Refer a girl leaving care
A young woman leaving your care at 18 with no family? Vedicology Foundation funds her full degree — and confirms her situation with you, not at a home that no longer exists.
Of her costs covered
Tuition, hostel & exams
Class 12 minimum
Institution visit, no home visit
We fund her full education
Do you have a young woman in your care who is about to leave at 18 with no family? Vedicology Foundation can fund her full college education.
We pay 100% of her costs — full tuition, full hostel, and full exam fees. There is one condition: she must have passed Class 12 with 60% marks or more. If a degree is not the right path for her, we fully fund a skills or vocational course instead.
How do we check her situation? For most students, we visit the family at home. A care leaver has no family home to visit. So instead, our Programme Officer visits you, at your institution, and confirms her situation with you directly. This is called an institution visit.
This support is called the Care Leaver Scholarship. It is the only time we pay the full cost of a student's education. For every other student, we pay 50% to 75% of the fees. We expect the family to pay the rest. But a young woman leaving your care has no family. So we pay everything.
If a girl in your care is close to 18, this is the most valuable referral you can make. And it is best to tell us early — ideally before she leaves — while her records are still easy to get.
The referral in 3 steps
Choose a contact
One staff member — usually you or your care coordinator — speaks to us.
Send her details
A short referral or discharge note on your letterhead carries real weight.
We take it from there
An institution visit, a Committee review, then we pay her college directly.
No registration needed
You begin simply by telling us about her.
Why early referral matters
The funding begins at 18 — but the best time to tell us about her is while she is still with you.
The scholarship pays for her education once she leaves care at 18. This is the time she moves from school to college. So the money begins at 18 — not before.
But the best time totell us about her is earlier. Tell us while she is still with you. Why does this help? Because while she is in your care, her records are easy to get. Her school details, her Class 12 marks, her time in your institution — all of it is close to hand. When we have these early, her place in funded education is ready the day she turns 18.
A late referral is never a problem. We will always help. An early referral simply makes everything smoother for her.
The timeline, simply
From your care to a funded degree
Before 18
You refer her while her records are easy to obtain.
At 18
She leaves care and the funded education begins.
Through her degree
We pay her college directly, every year.
How to refer a girl leaving care
You do not need to register first. There is no paperwork to set up at your end. You begin simply by telling us about her.
Choose one contact person
This is usually you, or your care coordinator — the single point our Programme Officer works through.
Send us her details
A short referral note or discharge note, on your institution's letterhead, carries real weight with us.
We take it from there
Our Programme Officer makes the institution visit, our Committee reviews her case, and we pay her college directly.
Your word carries weight. A referral letter from you matters a great deal — you are the people who have cared for her, and your word about her is one of the strongest things her file can carry. And if some of her records are missing, do not let that stop you. Our team will help her get whatever is needed. Begin a referral →
Referring other students you work with
The Care Leaver Scholarship is our deepest commitment — but it is not the only help we offer.
You may work with other young women who need support too. Some girls have a parent or a relative, but the family still cannot afford college. This includes orphaned daughters, daughters of single parents, and young women whose families face serious hardship.
They may qualify for a Merit Scholarship or other help. All of them must be aged 18 or above. The referral works the same way — tell us about her, and we take it from there.
See the full range of programmes and who we support.
One thing is always true
We do not fund minors. Our support begins at 18.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about referring a girl leaving your care
01What exactly does the scholarship cover for a girl leaving our care?+
02Do you visit her home, like other scholarships?+
03Can we refer her before she turns 18?+
04Does it matter how she came to be in care?+
05Where does the money go?+
06Is there any cost to us, or any fee for her?+
Is there a girl in your care approaching 18?
Tell us about her now, while her records are easy to obtain. Our Programme Officers — Bina Aditya in Chennai and across Tamil Nadu, Anoop V across Kerala — will guide the referral from there.