Organization:Akanksha Foundation

Overview

Akanksha organisation is one of the leading educational establishments in India. A well organised school is the backbone of the education. The main motto to launch Akanksha is "To empower children with a strong creative education and provide art- related career opportunities." It was founded by Shaheen Mistri in 1991. Currently, Akanksha reaches out to around 6500 children through two models: the after-school or center model and the school model. Akanksha has 3 afterschool centers, remaining from its older project and 21 schools in Mumbai and Pune, run in partnership with the Mumbai and Pune Municipality, as part of the School Project.

Purpose

Akanksha Foundation aims to redefine what is possible for children from low-income communities to achieve through its network of high performing public-private partnership schools.And It is a non-profit organisation 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.

Distinct Differences From Other Offerings

Akanksha Foundation is non-profit organisation, and is one of the largest networks of public-private partnership schools in India. It has researched and adopted that idea of “Three outcomes of an Excellent Education”. This idea says that student achievement, youth development, and community engagement” are the three ideal deliverables for any system education, and Akanksha Schools continuously strive to achieve these. These schools have excellent educators, progressive pedagogy, ability to maximise resources, parents as partners, and accountability to the learning curve. Partners of Akanksha Foundation are Thermax Foundation, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Pune Municipal Corporation, and Pimpiri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation.

Impact Achieved For Students and Campus

There is a great impact on students due to this type of organisations. Because these organisation doesn’t aims for making profit instead it aims for creating innovation in students and making them to develop their life skills as a critical thinkers, problem solvers and decision makers for their better future. Hence these organisation paves a superior way for students to lead in this sustainable communities If a one student get change in the campus it strongly effect the other students in the campus. This would certainly create a progress in the campus or a college, because students are the main constituents of college and there development is the achievement for a college.

Notes About How This Resource is Deployed

1.For over 25 years, Akanksha has educated poor children across Mumbai and Pune - first,through our after-school centers,and since 2007 through the Akanksha Schools.

2.Today Akanksha is one of the largest urban networks of public-private partenrship schools of its kind in India.Looking ahead, we seek to exapand our network of schools,share our effective practices and advocate for quality school reform for children across India.

3.Important things for the deployment of Akanksha Foundation are Excellent Educators,Progressive Pedagogy,Maximising Resources,Parents As Partners,Accountability To Learning.

Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus

Students from a campus can get engaged with the Foundation, primarily by volunteering for it. They serve as role models and friends to all Akanksha students. The Foundation offers volunteering positions both in Mumbai and Pune. These volunteers can share their learnings with their peers back on the campus.

It also conducts mentoring sessions in Mumbai in association with DSP Merrill Lynch, ICICI, Voltas Ltd., J.M. Financial, Mastek Foundation and the RPG Group at various educational institutions. If any institution is interested hosting such session, they mail to karthik.chinta@akanksha.org

Contact Information

Web: https://www.akanksha.org/contact-us/

Email: website@akanksha.org
Mumbai address:
The Akanksha Foundation Voltas House ‘C’, TB Kadam Marg Chinchpokli Mumbai - 400 033
Pune address:
The Akanksha Foundation New Thermax Building, Next to Sai Chambers, Old Bombay Pune Highway Road Wakdewadi Pune - 411 003