Escape Velocity Grants

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

Sponsored by by @makawana

Jasmine is an academically bright girl from Meerut who’s pursuing an undergrad in Law. She is an avid debater. See one of her writings here: https://katcheri.in/sufferings-of-poor-during-coronavirus-by-jasmine-siddiqui/

She aspires to do master’s in law and the grant will help her do that.

Drashti is a black belt, 2nd Dan taekwondo champion. This grant will help her achieve her dream: get a medal for India in Olympics 2024.

Harshit is pursuing a master’s course in conservation biology. He’s a curious kid and has done many online courses aligned with his interest in evolutionary biology. To pay fees for the course, he had to look for jobs and this grant will help him focus 100% on his studies.

Abing is from a rural area in Arunachal Pradesh and has launched a podcast using his mobile phone only. https://anchor.fm/abing-lamnio.

With this grant, Abing will purchase equipment to be able to record his podcasts professionally.

Sanjana is from Sikkim and she wants to use the grant money to create a mentorship network for students from rural areas in north-east. She will connect people from north east with well-established careers to these kids, hopefully uplifting the region.