Focus area
Community Healthcare, Water & Sanitation
Access to basic healthcare, clean water and improved sanitation, aimed at reducing health disparities in marginalised areas and creating healthier living conditions.
Access to basic healthcare, clean water and improved sanitation is at the forefront of our initiatives, aiming to reduce health disparities in marginalised areas and create healthier living conditions.
Health outcomes are also a direct product of how people earn. A significant part of this focus area therefore runs through our enterprise work: food safety standards as per Government of India guidelines in every food cluster we support, hygienic Common Facility Centres replacing roadside production beside open drains, and solar equipment removing the respiratory load of firewood from the women working over it.
Water, sanitation and hygiene is also one of the eight standing technology tracks at every RuTAG Smart Village Centre we operate, giving 15–20 surrounding villages a permanent point of access rather than a one-off camp.
Contributing to
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals advanced by the programmes in this focus area.
What this looks like
Where we concentrate effort
Community health awareness and access programmes
Clean drinking water and sanitation infrastructure
Nutrition support for malnourished women and children
Hygiene standards built into every food-processing enterprise we support
Programmes
The work running under this focus area
Evidence
Case studies from this focus area
The Gauribidanur Women-Led Papad Cluster
An 18-year-old women's papad enterprise was producing beside an open drain, losing a fifth of its raw material to aluminium vessels, and supplying Bangalore brands who repackaged the product under their own labels. This is what fixing that looks like.
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RuTAG Smart Village Centres
Permanent technology hubs at Panchayat level, each serving 15–20 neighbouring villages with hands-on support and technology deployment sustained over several years.
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Other focus areas
Sustainable Agriculture
Promoting farming practices that raise yields and incomes without exhausting the land, so that food security today does not come at the cost of the next generation.
Livelihood & Skilling
Our largest body of work. We build rural livelihoods through an entrepreneurship lens — skilling people, upgrading their technology, and organising them into MSME clusters that can hold their own in the market.
Environment & Climate
Implementing eco-friendly practices at community level, building awareness of climate impacts, and reducing the carbon footprint of the rural enterprises we support.
Let’s build something that lasts
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