Escape Velocity Grants

Priya Gautam, from Basti, UP wants to become a teacher. Currently, the family’s restricted budgets are going towards her brother’s engineering education. Post a BSc + BEd, she wants to write the C-TET exam and would purchase a smartphone + cover coaching fee to prepare.

Anushka (class 12th) is studying in Nagpur. Her mother is schizophrenic and needs treatment. ~7 percent of Indians suffering from mental disorders have schizophrenia and its a disease that’s hard on everyone around.

@augfrank decided to give the escape velocity to Anushka.

Kishore Jayakumar Nadar is an aspiring video storyteller and has creates inspirational content for Youtube. With the grant sponsored by

@paraschopra , he will build his own small home studio which will allow him to create videos freely and creatively.

Krithika Ramesh is a 16 year old, 3 times Muay Thai winner and a two times national kick boxer and state boxing fighter. She will be using the grant (sponsored by Neel Patel) for representing India in the world championship on December 8-13th in Cambodia.

Rimjhim is building a mental health platform through which she generates a small revenue every month. She wants to use this grant (by

@AbhinavSahai ) to scale this project and to increase the effectiveness and coverage of therapy among Indian youth.

Shrinesh hasn’t been able to afford college fees and laptop to learn and had to drop out of his 12th standard. His grant (sponsored by an anonymous donor) would go towards joining a cohort based coding program with

@tanaypratap and work towards getting placed as a developer.

Priyanka Reddy is a 20 year old National Muay Thai champion (we lost track of the gold medals). Due to financial constraints, she is unable to participate in more events. With the grant, she will be able to prepare and participate in more events. {Anonymous donor}

Penshang is a masters program student in Water Policy & Governance from TISS. She is going to use the Rs. 50k grant for her dissertation thesis on issues of water access, distribution and sanitation in rural and hilly regions of NE, India. {Sponsored by an anonymous donor}

Sunil is from Odisha and is currently facing troubles in paying his final year graduation fees because of the untimely death of his father.

He regularly participates in hackathons and workshops and describes himself as being a tech explorer.

Sangmuan started a mini-library project called Saplings Library Project, mini-libraries at under-served localities across the North-East of India with the aim to nurture a reading culture, thereby contributing to the empowerment of local communities. Awarded by @augfrank