About Missing Millions
Our Vision
At Missing Millions, our vision is to create a fair chance of dignified and thriving living life for out of school adolescents - socially, emotionally and economically.
Our Programs
Our flagship program - The Thrive Fellowship focuses on creating an intersection between skill, will and opportunity for vulnerable adolescents out of the formal education system over the span of 2 years.
Why we do, what we do!
About 30% of all school going students have now become invisible to the system. “Invisible” to the system.
Where are they, if not in schools?
Are they safe from physical and social exploitation?
What will it take to make them visible to the mainstream system again?
They are neither in schools nor in alternate learning environments. The complexity of reasons intensify with progressing age groups.
With limitations of the Right to Education Act and availability of day jobs, adolescents between the ages of 14-17 years stand at high risk of exploitation and being permanently disembarked from a life of opportunities to grow.
If not schools, what other trajectories can they explore to become self-reliant and active citizens of the nation?
Our Model
Bridging the gaps in Skill, Will and Opportunity
Our Model is designed to act as a bridge between potential employers and talent pool.
We provide a learning environment that integrates core professional skills with Social Emotional Learning and 21st century capabilities through the Thrive Fellowship program.
Our Team
Dr. Anupama Purohit, Founder & Initiator
Mr. Sanjay Purohit, Mentor - Org Development
Dr. Anupama Purohit, Founder & Initiator
Dr. Anupama Purohit is a passionate educator with more than 20 years of experience in the education & development sector. She has a PhD in Hindi Literature and started her career as a primary school teacher in Delhi Public School, Ahmedabad. After a steady career as a teacher, Anupama joined Janagraha, an NGO based out of Bengaluru in 2012, as a program facilitator. She was a member of the founding team of Shikshalokam, a societal platform for the development of school leaders. She is a mentor at EduMentum an incubator for NGOs working in the field of education. She is on the advisory board of Haddi Baddi an NGO that runs library for underprivileged children. Passionate about ensuring a dignified life for out of school children, she is now solely focused on developing the Missing Millions Movement.
Reslee Elsa Varghese, Ideator - Programs
Mr. Sanjay Purohit, Mentor - Org Development
Dr. Anupama Purohit, Founder & Initiator
Reslee is a passionate educator and storyteller with 7 years of work experience in the social sector. She started her journey in 2017 through the Teach for India Fellowship during which she taught grades 5 & 6 in a Chennai Corporation School. During this time, she worked with her students on several community projects under the themes of gender equality, agency, voice against abuse etc. She joined Mantra4Change post her fellowship and has worked in various capacities within the organisation in programs, communication and fundraising over 4+ years, being a believer of horizontal and all round growth. She has also contributed to other organisations like CueMath and Vizhi Awakening Trust towards development of their training Programmes.
She now works with the Missing Millions Movement to shape the core interventions and operations.
Mr. Sanjay Purohit, Mentor - Org Development
Mr. Sanjay Purohit, Mentor - Org Development
Mr. Sanjay Purohit, Mentor - Org Development
Sanjay has more than 30 years of diverse and global experience across corporate and societal development sectors. This spans senior leadership and entrepreneurial roles in corporate strategy, digital transformation, management consulting and sustainable development. Since 2016, at EkStep Foundation, he is leading the evolution of Societal Thinking, an innovative method to resolve complex societal challenges with speed, at scale, sustainably. He advises multiple social entrepreneurs who are applying Societal Thinking in domains such as, but not limited to, climate action, education, gender equity, healthcare, justice, and livelihoods. He catalysed ShikshaLokam, a Societal Platform focused on developing leadership across the education system in India.