Rural Centre for Human Interests (RUCHI)

The Rural Centre for Human Interests (popularly known as RUCHI) has incessantly worked towards uplifting the living conditions of the underprivileged section in selected regions of Himachal Pradesh, India focusing on integrated rural development through people-centered, environmentally sustainable action. It envisions a society which believes in and practices peace, good governance, equality and respect for each other.

Some of their activities are:

• Projects under Erasmus+ programme of European Union:
  • Time for Tea: An educational activity which uses tea to give young people a voice thereby encouraging global learning, creative thinking and social action. It is accessible to people of any age, background or ability, anywhere in the world.
  • Recall: It seeks to build the capacity of youth organizations in Europe and Asia to promote green skills, circular economy and youth-led green entrepreneurship in encouraging positive social change in rural areas of involved countries. Includes four pillars– Environment, Economy, Society and Culture to fight youth unemployment in rural areas.
  • Global Pathways: To contribute at mainstreaming Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education in non-formal sector as to combat youth unemployment.
• Waste Upcycling: It aims to enhance the organisations’ competencies to host and implement change-making experiences on waste upcycling with common quality standards, and to develop an innovative sustainable entrepreneurial concept, based on non-formal education principles, to make positive impact in local communities, with the purpose of:
  • Offering quality-learning experiences to international participants
  • Raising awareness at international and local level on waste issues
  • Financially supporting non-profit organisations and local communities through social entrepreneurship
  • Helping the local community to manage better manage the waste
• Development of Water, Health and Agriculture: The activity facilitates community members in increasing their productivity and economic status. In the short and medium term, the activity improves sanitation and drinking water facilities for all communities, surrounding villages receives support to implement water conservation techniques which will positively impact to increase water availability for irrigation. This along with training and resources for crop diversification increases the productivity and yield from the land.
• International Voluntary Service: Any person is open to volunteer and can join RUCHI for an internship thereby getting overall exposure to grass root situations in the local areas and working for the common cause.