When Chetana Vikas was founded in 1977, its rural development work was limited to five villages in Wardha district. Today, it has expanded its work to over 100 villages in the same district, allowing it to impact thousands of families while retaining its local, grassroots focus. The organisation’s main vision is to empower individuals and...
Founded on the principle of “raising health for all”, SNEHA works to holistically address preventive and promotive healthcare for the urban poor, especially vulnerable women and children. It helps to strengthen the capacity of local communities to access public healthcare, while simultaneously working with public health systems to ensure that they provide quality services. SNEHA...
Sankara Nethralaya, which means “temple of the eye”, is a charitable eye hospital founded in Chennai in 1978. The aim of its founders was to bring world-class eye care to all Indians, rich or poor, and to treat patients with compassion. Over the years, it has grown into a super-speciality institution for ophthalmic care, drawing...
Prayas is a response, or ‘effort’, as the name suggests, to offer legal and rehabilitation services to persons from resource poor communities, who get processed within the criminal justice system, or those at the margins of crime, victimization, or destitution. A cadre of trained, specialist Social Workers help create spaces that help them reconstruct their...
Founded in 1994, the Foundation for Excellence (FFE) is a philanthropic organisation that provides financial aid, in the form of scholarships, to students of engineering, medicine, pharmacy and law. These are some of the most expensive higher education courses in India, and FFE has enabled hundreds of meritorious students from economically-constrained backgrounds to get these...
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Based in Mundgod, a town in northern Karnataka, Bridges of Sports has a hyperlocal focus: training youth from rural, tribal, marginalised and poverty-stricken communities to become world-class athletes. The organisation specialises in track and field athletics, and is working to develop India’s fastest sprinters who can excel in international tournaments. The foundational philosophy behind this...
