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Empowering communities towards sustainable impact

By Tracey Albert, LGT Impact Fellow for Aangan Trust, Mumbai, India Aangan works in 15 hotspots across Mumbai, wherein the city’s drastic economic disparity is placing its vulnerable children at high risk of child labor,… 

Educational Partnerships in Kenya

Educational Partnerships in Kenya

My name is Martha Kamundi, an LGT Impact Fellow in the 2018 cohort. I am working with Bridge International Academies (Bridge) in Nairobi, Kenya, as an Academics Fellow within the Learning Innovation Department. My job… 

Financial Consulting for Private Schools in India

Financial Consulting for Private Schools in India

LGT Impact Fellow Spotlight: Smiti Sahoo Smiti is working as a Fellow for our Portfolio Organisation Varthana in India. Thinking of Schools, the initial associations that come up are academic pursuit or maybe holistic learning.… 

Celebrating the Girl Child… for the Wrong Reasons

Celebrating the Girl Child… for the Wrong Reasons

by Kausha Shah – LGT Impact Fellow 2017 Bundi- my last frontier. On my assignment interviewing Educate Girls’ stakeholders, I had already travelled to Udaipur, Pali and Jhabua. I had spoken to multiple stakeholders across… 

David versus Goliath

On the 4th of November I went for the second time to the Govandi slum in Mumbai. Govandi is situated next to one of the biggest and oldest garbage dumping grounds in Mumbai. Daily, heavy… 

ICats Fellow 2015 impressions from India

David Hayman (United Kingdom) works as Program Expansion Fellow at Educate Girls in India which focuses on improving girls’ enrolment, retention and academic performance in government schools. Educate Girls volunteer supports girl read Hindi story…