Tag: Philanthrophy

International Women’s Day: Meet Khushboo Awasthi, a key face in ‘mission’ to transform India’s 1 million govt schools | Mint

International Women’s Day: The public education system of India cannot be fixed overnight but needs small, incremental changes to achieve tangible goals, says Khushboo Awasthi, the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of ShikshaLokam, a non-profit working on the education leadership development mission. ShikshaLokam works with the Department of School Education in different states and Union government institutions to design school improvement and leadership development programmes. Khushboo is also the co-founder of Mantra4Change, a non-profit driving systemic public school transformation in the Indian education system. She is a member of the working committee of the National Mentoring Mission constituted by the ... Read more

Infosys co-founder SD Shibulal: High secondary school dropout rates remains a major challenge in India | Mint

SD Shibulal, one of the seven founding members of Infosys, now leads the Shibulal Family Philanthropic Initiatives, which recently completed 25 years. Shibulal is also the patron of a non-profit called Mantra4Change, which recently launched Shikshagraha, a people’s movement focused on transforming government schools across India by collaborating with district leaders, women, and youth. Also Read | Infosys Share Price Today on : Infosys share are down by -0.37%, Nifty down by -0.08% Shibulal, who stepped down from the post of CEO and MD at Infosys in July 2014, spoke with Mint about his philanthropic journey. For decades, the 69-year-old ... Read more