Hi,

Thank you for coming here, we'd like to introduce ourselves, our campaign and the ways in which you can suport us. 

Nikhil Rai : I'm an engineer by education, and having worked in different MNC's in different capacities, I constantly looked back to my childhood, wondering how I'm going to contribute to and lead the movement of change I want to see? This persistent question led me to the teach for India fellowship where I'm a full time teacher, teaching 7th and 8th graders in Sunrise English Medium School in Pune. 

Ashutosh Gharde: I'm a mechanical engineering graduate from RTMNU. I spent my four years in college working with differnt NGOs as well as MNCs as an intern and volunteer. I have always believed that poverty should not dictate anyone's destiny and this thought pushed me through life, gave me the strength to choose the road less travelled, and led me to Teach for India. I am also teaching in Sunrise English Medium School-Pune enjoying everyday by making learning science cool and awesome.

This was the question that our previous fellows tried to answer and set out to build a space after school hours where education was not limited by books and taught within four walls of the mundane classroom.

That's how the Sunrise Community center was started by two TFI alumni Harsh Maheshwari and Manoj Iyer in 2012 as an extended school project where all the kids from Sunrise EMS come to learn and play.

Since the kids are in secondary grades we conduct regular classes in the centre other than that every week we have extra curricular activities like computer programming, performing arts, fine arts, making DIY projects, football, cricket, poetry, MUN, Parliamentary debates and much more.