For NGOs and shelters
Refer the young women you already serve for funded education — referral collaboration only, with no money ever flowing to your organisation. We fill the gap; we do not duplicate your work.
Money to your NGO
Safe — no sub-granting
Direct to the student
We don't duplicate your work
We fund the student. Never your NGO.
If your NGO or shelter works with orphaned girls, single-parent daughters, or destitute women, you can refer the young women among them — those aged 18 and above — to Vedicology Foundation for funded education, and no money ever flows to your organisation.
This is referral collaboration only. We fund the student's education directly, paying her fees straight to her college; we do not sub-grant funds to partner NGOs. We do not poach or duplicate your work. We simply fill the education-funding gap that many grassroots organisations cannot close on their own. You keep doing what you do best, and the young women you already serve get into education that is paid for.
You know these young women already. You have walked alongside them through the hardest parts, and now they are at the point where the next step is higher education or a skilled trade. What you may not always be able to give them is fees paid, year after year, so they can finish. That is the gap we exist to fill — working beside you rather than over you.
How the money works
Direct to her college
Funds go straight to her college — never cash to her, her family, or you
No sub-granting
Nothing for you to account for or report on
Referral only
You introduce her, we fund her education
Clean and simple
No grant to administer, nothing that touches your funding compliance.
Referral collaboration only — what this is, and what it is not
We want to be completely clear about how money works, because it matters for your compliance and your peace of mind.
We fund the student's education directly
Payment goes from Vedicology Foundation straight to her institution, on her behalf — never as cash to her, her family, or your organisation.
We do not sub-grant funds to partner NGOs
No money flows to your organisation at any point. There is nothing for you to account for, report on, or hold.
This is referral collaboration only
You introduce us to a young woman you already serve; we take her case forward and fund her education. That is the heart of it.
We do not duplicate your work
We are not here to take over the relationships you have built or to claim the work you do. A grassroots organisation that knows a young woman, her family, and her circumstances is doing something we never could. Vedicology Foundation does one specific thing well: we pay for education, directly and reliably, across the full length of a programme. When you refer her to us, your work and ours add up — you continue the support only you can give, and her fees are no longer the thing standing in her way.
Your work + our funding
You keep the trust, the local knowledge, and the relationship. We keep the fees paid, year after year. The two add up to something neither of us could do alone.
More than referral — the ways we can work together
You hold trust, local knowledge, and presence; we hold education funding. Here are the ways to put those together.
Warm referral, with your team still beside her
A young woman whose own field worker stays involved through the transition is far more likely to enrol, stay, and graduate. You carry the human support; we carry the funding.
Complementary care
We pay fees. We do not run hostels, provide daily mentoring, or sit with a young woman through a crisis. You may. Your scaffolding, our funding — a complete support system.
Share what you already know
If you have visited her home and know her circumstances, we can build on your assessment rather than putting her through it twice.
Reach the young women others miss
You may work in remote or tribal areas, with survivors of trafficking, with young women with disabilities, or with families the wider system overlooks — the only bridge to a deserving young woman who would never otherwise reach us.
An ongoing pipeline, not a one-off
A single list is welcome; a simple recurring channel, with one contact on each side, is even better.
We have set all of this out, in full, in our NGO and Referral Partner Guide. The simplest next step is a short conversation. Request the NGO Guide →
A clean route for corporate education funding
Some organisations have corporate contacts who want to fund girls' education but have no registered, transparent vehicle to deploy through. We can be that vehicle. A company you introduce can fund scholarships through Vedicology Foundation, a registered Indian non-profit with 80G. The funds flow to us, never through your organisation — so there is nothing on your books and nothing that affects your compliance. You solve a problem for your corporate partner and strengthen that relationship, at no cost to yourself.
This is an area we are actively building, and we would welcome an early conversation.
The organisations and young women we work with
We welcome referrals from NGOs, shelters, and community organisations across Tamil Nadu and Kerala that work with the girls and young women we support — including:
Orphaned girls and young women who have lost one or both parents
Daughters of single parents who cannot fund their education
Destitute women rebuilding an independent livelihood, who are eligible for fully funded vocational training
We support young women aged 18 and above only — we do not fund minors. Every student is selected on genuine merit. If you are unsure whether someone you work with fits, the simplest thing is to ask us — it costs nothing and takes a short conversation.
What your organisation gains
Partnering with us is not a favour you do for us. It is a genuine extension of your own mission.
You close the gap you cannot close alone
The fees you could never fund are funded.
Your impact deepens at no cost and no risk
Every young woman who graduates is part of your story too, with no restricted funds spent and no financial exposure.
A clean outcome to report to your funders
An enrolled, retained, graduated young woman, with no commingling of money.
Completely safe for your compliance
Nothing flows to you, so nothing touches your FCRA position.
Your beneficiary is never lost into a void
We give you feedback at every stage, and your relationship with her is protected, not severed.
How referral works
Referring is meant to be easy, and it asks almost nothing of your team.
The simplest way is a consolidated list. Rather than sending names one at a time, gather the young women you would like to refer into a single list. Send it to us through one nominated point of contact. We then guide each of them through her application and take her case forward from there.
And one thing we want every referring partner to hear clearly: missing documents are never a barrier. If a student is short of paperwork, we help her obtain what she needs rather than turning her away. A gap in documents has never been a reason to lose a deserving student, and it never will be.
See the full method on the Refer a Student page → — the consolidated list, the single coordinator, and what happens after you refer.
Referral in three moves
Gather a list
The young women you would like to refer, in one consolidated list.
One contact
Send it through a single nominated point of contact.
We take it forward
We guide each young woman through her application from there.
Frequently asked questions
Everything an NGO or shelter needs to know before referring
01Does any money come to our organisation?+
02Will you take over or duplicate our work?+
03Is referral the only way we can partner?+
04Which beneficiaries can we refer?+
05What if a student is missing documents?+
06How do we actually send a referral?+
07Is there any cost to refer, or any fee involved?+
Have girls in mind already?
Send us a consolidated list, or just start a conversation — there is no form to fill and no commitment to make. Our Programme Officers, Bina Aditya in Chennai and across Tamil Nadu and Anoop V across Kerala, will take it from there.
If someone in your team or network would like to give their own time or skills, they can also request our Volunteer Guide.
Vedicology Foundation never charges any fee — no application fee, no processing fee, nothing — at any stage. If anyone ever asks you for money in our name, please report it immediately: