Sewa Fellowship 2023 – 2025

The deadline for first round of applications is 16th April 2023.

Sewa International is a ‘not-for-profit’ organization inspired by the noble tradition of service before self, and working towards promoting volunteerism internationally amongst the children, youth, women and energetic senior citizens.

Youth for Seva is a nation-wide volunteering movement that inspires youth to volunteer & provides them with meaningful opportunities to serve the community.

Sewa Fellowship is a strategic investment in human capacity, and grassroots organizations to build solutions for India’s complex socio-economic-cultural matrix. We believe in the power and potential of youth to drive ideas, run movements, nurture organizations, and seek truth and justice to together build a better Bharat.

We are looking for 30 young leaders to join the Sewa Fellowship for 2023-25. These young minds will build and drive creative solutions to Bharat’s most complex problems with a 100-week curriculum and work mentorship.

Sewa Fellowship is a 100-week experiential learning program for future grassroots leaders, built at the intersection of an extensive multi-disciplinary curriculum and grassroots development.

As an intensive journey, we nurture young nation-builders with expert mentorship, experiential learning, and an impactful journey with some leading non-profits of Bharat.

As a 100-week program, the fellowship equips young, bright minds with knowledge, skills and a mindset to serve. With extensive mentor support, the program bridges the needs of grassroots development with a vision for the future.

The entire fellowship program is designed in a way to empower the fellows to take up complex challenges, and build solutions for them in their journey of serving our nation.

In the fellowship journey, the fellows would getting trained for hundreds of hours, would interact with 80+ senior leaders from 30+ organizations, and gain meaningful hands-on skills. With the extensive curriculum, enriching grassroots experiences, and expert mentorship, the fellows will be ready to join organisations for social change or this journey would empower them enough to take initiative on their own.

With the fellowship, we aim to build a community of young, bright minds who share a common vision for the nation and the world. The commitment to support the fellows goes much beyond the 2 years, and expands to the entire impact journey of the fellows. We understand this is a lifetime of togetherness in the mission of nation building, beginning with 2 years of the fellowship.

The first cohort will begin it’s journey with a 2-week residential training in the beginning of August.

Selection Process

Knowledge: ज्ञान शक्ति
Case Studies of Social Impact, Philosophical Foundations of Development Research, Knowing Itihasa and Bharat, National Faultlines, Development Ecosystem, etc.

Skills: क्रिया शक्ति
Storytelling, Fundraising, Networking, Communication, Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, etc.

Will Power: इच्छा शक्ति
Social Emotional Learning, Human Centred Design, Personal Value System, Active Listening, Sensemaking, etc.

The entire fellowship program is structured to maximize learning for the fellows. Here are some key elements:

• Social BootCamp: We begin the program with a 2-week residential bootcamp to provide a landscape view of the social sector, train them on key skills needed, and build perspective on development and grassroots change.
• Grassroots Work: Each fellow would have a dedicated project to serve a community. This can be in any domain of development, like education, health, livelihoods etc, based on the available projects and interests of the fellow.
• Immersive Programs: Every 3-4 months, the fellows would join an immersive program with a senior social leader to deepen their understanding of society, nation and the world.
• Digital Sessions: Every month, the fellows would have 5-6 sessions in the form of courses, peer activities, mentor sessions, and reflective exercises.

Features:

• • Positive Support: Stipend of ₹20,000 per month, apart from accommodation+food at the respective organizations and a grant amount of around ₹1.75 Lakhs.

  • Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Comprehensive & holistic curriculum delivered by practitioners from across the world.

  • Expert mentorship: 50+ expert mentors to inspire, inform, guide, and awaken the best in the fellows.

  • Live Projects: Extensive reflective exercises to support learnings on self, society, development, and the world.

Eligibility:

• Indicative Age: 21-30 years
• Must have some volunteering experience with any community
• Minimum of 1 year of equivalent work experience
• Language constraints based on project locations*

Duration: The fellows will be serving for 100 weeks, i.e. around 2 years with partner organisations. We are looking for candidates who are looking for a long-term commitment to social development, with a temperament to serve the nation.

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