Help shape changing India – join a Youth Hub Fellowship
Village Square’s Youth Hub is launching an extensive Fellow Program – opportunities for you to help shape India, to help ALL Indians be part of its progress
Village Square’s Youth Hub is launching an extensive Fellow Program – opportunities for you to help shape India, to help ALL Indians be part of its progress
In India where you are born matters. It affects your access to education, quality healthcare, job opportunities, and more. Stark inequality is omnipresent. Mumbai has 48 billionaires living next to one of the world’s largest slums, home to nearly a million people. In an ideal pre-pandemic scenario, it would take 22 years of sustained 10% growth to bring an individual on the rural-poverty-line-up just to India’s average per capita income.
The looming question is, if this is India’s present, can the future be better? At Village Square, we think so. We believe the future will be brighter, especially for the people at the margins – if young people are at the forefront of this change.
Now, more than ever, young people matter. With the biggest stake in the future, they are determined to change the world for the better. They also are better endowed, have more wealth, more years of formal education and better networks than previous generations. From the youngest Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai and eco-activist Greta Thunberg to Earthshot Prize Finalist Vinisha Umashankar, the young are engaging global leaders on issues that matter to them like never before. Millennials and Gen Z want to address the existing inequities in the world, while holding themselves – and others – accountable.
However, traditional academic and social circles are not enough to build a constructive engagement to channelise their ideas and energy. Village Square’s new Youth Hub is providing them a space to put their thinking caps on to voice issues that matter to them. Village Square is bringing together thought leaders, journalists, youth icons, social organisations and development practitioners, spanning across sectors, to enable young people to harness their leadership abilities and contribute to India’s development story. We will provide the resources as well as the platform required to help them voice their challenges, find opportunities and create a generational impact on the country and the world.
Who can be part of the Youth Hub?
Village Square Youth Hubs are for young urban Indians with the zeal and enthusiasm to make a difference in the world that they live in. These are college students who see themselves leading and influencing their peers to engage in key social issues that matter to them.
What’s in it for India’s youth?
What are the opportunities that the Youth Hub can provide for young people?
Where can young people sign up?
We are launching Youth Hub Fellowships along with the first Bharat Youth Dialogues on Youth and Society Leadership. The discussion brings critically acclaimed Hindi language actor Swara Bhasker in conversation with veteran journalist, film critic and writer Suparna Sharma on December 15th, 2021 at the Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. Come join us to hear from Swara about her immersive learning experiences, engage with our team anchoring the Fellowship and sign up!
Gouri Rajagopal is the manager at Transform Rural India Foundation.