Quest Alliance is a not-for-profit trust that equips young people with 21st century skills by enabling self-learning. It designs scalable solutions that enable educators to address critical gaps for quality education and skills training. Since its inception, Quest has impacted the lives of 1.2 million learners. Our core focus includes government middle school education reform, Life-Career and Coding skills for girls in secondary schools and Youth employability. Quest’s Learner-focussed programmes are designed to meet key gaps in the School-to-Work Continuum using levers of ed-tech, capacity-building, partner collaborations and research & advocacy.
Under its Secondary schools programme, Quest is enabling girls in government schools to break barriers of accessing technology, enhancing their agency and building 21st century skills to make informed career and life choices using STEM and coding. Further, under its youth employability programme, My Quest, since 2009, the organisation has trained 290,000 youth and engaged 3500 trainers, across 25 States. Here, it partners with women’s Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and women-focused NGOs, to build systems and support projects that help more young women transition to the workforce. Through this, it has enabled more than 50% of our women’s outreach to start formal paid work or sustainable self-employment.