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Karthee Vidya

Many students, especially parentless, single parented and financially poor students dropout after 12th grade without joining the college as they do not have enough money to pay fees. 
 We identify such children and sponsor them for their graduation as part of their 'I am the Change' Scholarship program. 
 <ol><li>Till date, 850 students are sponsored for their college education.</li><li>82% of our scholars are girls.</li><li>They study in 220 different college doing various courses in Arts &amp; Science, Engineering, Medicine, Architecture and Law.</li></ol>

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Team Everest started its journey in August 2006 when founder Karthee Vidya completed graduation and joined his first job. He donated from his first-month salary and collected funds from 3 of his friends to raise Rs 4000 to help children in a rural school in Tamilnadu. We used the funds to buy books and uniforms for the school kids there.After working in an IT company for 8 years, he quit his high paying job in 2014 to work full time on Team Everest.What started as a small activity, has taken wings over the last 14 years. Today, Team Everest work with 40,000 children a year with help from 25,000 proud Volunteers.Scholarships, Spoken English, Digital literacy, Soft Skill classes are some of their key initiatives. Team Everest work is recognized by many organization and individuals including Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former president of India.Some of our key recognition include:<ol><li>'Leader in Volunteer Engagement' award which is given to only 1 NGO in entire India a year.</li><li>Guidestar Transparency Key award for being transparent</li><li>The founder is selected as 'Best Person of the Year' by Puthiya Thalaimurai Magazine. This award is given to only 1 or 2 people in the entire state of Tamilnadu (India) a year.</li><li>Chennai Citizen award for Team Everest founder which is given to only 10 citizens a year.</li></ol>Our work is also appreciated by many famous newspaper and magazines like Times of India, The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle etc.

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