Objectives of the Fellowship:

1. To encourage girls living in situations of vulnerability to grow up empowered with access to education and healthcare in safe spaces with greater freedom from all forms of abuse and violence
2. To identify academically high-performing young girls from underserved communities, and provide them with a platform to excel by means of a merit-based scholarship and leadership development program
3. To connect girl beneficiaries, their families, and the community at large with government schemes and benefits to ensure sustainability and add scale to the impact of the program
4. To support girls to accelerate social change and mobilize communities to support Covid-19 vaccination and Covid relief with a focus on neglected slum clusters and rural India
5. To provide platforms that support skills-building for girls (e.g. digital, foundational, job-specific, STEAM, 21st Century) to enhance their employability quotient

Through an innovative, modularised curriculum (with topics such as digital literacy, civic participation, financial literacy, self-awareness, life skills, and English skills) Protsahan India Foundation expects to see a myriad of positive outcomes for the 30 Girl Champion Fellows. A non-comprehensive list of measurable outcomes includes delayed age of marriage and pregnancy, increasing civic participation/agency, reducing the women’s unemployment rate, decreasing child rights violations, and fostering financial independence.