Quality Service
We Are Committed To Provide Quality Education
ILM Mission provides financial assistance to students in education whose families no longer have the sufficient means to pay the required fees. We believe that everybody should be given the best possible chances in education, no matter what their backgrounds or starting points.
Student Identification
Ground Team identifies candidates that meet the eligibility criteria for getting any support from ILM Mission.
Financial Support
We provide financial assistance, mentorship, and resources to help students achieve their educational goals.
- Support extended directly to students and through local NGOs at the grassroots level.
- Focus on uplifting education standards by offering various forms of assistance.
- Proper governance process to freely and fairly evaluate each candidate.
Background
Fifteen years ago, a small group of like-minded individuals joined together to voluntarily help poor meritorious students of the Kashmir valley, who in their view, possess the potential to excel in their educational careers. These individuals have been supporting various social activities with a special preference to the education causes, as individual and as a group.
The support was extended to the deserving students directly and through local NGOs operating at the grass root level. However, their preference was always to help the community to uplift their educational standards by providing various forms of assistance including the financial support.
In 2016, they contemplated to give this individual group, a proper shape and structure and to involve more people in this noble cause. To provide it a further impetus, they formed a group under the name Kashmir Educational Support, now operating as ILM Mission.
Objective
The core objective of ILM Mission is to help the poor and needy meritorious students to continue their education and to enhance the educational standards of the community as a whole.
Structures
ILM Mission constitutes of two teams i.e., Ground Team (GT), which is responsible for identifying students at the ground level and recommend the deserving candidates for financial support. The second team, Finance Team (FT), approves the cases (students recommended by Ground Team) and arranges the required financial assistance for them.
How it works?
A clear four stage process helps ILM Mission to extend support to deserving students.
Identification
Ground Team identifies candidates that meet the eligibility criteria for getting any support from ILM Mission. The credentials of the candidates are verified by the team at this stage. Eligible students pursuing higher education (above 10th Standard) are usually preferred at this stage.
Verification
A candidate may apply directly via our website by creating a profile and upload supporting documents, such as course details, fees requirements, and academic records or they can approach ILM Mission and the Ground Team directly. At this stage, Ground Team will verify all details supplied by the candidate and undertake background checks before recommending eligible candidate to the Finance Team.
Approval
Finance Team thoroughly evaluates candidates recommended by the Ground Team. The team conduct their own due diligence at this stage and may contact candidate and the institution directly to cross-check veracity of the case. The decision of approval or rejection at this stage is then communicated to the candidate. All approved candidates are assigned a Case ID which is then used for all public fund-raising appeals and all other personal details of the candidate are kept anonymous to safeguard their privacy.
Fundraising & Disbursement
Founding members of ILM Mission arrange finances for the approved case either directly from their own resources and/or by raising funds through an appeal. Donors may make a pledge for the donation amount requested through an appeal and deposit the same directly into the bank account of candidate’s educational institution. Proof of remittance is provided by the donor to ILM Mission, copy of which is sent to the candidate.
Furthermore, the candidate arranges proof of receipt from the institution, which is then forwarded to the donor.
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Governance
The governance process in place is intended to freely and fairly evaluate each candidate at every stage of the process. Most importantly, at the Identification Stage, a candidate must be recommended by at least two people known to the candidate (one of them being a senior citizen) and at the Approval Stage, a case must be approved by two out of three authorised approvers in the Finance Team.
Eligibility
Any candidate who has a good track record of previous performance and is from economically disadvantageous background is eligible for the support. Also, those candidates who hail from the far flung or backward areas of Kashmir and have no access to other resources (such as scholarships, availability of local colleges or teachers etc.) are eligible.
Donors
Our donors mainly constitute individual members of the society. At times, some NGO groups come forward for the help of the students. Donors are based in Kashmir and outside Kashmir as well. They may directly sponsor a case published in the fund-raising appeal or pledge the amount through ILM Mission (admins) discreetly so that their privacy is upheld.
Confidentiality
We respect confidentiality of our candidates and donors and take utmost care in safeguarding their privacy. All personal details are kept anonymous and both candidates and donors are identified by a unique ID number. Donor details are not disclosed, not even to the Ground Team of ILM Mission.
Funding Source
Our sources of funding are Donations, Zakat, Khumus, Sadqa and Qarz Hasna. Funds are raised from the public and they directly transfer the funds to the college/institute. No other source of funding is available except from the personal income of the donors.
Volunteers
The member of the group both at Ground Team and Finance Team level are all volunteers. They all work only for the sake of Allah, for helping the poor student community of Kashmir valley. ILM Mission currently operates with a minimal overhead expenditure, given the fact that all work is done on voluntary basis.
Our Mission
To provide quality education and support to deserving students in Kashmir, enabling them to achieve their full potential and contribute positively to society.
Our Vision
To create a world where every deserving student has access to quality education, regardless of their financial background, and can pursue their dreams with confidence.
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Together, we can make a difference in the lives of deserving students.