Prerana's Pratibha Poshak initiative: Nurturing Merit

The process of identification and Selection for Financial Assistance Program (Scholarships) is already completed for current accademic Year (2009-10). All telephone calls emails in this regard will not be considered. We work only in Bangalore

However, those who wish to sponsor selected student beneficiries should contact prerana office.

 Prerana is a registered NGO devoted to nurturing talent among students from economically challenged backgrounds. Pratibha Poshak (Nurture Merit) is our effort to help meritorious students from economically challenged families, for their college education. Read more about the Pratibha Poshak initiative, our activities, our achievements, and how you can get involved with the project.

Featured student profile

Pooja is from Raichur, a small town in the Karnataka state of India. Her mother expired when she was 2nd standard. Her father remarried and moved to Mumbai. Pooja was brought up by the grandmother, in a small 8'x12' house. Pooja worked in a telebooth, while studying in 9th standard. An intelligent and hard working student, she got 86% in her 10th standard exams. Pratibha Poshak helped her with Rs 20,000 per year for 6 years. She finished Engineering in 2008, and was among the top 5 rankers in her class. She was recruited by Cognizant, with a pay of Rs. 30,000/month. View more profiles

Testimonials

Student, donor, volunteer

Highlights for 2008-09

  • Volunteers and staff together covered more than 5000 villages.
  • Nurture merit test conducted in 11 centres of 9 districts.
  • So far 11,700 students have been assisted with a sum of Rs. 4.29 crore.

Highlights for 2007-08

In the year 07-08, the Pratibha Poshak program:

  • covered 20 districts of Karnataka
  • helped 4200 students
  • was implemented by 4 NGOs, across different geographical locations.

Highlights for 2006-07

  • In 2006-07, we supported 235 students in association with Sparsh, for 2006-2007 and spent above 10 lakhs for educational support.
  • 12 students completed their course and 10 of them were placed in different industries and corporates.