Grassroutes is a Fellowship Program that supports outstanding and passionate young people to go on road-trips for social change.  The select group of young people will travel across India, meet change-makers, work with social ventures, learn about developmental issues, live with the community and return with stories of social change, which will enable them to inspire a larger community into taking action.

The Grassroutes Fellowship consists of a 30 day road-trip where the Fellows are mapped to a social organisation or NGO (host organisation) in rural India. Fellows spend the summer working with change-makers and social entrepreneurs, who are creating sustainable and significant impact in different parts of the country. During their stay, Fellows work on a pre-defined project based on their skill-sets and don the role of social journalists – researching, understanding and capturing unheard stories from the grassroots – of people, places, challenges, solutions, hope and above all, the impact that individuals can create.

An initiative of a non-profit for-impact society Youth Factor, Grassroutes is a novel social venture aimed at driving youth to discover the change-maker within.  At Yofa, we work on initiatives aimed at creating young leaders with social consciousness who question the status quo and have the ability tobring about change

Objectives:

• Providing a transformational experience to Fellows.
• Adding incremental value to the host organisations.
• Inspiring a larger community by spreading the experiences of Grassroutes Fellows in the form of human stories.

Eligibility:

• The Fellowship is open only to Indian nationals between the age of 18 and 25 as of 1st March, 2011.
• Applicants are required to dedicate 30 days in June 2011.
• Applicants must be willing to live in a challenging setting (rural or semi-urban) and work with change-makers in those settings.
• Applicants should travel to Bangalore for the Day Zero on 28th and 29th of May 2011

The application process is open from 20th Jan, 2011 to 1st March, 2011.

Registration Fee:

A nominal fee of Rs.6,000 is required to be paid by the Fellow. This is to be paid by 3rd April, 2011. In case after the road-trip you feel that the experience did not meet the expectation we set, write to us and the amount will be refunded to you.

If there are any questions please mail us at team@grassroutes.in or apply@grassroutes.in

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