Our Catalysts/ Volunteers
One Saturday at a time, our private school and College student volunteers enable government students to get more comfortable with and confident in speaking English. The eLessons provide the core content, but interacting, role-playing and games like pictionary with the government school kids is the real practice that helps them. Peer learning from teachers their age helps chase away any shyness these kids feel and the novelty of interacting across socio-economic strata makes us embrace the inherent similarity, intellect and comraderie in a unique way!
We call our volunteers Catalysts as they can ignite these students on a path to a better future. Student Catalysts help run each class while School Catalysts lead the program to coordinate the program through the semester (including baseline and endline testing, coordination, etc.). Here are the people who made it happen:
Meera Thomas
School Catalyst
GHPS Nallurhalli and Panathur. Greenwood High IB School (Class 9-12) and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Active from July 2018 to Present
Surya Sankaran Taneja
Student Catalyst
GHPS Nallurhalli. Class 10 Student at Vidya Niketan School. Active from Jan 2025 through December 2025
Ananya A.T.
School Catalyst
GHPA Nallurhalli and GHPS Panathur. Class 11 Student at Shishya School in Chennai. Created content videos and helped run classes. Active from Jun 2025 through Mar 2026
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