The Saathi Fellowship is a three months long, immersive, social entrepreneurship program that will equip youth with the knowledge, skills, and resources and support them in kick starting or strengthening microenterprises to generate livelihood or additional income opportunities for vulnerable people severely impacted by the pandemic.

Indian citizens at least 18 years of age who can commit full time for 3 months are eligible to apply individually or as a team of two.

The ability to understand and communicate in basic English is a mandatory requirement.

There is no restriction on the education and/or professional background for the applicants. We welcome candidates from diverse fields/spheres.

You can apply, given your college/university allows you to engage full time for 3 months amidst your semesters.

3 months

Full time

10-15

Yes. A monthly stipend of 7,500 INR will be given to an individual fellow or 10,000 INR in total to a team of two.

If you are inclined and aspire to build social ventures, want to traverse a journey of seeking solutions, keen on creating change in the livelihood landscape, this fellowship is the right opportunity for you. We are seeking fellows who are risk tolerant, resilient, believe in determined action, take initiative, think critically, and are committed to making this world a better place.

We require the fellows to be diligent, punctual, and actively participate in all the dimensions of the program. Fellows need to uphold the values that we abide by as a team. They must be able to engage with all the stakeholders during the tenure of the fellowship and kickstart/strengthen enterprises for generating livelihood for low resource settings. Additionally, we expect fellows to complete all the deliverables on time which include documenting their journey, completing/attending the entrepreneurship curriculum, updating on the progress of work through assignments, reports, presentations among others.

The selection process will consist three rounds:

Round 1 - Online application submission

Round 2 - Workshop and assignment submission

Round 3 - Video interview

Yes. You can select any of the challenges / social problems from the community where you live and propose to solve it. However, you must be physically present in the location where you propose to work and the solution (microenterprise building idea) must provide livelihood or additional income to the vulnerable.

Only one application per person or team will be accepted.

After selecting the problem statement that you intend to work on, you can propose your idea as a potential solution in the application form/through the application process and build or strengthen the microenterprise during the course of the program.

Depends on the nature of the business that you will build or strengthen. We foresee local travel to the beneficiary’s community for logistics on a regular basis.

Yes, you will receive a certificate after successful completion of your fellowship.

In such a case, we will terminate the fellowship for the respective fellow.

The fellows will be supported in scaling their existing or kickstarting new microenterprises or in placements with partner organisations in our network.