Organization : Agaram
Scholarship Name : Vidhai Educational Aid/ Support Program
Applicable For : College Students
Applicable States : Tamilnadu
Website : https://agaram.in/vidhai.php
Agaram Vidhai Educational Support Program
Working closely with the students from remote parts of Tamilnadu and addressing their challenges helped Agaram to understand the ground realities in providing equal opportunities for quality education.
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It also helped Agaram to evaluate the needs and made the team realise that their efforts have to become manifold to make any real difference in the lives of these children.
In the year 2010, Agaram, with significant contributions from trustees and other donors, gained momentum and started by supporting 160 students from across Tamilnadu for college education under its initiative “Vidhai”.
What Agaram Does?
Agaram provides college education to deserving students and assists them with education and accommodation. Agaram connects with every student individually on a regular basis and their progress is monitored.
Students who approach Agaram for educational aid come from different walks of life and come with challenging family backgrounds coupled with poverty. These children are constrained by communal beliefs and practices that range from parental negligence, resistance to educating girl child, underage marriage etc., that inherently poses challenges for the students in their effort to succeed in life.
How Agaram Helps?
Agaram reaches out to deserving students from most backward parts of the country and provide them with an opportunity to complete their education. Agaram believes that equal education is a powerful ‘change agent’.
Hence, many tailor-made programs have been created, focussing on equipping children with the skills to overcome the challenges and help them emerge as a confident and competent individual.
Quarterly workshops on soft skills development and social awareness, personality development sessions, value education, communication, interpersonal skills and collaboration sessions are conducted for the students at regular intervals.
Who Benefits?
Students who approach Agaram for educational support come from various walks of life from both rural and urban areas. They are mostly from challenging family backgrounds with limited financial support.
They are also constrained by communal practices such as resistance to educating the girl child, underage marriage, child labour, single / disabled / addicted parents who are ignorant of the value of education, posing significant threats and obstacles for the child to overcome.
Agaram assists students from such backgrounds, by providing them the opportunities that will bring about a change in their lives.
How Agaram Selects?
Every year we receive thousands of applications requesting financial help for higher education. We have a rigorous scoring system in place to identify deserving students. We assist students with the Application and Admission processes. We also help them with other logistics operations like accommodation, mess fees etc.
Selection: The selection process consists of four stages:
Receiving Applications:
** Agaram receives applications from students, from all over Tamilnadu. These applications are reviewed and the deserving students who come from Government Schools across rural Tamilnadu and are first generation College goers are short-listed.
Personal Interview:
** The students who are shortlisted are called for a personal interview, for which they are asked to be present along with their parent or guardian. The personal interview is conducted to assess the student’s attitude and willingness to study further. The genuineness of the details provided by the student/parent or guardian is also verified during the interview.
House Visit:
The purpose of house visit is to assess the information and verify the facts provided by the student and their parent/guardian during the personal interview. The financial background and the life style of the student’s family are also assessed during the visit.
Volunteers doing the House visit, fill in forms to mention whether there is electricity facility or not, residing house is hut/tile roof/concrete, educational qualification of the parents and siblings, father alcoholic or not etc. Weightage points are given to these parameters at a later stage.
Scoring and Selection:
** The final list of students for the given academic year would be determined by the socio economic scoring against various parameters filled during House visit, along with their academic scores in X & XII exams.
Career Guidance & Admission Process:
Students selected by the foundation are given awareness of all the choices and the scope of choice available to them. They are provided with all the details, so that they make an informed decision.
Collecting Information on Courses & Colleges:
A team of volunteers work parallelly to gather information, about the courses and their availability, from colleges across Tamilnadu. Details like course fee, facilities are analysed, recorded and updated and the scope and placement opportunities for the Courses are also collected.
Admission Guidance – Course & College Selection
Admission Guidance process carried out within Agaram to evaluate and group the students into Arts & Science and Professional streams.
This process consists of
** familiarising the student with course by providing complete information
** assisting the student to choose the right course based on his / her past performance, aptitude and interest
** Evaluate the eligibility of the student based on the marks scored in the final exams
Volunteers then contact the students and inform them on their selection and then based on Agaram’s admission guidelines, the student wins the Agaram sponsorship.
Admission to College & Hostel:
Agaram then assists the Student with the College and Hostel Admission process and complete admission formalities to be admitted in the chosen college.
When should we apply ?:
In January
How to apply ?:
Students should send their bio data, family background letter written by them, copies of X marksheet, XII quarterly and half yearly mark sheet attested by the School HM, Community certificate and send it to the Agaram office.
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