India 🇮🇳
Young women in India who desire to pursue university education face numerous challenges. While lack of income is the most obvious, there are also issues of gender-based violence and harassment, inadequate sanitation facilities, language barriers, discrimination against “lower” castes, and long transport times to university campuses.
U-GO Scholars: 932
Young women in India who desire to pursue university education face numerous challenges. While lack of income is the most obvious, there are also issues of gender-based violence and harassment, inadequate sanitation facilities, language barriers, discrimination against “lower” castes, and long transport times to university campuses. Women from Hindu upper castes have double the number of graduates of all other castes and communities combined. Even when young women who are “outsiders” gain university admissions, the dropout rates can be as high as 20% per year due to discrimination and lack of mentorship.
U-GO works with The Milaan Foundation and Buddy4Study to break down barriers making the opportunity for advancement open to all motivated and academically achieving women, providing financial scholarships and on-going mentorship through the duration of their schooling. To date, 932 scholarships have been funded.
