Mentor Together
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Mission Statement
Mentor Together is India’s first and largest youth mentorship organization. Our mission is to provide equality of opportunity to young people, from disadvantaged sections of society, through effective mentoring relationships that empower them and enable them to actualize their own potential. Our vision is a society where all young people have the equality of opportunity to actualize their potential, build their own future and realize their dreams.
About This Cause
Founded in 2010 Mentor Together started with an in person school based mentoring program for high school students(age 13-16y) facing elevated conditions of family or personal risk. These include amongst others: coming from a single parent family, facing a range of personal problems like bullying and low self-esteem, and chronic absenteeism. The mentoring considers a range of life skills like emotional maturity, parent and peer relationships, and future aspirations. It was delivered over 3 years of high school through volunteer mentors and trained social workers across 4 cities: Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, & Delhi. Funders of this program have been IBM India, Mahindra Rise, the Edelgive Foundation, the Rosy Blue Foundation, Amdocs India, Fiserv India, Fidelity India, amongst others. Our second, and now the flagship, program is the technology enabled mentoring, driven through the Mentor To Go app. Our mobile first approach is aimed at University students(age 18-25Y) from low-income families and is geared towards helping young people access career mentorship on the go, using just their mobile phones irrespective of their location. This program started in 2017 as technology pilot with Praekelt.org under the Girl Effect Mobile portfolio. From learnings of the pilot, Mentor Together raised funds in 2018 from Cisco India for a completely mobile-first approach with a first cohort of 1000 University students. The Mentor To Go app allows for unique mentoring programs to be run in parallel with their own data collection modules, self-learning content for mentors and mentees displayable in different regional languages, customisable algorithmic matching in 1:1 and group formats, structured mentorship toolkits for mentors and mentees to use for asynchronous and synchronous learning, and communications tools (calendar, easy audio calling, with in-app chat and video ). Over 4 full years of operation, Mentor To Go has had over 41900 mentor and mentee sign-ups and facilitated over 6500 mentorship matches . The mentors in our program are professionals from a range of industries and organisations such as Wipro, HP, Volvo, Deutsche Bank, Vmware, Western Digital, Cisco, Cognizant, Wipro, Merck, Biocon, Novartis, AMD, Amazon, CGI, Ashok Leyland etc. Mentor To Go actively looks forward to collaboration with corporates to onboard mentors and to build mentor volunteering groups within their workforce. Over the past 4 years we have worked with 35 mentor partners across the domains such banking and finance, software, pharmacy, life sciences etc. As this is a virtual mentorship program both the mentor and the mentee can be located anywhere.