Current projects

Over the past 10 years our work in rural India has touched tens of thousands of lives.  But with more and more projects in our ‘pipeline’, our aim is to be touching many, many more lives over the coming 3-5 years. 

For more information about any of our current projects, please click on the links below.

Deepening Democracy, set up in 2001, to train 400 village leaders in Orissa and Uttar Pradesh on the working of recent reforms in village democracy and has benefited entire communities. 

Our pilot Beekeeping Project for Women based in 7 villages in Uttaranchal has supported 200 women to gain income-generation skills through training for beekeeping, honey production and crafts, enabling these women to help up to 1,200 members of their households.

Through our 'Give a Mum a Goat' project in two villages near Agra, female goats are provided to an initial group of 100 women, who have no land or skills.  This programme is self sustaining as every woman commits to give the first female kid to another woman in the village. 

One hundred of the most disadvantaged women in two villages near Jajpur, Orissa are benefiting from our Bamboo Livelihood Activities programme.  This programme aims to to build on the women's traditional bamboo skills through better productivity and marketing.

Our Tsunami Orphan sponsorship programme has remained in place long after the camera crews have left the devastated Tamil Nadu coastline.  The programme supports 140 children who have lost either one or both of their parents in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.

In the Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu we continue to work with CARE India to improve awareness of and access to Water & Sanitation facilities.