Even before The Sagar School became a mem­ber of the inter­national Round Square fam­ily we were sup­port­ing orphaned girls with schol­arships, because our Founder had a par­tic­ular con­nec­tion to the Sagar School. Back in 1998 its founder Dr Vidya Sagar told Franz-Wal­ter Aumund that he was estab­lish­ing the school, and with the fol­low­ing object­ives, say­ing, “To sum up my con­clu­sion; with its pic­tur­esque loc­ation, the qual­ity of the edu­cation provided, the mix­ture of cul­tures to be pro­moted and the vari­ety of extra­cur­ricular activ­ities on offer, the school boasts all the char­acter­ist­ics of a really excep­tional insti­tution.” Dr Sagar, who was a law­yer and a mem­ber of the advis­ory board of the AUMUND sub­sidi­ary in India, enjoyed Franz-Wal­ter Aumund’s unwaver­ing trust, which is why in 2018 The Sagar School became the first pro­ject part­ner of the Franz-W. Aumund-Stif­tung in India.

What would Dr Sagar say if he knew that this was the corner­stone of the pro­ject so close to Franz-Wal­ter Aumund’s heart, the award­ing of schol­arships to Round Square schools?

There are many suc­cess stor­ies which res­ult from the schol­arships. One of these is that of Roopal, our first schol­arship recip­ient at The Sagar School. At the age of 11 years she was warmly recom­men­ded to us for a schol­arship by the Udayan Care orphan­age, and has been show­ing us ever since that we were right to put our trust in her. What a joy it was for us to enable her to par­ticip­ate in the Round Square Inter­national Con­fer­ence in Nairobi, and after­wards to read her feed­back, “It was quite over­whelm­ing to inter­act with oth­ers and to have con­tact with dif­fer­ent people of the world. It was great to find out about their cul­tures, cus­toms and way of life.”

Vis­iting the school in Novem­ber 2024 and dis­cuss­ing pro­ject ideas with the new prin­cipal pro­gressed our trus­ted part­ner­ship even fur­ther. Since 2025, a pro­fes­sional concept for career coun­selling has been imple­men­ted with the help of the Aumund Found­ation.

In addi­tion, it is our inten­tion to sig­nific­antly expand our schol­arship pro­gramme.