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Student Support Fund

Samvada has the 80G (income tax exemption) you can get tax exempted on 50% of the amount you contribute to Samvada

  • Youth are able to explore/expand work options  through career counseling sessions, English classes, livelihood training and continuous mentoring
     

  • Young men and women have been helped to recognize their rights, identify their potentials, express their autonomy, develop confidence and free themselves from oppressive ideologies/worldviews.
     

  • Young people have been helped to reflect on their life experiences and understand how structures of gender, caste and class are manifest in their lives.
     

  • Helping them to explore the politics of religion, caste, culture, sexuality and to critique the mainstream development paradigm.

Samvada's contribution to our students lives:

What you get in return?

  1. The joy of having helped someone who is struggling to come up-; someone who has shown the courage to participate in Samvada’s programmes, where they are forced to look themselves and the world critically.
     

  2. Samvada has the 80G (income tax exemption) you can get tax exempted on 50% of the amount you contribute to Samvada




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We are not able to help many students realize their dreams for individual economic mobility. While our staff has sometimes collected money for a few students’ fees, a large number of them continue to drop out because of financial constraints. We appeal to you to contribute towards the college tuition fees of poor students associated with Samvada’s Youth Resource Centers.

As a part of our work, we interact with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds on a daily basis and come face to face with their struggles. Most of our students’ are never sure about being able to complete their courses. The anxiety to “not be a burden” to the family and the pressure to “earn and support” the family are constant companions.
A majority of our student’s parents are factory workers, auto drivers, pavement vendors, domestic workers and wage laborers in the unorganized sector.

 

For girls, there is additional pressure of being “married off” to relieve their parents of the burden of educating them and keeping them at home. For some, it is violence in the family that pushes them to stop studying and to look for shelter and a job.

 

Being first generation learners, most of them have very limited perspectives and information about work opportunities and educational avenues. Many also travel to Bangalore from neighboring rural taluks to study in colleges and work in part-time jobs before returning back to their villages at night, exhausted by erratic bus schedules and exam time-tables.

Area of Support

Amount (INR)

Sponsorship for one student per year in a degree course

15,000

Sponsoring a student for a vocational training course

25,000

Sponsoring a student for a livelihood training programme at Samvada-Baduku College

12,000

Library support to a Samvada Youth Resource Centre

5,000

Supporting a Youth Activist working on rights of the marginalized through a Fellowship Stipend

1,20,000

Supporting a amateur youth group to make a Film about their own issues/interests

25,000

Supporting a Short group exposure programme to learn about a current issue/ social movement/NGO

15,000

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HOW YOU CAN HELP?

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