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The Walking Stick
Joe Madiath, Gram Vikas Founder – Chairman, talking about how witnessing exclusion of the poor and lower castes motivated him to create solutions for equity for rural communities in India.
A joint research by LSHTM, KIIT and Emory University found improvements in toilet use and coverage, better child faeces management and reduced diseases among children in selected programme villages of Gram Vikas. Lack of clean water and poor sanitation and hygiene habits such as open defecation and unsafe child faeces disposal in rural households exposes […]
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Micro-automatic weather stations to help farmers predict the weather with greater accuracy in addition to supporting non-farm livelihoods and helping women better plan their day.
Binoy Acharya discussed the importance of nonprofit engagement with local governments to evolve long term, robust solutions to community issues.
Where Springs Return…
The story of parched lands, barren hills, dying cattle and dried up springs giving way to thick lush forests.
Priyanka Singh writes on why voluntary organisations should use their advantage of not having to be populist to work on nurturing a just and democratic society.
Gram Vikas completed a landmark of 40 years of work, in partnership with rural communities, across Odisha, Jharkhand and other states in 2019. Our Executive Director, Liby Johnson, shares a brief overview of our work and initiatives in the past year.
Suvojit Chattopadhyay discusses the need for NGOs to redefine scale, to seed an exit strategy right at the start of a community engagement process and address the challenges that come in its wake.
Tulasipur village development
The Holistic Rural Development Programme attempts to overcome complex, interconnected challenges that is critical to community development.
Rudra’s journey from Kalahandi to Kerala
Rudra shares about his journey from a village in Kalahandi to Kerala for search of work.
Difficulties for the migrant community
Ram Majhi speaks for all migrants as he shares the difficulties at source and destination for the migrant community.
Rebuilding Livelihoods in Cyclone Titli affected villages
Gram Vikas is training women and men from Cyclone Titli affected villages in Ganjam and Gajapati districts of Odisha in masonry as a part of efforts in rebuilding livelihoods.
Make your own progress
“No one can stop you, the moment you decide to be yourself.” Sindhu Majhi from Purnagumma village, Thuamul Rampur, Kalahandi.
Farmers – The smart way
Smart Community Interface project supported by Oracle through Charities Aid Foundation India is helping the farmers in Odisha get market information using technology.
A renewed solar microgrid has brought back consistent access to high quality electricity to the village Maligaon bringing opportunities for rural lives and livelihoods.
A joint study report by Gram Vikas and CMID details the challenges and solutions for safe migration of labour from Odisha to Kerala. Migration has been a key survival strategy for millions of rural poor from the Indian state Odisha, with a poverty ratio of 32.6 per cent in 2011. Thuamul Rampur, with the largest […]
The Smart Community Interface Programme aims to develop a community-owned and managed model of information management that uses information and communication technologies to improve the quality of life of village communities in areas with limited physical access and connectivity. The Smart Community Interface programme will put together the hardware architecture, content and software applications; and […]
The unprecedented floods that inundated Kerala affected a large number of migrant workers, some of whom were from villages that Gram Vikas has been working with. We supported the migrants and their families stranded during the floods. “Everywhere it’s just water. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know where I am. There is […]