Sabu Joseph

Founder

Sabu Joseph is the founder of Dream School Foundation (2005)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and livelihood from Bengaluru.

Sabu Joseph is an Indian educator, facilitator and organisational consultant, and a founder and director of the Dream School Foundation, a Bengaluru-based charity that supports the education of children from disadvantaged communities in India.

The foundation was started by a group of volunteers and registered in April 2005. Joseph provides its strategic direction and works on partnerships.

Education

Joseph holds postgraduate qualifications in social work, industrial psychology and human resource management, and received a Commonwealth Secretariat scholarship in environmental education.

Career

Before the Dream School Foundation, Joseph worked at the Centre for Environment Education in Bangalore, where he initiated and managed projects on environment and sustainable development.

He works as a facilitator, educator, executive coach and organisational change management consultant, and has worked with organisations in oil and gas, higher education, manufacturing and the non-profit sector over more than twenty-five years.

The Dream School Foundation works with children from low-income communities, combining financial support for schooling with mentoring and coaching intended to carry students through to higher education and employment. Joseph is named alongside Maitreyee Kumar, the foundation's executive director, as a founder of the Indian organisation. A related American charity, Dream School Foundation USA, was set up in 2019.[2][3][4]

Dream School Foundation

Dream School Foundation (DSF) is a charitable trust formally registered in Bengaluru in April 2005, growing out of volunteer work that began in 2002. It works to break the cycle of socio-economic vulnerability for children from government schools through an Integrated Education and Development model connecting schools, children and communities, and extends support from schooling through to livelihood for young people up to age 24.

Dream School Foundation reports the following, on its own site: