Avanti Fellows is an organization whose founder won the 2013 Echoing Green fellow. The way it works is simple. Avanti, which is based in Mumbai, India, has an affordable after-school program that works with disadvantaged high-school students in an effort to help them pass their entrance exams so that they can attend college.
Krishna Ramkumar, who is a 2013 Echoing Green Fellow in the education category, is the co-founder of Avanti, along with Akshay Saxena, who also co-founded the organization. They are a pair of entrepreneurs hoping to create change in how education and schooling works all around India. They are both Echoing Green Fellows.
Contact Information
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Why This Trend Is Growing
- Affordable After-school Programs
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop scalable and accessible after-school programs for disadvantaged students in other regions or countries.
- Disrupting Education Systems
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Use technology and innovative teaching methods to transform traditional education systems and improve access for underprivileged students.
- Echoing Green Fellows
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Collaborate with Echoing Green Fellows to create innovative solutions for social challenges in various industries.
Industries Being Reshaped
- Education
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Explore new ways to address educational inequalities and provide equal opportunities for all students.
- Social Enterprise
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create social enterprises that tackle societal challenges and improve access to education for disadvantaged communities.
- Technology
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Leverage technology to revolutionize education and develop innovative solutions to enhance learning outcomes for students.
