Kovel Foundation is training 6,800 master farmers, integrating natural farming with tribal livelihoods, engaging tribals specialising in forest produce and building farmers’ institutions for marketing. The programme is also developing business plans that support market linkages. Across 5 districts of Andra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam, Chittoor, East Godavari, West Godavari and Kurnool.
Latika Roy Memorial Foundation is based in Uttarakhand (Dehradun) and providing special education, training in daily living activities to boost functional independence in persons with disabilities and empowers their families through counselling and information services to aid their integration into the society.
Living Farms is providing 300,000 tribal households (including 78,000 children) in three blocks of Kalahandi district and five blocks of Rayagada in Odisha, access to balanced nutrition plans, and locally sourced grains/diets. So these families practice diversified farming and become capable of leading more enriched, better-nourished lives.
LSST is strengthening Village Health, Nutrition and Sanitation Committees and providing women from marginalised communities with access and awareness to health and nutrition entitlements through SEWA Shakti Kendra (SSKs) where groups of Aagewaans facilitate dialogues with local health care functionaries.
Maarga was established in 1999 and has worked in the urban slums of Karnataka for the past 9 years to promote the education of children, especially first generation, from deprived dalit and Muslim families. The grant will help them expand their work from 40 to 80 girls enabling them to pursue higher education through daily after-school sessions, football coaching, social education workshops, art and craft workshops and exposure visits. It will also help make mothers more aware of the benefits of supporting the educational and professional growth of their daughters.
The Madhyam Foundation was founded in 2004 as a Development Support Organization(building capacity of smaller NGOs and Microfinance Institutions) by Mr. Subrat Singhdeo a Masters in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University Madhyam’s vision is “An Odisha where every low income family is livelihood secure and lives a dignified life” and major activities currently undertaken are:
Promotion of System of Rice Intensification, vegetable cultivation, pulses and millet cultivation, tuber crop and turmeric cultivation among small and marginal households
Goat rearing and Poultry for land less farmers
Promotion of Vegetable growers co-operatives,
Promotion of simple cost effective gravity flow irrigation methods and
APPI support is to carry out above activities in Khandamal district with 4000 small marginal Farmers.
Magic Bus is enabling a better future for adolescent girls by imparting life-skills through the Sports for Development Programme where children engage in numerous games and activities that are relatable to real-life challenges and situations. This participation enables them to cope better and facilitates a more natural and more capable transition to adulthood.
Magic Bus is enabling a better future for adolescent girls by imparting life-skills through the Sports for Development Programme where children engage in numerous games and activities that are relatable to real-life challenges and situations. This participation enables them to cope better and facilitates a more natural and more capable transition to adulthood.
Maher - Sheltering 500 mentally ill and challenged destitute women and men, helping them lead a life of dignity away from abuse and vulnerability on the streets of Pune.