ABOUT US

Building resilient women's institutions at the grassroots

Manjari Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation established in May 2015, by alumni of PRADAN, a grassroots organisation working to alleviate poverty in rural India. Inspired by their legacy, Manjari’s founders set out on a mission to uplift rural communities by building resilient and self-sustainable women-led institutions. 

Manjari Foundation has devised an effective and easily adaptable women-centric model that is capable of bringing lasting social and economic change in adverse conditions.  Through our network of women's institutions, the organisation implements well-planned thematic interventions in livelihoods, gender, health, education and natural resource management, to bring about an overall improvement in the quality of rural life. 

Having impacted the lives of over 470,000 rural people, Manjari Foundation perseveres towards achieving new milestones with the belief that someone, somewhere will make a choice to support our mission and come forward to be a part of our endeavour.

'Manjari’ literally translates to “seed of Tulsi”, a sacred Indian plant. When women mobilise themselves to form institutions, they are empowered to sow their own ‘seeds of change’.

Our initiatives

Our initiatives are well-planned, comprehensive and ensure last mile delivery

Model Village

We strive to alleviate poverty and improve quality of rural life by developing 'smart villages'

Youth development

We work towards enlightening young lives through a life skill approach to education

Rural Health Care

Manjari Foundation rural health initiative is aligned with #SDG3 Good Health and Well Being

Social Enterprises

Manjari Foundation promoting social enterprises which are the drivers of local economic development in rural areas

Sustainable Livelihood

Manjari Foundation works towards promoting sustainable livelihood which aligned with #SDG8 decent work and economic growth

Livestock

Manjari Foundation works towards promoting sustainable livelihood which aligned with #SDG8 decent work and economic growth

Quality Education

Manjari Foundation works towards educating the underprivileged kids and women which is aligned with #SDG4 quality education

Community Institutions

Manjari Foundation works towards promoting women led community institutions who are driver of change

Our Reach

With a mission to serve the underserved, we are working with vulnerable rural communities in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh (Bundelkhand) and Uttarakhand.

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What People Say

  • Nusrat Pathan
    We are happy to collaborate with Manjari Foundation under Social Initiative Parivartan. Parivartan and Manjari share a common goal of bringing about a comprehensive and sustainable development at the grassroots. The partnership has brought about a positive change through several thematic interventions including micro-enterprise development, capacity building, health, and education. As a result of this initiative, we have seen effective community engagement and empowerment and the resident of Dholpur district (Rajasthan) continue to get benefitted. We will continue to work on similar projects to improve the lives of the less privileged through our Holistic Rural Development Programme.
    Ms Nusrat Pathan, Head Corporate Social Responsibility, HDFC Bank
  • ‘Sakhi’ means a friend in Hindi, someone who stands by in trying times and during jubilations too. 26500+ women from across 2212 SHG’s and 6 Federation have come together to be the same for each other by making Micro Finance work for them. Sakhi is a platform of rural women which aims at economic well-being, reduction in poverty, self-dependence, and development of personal and social standing in the society through establishing Micro Finance and Micro Enterprises. Hindustan Zinc Limited together with its partners Saheli Sameti and Manjari Foundation are working towards unlocking their potential and empowering them to lead as Enablers.
    Mrs. Anupama Nidhi, CSR HEAD HZL
  • Manjari Foundation is IPE Global’s implementation partner in Dholpur, Rajasthan under the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), UK supported Project Udaan that aims at reducing teenage pregnancies. They have been instrumental in successfully piloting interventions for improving the knowledge of adolescents around sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in Bari block of Dholpur. Their efforts in organizing a team to take up the issue of adolescent SRH and facilitating its implementation with great sensitivity across the block has not only been recognized by the district administration, but has also paved way for attempting a scale-up across the district. Their coordination with the community-level institutions, local government bodies and the target group has been noteworthy and exemplary.
    Mr. Ashish Banerjee, IPE Global
  • Without larger vision and dedication of the team of MF and its leadership, both vertical and horizontal growth would have never been possible to pick up at this level in this short history of its evolution. Since I have been associated with the Sakhi project of MF funded by Hindustan Zinc for the last 2 years, the happiness and confidence seen in their faces of hundreds of women in the villages proves its vitality. I have also witnessed the UN-women funded second chance education project (SCE) being implemented in 3 districts under the guidance of PRADAN is a much worthy to reach out to those young women in the age group of 16-35 who have been deprived in their childhood with the education, skills and employment are now happily enrolled and trained to overcome these deprivations with much positive outcome. While writing all these statements, I recall each visit to the project area to witness the change processes that were taking place within those women who had never dreamed of being so empowered and self-reliant so soon in their lifetimes.
    Binod Raj Dahal, Integrator- PRADAN
  • Our collaboration with Manjari has allowed us to better understand the approach of solidarity groups and concretely towards the empowerment of women in the commune of Logo.The participation of Indian PRCs has been beneficial because the women have appropriated easily by seeing that they are rural women Indian women who share their experiences with them. The Camide team was formed by the professionals of Manjari with enthusiasm and professionalism and is able to reproduce most of the activities. This period of collaboration opens up prospects for our two structures to replicate the model in Mali and Africa. We again thank Manjari for all the efforts made for Camide and particularly the Director Sanjay Kumar. We were able to reach more than 2,500 women and more than 180 million CFA francs of credit granted four test henhouses substantial support for the winter and market gardening campaign in terms of results thank you.
    Mr. Aou Keita, Director Camide, Kayes, Mali, West Africa
  • Development of Corporate Citizenship (DoCC), the social internship program of SPJIMR has been collaborating with Manjari Foundation since 2015. This has been fruitful relationship for us. I want to emphasise the four following themes. First the internships give our students a different idea of leadership which also gives them a sense of requirements for the future and adds to the ethics of sociological content. The participants acquire a notion of innovation- both social and technical which gives them a systemic view of the society. Such an empirical location gives them both a sense of limits and possibilities of what they can do. Environmental consciousness and gender sensitivity constitute two critical parts of social responsibility as we define it today. The participants of the internship understand what these key concepts mean in everyday sense. Internship at Manjari adds to their imagination in this direction. We value this relationship.
    Dr. Chandrika Parmar, S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research

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