AVANTI FELLOWS USA
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Mission Statement
Help students lift themselves and their families out of poverty in a single generation by helping them qualify to quality professional undergraduate courses and develop the skills needed to build successful careers.
About This Cause
We fund high-impact programs, open source technology and curriculum that levels the playing field for students in India aspiring for careers in STEM. Our programs focus on equipping young people (especially girls) with the life skills, information, academic support and career guidance they need to access high quality undergraduate programs, find work and succeed in the workplace. Our programs focus on creating a level playing field for 40M students enrolled in India’s government run schools. Despite representing over 90% of India’s high school population, these students represent less than 10% of all students accepted to top-tier undergraduate programs in Science and Technology. Low Math and Science achievement rates across government school systems as well as a lack of access to quality test preparation lead to these students being systematically shut out of the opportunity to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Girls are half as likely to qualify into these colleges as boys despite outperforming boys in most school examinations. Addressing this issue requires significant investments in the early identification of high-potential girls, exposure to role models, mentorship and academic programming that includes gender sensitive pedagogy and life-skills training.