Desh Ke Mentor

Desh Ke Mentor is the largest career support & mentorship program in the world, providing school students the guidance to make better life and career decisions.
The program brings together youth from India’s best educational institutions, young professionals across diverse sectors and entrepreneurs from across the country to take on the role of mentors, who will help the mentees (students of classes 10-12) in their overall growth and personality development by sharing their knowledge, skills and expertise over various fields.

Delhi

25K+ mentors

1L+ mentees

Launched

October 2021

Alohomora is the sole NGO providing all aspects of program design and implementation support to the Delhi Government. We are leading program design and creating mentor support content (orientation and onboarding). We have designed training and orientation sessions for all key stakeholders and are actively working on creating mentor support and engagement structures.

Desh Ke Mentor - Team Alohomora in Action

Since the program’s inception in October 2021, Team Alohomora has been spearheading training and orientation design and implementation, working with key stakeholders including the PMU (Project Management Unit), school principals and nodal officers, mentor leaders, and 70 youth leaders across Delhi.

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Mentors Speak!

Mentors share how their mentorship journeys impacted them, and became a platform for them to contribute to society!

Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum

Building life skills and entrepreneurial mindsets in class 9-12 govt. school students, executed by teachers in a daily 40 minute class.

EMC was conceptualized by the Delhi govt in early 2019 to develop the much needed foundational skills and mindsets for 9-12th grade students to shift their life outcomes post schooling and be on thriving career paths.

Delhi

3L+ students

18K teachers

Launched

Feb 2019

Alohomora has been a part of the EMC core team since its inception in February 2019. We have worked on content development, teacher training and execution of Live Entrepreneur Interaction (LEI) – a platform for students to directly engage with entrepreneurs to learn from their experiences. We undertake regular visits to schools all over to Delhi to understand and support in program implementation.

EMC – Business Blasters

Launched in September 2021, the Business Blasters is EMC’s student entrepreneurship program aimed to encourage real-world entrepreneurial pursuits. Students are provided seed money and are encouraged to work in teams towards planning and executing a business idea. Students can pitch their ideas to angel investors, and seek mentorship and funding.

Team Alohomora met and interacted with many teams in school visits and during selection rounds. 6 such teams reached the final round of Business Blasters. Many teachers and EMC coordinators who were mentoring their school’s BB teams were oriented and trained by us.

3 LAKH

students in grades 11-12

Rs 2,000

seed money per student

51,000

teams with unique ideas

 

1,000

teams selected by zonal panels, received mentorship and coaching to take ideas forward

120

hand-picked teams networked with investors, raised funding, and will be incubated in the Business Blasters Incubation Cell (under Delhi Skills & Entrepreneurship University)