What I learned from this fellowship programme
“ Desphande foundation” is a family foundation . It is one a philanthropic foundation equipping young ,energetic, dynamic professionals to become a social change agent or catalyst for developmental change. The Desphande fellowship programme is a unique programme that is different from any other academic course; this is a skillbased programme rather than a theory based . For a development worker this fellowship programme gives an indepth understanding about the current scenario of the development sector,including the wants and demands and needs of the community .This fellowship programme is providing overall development of life skills , using real life situation to experience the reality . it is almost 75 percentage application and 25 percentage class room training!
This programme is a residential programme so we are unconsciously learning how to solve and tackle intra and interpersonal problems. Most of the time we are the teachers; our faculty act as facilitators for us. We can call this as learning by doing a more” student- centered “approach . We are getting a lot of external resources like guest speaker from different fields. In other academic institutions the development and growth is restricted; Here there is no limit for development, hoe we are using the time and resources for each person the fellowship programme is different, but personally I realized what l studied in my student life is different from the real life situation . This fellowship programme is actually helping the young professionals to apply right straegy at the right time in the right place, I am happy one in the first batch fellows of this programme.
