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:

Years: 2025-26
Grades: 4th (28 Students)
Sessions: 17
Courses: A1-Beginner (2 Sems)
Mishka Viswas
School Catalyst
GHPS Panathur, 2025-26, Gear Innovative International School - Student in Grade 9
Sachi Laddha
School Catalyst
GHPS Panathur, 2025-26, Gear Innovative International School - Student in Grade 9
Rihanna Xavier
School Catalyst
GHPS Panathur, 2025-26, Gear Innovative International School - Student in Grade 9
Aarush Vohra
Student Catalyst
GHPS Panathur, 2025-26, National Public School (NPS), HSR Layout - Student in Grade 10

Years: 2025-26. Also in 2018 & 2019
Grades: 4th (38 Students)
Sessions: 18
Courses: A1-Beginner (2 Sems)
Aaradhana Rao
Student Catalyst
GHPS Nallurhalli, 2025-26, The International School Bangalore (TISB) __- Student in Grade 7
Aditi Agarwal
School Catalyst
GHPS Nallurhalli, 2025-26, The Deens Academy, ECC Road, Whitefield__ - Student in Grade 12

Years: 2025-26. Also in 2018 & 2019
Grades: 4th (previously 25 students), 7th (25)
Sessions: 20+
Courses: A1-Beginner (3 sems)
Meera Thomas
Program Catalyst
GHPS Nallurhalli, 2018,19, 25, Greenwood High IB School (Class 9-12), U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Surya Sankaran Taneja
Program Catalyst
Curriculum Creation 2025-26, Vidya Niketan School- Student in Grade 10
Ananya A.T.
Program Catalyst
Content Creation 2025-26, Shishya School, Chennai- Student in Grade 11 (now in 12th)
