Gandhi Fellowship is a full-time, residential, two-year leadership programme. We groom the inspired and inventive young people
of India to become Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Gandhi Fellowship believes India needs a new brand of constructive leadership, a pool of social change leaders who can think out of the box. We aspire to develop a cadre of future leaders to build the new India.

Gandhi Fellowship is an action-packed programme. It focuses on shedding prejudiced mindsets. It takes Fellows on a unique journey: from idea to action, fear to courage, apathy to empathy, and from cynicism to belief.

In the next decade we aspire to develop a pipe-line of Nation-Builders. Builders of courage, solutions and change. We want to unleash a network of future collaborators, who will work for a better India.

Through a deeply transformative process of self-discovery and personal change, the Fellows are encouraged to delve deeper, to discover their passions and to convert their private dreams into a public reality.

What you become

The question ought to be: what do you want to become? If you have made the grade with Gandhi Fellowship Programme, a few things are certain:

That you envision yourself as somebody who seriously wants to bring change.
That you are seeking to bring non-violent constructive change in society.
That you are willing to change your habit patterns and work hard to explore collaborations that bring big change.

Given the live experiences that you will encounter in the schools, you are bound to become inventive. "The children in your classroom are bound to become your teachers," wrote Kabir Arora, a GF on his Blog. You become responsible not to just one child, but to the whole class and even the school. The operative part here is: you become responsible. You develop problem solving skills. You develop the confidence to service a constituency along with its contradictions. That is a precious skill that even some of the best schools fail to teach.

The Gandhi Fellowship Programme ensures that you are thrown into learning situations and you emerge having learnt. The programme does not drive hard placement bargains for its Fellows, but they get placed among the best. You end up becoming a serious player by the end of it and you are placed in fair jobs, which are connected with your personal dreams.

Abhyuday only wanted to pursue agriculture and nothing else, but he was very good with children in the class as well. He did not know the E of Education or the A of Agriculture when he joined the programme. Now while he works with Navdanya he finds the lessons that he learnt in the school were precious in his current vocation. Sugandha was retained by Kaivalya because of her interest in education. She is now seeding new programmes with the Headmasters in Rajasthan and so is Salman in Maharashtra.

So your question - What do you become - may not be very relevant anymore. You become what you want to be.

The point is, do you have a dream?