Covid helps reinvent roles for Avanti Learning Centre, discover true path

The pandemic experience has been transformational for Avanti. Avanti Fellows, the not-for-profit, now runs programmes in over 300 government schools

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Coronavirus | Learning | Indian education

Anjuli Bhargava  |  New Delhi 

For Avanti Learning Centre, the Covid-19 pandemic has acted as a trigger to discover its true self. The crisis has ended up changing the focus, path and the inclination for the organisation and its founders.

Back in 2011, IIT-Mumbai and Harvard alumnus Akshay Saxena and his partner Krishna Ramkumar returned to India to offer disadvantaged Indian students a chance to do what they had managed to do with relative ease — gain admission in one of the country’s IITs. Saxena was looking at stud­ents from low- middle-inco­me households, who had recei­ved an ...

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First Published: Thu, April 29 2021. 06:10 IST
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