If a father has left, cannot work, or a single mother cannot earn, your daughter may still keep studying. It costs nothing to ask.
If your daughter’s family has been through a hard turn, she may still be able to keep studying — and the Vedicology Foundation may be able to help.
We support daughters in three situations: where a father has left the family, where a father is alive but unable to provide, and where a single mother cannot earn because of illness or disability. If any of that is close to your home, read on.
You do not need a court paper, a desertion certificate, or anyone’s permission to ask. It costs nothing to reach out.
A father walks out. An illness takes away his work. A single mother does everything right and still cannot stretch her income far enough to cover a daughter’s college fees. None of that is the girl’s fault, and none of it is yours. The Foundation works across Tamil Nadu and Kerala to help these daughters keep studying — and this page explains exactly who we mean, so you can see whether your family is one of them.
We support adolescent girls and women aged 18 and above. We do not fund minors.
We help daughters in three situations. You do not need to know which “category” you fit — read these and see if one sounds like your home.
Category 3He walked away, with no contact and no financial support. You do not need a divorce paper or a desertion certificate to qualify — we understand that a father who leaves rarely leaves paperwork behind. (This is Category 3.)
Category 4He is still here, but he is unable to support the family — because of a total or permanent disability, a critical illness, a severe mental illness, addiction to alcohol or drugs, or because he is in prison. (Category 4.)
Category 6The father is no longer in the picture, and the mother has a serious disability or critical illness that prevents her from working. (Category 6.)
If your situation is close to one of these but not exactly the same, please still get in touch. Plenty of families talk themselves out of asking — they decide their case is “not bad enough” or “not the right kind” before anyone has even looked at it. Let us look at it with you, rather than ruling yourself out from the outside.
We want to say this plainly, because we know it stops people from reaching out.
If a father has left, or is in prison, or is struggling with addiction or illness, families often carry a quiet shame about it — as if a daughter’s education should depend on a story the family is proud to tell. It should not, and with us it does not. We are not here to judge how your family came to be where it is. We have walked alongside daughters from every one of these situations, and not once has the reason mattered more than the girl in front of us.
You will never be asked to explain or justify what happened. You only need to tell us enough for us to help.
For our Merit Scholarship, daughters in these situations qualify at 85% for undergraduate study and 80% for postgraduate study — the same bar as for most students we support.
If her marks are a little below that, please do not let it stop you, especially if her school or university marks strictly. Reach out and tell us her situation. Our Scholarship Committee looks at the whole of a student’s life, not only a percentage, and there are other kinds of support that do not depend on marks at all.
Depending on where she is in her studies and what she is working towards, she may be able to apply for:
Our main scholarship, which pays part of her tuition fees directly to her college or university.
Support for students whose marks are below the Merit Scholarship bar, to help her keep studying and work towards qualifying for the Merit Scholarship later.
Coaching for exams like NEET, JEE, CA, CMA, UPSC, and CAT, each with its own marks requirement.
Emergency assistance, exam fee support, and study-material or device support, none of which has a marks requirement.
We pay our scholarship and grant money directly to the institution, never as cash to the student or the family, and we fund part of the fees rather than all of them — usually between half and three-quarters. This is on purpose: it keeps the support fair and lasting, and it keeps the student a partner in her own education rather than only a recipient. Browse everything we offer on the All Programmes page.
You do not need to fill in a long form or gather a pile of documents to begin. The first step is simply to talk to us.
Message us on WhatsApp, or call the same number, and tell us a little about your family’s situation. We will listen, explain honestly what your daughter can apply for, and walk you through the rest. If some documents are missing — and with these situations, they often are — that is never a reason not to reach out. We will help you sort out what is needed. See the full process on the How to Apply page.
Vedicology Foundation never charges any application fee, processing fee, registration fee, or documentation fee. Our support is completely free. If anyone asks you for money claiming to represent us, please report it immediately:
It costs nothing to ask. Talk to us and we will tell you honestly what your daughter can apply for.
