R.D. NAVBHARATFOUNDATIONABOUT THE FOUNDATION
The work is slow. That is the point.
We work in villages and small towns. The ambition is already there; the opportunity is not. We bring training and livelihood support, and someone still around a year later.
Why the Foundation exists
Government schemes for skilling, credit and legal aid already exist, and most of them are good. What is usually missing is somebody in the village who can explain one, enrol forty people for it, and still be there when the certificates arrive.
That is the gap the Foundation was set up to stand in. Not to invent a new answer, but to carry the existing ones the last thirty kilometres.
What we are trying to do
Put a certificate, a bank account or a first wage in the hands of people who have been told to wait for one. Then do it again in the next village, with somebody local leading it.
The Foundation is new, and is supported by Swanirbhar. What we can show you today is the programs, the partners behind them, and how we intend to report what happens.
FROM THE FOUNDER
“We named this Foundation after my mother. She spent her life making sure the people around her were looked after — quietly, without being asked, and without keeping count.”
We go where the roads are poor and the schools are far. We stay after the first visit. We say only what is true about the work, including what has not worked yet.
Dheeraj Dwivedi
Founder & Director
What we believe
Ask before you act
Nobody knows a village like the people living in it. Every program we run started as a conversation, not a plan.
Stay long enough to matter
Real change is slow and unglamorous. We measure our work in years, and we do not leave when the photographs are taken.
Skills over handouts
Relief helps for a week. A skill lasts a lifetime, and it belongs to the person who earned it.
Women first, and not as a slogan
When a woman earns, the whole house changes. School, food, health, and who decides.
Work with local hands
We partner with organisations already rooted in their districts, because trust cannot be flown in from outside.
Say only what is true
We report what actually happened, including what did not work. Communities have been promised enough.
Where we put our hands
We are not a single-issue organisation, because a family's problems do not arrive one at a time. What a village needs decides what we bring.
- Education & youth — The years between leaving school and giving up. That is where we work.
- Livelihood & skills — It has to end in money someone earned. Otherwise it was a workshop.
- Women's livelihoods — Money sense, savings groups, and support for women starting something of their own.
- Digital inclusion — Basic digital skills for people the internet has passed by.
- Environment — Tree planting and practices a village can keep up on its own.
- Community development — Whatever the village names as the thing standing in its way.
