Vidya Poshak 2023

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

Nurture Merit
Nurture Merit is a Flagship program of Vidya Poshak which includes Financial Assistance, Library facility and
Skill development for economically challenged meritorious students. Since its inception Vidya Poshak
supported 17500+ students for their higher Education.

In FY 2023-24, till now a total amount of INR 192.40 lakhs is disbursed as financial assistance to 1433 students
as renewal support. Vidya Poshak is in process of supporting 300+ new students to support under Nurture Merit
program.

Vidya Poshak conducted orientation program where all students, volunteers and donors come together to know
each other. Students got sanction letter of the financial assistance in the program and Vidya Poshak appreciated
students for their achievement. From October to December, we have done 7 programs in different places.

Mentoring & Industrial Visit Programs

VISA Company has given 6 months special technical training to selected 20 final year engineering students
to up skill themselves to get better job opportunity. All 20 students completed the training and as of now 12
students got selected for the reputed companies with average salary of Rs.12LPA and Maximum salary of
Rs.28LPA.

Nutanix Company given one on one mentoring support for three months under Jr. Nutant program to 15
students after the company visit. It helped students to learn different skill sets from the mentors. Every week
there was a mentoring session from assigned mentors which was boon for our scholars.

As part of Industrial visit our students visited different companies and interacted with IT head, HR head and
women leaders. Students got exposure to the corporate world and learning from this visit. Till now we have
visited eight corporate companies. Total 203 students got benefited from industrial visit and mentoring
facility provided by the donors.
Sample Placed Student Achievers

Vidya Poshak Digital Services for Students (VDSS)

India is recognized as the highly digitalized country in the world. We globally witness everyday right from the
road side petty vendors to the biggest institutions the digital payments. Vidya Poshak is putting every effort in
making its students highly efficient in their professional career.

Under the VDSS program in the current year we have conducted 10 online sessions benefitting 563 students on
various topics. The training methodology is practical and interactive depending on the topics. The trainers
engaged the students in discussions and held question - answer sessions to evaluate the effectiveness of the
training programs. The Resource Persons provided the training material to all the students.
 No. of
No. of
Class Topics Students Girls Boys
Sessions
attended
12th Grade and 12th 64 46
Mental Well Being 1 110
Grade completed
Logical Reasoning / Quantity 58 32
Degree 2nd year 2 90
Aptitude
Group Discussion/Resume 23 19
Degree 3rd Year 2 42
writing and Interview preparation
12th Grade and 72 34
Positive Study Habits 1 106
Degree 1st Year
Degree 3rd year and 27 18
Job opportunities and Planning 1 45
Diploma 3rd year
11th Grade and Anger Management and 57 38
Diploma 1st Year 1 95
Assertiveness
Degree 1st year and 25 12
Diploma students Communicative English 1 37
Degree 3rd Year and Revision and Doubt Clearing 35 03
Diploma 3rd Year 1 38
Session on Mental Ability

Total 10 563 361 202

Payana – Scholarship support for Girl students

Payana is a journey of Educational Empowerment of girl students from single women led families. This
project is executed in collaboration with RAPID. The support to the students is unconditional irrespective of the
Merit or the course they are studying.

In the Financial year 2023-24 we have supported 123 students with amount of INR 12.78 Lakhs. All of them
have been provided orientation and guidance. Along with scholarship we support the students with Library books
and different training programs.

Surabhi’s mother works as a Data Operator. She has a brother studying

in 10th standard. She is a very sincere student who wants to excel
academically and secure a good job after her degree to support her
parents. She was felicitated by her college management for standing 1st
to the college in 12th examination.

• Scored 90% in 12th standard exams and stood 1st to the college.
• Secured 1st Class in Hindustani Music Examination, Level 1.

Shambhavi belongs to a lower middle-class family. She has a younger

brother studying in higher secondary school. Her father fell ill during
COVID 1st wave and their family was in critical condition with no income.

• Shambhavi has participated in many Singing and dance competitions

and won awards. Results awaited of recent Inter college competition
of singing.
• She is an active NSS member, she has attended their Leadership
Camp recently.
Yuva Fellowship
Through Yuva fellowship program, We aim to provide an opportunity to passionate, committed and most
promising young graduates from local communities to serve as full-time teachers to children from low-income
communities in Karnataka’s most under-resourced Govt. schools. The teaching fellow will spend two years
teaching in rural government schools as a full-time teacher teaching Mathematics, Science and English Subjects.
In Long term our alumni will become advocates of Excellent Education & work for Educational Equity.

Nine Yuva fellows are working in 9 rural government schools around the villages of Dharwad and reaching 910
rural children. By aiming to give Excellent Education our fellows are teaching Maths, Science and English for
Class 5, 6, and 7 Students.

Vidya Poshak Yuva Fellowship students got the opportunity to visit Adobe Company for the “Create Change
Symposium - Project Smile Community League 2023”. Five students from the Each school of Vidya Poshak
Yuva Fellowship got selected for the visit. 39 students got the opportunity to play different Indoor and Outdoor
games at the league. Students were very excited in the overall activities and got prizes in the different games
too.

In collaboration with ThinkTac, our fellows started doing experiments in the schools by using the science
experiment kits. The kit has 7 different experiments of their respective topics. Students started experiencing the
experiments in all of our schools. These kits and the experiments allow our students to learn new topics of
science and gives the opportunity to create new things by critical and creative thinking.

Vidya Poshak in partnership with LNW distributed learning materials to children on the occasion of
Children’s Day. It contained a drawing book, a set of pens, Rangeela paint, Two English Puzzle books and a
Water bottle. 910 students from 9 schools in Dharwad district received the learning materials.
Personal counseling program intervention
Under personal counseling program of Vidya Poshak, 59 individuals with different psychological issues got
benefitted from individual counseling. 40 individuals have completed sessions with positive outcomes and the
remaining 19 individuals are under follow up sessions.

Our team has conducted guidance session in 17 Colleges in different districts on various topics such as positive
study habits, adolescence issues, how to choose right career, social media and gadget addiction. 2380 students
got benefitted from this program.

Mental health day and suicide prevention day programs have been conducted at 2 different colleges to reduce
misconception and stigma about mental health. 220 participants got benefitted from the sessions. And 9 colleges
have been visited to provide awareness on the importance of counseling among adolescents. A total of 612
students have attended the sessions.

Residential Bridge Camps

Vidya Poshak residential training camps aim to foster life skills that are not fully available in the student’s life,
either on campus or in their community. Every camp had different themes for different classes. The objectives
of the camps were to assist the students to set and achieve desired career goals, increase confidence through
skill sets (IQ, EQ, and SQ), make them contributive and socially sensitive citizens.

Vidya Poshak trained 564 students through 10 residential bridge camps in six different districts from April
to December 2023. 70% of students were girls.

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the change
that we seek.” Barack Obama”

Thank You for all your support – Team Vidya Poshak