Deutsche Bank, NGO tie up to provide engg scholarship to 200 girls

The students will receive funding for a four-year engineering course at select colleges in Bengaluru, Jaipur, Mumbai, and Pune.

Deutsche Bank and Smile Foundation have joined hands to provide engineering scholarships to 200 meritorious young women from low-income families throughout India. The students will receive funding for a four-year engineering course at select colleges in Bengaluru, Jaipur, Mumbai, and Pune.  

The bank, in conjunction with its NGO partner, Smile Foundation, formally handed over the scholarship letters and laptops at individual events across Deutsche Bank offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, and Jaipur. The scholarship programme has been structured to provide students the holistic support required, right from inception until the completion of their course. The bank will conduct half-yearly training programmes to continually upskill these girls.  The students will be given industry experience, support, and guidance for job placements after the completion of the course.  

1,100 applications from over 50 colleges 

Nearly 1,100 applications from aspirants studying in over 50 colleges, across the four centres, were received. Significantly, many of these women would be the first in their families and communities to achieve an advanced formal education. Almost all of them aspire to be role models for current and future generations. The process of conducting orientation sessions and selecting the young recipients for the scholarship, was undertaken by more than 150 volunteers from the bank and the foundation. 

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