If a father has left, cannot work, or a single mother cannot earn enough, 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 enough 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 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 money. You do not need a death certificate — your reality is what matters to us. If you do not yet have a desertion certificate, apply anyway and we will guide you through getting one. (This is Category 3.)
Category 4He is still here, but he cannot support you. Any one of these reasons is enough — a total and permanent disability; a critical illness (cancer, a serious heart condition, kidney failure or any illness that stops him working); a severe mental illness; complete dependence on alcohol or drugs; or 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, so she cannot earn enough to support her daughter’s education. (Category 6.)
Her father has passed away and her mother has no income or resources (situation 2)? Or her mother has passed away or is absent and her father cannot support her for one of the reasons above (situation 5)? She may qualify too — see the Orphan Girls page. 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. Every one of these situations is one we support, and the reason never matters 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. To keep it, she needs 80% in each semester exam, and her first semester is a grace period.
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 50% to 75% of her tuition, hostel and examination fees directly to her college or university.
One year of support if she is already in college and at risk of dropping out over fees — 50% to 75% of her tuition, paid to her college. It asks for 75% in Class 12 (for UG) or 70% in graduation (for PG), and if she reaches the Merit Scholarship marks, she can move to the Merit Scholarship.
Coaching for exams like NEET, JEE, CA, CMA, UPSC, and CAT, each with its own marks requirement.
Vocational Training, and Exam Fee Support for students of government institutions (not government-aided) — neither has a marks requirement. Study Material and Device Support for government-institution students (not government-aided) with 90%+ in Class 12 (plus 80% in UG if she is past first year of UG or applying for PG, and 75% in PG if she is past first year of PG). And Emergency Assistance — one-time help if she is in college and her earning parent has died or been diagnosed with a critical illness in the last 180 days (70% in Class 12 for UG, or 60% in graduation for PG).
We pay our scholarship and grant money directly to the institution, never as cash to the student or the family. For the Merit Scholarship, the Education Continuity Grant, coaching and vocational training, we fund part of the fees rather than all of them — between 50% and 75%. 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 gather a pile of documents to begin. Fill in the short online form on the How to Apply page — about 4 to 5 minutes, details only, with no document upload — or simply 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. Applying is free, at every stage. If anyone asks you for money in our name, please report it to us.
It costs nothing to ask. Talk to us and we will tell you honestly what your daughter can apply for.
