SHARE Society To Heal Aid Restore Educate (Swades Foundation)

Swades believes in a holistic 360-degree development, with a focus on six verticals:

• Water & Sanitation: The goal is building 40,000 personal toilets and ensuring that 260,000 households have 200 liters of potable water per day, round the year. The NGO encourages rain water harvesting, creates water distribution systems, recharge & storage structures, and develops open-defecation free communities with a toilet in every household and school. So far, 2,209 toilets and 733 water structures have been built.
• Health & Nutrition: The focus is to provide universal access to public and private healthcare services to rural community focusing on eye care, cardiac care, anaemia alleviation, hearing disability support and empowering community health volunteers.
• Education: The goal is to transform schools and create a joyful learning environment focusing on mindset change by training principals and teachers, enabling environment by conducting Abacus camps, provision of essential infrastructure and future ready children by providing scholarships for further education.
• Livelihood: Economic Development aims to ensure self sufficiency of every household in its geography through engaging in multiple livelihoods  like dairy, poultry for meat and goat farming, skill training for youth, orchards and cashew processing,  focusing on irrigation
• Agriculture & Dairy: Swades encourages the farmers to practice innovative farming techniques, horticulture, cattle breed improvement techniques, and plans exposure trips and trainings.
• Community Mobilization: The NGO encourages formation of Women SHGs, engages the community through Village Development Meetings, establishes Community Learning Centres, and aims at strengthening Panchayat Raj Institutions.