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Mission Statement
"To bring a holistic and sustainable change in the lives of the vulnerable sections of society through innovative solutions and implementing evidence-based interventions.”
About This Cause
We are an India based charity with our footprint in 8 Indian states and having served over 17,000+ beneficiaries through our work. At present, we work on promotion of Climate Smart Crops and Agriculture, directly with the farmers and also by facilitating market linkages. We primarily do this work in Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh, which is the second most drought prone region in the country. The main thrust of our work is encouraging more farmers to move to growing millets, which are climate smart and nutrition smart crops. They take very less water to grow, thrive in poor, saline soils and ensure a safe and reliable harvest for farmers despite of poor rainfall. Apart from this we also link them to markets for their produce. We would further like to expand this work and support farmers through a more structured intervention focusing on technical know-how, organic certifications, processing, value addition and awareness generation on the health benefits of these foods. This has the potential to provide further livelihood options in an area which suffers from a multitude of problems including limited livelihood options, due to adverse climatic conditions. An intervention designed to promote and revive these crops in the rural areas would also fit extremely well with the vision of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, specifically, SDG 2: End Hunger, Achieve Food Security and Improved Nutrition and Promote Sustainable Agriculture, and SDG 13 Climate Action We are very enthusiastic about this project and feel that it has the potential to have a lasting impact, not just on the lives of the farmers but also the environment. On the other end of the spectrum, we are also working with women in urban slums to provide them with an alternative to make their own nutrition packed diet. Special focus on pregnant and lactating women groups to produce healthy and safe food for their needs.