A 13-Month Program In Rural Development

The SBI Youth for India Fellowship is offered to India's brightest young minds as an opportunity to go live and work amongst rural communities to help solve pressing rural development challenges.

The fellowship attracts young leaders who experience a transformative leadership journey during the fellowship. By unlearning and imbuing the challenges of rural India, collaborating with NGO partners, fellows, and the local community, and then finally building and sustaining grassroots-level initiatives, they essentially go through the 4 phases:

Learn about our Application Process

The entire Application Process is uniquely designed to offer Fellowship Aspirants an experience that involves reflecting on their journey, worldviews & perspectives.

The qualities of an ideal candidate

Though candidates come from different professional & academic fields, the fellowship welcomes candidates who demonstrate a deep interest, passion, and commitment to the development of Rural India. The candidate should have the humility and eagerness to learn within a cross-cultural context. They should also demonstrate a strong commitment to service and are adaptive, entrepreneurial and innovative, in finding solutions in under-resourced environments.

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Celebrating 10 years of the SBI YFI Fellowship

Bringing positive change across the farthest, most remote areas of India.

The Fellowship allows you to choose your project focusing on key areas of rural development and join an ever growing number of youth leaders in delivering positive impact across India

Batch of 2020-21

As a fresh graduate, who is looking for a life in governance, development and public policy, this experience at the grassroots rural level has definitely shaped my outlook. To the young folks out there who have a sense of adventurism and want to push the boundaries of their comfort zones, work and give back to society should definitely dive into this one year program.

Batch of 2020-21

I learnt about the SBI YFI fellowship from a stranger on the metro but the serendipity of it all didn’t stop there. What started as an attempt to understand the roots of our country and the possibility of change quickly transformed into a plethora of experiences that have altered how I view absolutely everything.

Batch of 2020-21

SBI YFI gave me the perfect platform to grow individually as a compassionate human throughout the fellowship. The experience has been an inspirational one with each day giving a newer perspective to the challenges and the way of life in rural India. With the pandemic slowly becoming a part of our day to day life, it is important that younger people come forward in extending their helping hand to those who desperately need it the most.

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