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Help 22 'eduCATe Scholars' Graduate & Earn a Dignified Living

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Who benefits from your donation?
Case Study 1: Our Sanjay is a shy and soft-spoken but incredibly sharp young boy. He has been an all-rounder since school. He stood first in academics, won declamation contests, participated in painting competitions and he wanted to be a doctor. With a carpenter father and a housewife mother supporting his family of 7, possibilities were tough despite the grades. With full support from the program, after graduating from a leading medical college from Chandigarh, he joined a leading hospital in NCR. He is paying back to the project to support fresh batch of scholars.

Case Study 2: In the face of blatant gender discrimination at home with parents against paying for the education of ‘praaya dhan’, eduCATe Scholarship secured a seat in pharmacy for our ever smiling Radha. She took tuitions outside of college hours to start paying back, still topped the class and was awarded with full fee concession by the college.

Case Study 3: Despite facing terrible domestic turbulence, a very determined Rajinder remained focused on studies and scored 87% in non-medical stream in Class +2. However, with a truant father and housewife mother, there was little hope of paying for his engineering seat. Thanks to timely intervention by the Trustees of Can & Will Foundation, he is an engineering in the making today and can dream of supporting his family in a dignified manner soon.

* Names have been changed to protect the dignity of our Scholars. Factual information stands verified and correct.

Who is seeking donations?
Can & Will Foundation is a registered charity and we been actively promoting sustainable livelihoods through education since 2008. Under our eduCATe Scholars program, thus far we have monetarily supported, mentored and guided 154 intelligent students facing financial challenges since 2008.

Our graduates include Doctors, Radiotherapy technologists, Commerce graduates, Landscapists, Stenographers, Chartered Accountancy interns. Depending upon their career paths and family responsibilities, some of these scholars have started contributing back to the project also, to create opportunities for others facing such unfortunate circumstances.

Why are we asking for Rs. 10 lakhs?
Our budget for 22 eduCATe Scholars in year 2017-18 was Rs 9.25 lakhs. With few more applications already submitted for academic year 2018-19, we expect our budget to cross Rs. 10 lakhs. Hence we are raising this appeal to avoid the loss of an academic year for any deserving student who has stars in the eyes but not enough pennies in the pocket.

NOTE: Apart from government-approved schemes such as BPL/income linked, or SC/ST concessions for our Scholars, we do not receive any government funding.

No	Cat	Father/Main Bread Winner’s Profession	12th result %	Stream	App. Monthly Income (per month)	Admission (College & Course)	TOTAL (2017-18)
1	SC	Daily Wager	95	non medical	10,000	PEC Chd (Electronics & Communications)	1,40,250
2	GEN	Farmer	72.6	comm	7,000	Khalsa College Chd (Bcom)	20,500
3	GEN	Cash Clerk	94.4	Non medical	12,000	CCET, Chandigarh (BE)	77,400
4	GEN	Security guard	72	non medical	9,000	SD College Chd (BCA)	26,390
5	GEN	sales man at shop	87	non medical	9,000	CSIO (Indo-Swiss)	46,000
6	GEN	Security guard	94.4	non medical	8,000	GCM-11 (BCA)	52,900
7	GEN	worker	82	comm	10,000	GCG 42 (Bcom)	20,135
8	GEN	Momo Hawker	74	arts	9,000	GC-46 (BA Music)	21,055
9	GEN	Deceased	71	medical	9,000	SD College (BSc)	23,890
10	SC	Labourer	87	non medical	5,000	Govt College- Mohali (BSc)	70,675
11	Gen	Kiryana Store	87	medical	8,000	PIMS, Jalandhar (MBBS)	2,25,000
12	SC	Daily Wager	72	medical	12,000	Govt College- Mohali (BSc)	3,275
13	SC	Auto Driver	84	medical	15,000	Govt Polytech - Chd (D.Pharma)	3,275
14	Gen	Security guard	92	non medical	10,000	Guru Nanak Eng College Ludhiana (BE)	43,000
15	Gen	Social Worker	87	medical	7,500	Chennai School for +2 (Wants to be Agri Scientist)	30,000
16-20	Gen		All above 65%		All below 10,000	Dev Samaj College - 5xB.Ed students	1,00,000
21	Gen	Office Boy	78	n/a	8,000	St Ishar Singh Public School, Class 8	12,000
22	Gen	Office Boy	85	n/a	8,000	St Ishar Singh Public School, Class 4	10,000
						Annual Budget for Academic Year 2017-18	9,25,745

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2nd July 2019

Dear Friends,

With the new academic semester/year beginning, Can & Will Foundation has started making payments for our Scholars.

We are way short of the target amount to be raised for this year so please continue to donate generously. Please do share the campaign with your friends and family.

Thank You.
Can & Will Foundation

24th June 2019

Dear Supporters,

Thank you all for the love and support.

New academic year, new hopes, new challenges and new fund raising appeal to bring 32 eduCATe Scholars come closer to achieving their professional dreams.

http://bit.ly/Funds4educatescholars-2019, we are re-launching our fund raising appeal for new academic year starting this week. Target has increased from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 13.77 lakhs. We hope our donors would continue to support us through our endeavors to strengthen our communities through eduCATe Scholars as they march closer to become professionally qualified.

Thanks

29th October 2018

Dear Supporters,

Thank you for your love.

Yet another step towards sustainable development through dignity in life by creating small business and satisfying career opportunities. Great things happen when passion, intent and resources join hands. We, at ISB and C&W can't wait to see the results of the structured plans devised for both the institutes.

The earthen pot air cooler made by our eduCATe Scholar Ajay Say has been selected for the 'Innovative Product Design' exhibition, from a total of 32 designs/models submitted.

Studying in 3rd semester of mechanical engineering at CCET-26 in Chandigarh, Ajay made this air cooler with Rs.450/- only. His only regret? 'Ma'am the fan cost me SO MUCH!'

Indian School of Business (Mohali campus) has signed an MOU with Can & Will Foundation whereby CO19 students would be providing career counseling to our potential eduCATe Scholars in Jawahar Navoday Vidyalay (Chandigarh), as well as focus on softskills development and small business development training sessions for our girls undergoing vocational training courses at ITI for Women (Mohali).

Thanks to the MOU between Can & Will Foundation and Indian School of Business, Project Udaan has taken off to benefit many more students aspiring for stable careers without any role models and limited financial resources.

Click on the text above to watch the launch video.

Studio EduTrain has partnered with Can & Will Foundation to provide soft skills training to our Chandigarh based eduCATe Scholars. As a result of structured weekly sessions, our eduCATe Scholars march ahead confidently while consciously working on their Personal Presentation and Communication Skills.

The sessions have been designed and delivered by Dale Carnegie Trainer Mrs Suman Joshi.