Reach for the Stars scholarship students (from left) Savithri and Suchithra, with graduate Vaidegi
“I’m the first graduate in my family,
and they feel proud of me,” says Vaidegi confidently. As the applicants for the
June 2015 scholarship intake mingle in the background at Thamarai community
centre in Edaiyanchavady, anxiously waiting for their interviews with the Reach
for the Stars team, Vaidegi is happy to be a role model now she’s graduated and
working: “We can encourage by our actions,” she says about the example set by
the programme’s first graduates.
Vaidegi, from Sanjeevinagar village,
completed her Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications last
year. She is now working in AuraAuro Design, an electronics company in
Auroville, and is determined to climb the career ladder. “Presently I’m
concentrating on my work, because I want to grow in that field. I want to do
more than what I can do now. I’m in the learning process, so I’m focusing on
that.” Sh...
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