Escape Velocity Grants

Abhay Pratap aspires to become a scientist in Maths and computing. After having won a silver honor in International Youth Mathematics Competition (IYMC), he is currently preparing for an MSc programme. With this grant Abhay will be purchasing a laptop to take online classes.

Neelika Chakrabarti runs Citta – a mental health initiative along with her day job. With the grant, she is going to run offline workshops to provide free therapy and mental health resources/workshops to students especially from under-privileged and marginalized communities.

Samruddhi Ramesh Deshmukh is a final year MBBS student. She designed a pilot project using a commonly available medicinal plant and will be using the grant money to purchase machinery that’ll help synthesize the medicinal plant for market consumption.

Rohit is from Maharastra and wants to teach tribal women how to make hand sanitizer from mahua plant. Right now, spirit from the plant is drunk as alcohol. He will help teach how to make a higher value product (sanitizer) out of it.

His application -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bbRy4Dm5MPxg1C4hLvqcAXFFxb_HQW4h/view

Adwait is an aspiring economist. His long-term goal is to work upon a treatise on modern economics in the Indian context, developing “Indian School of Thought” for economics. This grant will help him fund his research (travel and living expenses). https://adwaitr.substack.com

Mohammad Qureshi is a final year law student from Kashmir. He has formed a young lawyers group to help do pro-bono legal work in Kashmir. This grant will help him conduct moot-court competitions to help train the young lawyers to improve the quality of life for Kashmiris

Kaira and Hansa are pursuing economics degrees. This grant will enable them to do a project to estimate willingness-to-pay for menstrual cups amongst

Indian women. These cups are more sustainable than pads/tampons but not very popular. This research will figure out why.

Maryam is a high school student from Ernakulum, Kerla. She got into the semi-final round of HSBC science innovation contest (top 200 out of 500 entries). She will use this grant to purchase components (such as GPS module and fingerprint sensor) for her project.

Maxito is a young music composer. Right now he records songs using the phone mic but this grant of Rs. 50k will help him buy equipment to take his compositions to next level and make a living out of this.

Check out his songs:

https://open.spotify.com/album/58qDziUO0RgWnmNDm9HTLx

Rohit runs an 8-week course on citizenship for children from underprivileged backgrounds. The grant will help him organize trips for kids to courts, parliament, etc. https://linkedin.com/in/rohit-vasishta-7684561b1/?originalSubdomain=in

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