Sunand Sampath

Sunand Sampath

Founder

Founder of Dream School Foundation

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

Sunand Sampath is an Indian industrial engineer and volunteer who was one of the founding members of the Dream School Foundation, a non-profit organisation working on children's right to equitable and good quality education. He is a founder and trustee of the organisation.

Career

Sampath is an industrial engineer by training and chief executive of IQuest Adventure Sports, which organises expeditions in the Himalayas and elsewhere and conducts soft skills training for students and young professionals. He runs outbound sessions for Dream School Foundation students.

The Dream School Foundation grew out of discussions begun in 2002 among people concerned with equity and quality in school education, and was formally registered in April 2005. Sampath was among the founding members and continues to serve as a founder-trustee.[2][3]

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:

  • 750+ students from government schools across 7 centres in Haveri took part in Phase 1 of DSF's TYDE Rural NMMS selection process

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