Our Mission

Our mission is to support underprivileged children and youth through education-based interventions that enable them to lead a life of dignity.

Overview

In 2007, Kotak Education Foundation embarked on a mission to empower economically disadvantaged children and youth through a holistic trinity of school education, scholarships, and vocational education.

School Education

School education projects span Foundational Literacy and Numeracy, Communicative English Future Readiness, Digital Learning and 21st-century skills, making students confident and future-ready. Model School and Infrastructure Projects facilitate a safe, healthy, positive learning environment. Teachers are imparted leadership skills and modern teaching techniques, building academic excellence.

Integrally, we aim to build systemic capacity of educators and scalability of student learning outcomes in collaboration with the government and key stakeholders.

Scholarship

The prestigious Scholarship Project supports deserving students in their academic journey. Kotak Junior Scholarship, effective in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, enables students with excellent SSC scores to complete Class 11 and 12. The Kotak Graduate Scholarship helps high achievers in HSC pursue professional courses and supports them till graduation. Kotak Kanya Scholarship aids meritorious female undergraduate students across India in their pursuit of higher education at premier institutions.

These cherished scholarships provide mentoring, academic guidance, career counselling, and equip students with critical thinking abilities for all-round development.

Vocational Education & Livelihood

Vocational education empowers unemployed youth with domain-specific training and certification in BFSI, Customer Relations & Sales, Hospitality and Advance Beauty. The courses are free of charge and offer professional and life skills, spoken English, personality development, work readiness, and 100% placement assistance for a secure career and sustainable livelihood.

Through vocational education and livelihood skills training, KEF strives to mobilise youth towards social and economic progress.