UST-Vidyadhan scholarships doubles sponsorship finances, expands to extra states
UST has to date sponsored 306 college students through Vidyadhan
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Taking an enormous step ahead in its dedication to remodel lives through schooling, digital transformations options firm UST has doubled its sponsorship finances to Vidyadhan Program, to cowl further college students from 4 new states – Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Maharashtra, in addition to Kerala. A memorandum of understanding has been signed between UST and Vidyadhan in this regard to double the sponsorship finances.
Vidyadhan is a Shibulal Family Philanthropic initiative underneath the aegis of Sarojini Damodaran Foundation, arrange by Kumari Shibulal and S D Shibulal. The UST – Vidyadhan partnership began in 2018 with scholarship help for 100 engineering college students from Kerala and has grown in energy 12 months after 12 months. UST has to date sponsored 306 college students underneath Vidyadhan. Among the 102 UST-supported college students who’ve graduated, 61 p.c have discovered employment in varied firms and establishments, 10 p.c have chosen larger research, and 15 p.c are making ready for aggressive exams.
The highway forward for Vidyadhan has been properly charted, with extra company sponsorships and extra states being added underneath its purview. Hon’ble Governor Of Kerala, Arif Mohammed Khan, will inaugurate a one-day occasion, ‘Partnerships For Social Impact’ on October 8, 2022, Saturday, at Hotel O by Tamara in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The one-day occasion can have the participation of Vidyadhan stakeholders and beneficiaries sharing their ideas on the celebrated program.
Post-pandemic, the challenges confronted by the Pan-India Vidyadhan scholarship programme made it envisage modifying operations and search renewed commitments from companions. It is in this context UST, who has been partnering with the programme for the previous 4 years, determined to step up its involvement and additional improve its dedication to the programme.
According to Alexander Varghese, Chief Operating Officer, UST, “The UST-Vidyadhan journey rides on the commitment towards transforming lives through education. We had been partnering with Vidyadhan since year 2018, offering financial scholarship support to engineering students from Kerala. The numbers have grown over the years. This apart, the UST CSR team has been offering mentoring and training to selected students too. The partnership will now be strengthened and more students from different parts of India will be provided with the opportunity to continue their studies in a hassle-free manner.”
Kumari Shibulal, Managing Trustee, Sarojini Damodaran Foundation said, “Vidyadhan is not just a program, but an idea that every individual can make a difference. It’s the responsibility of every citizen, corporate and social sector organization to create opportunities for the youth from economically backward families. It is a journey that is best traversed together, and in UST we have found a dependable and like-minded partner who stepped up its commitment post pandemic.”
Vidyadhan follows a rigorous choice course of together with take a look at, interviews and residential visits to choose meritorious college students hailing from financially backward households proper after their 10th grade. A novel facet of Vidyadhan scholarships is that the complete sponsorship cash goes to the scholars chosen.
UST has additionally been contributing in non-financial methods to the Vidyadhan program, through its participation in the choice processes, mentoring and coaching. One such profitable initiative has been the Chrysalis Program, an Employability Soft Skill Training offered by UST for final-year diploma college students.
S D Shibulal, Trustee, Sarojini Damodaran Foundation said, “As we scaled Vidyadhan, now present in 14 states, we realized that it is important to bring in partnerships. These partnerships are not only about sponsorships, they are also about mentorship and creating opportunities for employment. Notably, the students who were mentored and sponsored by UST are getting 3 times the scholarship amount as their first year’s salary, thereby also pulling their respective families out of the poverty trap.”
Pushing ahead the brand new MoU, UST and Vidyadhan will even chart out an in depth plan for gentle expertise coaching for college kids in order that such coaching is prolonged to increasingly more college students.
About UST
For greater than 22 years, UST has labored facet by facet with the world’s greatest firms to make an actual affect through transformation. Powered by expertise, impressed by folks, and led by our function, we associate with our purchasers from design to operation. Through our nimble strategy, we determine their core challenges, and craft disruptive options that carry their imaginative and prescient to life. With deep area experience and a future-proof philosophy, we embed innovation and agility into our purchasers’ organizations—delivering measurable worth and lasting change throughout industries, and all over the world. Together, with over 30,000 workers in 30+ nations, we construct for boundless affect—touching billions of lives in the method. Visit us at www.UST.com.
About Vidyadhan:
Vidyadhan is a Shibulal Family Philanthropic Initiative underneath the aegis of Sarojini Damodaran Foundation, arrange by Kumari Shibulal and S D Shibulal in 1999. Vidyadhan gives funding, mentoring and life ability coaching to meritorious college students from deprived background to pursue larger schooling. Currently 5000 college students are enrolled in this system from 14 states in India. In addition, Vidyadhan has helped 2200 college students full their larger schooling and change into productive residents to date. Alumni comprise 150 medical doctors, 618 engineers, 250+ college students in skilled programs (Nursing, Pharma, Agriculture). Our expertise platform gives a simple and clear means for all stakeholders to interact with the method and join on an ongoing foundation. The program is designed as a ‘pay it ahead’ mannequin the place beneficiaries are dedicated to sponsoring future college students in want as soon as they themselves change into self-reliant. Through this, we count on this system to be self-sustaining. Vidyadhan was arrange in 1999 and opened to public sponsorship in 2015 through the ‘Each One Teach One’ initiative to scale Vidyadhan by inviting extra corporates and people to associate with us. Since then, a number of sponsors throughout India have helped us present scholarships with zero administrative value to them, making it a singular and clear mannequin. Visit us at www.vidyadhan.org
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