ABOUT THE FOUNDATION
The Helga Todd Teachers’ Education Foundation (HTTEF) is an educational charity registered in England with the UK Charities Commission (RegistrationNo.1123512).
It was founded in 2008 by Indian philanthropist, Robert Ram Todd and dedicated to his late wife Helga who had been a teacher. His aim was to ‘give back to society’ in the *countries where he and his wife had both worked and lived. Over recent years, the majority of the foundation’s work has taken place in India, although we are currently looking to expand our focus countries.
OUR PURPOSE
The Helga Todd Foundation is committed to working in partnership with established educational bodies and other educational charities in its target countries. The Foundation’s chief objective is to help with raising the standards of pupil and teacher education through the provision of professional expertise and where appropriate, financial assistance. We are keen to support schools, colleges and other educational institutions and charities.
Since its establishment in 2008, the Foundation’s trustees have embraced a number of initiatives and have explored different avenues in order to promote high quality teaching. Our ongoing remit has been developing links and projects in India, working with English medium schools to help them support and manage the education and training of their students and teachers.
Focused areas of development
We are committed to a learner-centred, creative approach to education.
Our main focus is in supporting school based education but with an added aim of empowering young women by giving them access to professional training.
We intend that our training programmes should encourage participants to pursue their own aspirations for example, through working towards a range of supportive and valid qualifications. To date, this has meant that a number of our trainee teachers have successfully embarked on distance learning courses including those leading to degree/master’s degree status.
Trustees and associates meet regularly to plan and direct the Foundation’s work and our education professionals meet in educational sub-committees to both advise trustees and manage initiatives.
To date we have:
- trained young women candidates from rural areas with the minimum qualifications of 16+ matriculation to become early years and primary class teachers.
- provided short and part-time courses to help practising teachers develop their teaching and/or mentor skills in their classrooms.
- set up distance learning opportunities with partner organisations and schools
- created opportunities for individual practising teachers from the UK and India to develop understanding of each other’s culture and education systems, through exchange visits.
*Declaration of Trust.
“To advance education by the promotion of teaching in India, Nigeria, Indonesia, United Kingdom and Germany through the provision of financial support and assistance, firstly to women students and teachers and secondly to colleges, other institutions and charities…..“