A patient being examined at an Aahwahan health camp

Success Stories

Every figure on this site started as one person.

Accounts from the villages, camps and collectives the programmes run in.

Four accounts

From an Education on Wheels village, a mobile medical camp, a women's collective and a tree plantation drive.

“The van came to our village every week. My daughter learned to use a computer before I ever saw one — she is the first in our family to finish school.”
A parentEducation on Wheels village
“I had put off the check-up for two years because the hospital is a day away. The camp found it early. I am still here because of that morning.”
A patientMobile medical camp
“We decide what the group saves for. Nobody handed us a plan — we built it, and the shop is ours.”
A memberWomen's self-help group
“The saplings they gave us were the same ones we used to cut for firewood. Now the whole ridge behind the village is green again, and the well hasn't gone dry in three summers.”
A farmerTree plantation drive

More voices from the ground

From education and agriculture to women's collectives, mobile healthcare and reforestation — more of the people the programmes on this site describe in numbers.

Schoolchildren studying together on a classroom floor
“From a one-room village school to a district topper — a laptop bank and a mentor changed the arc of my life.”
Sohini MohantyOdisha
A path running between rows of tall green crops at sunrise
“Integrated agriculture and organic villages turned failing plots into a stable, dignified income.”
Farmers of Ganjam1.24 Lakh+ farmers
Women and children standing outside a village home
“A stitching and agarbatti unit gave 200 women their first-ever bank account and independent earnings.”
Pink Village WomenRural Karnataka
A doctor examining a patient at a village health camp
“The van found it early. I had put the check-up off for two years because the hospital is a day away.”
A patient in BengaluruHealth on Wheels
Women at a skills training session
“We decide what the group saves for. Nobody handed us a plan — we built it, and the shop is ours.”
A self-help collective6.29 Lakh+ women
Volunteers at a lake restoration and plantation drive
“The saplings were planted by our own hands, and the same hands water them. The lake came back with them.”
A village in Karnataka9 Million+ trees

Who the work reaches

Every figure on this site started as one person.

Accounts from the villages, camps and collectives the programmes run in.