Soma Vajpayee got involved with Zaya in 2011. However, her journey as a full-fledged member of an NGO began in December 2012. Soma embarked on her vocational life as a Corporate Executive at Citibank. However, the involvement of the bank with various social initiatives as a result of the implementation...
Rohan Sahgal, Head of Engineering (HOE) Zaya, keeps his image aligned with his interests: beer, snowboarding and globe-trotting. However, at the heart of these interests is his passion for cranking code. He received his Masters in Computer Science from North Carolina State University where he developed...
The premise of both Teach for India (TFI) and Zaya is the same. They both wish to solve ‘India’s most pressing problem’ by ‘bringing in top class education into every neighbourhood’! The collaboration of Teach for India with us was hence always on the cards and today we are proud to announce...
Breakthroughs happen when you believe that the world’s biggest problems are just hitches that need to be analysed through a different lens. This sums up our journey as one of the 39 finalists for one of the most eminent fellowships- Echoing Green, from amongst 3000 other applications reviewed by over...
This summer we had many volunteers from around the world help out setting up Labs, Mapping Curriculum and Training teachers in rural India. One of our star volunteers was Vaishnavi Nandanam from Freemont, CA who spent 3 months helping us with content and curriculum mapping before venturing out to work...