in partnership with the government in Mumbai, Nagpur and Pune, and aims to start more schools in the next academic year. Overview of the Team: The Akanksha Schools aim to be high-quality schools serving children from low-income communities in Mumbai and Pune. These schools work in partnership with local municipalities, with the vision of creating small clusters of model schools in these cities that can be used to impact the mainstream education system. The School Team comprises teachers, social workers, school administrator and helpers led by the School Leader.

Graduate from any stream; and Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Education

English communication, Strong content knowledge and expertise

Preschool & Primary Education Teacher