For the students a school will never reach.
Some students meet Yaadhum through their school. Others never will. The Foundation exists for them.
The Foundation works with colleges, volunteers and local organisations to bring free student transition programmes closer to Tier 2 and Tier 3 communities, without waiting for every school to adopt a programme first.
Yaadhum Foundation is currently being registered as a nonprofit education and research organisation
Information arrives unevenly.
One student hears about an examination in Class 9. Another discovers it after Class 12. One family knows ten people who have gone to university. Another is making the decision for the first time. Ability may be distributed widely. Access to useful information is not.
The Foundation exists to close that distance where a school cannot, through colleges, community organisations and local programmes.
One town. Students and parents in the same conversation.
Small community programmes for students in Classes 9 to 12 and their families. Not a psychometric destiny test, not a coaching sales event, and not a promise that a child has found the right career in a day. The purpose is the quality and timing of the next decision.
The students
A transition exercise suited to their stage, and a clear output they can take home and talk about.
The parents
A separate local-language session on pathways, timing, examinations, costs and eligibility, and the questions worth asking before a decision.
The volunteers
Trained college students help facilitate under supervision. They do not counsel, diagnose, or make pathway decisions for children.
Afterwards
Each family keeps only its own child’s output. Yaadhum keeps anonymised programme-level learning.
The question changes with age
- Class 9What possibilities have I not yet explored?
- Class 10How should I think about my next academic choice?
- Class 11Am I adjusting well, and what should I do if I am not?
- Class 12What exams, courses, colleges and pathways should I know about now?
The people who just crossed the bridge can help those approaching it.
College students remember what they knew in Class 10, what they discovered too late, and what actually helped. We want to turn that recent experience into useful service for younger students.
Nominate volunteers
Usually 5 to 10 students for one programme day, with mandatory training beforehand.
Nominate a faculty coordinator
A member of staff who can help coordinate the student group and stay our point of contact.
Host a camp, or open a door
A classroom or seminar hall for a local programme, or an introduction to schools and community groups nearby.
B.Ed and teacher-training students may find the work especially relevant, and the programme can offer real field exposure. Whether it counts toward any formal academic or community-engagement requirement is the college’s decision, not ours.
Working with minors requires clear boundaries.
These are not aspirations. They are the conditions under which a volunteer is allowed anywhere near a student, and they apply to everyone including us.
Before anyone meets a student
- Parent or guardian communication and consent before a minor participates
- Student-facing volunteers must be 18 or older
- Identity verification and mandatory orientation before fieldwork
- No volunteer works one to one with a minor without supervision
And never
- No private contact with students through personal WhatsApp, Instagram or other channels
- No downloading, retaining or privately sharing student information
- No photographs of children published without the required permission
- No sponsor branding on an individual child’s report
In a Foundation programme, each student and their parent or guardian receives only that child’s own output. Colleges, volunteers, sponsors and partner organisations receive none of it.
If this belongs in work you already do, we would rather begin with a conversation than a cheque.
- Host a camp
- Provide volunteers
- Introduce schools or community groups
- Help with community mobilisation
- Support a programme
Camps are free to participating families, and are supported through host institutions, local partners and organisations that want better education access where they already work.