All through the past 14 years of work in the sector, I saw Fellowship Programs (FP) very closely. I remained a staunch supporter of Fellowship Programs both as an insider that is when I worked in an organisation that provided fellowship as well as an outsider that is as part of a donor organisation. I would not go into the details of why we need FPs as there are umpteen discussions around it. If any of my readers want to pick my brain on the subject, I am game! But here in this piece, I would rather focus on fellowships to develop people's organisations. Now here I am taking the proverbial big leap of faith (if you would like) and actually saying that people's organisations are important to sustain empowerment. And yes I am saying that people's collectives are the long term answers to the "white elephants in their old age" called NGOs. Let me not get carried away here. Lets talk about Fellowship Programs. In this write up I will focus on sangathans (people&#