Times of India launches ‘Teach India’ campaign

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 5:07 am

The ‘Times of India’ brings you a chance to give back what you’ve learnt, calling upon educated Indians like us to help teach underprivilged children though the “Teach India” campaign.

What is Teach India?

“Teach India” is an initiative by ‘The Times of India’ to help provide an equal opportunity for education to underprivileged children.

The aim of “Teach India” is to provide a platform to educated Indians to provide assistance in basic education to the unprivileged children.

“Teach India” will connect educated individuals with the specialist education providers.

‘The Times of India’ has tied up with select NGOs in the field of education in multiple cities across India.

Participatnts have to devote just 2 hours a day to teach underprivileged children, either in a formal enviroment or even informal teaching liek story telling. It all depends on your skill and interest.

How can you volunteer?

To volunteer log onto http://www.teach.timesofindia.com and fill in the form online Or SMS TEACH to 58888 for details.

The ‘Times of India will’ then connect the volunteer to an NGO. If selected, the volunteer will be given a basic orientation.

The teaching sessions will begin shortly thereafter.

How much time do you need to devote?

Just 2 hours a week for 3 months.

What do I teach them?

Depending on your skill, you can impart basic education or even take informal sessions like story-telling.

Children have dreams in their eyes and a smile on their lips, but not all children are lucky enough to laugh and learn like these kids.

Infact, half the children in our country don’t even get a chance to go to school because their family cannot afford to send them or because there is no one to teach them.

But, now thanks to ‘the Times of India’ Campaign “Teach India”, one can volunteer, and help educate our future generation.

“Teach India” campaign connects you to NGOs in the metros to teach underprivileged children.

Shaheen Mistry, founder of ‘Akanksha’, said, “I think “Teach India” is an incredibly important project because the biggest thing we need in our nation are great teachers.”

Having a concrete campaign, you can be a part of knowing that you are not alone, and that you do make a difference as one person, but thousands of people together can make a significant difference. It helps a lot of people to take a step.

Geeta Dharmarajan of ‘Katha’ on the campaign said, “We hope that this campaign will be successful and hope that not just 1000 but may be 2000 people are able to come in with us and work with us, making their life a little more fun and litrle more pleasurable and more satifastory.”

All one needs is 2 hours of your time each week. So come be a part of the “Teach India” campaign to educate our future generation, and the love they will give us back will stay with us forever.

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Times of India launches ‘Teach India’ campaign

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