Who we are

People who are poor, powerless and without hope – wherever they are – are a concern of global significance. Rural India remains the world’s biggest poverty trap, with over a quarter of a billion people living on less than a dollar, or 50p, per day. They are the other face of India. Governments have failed them, the media with rare exceptions ignores them.

Jeevika Trust has touched more than 100,000 lives over the last decade and continues to work with people on the margins of rural society – low-caste and tribal people, especially women – to help them build and sustain their individual, family and community livelihoods.

With your help, we will touch many, many more lives over the next few years. We believe in an India without absolute poverty where all people have the opportunity to live with dignity, free from hunger, deprivation and marginalisation. Please help us to reach this dream.

Jeevika Trust is tackling the roots of poverty in India which lie in India’s 600,000 villages.  Village poverty drives city poverty.  It was Mahatma Gandhi who said that ‘if the villages perish, India will perish’. To find out more about us please take a look at the different sections on the menu to the left.