Partners

Maolkeki Foundation

It is a pioneering organization established with the purpose of bringing positive development in Manipur by designing and implementing socially impactful initiatives in agriculture, education and healthcare building sustainable social enterprises. The organization is driven by the belief that no one party can solve society’s challenges – working together through strategic partnerships, grants and direct investments can.

Tandan Trust

Organization Overview: Tandan Trust, an offshoot organization of Sunbird Trust, focuses primarily on the social and educational sectors where it caters to children, youth, and women from 11+ villages including Sinam Kom, the base village through community empowerment and engagement, collaboration with the community towards maximizing the available natural and human resources towards sustainable living.

Hope Foundation Society

Organization Overview: Hope Foundation was started as a local school in Tamei in 1997 catering to the educational needs of the remote tribal communities of Tamenglong district. In the past decade, the organization expanded its scope in quality education by partnering with Sunbird Trust. Realising the possibility of scaling up their impact through collaboration, Hope Foundation now partners with Sunbird Trust, Barefoot College and agri-expert Mr.David Gandhi on building sustainable livelihoods for the women farmers of the area.

David Gandhi

Introduction: He is an Indian citizen having 30+ years of experience as Technical Advisor and Manager for sustainable rural livelihood development programs. David has worked extensively with International Donors, innovators, State Governments and CBOs in India and abroad. International experience includes assignments in countries in Asia, Africa, Central and South America, Africa, Southern Levant and the Caribbean. Since 2016, he has been based in Aben village and has been working with the Village Development Committee as a Volunteer Advisor to promote Sustainable Agriculture and Holistic Development in the hill district of Manipur through partnerships with local civil society organizations. Following the success in Manipur at a local level, his work is now highly recognized in the neighboring state of Meghalaya and is being supported for scale-up in their state by the Government.

Hume Centre for Ecology and Wildlife Biology

Organization Overview: Hume Centre primarily works with the communities of the Wayanad district in Kerala. This area is one of the top biodiversity hotspots of the world and unfortunately highly threatened due to increasing anthropogenic pressures on natural resources such as unscientific and erroneous land use, destructive agricultural practices, and extreme weather events in recent times. Hume centre undertakes systematic research on vulnerable ecosystems, threatened species, agroecosystems, and the impact of climate change. They work on transferring the novel scientific knowledge to the participating communities and institutions while imparting contextualized science education to young generations to build a scientific understanding of biodiversity conservation ground-up

Sunbird Trust

Organization Overview: Sunbird Trust is a non-sectarian Civil Society Organization, working with the objective of Peace through Education and National Integration in conflict-affected parts of North East India. It’s largest footprint is in Manipur. The core objectives of Sunbird Trust are to bring communities to live and work together in harmony and to build bridges between people and the Armed Forces. The Trust’s principal work involves educating and empowering underprivileged children and youth to make better life choices. A Brief on Sunbird Trust is attached. Three primary areas of focus are:-

• Student sponsorship in school or college to provide financial access to education
• Building schools and hostels to provide physical access to education
• Fostering integration, peace and acceptance of diversity

Through its sponsored students, Sunbird Trust also engages with its extended communities in the field of livelihood generation.

Association of Health Welfare in the Nilgiris (ASHWINI)

Organization Overview: The primary objective of ASHWINI is to establish a health system that is accessible, acceptable, effective, and sustainable, owned and managed by the communities. ASHWINI caters to the tribal community through a three-tier health system:

1. Tier 1: Trained Village Health Volunteers at the village level
2. Tier 2: Eight Area Centres manned by health Animators at the area level
3. Tier 3: 50 bedded Gudalur Adivasi Hospital equipped for secondary-level care

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Entrepreneurs Associates

Prateeksha Trust

Adarsh Charitable Trust

C4CCCI (Caring 4 Childhood Cancer and Chronic Illnesses)

Madhavan Nair Foundation - Kerala Museum

RASTA (Rural Agency for Social and Technological Advancement)

WSSS (Wayanad Social Service Society )

MSSRF (M S Swaminathan Research Foundation )