Rural India is the world’s biggest single poverty trap – home to 270 million people living below the poverty line.

We’re working to change that

WHY INDIA?

When there is so much poverty everywhere, and India seems so rich, does India need more help than e.g. Africa?

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WHY VILLAGES?

When we see so many images of urban slums and “slum-dogs”, why do India’s villages need support?

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WHY WOMEN?

Why does Jeevika make a big thing about helping women, when poverty hits the whole community?

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One third of all of the world’s poor live in India. Proper access to water & sanitation, health care, education, income generation opportunities & gender equality are out of reach for hundreds of millions of people.

SO WHY JEEVIKA?

Aren’t bigger charities already doing enough to help?

We have over

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years’ experience working exclusively in village India

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Indian NGO partners working at a grassroots level

We’ve delivered over

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livelihood projects across 3 Indian states since 2005

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people are benefitting from our current projects

Jeevika Trust has worked for 40 years exclusively in the villages of India. Through our 6 Indian NGO partners – each with its constituency of up to 500 villages – we plan the right projects, in the right places, and make sure the funds we raise here go to the heart of each village community.

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