{"id":77,"date":"2025-05-26T19:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/httef.tlewis.opalstacked.com\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:44:00","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helgatoddfoundation.org\/?page_id=77","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Helga Todd Education Foundation\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/247023992?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d56d81c0f61886ea8ac195ad8d932f41\"><strong>ABOUT THE<\/strong> <strong>FOUNDATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8a0b9c82b3b4734c8c997702d9d9ff9f\">The Helga Todd Teachers\u2019 Education Foundation (HTTEF) is an educational charity registered in England with the UK Charities Commission (RegistrationNo.1123512).<br>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 \u2018give back to society\u2019 in the *countries where he and his wife had both worked and lived. Over recent years, the majority of the foundation\u2019s work has taken place in India, although we are currently looking to expand our focus countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-advanced-heading uagb-block-9734b744\"><h4 class=\"uagb-heading-text\">OUR PURPOSE<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-75cf48ba1aec2de1a0e19781d0edab9f\">The Helga Todd Foundation is committed to working in partnership with established educational bodies and other educational charities in its target countries.&nbsp;The Foundation\u2019s 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.<br>Since its establishment in 2008, the Foundation\u2019s 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&nbsp;education and training of their students and teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-advanced-heading uagb-block-d4039b59\"><h5 class=\"uagb-heading-text\">Focused areas of development<\/h5><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c8ce6a3126f258bf57664138e20a7832\">We are committed to a learner-centred, creative approach to education.<br>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.<br>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\u2019s degree status.<br>Trustees and associates meet regularly to plan and direct the Foundation\u2019s work and our education professionals meet in educational sub-committees to both advise trustees and manage initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-442ccb93 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e19c5fad2530e4961e44731fff5c07a6\">To date we have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-36270d3a496b02608a70dedc211ec8dd\">trained young women candidates from rural areas with the minimum qualifications of 16+ matriculation to become early years and primary class teachers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color 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