Our community programmes

Six programmes, one community at a time

Each of these began because a specific community asked for it. They are listed here with what they do, where they have run, and what they have produced so far.

Save Soil, Save Lives

Restoring soil health and moving farmers off chemical inputs, through free organic products, in‑field diagnosis and season‑long support.

Where
Rural Telangana and Tamil Nadu
Reach
500+ farmers, 100 farms converted

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MAGAL — child protection

School sessions that bring a social educator, an advocate, a police officer, a doctor and a counsellor in front of children, parents and teachers together.

Where
Government schools and colleges, Tamil Nadu
Reach
1,000+ children, 25 schools

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Women 100

Vocational training, equipment, placement support and self‑help groups so that women finish with an income rather than a certificate.

Where
Chennai and surrounding districts
Reach
100 women trained to date

Read the programme

POSH at Work

Workplace harassment prevention delivered in small groups with private one‑to‑one access to a practising advocate, plus compliance documentation.

Where
Employers in Tamil Nadu
Led by
Advocate, Madras High Court

Read the programme

Medical camps

Free consultation, screening, medicine and hospital referral brought into villages, with follow‑up after the camp has closed.

Where
Villages and schools, Tamil Nadu
Reach
15 camps held

Read the programme

Pathway to career development

Career guidance for rural students in government colleges — what a software career actually involves, and the routes into it.

Where
Government arts and science colleges
Delivered in
Tamil and English

Read the programme

Why they connect

A farmer who stops handling chemical pesticide is at lower risk of the cancers we screen for at our medical camps. A woman with her own income can keep her daughter in the school where we run child‑safety sessions. A student who finds a career path stops being one more young person leaving the village.

We run these together, in the same districts, deliberately.

These six serve people directly. We also work with other nonprofit organisations, building and maintaining the technology they run on — that programme is Heartwood.

Help us build lasting change

Whether you give your time, your expertise or your support, you make it possible for another village, another school and another family to take the next step.