Patna, April 18: The DexSchool, one of the platforms of Dexterity Global, has been selected by the Kathryn Davis Foundation to receive funding under its Projects for Peace programme.

Founded by Patna boy Sharad Vivek Sagar in 2008, Dexterity Global is a social enterprise that grooms students for national and international-level competitions. It also helps students get admission into the world's top universities.

The DexSchool, or the Dexterity School of Leadership and Entrepreneurship, has been selected as one of the 100 Davis Projects for Peace by the Kathryn Davis Foundation this year. The selection entitles DexSchool to $10,000 that the enterprise can use to help more students get scholarships in US universities.

The Projects for Peace is an initiative inspired by the late Kathryn Wasserman Davis, a philanthropist who died in 2013 at the age of 106 years. Davis had celebrated her 100th birthday by committing $1 million to the Projects for Peace. The official website of Davis Projects for Peace confirms the institution as one of the selected schools from around the world for 2015.

On the Davis Foundation, Dexterity Global chief operations officer Swaraj Priyadarshi said: "The Projects for Peace programme is an invitation to undergraduates at US colleges and universities to study under the Davis United World College Scholars Programme. The objective is to encourage and support youths to create and try out their own ideas for building peace."

Dexterity Global founder Sharad, who studies in Boston now, also shared his excitement with The Telegraph at the honour bestowed on Dex School. The 22-year-old said: "When we brought kids from Mumbai's red-light areas, the Musahar community and students from other middle and high schools to DexSchool, we gave them the power to become agents of change so that they could find innovative solutions to the pressing problems. I am glad that the Kathryn Davis Foundation has acknowledged the potential of the programme and awarded DexSchool this honour."

DexSchool is a week-long summer school where middle and high school students are provided leadership and entrepreneurship training apart from a year-long mentoring and support system.