Vidya Poshak
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Mission Statement
Vidya Poshak (VP), India is a registered Civil Society Organization serving education community since the year 2001. Poverty should not be a barrier for Education is the motto of Vidya Poshak. We believe that when we invest in a Meritorious economically challenged youth for his/her Education for few years then the family will be out of poverty forever. Vidya Poshak aims to support economically challenged meritorious youth to continue his/her higher education. The support covers educational expenses covering the college fees, Bus pass, Academic & reference books, Skill training and Mentoring. Till date more than 15,000 poor students has been supported to continue their education who otherwise would have dropped out from pursuing their higher education.
About This Cause
Vidya Poshak- An Overview Vidya Poshak (VP), India is a registered Civil Society Organization serving education community since the year 2001. Though Vidya Poshak was started with the programme of supporting students financially to pursue higher education, many other programs evolved during the journey. Some of our major projects are Nurture Merit, Abdul Kalam Susandhi Fellowship Program, coaching potential students for cracking IIT/JEE and Value and Career education for high school students. All the programmes of VP depend entirely on generous donations from individual and institutional donors. More than 500 senior volunteers and two hundred youth volunteers across 12 districts are rendering their passionate services free of cost. Nurture Merit Program This program includes Financial Assistance, Library facilities and Residential Bridge Camp for the meritorious but financially distressed students. Till date Vidya Poshak has invested more than INR 580 million on this. 1. Financial Assistance: VP provides financial assistance to meritorious students who cannot afford to continue their post 10th class education owing to financial difficulties. The financial assistance covers college fees, exam fees and travel to colleges. Along with this additional amount for coaching is given in most deserving cases. In some extreme situations additional assistance is extended to cover accommodation and boarding. The identification of students is done in a unique way through physical visits by volunteers to dwelling units of students to assess the need to ensure only deserving receive the assistance. Since inception, VP has disbursed more than INR 360 million towards financial assistance. More than 20000 students have been assisted from 19 districts of Karnataka. The progress of each student is closely monitored throughout the support period. 2. Library Services: Free Text books are lent to all the students through libraries and book bank centers located in different parts of area of VP’s operation. Students can take home academic text books for a year and return the same at the end of the year so that the same books are put in circulation. The services can also be accessed by interested students though they are not VP scholars. One Central Library, 5 branches and 28 Rural Book Bank centers (all run by volunteers) are catering to the students. Overall 77,000 books are available at our library centers and nearly 1,87,000 students have got benefit out of this till now. 3. Residential Bridge Camps (RBC): The RBCs aim at bringing positive change in the overall personality of the students. The camps also stress on Skills, Knowledge and Attitude apart from Career guidance and counseling (both career and personal). The camps can be of either 5 days or 9 days duration. RBCs strive to bridge the gap between the academia and career goals of students. It augments the needs of students which they rarely get in their formal schooling. Under this program, more than 8400 students have been trained through 154 camps thus far. The participants have been found to be able to get rid of their inferiority complex and gain confidence which enables them to be better communicators than before. They will be better equipped to face challenges in life. Skill Development Program (SDP) SDP, a training program of Vidya Poshak has been initiated to cater to the soft skills training requirements of the educational community. Since its introduction, more than a lakh of students, 4,663 teachers, 5728 employees, from more than 300 institutions apart from hundreds of parents have been trained. SDP aims at providing quality training at affordable cost to the rural colleges. Some of the modules covered are Personality development and Motivation, Communication and Presentation skills, Emotion management, Creativity, Employability Skills (Interview Skills), Analytical skills, English Speaking skills, Career guidance, etc. For teachers, modules such as Ethics in teaching, Creative teaching techniques, Teachers as Leaders, Classroom Management are delivered apart from the modules mentioned above. Those already employed can be trained in modules such as corporate etiquettes, how to do well in job, etc apart from other modules. For high school students value and career guidance is offered additionally. Awards/Honors: • Spirit of humanity award 2016, awarded by Americares India Foundation in the category of "Education" • Topper in the first edition of LetzChange Fundraising Challenge. (Refer link https://letzchange.org/c/fundraising-challenge-15/) • Education Loan awareness and Advocacy Program (ELAAP) was one of the finalists for Manthan Social Media Award in the year 2013 (Till 2016, VP assisted 12000+ students to get education loans from various nationalized banks.) • Regional finalist for “Apeejay India Volunteer Award” in the category ‘Volunteer involving NGO of the year 2011’ • Adjudged as “Technology for NGO” by Microsoft, USA (Video document on VP could be seen on MS website) • Declared as a Platinum Partner by Deshpande Foundation in the year 2009. • Honored by Kannada Sahitya Parishattu, Dharwad taluk in its First Sahitya Sammelana at Dharwad. For more information, please contact: Venkatesan N Executive Director Ph: +91-9845038017 email: venkatesh@vidyaposhak.org Web: www.vidyaposhak.ngo