A small organisation founded in 2018, Vidhyalay Udhyam describes itself as a “school enterprise network”. Its primary focus is on eradicating child labour in rural and remote areas of Rajasthan’s Udaipur district, and reduce the rates of migration to cities. The organisation does this through programmes designed to empower the entrepreneurial skills of women and...
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Action Research in Community Health and Development
Founded in 1982 in the remote rural areas of south Gujarat, ARCH works to improve the lives of tribal communities through grassroots interventions in health, education, land rights and women’s empowerment. Provision of primary healthcare services is one of its major focus areas, which the organisation does through two health centres – one in Dharampur...
Swasthya Swaraj Society
Swasthya Swaraj Society is a grassroots level health rights organisation working specifically in Kalahandi, one of Odisha’s most underdeveloped, tribal-dominated districts. Its Comprehensive Community Health Programme is run in 79 villages, covering over 14,000 people from the poorest households in the region. One major aspect of the Society’s work is direct clinical services: it runs...
Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health
SEARCH was founded in 1986 in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district with the vision of “arogya swaraj” – empowering people to take care of their own health. The organisation provides quality, affordable healthcare to the rural and tribal people of Gadchiroli, empowers marginalised populations and conducts research to shape local, national and global health policies. It operates...
Search–Nirman
NIRMAN began in 2006 as a youth programme under SEARCH (Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health), a prominent healthcare organisation in Maharashtra. The aim of the NIRMAN initiative was to plug the gap in youth leadership needed to take on various developmental challenges in the state. NIRMAN now works as an independent...
Ramakrishna Mission
The Ramakrishna Mission, as is widely known, was founded almost a century ago as a non-sectarian spiritual organisation. Today, in addition to its spiritual activities around the world, the Mission is devoted to a range of social work in the fields of education, healthcare, relief and rehabilitation and rural development. In rural and tribal areas...
Professional Assistance for Development Action
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National Institute of Advanced Studies
Founded in 1988 by JRD Tata, NIAS is an institution for conducting advanced multidisciplinary research with an integrated approach – studying the intersections between diverse fields like science and technology, philosophy, social issues and leadership. To conduct this research, the institute brings together people from diverse intellectual backgrounds. These include not only academicians from natural...
Mantra4change
Mantra4change sees itself as a catalyst for transforming public education in India, by creating empowered education leaders across the country. In a country with a 42% high-school dropout rate and poor performance indicators at the primary school level, the organisation wants to enable education leaders to drive sustainable improvements in 1.5 lakh public schools by...
Leadership for Skilled Education Foundation
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