The Teach For India Fellowship 2025

Teach for India will offer fellows a chance to make a real difference in tackling one of India’s most pressing challenges – educational inequity. By placing you in an underserved classroom, the Fellowship is an opportunity to impact the lives of entire classroom(s) of children. You develop your leadership skills which are critical in today’s dynamic global work environment. The Fellowship Program allows you to become a part of the solution and grow as a change agent in society. In short, the Teach for India Fellowship is an opportunity for you to:

• Find Your Purpose: Develop an awareness of how poverty and inequity impacts India’s children. Discover your values, strengths and areas of development, passion and purpose.
• Become a Leader: Deliver bold possibilities for students who may not otherwise have the opportunity to realise their full potential. Build concrete leadership skills of envisioning, stakeholder management planning, execution and reflection in challenging environments.
• Join a Movement: Work with diverse stakeholders towards a shared vision. Become part of a movement of 4,000+ Fellows across India and countless more globally who will be your lifelong partners in this work.
• Drive Change: Work at the grassroots level, and impact the lives of children and their families. Don’t just talk about the India you envision. Build an India free of poverty and filled with love.

What they are looking for?

• They look for:
  • Leadership potential and openness to learning.
  • Courage – an orientation to set bold and ambitious goals for their children and themselves.
  • Problem-solving abilities to navigate the many challenges they will encounter.
  • Collaborative skills to work with diverse people towards shared goals.

Funding Information

• A stipend of INR 25,344 per month.
• A housing allowance of INR 6,000–12,600 (depending on the placement city).
• Reimbursements for work-related expenses (e.g. school supplies on a per-child cost basis).
• Health insurance of up to INR 100,000 and access to free counselling.

Geographic Focus

• As a Teach for India Fellow, you will be placed in schools in underserved communities in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai or Pune. All Fellows will be required to reside in one of these cities during the period of the Fellowship.

Eligibility Criteria

• You are eligible to apply for the 2025 Fellowship cohort if you:
  • Are a citizen of India or Overseas Citizen of India (OCI).
  • Completed graduation by June/July 2025.
  • Are applying for the first time for 2025 Fellowship cohort, since July 2024.

For more information, visit Teach for India.