Personal Mission Essay

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Thunderbird's mission is "We educate global leaders who create sustainable prosperity worldwide." State your personal mission and how it is aligned with Thunderbird. Explain how you developed your personal mission, either from your own life experiences, or by the examples of others. (Limit 500 words) In a single sentence, my personal mission is to strive to eliminate the inequity in education in India. While basic literacy in India has surged in recent decades, opportunities for good education are still largely the realm of the Indian middle class. For the masses in India, reaching the avenues of good primary education is largely an uphill battle. For a sample of the magnitude of the issue, World Bank estimates that nearly 300 million in India subsists on less than USD 1.25 /day. At the same time, the top 10% of wage owners spend $550 /month on education. It is very hard for kids from poor families in India to get the sort of environment that would allow them to focus on their studies and have a peer group that thinks about education, this puts them at a disadvantage compared to students from more affluent families. It is this facet of economic inequity in education that drives me, and this is the challenge I would want to provide sustainable solutions to. To ensure the sustainability of the solution the focus should be on: (a)Establishing an affordable education set up, so that socio-economic factors do not serve as hindrances and quality education could be imparted to the masses. (b) Ensuring that the model adopted to achieve the objective (a), is viable and replicated across the country. Despite identifying the problem and envisioning the solution, I could not come up with a “practical” approach to meet both the objectives. It was then that I came to know about the 3.2.1 foundation by a Teach for India alumni, Gaurav Singh. Gaurav uses a very
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