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http://www.swadesfoundation.

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Swades Foundation
Nishuvi, 3rd floor,
75, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli,
Mumbai 400018, Telephone: +91 22 61093730
Fax: +91 22 610093722, Email: contact.us@swadesfoundation.org

OVERALL

Empowering 1 million villagers through :

Community Mobilisation

Empower 8,248 self-help groups and 720 governance groups located in 4,124 village hamlets of 720 Gram Panchayats by allowing
the community to identify its needs and promote community interests, good leadership & democratic decision-making for better
governance and impactful interventions.

Education

Empowering 2,700 schools with 2,00,000 Students and 10,000 teachers creating whole school transformation via approximately 17
programmes.

Water & Sanitation

Building 25,000 personal toilets and ensuring each of our 2,60,000 households have 200 liters of potable water per day, round the
year.

Agriculture& Dairy

Swades aims to uplift and enrich the lives of 1,60,000 farmers and targets an annual family income of Rs. 2 lakhs per household
through agriculture and livelihood programmes.

To achieve this, we design our agriculture and dairy schemes with a focus on training, customised solutions and innovative farming
techniques.

Livelihood

The Swades Foundation targets an annual family income of Rs. 2 lakhs per household through agriculture and livelihood
programmes.

To achieve this, our livelihood programme focuses on multiple platforms ranging from skilling, employability training & job placement
to establishing small business enterprises.

Health & Nutrition

Creating an ecosystem for rural health with a special focus on diseases impacting more than 1% of the population. A special focus
is on eye care, maternal and childcare, as well as nutrition, including anti-anaemia, de-worming, kitchen gardens and more.
Ensuring access to reliable primary healthcare services through trained cadre of 2,500 Community Health Workers (Swaraksha
Mitras) and building a strong connect between the community and government services.

THEME-WISE

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AGRICULTURE & DAIRY SWADES LIVELIHOOD
While 60% of India's population is directly dependent on agriculture, its contribution to the country's GDP is only 20%, indicating
overdependence, unemployment and underemployment in the sector. With more than half the country's populations' direct
dependence on this sector, the Swades Foundation believes that only with development in Agriculture and related livelihoods, will
India see holistic development.

OUR GOAL

The Swades Foundation targets an annual family income of Rs. 2 lacs per household through agriculture and livelihood
programmes.
Through agriculture and dairy we plan to uplift and enrich the lives of 160,000 farmers and target an annual income of Rs.1 lacs per
household.

WE BELIEVE

The essence of empowerment is a fulfilling livelihood enabling each individual to care for him/herself and family.

WE CREATE

Empowered farmer clubs linked to government schemes, banks & markets and access to best practices, including community
farming and collective buying and selling. We will empower 1,60,000 farmers through multiple new technologies and processes.

WE EXECUTE

Innovative farming techniques:

We have motivated 4000 farmers to grow a second crop and have targeted to motivate 50,000 farmers in total, in the next 3 years

We have built 5,000 demo farms for SRI Rice, we plan to scale up to a total of 60,000 farms in the next 3 years

We have created over 300 demo farms for drip irrigation, we plan to create a total of 3,000 farms in the next 3 years

Horticulture: Grafting and plantation of mango, cashew and other trees to yield high value produce. Our goal is to plant a
total of 1 million trees.

We plan to graft a total of 200,000 trees of which we have already grafted 46,000 trees

We plan to distribute to 800,000 new plants, of which we already distributed 120,000 new plants for horticulture

Cattle Induction: Promoting rearing and breeding of high yield cows and buffaloes

We have inducted 200 cattle, we will scale up to 10,000 cattle in next 3 years

Exposure Trips & Training: Through agriculture extension activities like training on various crops, farming-related
subjects and exposure to various innovative wealth creating technologies and practices

We have conducted exposure trips, visits and/or organized trainings for 10,000 farmers, we plan to train 1,00,000 farmers in total
in the next 3 years

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LH- critical element in Indias 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) is the generation of productive employment on an adequate scale.

With a focus on large scale creation of sustainable livelihoods, Swades Foundation is using various skilling and training programmes
to convert rural population into able entrepreneurs and skilled employees.

OUR GOAL

The Swades Foundation targets an annual family income of Rs. 2 lakhs per household through agriculture and livelihood
programmes. To achieve this, our livelihood programme focuses on multiple platforms ranging from skilling, employability training &
job placement to establishing small business enterprises.

WE BELIEVE

The essence of empowerment is a fulfilling livelihood enabling each individual to care for him/herself and family.

WE CREATE

Create an ecosystem for rural economic development by reaching out to every economically-challenged household in our target
geography and enabling them to become economically stable.

WE EXECUTE

Rural enterprises to generate local employment:

We have established one Rural BPO employing 200 youth and will establish at least 4 BPOs employing 1000 youth / families in
total in the next 3 years

We have setup 1000+ backyard poultry units and aim to setup 15,000 units in total in the next 3 years

We also plan to setup 5000 goatry units in total in the next 3 years

Cashew Enterprise Development Program

We are supporting 20 cashew processing units with backward and forward linkages, we will support at least a total of 100 units in
total in the next 3 years

Employment-oriented skill development program for youth

We have provided employability skill development training to 2,800 youths and aim to provide this to 15,000 youths in total in the
next 3 years

We along with IL&FS have established employment linked vocational training centres aiming to train and employ a total of 10,000
youths in the next 3 years

Providing Employment Opportunities

We have conducted several job fairs leading to employment of more than 100 youths in companies from the organised sector

Community-based enterprises

We have already registered two community-based enterprises, one for our farmers and the other for our community health
volunteers, we plan to establish a total of 6 such enterprises in the next 3 years

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