Prashant Anand

Age: 39

Home Town: Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Education: B Tech Information Technology (IIIT-Kolkata), M A Social Work (University of Delhi)

Specific Field Interests: Education (School Transformation, Curriculums, Policy, Pedagogical innovations, STEM and others), Youth development (Remote, Tribal, Rural, Forest dwelling youth; approaches, new age methodologies, leadership)

Placement: North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS) (Livelihoods)

Area of Focus: School Transformation, Curriculums, Policy, Pedagogical innovations, STEM and others Remote, Tribal, Rural, Forest dwelling youth; approaches, new age methodologies, leadership

Quote: Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible.

Highlights: Prashant Anand started his work in the Technology domain with multinational organisations like IBM and Sunlife. As part of his technology domain experience, he initiated employee engagement to address social issues like education, environment and youth engagement. He went on to work with slum communities in Gurgaon and Delhi on education especially on girl child education. Then as an AIF fellow in 2017-18, he went on to work with the Mising tribe in North East (Upper Assam) to work on issues of youth engagement and education. Later, he started his organisation called Samanta Foundation to work with children and youth from Tribal, Pastoral nomads, Rural and Forest dwelling communities. He started working with Forest schools building contextual pedagogical solutions for school education. He then went on to work with local youth leadership running a fellowship program for youth - girls and boys. Currently they are working on systematisation of libraries as per the NEP, Foundational literacy and numeracy in addition to improving learning outcomes upto middle school for remote regions in Himalayan region. Also running fellowships for youth to build ownership, participation and leadership by new age methodolgies and praxis.