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By Mehak Malik on 10 Comments / 3649 views

Hello everyone,

I’m working with Teach for India- a well known not-for-Profit organization with a mission to improve the quality of education in India. We work as fellows placed in schools across India and run intervention classrooms. What started five years ago with just 1 city and about 50 fellows has now spread across five cities with a team of 700 fellows. This year, our network has reached 209 schools and we are still growing strong.

Find out more here : https://www.teachforindia.org/

I am placed in National Public School, a low income school in East Delhi where I teach 33 fantastic kids. I am going to be teaching them for 2 years and I aim to bridge the gap their circumstance imposes on them. However, I understand that the reality of the school is very harsh but I see it as an opportunity to change so many things. 

I want my classroom to be a warm and welcoming environment with a library. The walls should reflect colour, joy in the classroom and the achievements of the students. I want the children to think critically and creatively in every situation. I want to push them to be leaders so that they can affect change in their community. In the 2 years I want this vision to spread beyond my own classroom and envelope the entire school. 

This is only possible with some support with resources and hence another Teach for India fellow from my school,Abhishek and I are jointly partnering with GiveIndia to raise funds for our classrooms. Every donation is important and I want to urge you to be generous. You can donate to our classrooms through this page securely while qualifying for a 50% deduction on your income tax on the amount donated. Rest assured we will be accountable for every rupee used.

Please go through the page below to see how we intend to use this money over the next 2 years.

https://www.giveindia.org/igive-nationalpublicschool

(We have this page up for 5 more days only – till 9th Sept. If you are willing to lend a helping hand, I would urge you to not procrastinate.)

In other exciting news!! – We have a facebook page for the classroom coming up so you can see what we are upto! 

Also, please share this with anyone you know who could help and be sure to check out my classroom pictures attached below.

Lastly, if you can provide us with any sort of in-kind help like old books, PCs, etc. do let us know.

You can reach out to me for questions anytime on

mehak.malik2013@teachforinida.org

+91-9953432946

Thanks for reading this far.

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  1. Very nice initiative Mehak. One thing that caught my attention was the peace maker rules and in that rule no 7. Just curious to know what that means? 

  2. Thanks Sanjay! That just means that students won’t engage in separate/off the topic/individual discussions during a class.

  3. hi mehak,

    pls check this post out – feel free to comment here to get in touch with sameer.

    https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/national-geographic-explorer-magazines-available-for-donating-to

  4. only issue is, he is based in mumbai and you’re in delhi 🙁

  5. Hi Mehak,

    Would like to spend some time teaching kids at TFI. However I can’t spare full time for two years as stipulated. Do let me know the procedure. Thanks

    Yogesh

  6. Hi Yogesh,

    You can contribute sometime every week as per your availability and be a volunteer in a TFI classroom. Please visit this link:
    https://teachforindia.org/volunteer

    Thanks and good luck 🙂

  7. People still willing to help and support our classrooms and school can donate to us via Teach For India’s website as the fundraiser has expired. You can do so by visiting the following page –

    https://teachforindia.org/donate/give-instantly

    The last question on this page allows you to designate this amount to a particular fellow. Please make sure to click on the ‘Specific Fellow’ option and Write ‘Mehak Malik’ or ‘Abhishek Asthana’ as fellow’s name. 

    Thanks 🙂

  8. Hi Mehak,

    If you want then i can share your requirement information on our portal. We arrange things for social entrepreneurs or social Activist. Do contact.

    https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/indian-malala-a-change-maker-aarti-naik

    Regards
    Saurav Sharma
    MaStyle Care
    http://www.mastylecare.org
    http://www.facebook.com/mastylecare

  9. Hi Saurav,

    It would be really great if you can share details on your portal. I can email you the exact write-up. Please let me know your email id.

    Regards

  10. Mehak,

    email id is care@mastylecare.org

    Regards

    Regards
    Saurav Sharma
    MaStyle Care
    http://www.mastylecare.org
    http://www.facebook.com/mastylecare

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