Scholarship
PROGRAM · GIRLS’ EDUCATION
Scholarship
Carrying a girl beyond school into higher education — with the mentoring and coaching she needs to succeed.
For many girls, the hardest step is not the first one — it is the one after school ends. A place in college can be won and still lost to a fee, a hostel bill, an entrance exam that no one helped her prepare for. Our Scholarship program exists so that a girl’s education does not stop at the school gate. It carries her into higher education and stands beside her there, with the mentoring and coaching that turn a place in college into a real qualification.
Why it matters
Higher education is where a girl’s choices widen most — where she can become the first in her family to hold a degree, to enter a profession, to earn a salary her parents could only imagine. Yet it is also where support most often dries up. After years of keeping a girl in school, families and programs alike can hesitate at the final, costliest stretch.
We refuse to stop there. A scholarship is the difference between a girl who finished school and watched her future close, and a young woman who walks into college, graduates, and begins a career she chose for herself. The return is not hers alone: an educated woman lifts her family, her community and the generation that follows her.
What the program provides
- Tuition and fees for college and higher education, so cost never ends her studies.
- Accommodation and living support where studying means living away from home.
- Books, materials and technology — including a laptop or device where her course requires one.
- Mentoring and coaching — a steady adult who guides her choices, tracks her progress and helps her through the hard weeks.
- Career guidance — help choosing a course, preparing for interviews, and finding the first rung of her career.
- Connection to our other programs — so a graduate can move on to skills training and a livelihood of her own.
How we choose scholars
Scholars are girls who have already shown what they can do against the odds — most often girls who came up through our Support-A-Girl program, or who are recommended by teachers and partner organisations in the communities we serve. We look for commitment and potential, not privilege: ability to study, a clear purpose, and a family willing to stand behind her. Where family income is a barrier, the scholarship is what makes the difference between applying and attending.
Once selected, a scholar is not simply funded and forgotten. She is mentored, tracked and encouraged — because our promise is not just to pay a fee, but to see her through to a qualification and a future she can build on.
What success looks like
Success is a scholar who enrols, stays, and graduates. It is a young woman who becomes the first graduate in her family, who earns her own living, and who returns to her community as proof of what a girl can become. We measure enrolment and completion, academic progress, and the path each scholar takes after her studies.
Looking ahead
Our next step is to connect graduating girls with trainee and internship programs at corporates and small businesses around Guwahati, so they get an equal opportunity at full-time work and become truly independent.
Sneha Karma Foundation Scholarship Program. School is where a girl’s journey begins — but for many of our girls it is also where it would once have ended. As our first students near the end of their schooling, we are seeing a new and growing need: the ambition to go further. These girls are not content simply to finish school. They want to become doctors, engineers, IAS officers, teachers and entrepreneurs — and that means college, professional courses, coaching and years of study that their families cannot afford. Educating a girl through school is not enough if the door to higher education then closes in front of her. The Sneha Karma Foundation Scholarship Program is our answer. It will carry promising girls from our programs, and from the communities we serve, through college and professional education — covering tuition and fees, books and study materials, safe accommodation, coaching and exam preparation, and a mentor who stays with them through the years. Every scholarship turns an ambition into a plan, and a plan into a profession. Our goal is simple: no girl with the talent and the will should ever be stopped by the cost of her next step.
When you educate a girl through college, you do not just change her life — you change the lives she will go on to lift.
Scholarship
Focus area:Girls' Education