By Neha Gupta | Executive Director
Thanks to YOUR support, we’re one step closer to an India where one day ALL children can realize their fullest potential through an excellent education.
Today, over 33,000 children learn and thrive daily in 220+ low-income classrooms across 8 cities, guided by 1,000+ Teach For India Didis & Bhaiyas (Fellows)— India's brightest talent recruited diligently with a highly selective 6% acceptance rate.
What began as a two-year Fellowship has now grown into a 15-year movement for education equity— where 5,300+ Fellow Alumni and 15,000+ Student Alumni* are leading efforts to transform the education system and reach India's forgotten children. The ecosystem-level impact of this movement is being felt and recognized by independent non-profits like Darsa in their India Nonprofit Report: Role, Evolution, and Impact report.
As we look towards a bold North Star of creating 50,000 leaders for India's education system, the need to go beyond the Fellowship and nurture entrepreneurs and students eager to drive systemic change becomes paramount. Thanks to partners like YOU encouraging us to #DreamBigger, the exciting Build More Leader programs at TFI are enabling hundreds of success stories across the education ecosystem.
Empowering Local Movements of Transformation
TFIx is TFI’s incubation and lifelong learning program, empowering local education entrepreneurs to launch and sustain high-impact, community-rooted teaching Fellowships. Today:
One such leader is Anshu Jaiswal, a 2024–25 TFIx entrepreneur, who launched the Swabhiman Fellowship in Bihar’s brick kilns. Through this initiative, Swabhiman Fellows — a powerful group of local changemakers— run Akshar Learning Centers within kiln communities, breaking cycles of generational bondage that echo modern-day slavery. Their work is transforming the lives of kiln workers’ children, giving them access to education, dignity, and hope. Since inception, they've had incredible impact with 400+ children enrolled last year, 250 families receiving essential documents & social security and over 3,000 children reached.
Thanks to TFIx, thousands of children— once invisible in government records— proudly count to 100 in class. Their hands and hearts, once heavy with labor, are now filled with learning and dreams.
Turning Curiosity into Systemic Change
InnovatED, TFI's nine-month incubation platform, builds a network of education entrepreneurs transforming learning nationwide. With 59 entrepreneurs incubated and 1.35 million children reached globally, the program gives these dreamers unparalleled support and opportunity. Alumni ventures have experienced:
From helping launch Inqui-Lab Foundation that nurtures creativity and agency among students across India, the Maldives, and Bhutan to technology solutions like Zeffko that reimagine school management systems for low-income schools, InnovatED is creating the system support desperately needed beyond the school for low-income children to thrive.
Kids as Changemakers: Unleashing Student Leadership
TFI's Kids Education Revolution (KER), is reimagining education with empowering students to take action now, not someday. With 1,300+ student leaders developed and 100,000+ student revolutionaries and educations involved, the new paradigm for education focuses on the “8Cs"— Curiosity, Courage, Compassion, Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, and Citizenship. All skills that are critical ingredients for success in the modern workplace and go far beyond foundational literacy and numeracy.
A leading example of these revolutionaries is Astha Chaubey, who began her Community of Wisdom project in 11th grade, mobilizing peers for local change and developing leadership skills in low-income community's children through a 2 month program. Today, the program works with four government schools across Pune helping kids innovate different sustainable solutions to solve their community's problems.
Young leaders like her continue to prove that age is no barrier to impact and Kids can truly revolutionize education.
The Power of YOU
None of this is possible without your belief and generosity. Because of YOUR support of the TFI movement, forgotten spaces are becoming classrooms, laborers are becoming learners and children in the highest need communities are transforming into dreamers and leaders. Together, we’re rewriting India’s education story— one entrepreneur, one classroom, one community at a time.
Thank you for being an irreplaceable part of this movement!
*Teach For India Student Alumni are former students who completed their education through 10th grade in TFI classrooms— and are now changemakers in their own right. Over 70 have returned as Fellows, continuing the cycle of transformation and proving that leadership is indeed contagious.
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