EduCARE India works to translate UN Sustainable Development Goals into lived reality across select regions of India, one panchayat at a time — creating convergence and intersection of Safety, Health, Environment and Empowerment.
EduCARE India's SHEE framework addresses all 17 Sustainable Development Goals — translating intergovernmental aspirations into measurable community-level outcomes. Click a pillar to see which goals it serves.
EduCARE India is a community-based organisation working towards the localisation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Currently focused on Kangra District in Himachal Pradesh, with roots across five Indian states, the organisation's work is built on community mobilisation, engagement, and empowerment.
Our novel approach integrates socio-political, environmental, governmental, and civic domains of sustainable development — operating through an institutional ecosystem of specialised centres that together deliver Safety, Health, Environment, and Empowerment (SHEE) at the grassroots level.
How we work: The panchayat is our unit of action. We mobilise existing community structures — Self-Help Groups, Community Resource Persons (CRP/CLF cadre), NRLM networks, retired professionals (VARISHTHA Mandals) — and equip them with skills, institutional frameworks, and inter-agency linkages to lead their own development. This is not charity-driven aid; it is capacity building through social entrepreneurship and volunteer action.
Who we serve: Rural and peri-urban communities, women and girls, the elderly, marginalised groups, small-scale farmers, youth in workforce transition, government institutions seeking grassroots partnership, and aspiring development professionals from around the world.
EduCARE works across regions chosen for their ecological diversity, disaster vulnerability, and community development potential — from high Himalaya to coastal lowlands.
Extreme cold, glacial lake outbursts, fragile ecology, and remote community resilience.
Vision CorridorMulti-hazard terrain — earthquakes, landslides, flash floods. Home to EDMRC, RISHEE, and the full SHEE ecosystem.
Core OperationsAgricultural heartland, groundwater depletion, stubble burning, flood-prone communities.
PlannedWater scarcity, drought resilience, traditional water harvesting, and community resource management.
PlannedPost-earthquake reconstruction heritage (Kutch), coastal vulnerability, drought resilience, community rebuilding.
HistoricalBiodiversity conservation, traditional medicine, organic agriculture, women's empowerment, flood resilience.
Historical
Operating model: Deep institutional roots in Kangra District (HP) as the proven model, with a concentric expansion strategy — north to Ladakh, south through the plains to peninsular India — towards a multi-state, multi-hazard, multi-landscape development platform.
EduCARE's framework is the product of three decades of intellectual investment and grassroots innovation — an evolutionary, adaptable approach shaped by field reality, not imported templates.
SEE — Social, Economic, Environment — is the globally established sustainable development triad, rooted in the Brundtland Report (1987), the Rio Earth Summit (1992), and the architecture of the UN SDGs. But EduCARE's three decades of grassroots work revealed two critical gaps: Health is absent as a standalone domain (buried under Social), and there is no explicit space for Education, Skills, and Entrepreneurship — the very mechanisms through which communities build the capacity to act.
Safety, DRR, social justice, inclusion, community institutions, governance
Public health, geriatric care, AYUSH, nutrition, WaSH, community wellness
Livelihoods, micro-finance, SHGs, social enterprise, poverty alleviation
Skills training, internships, experiential learning, workforce development, youth leadership
Conservation, ecology, biodiversity, organic agriculture, climate adaptation
SHEEE was EduCARE's expansion of the global SEE model. The original three stayed, but EduCARE added two missing dimensions from grassroots experience: Health (in rural India, community health demands its own institutional focus — it cannot remain buried under "Social") and Education-Entrepreneurship (the capacity-building and skills pipeline that actually enables communities to act on social, economic, and environmental goals). Five pillars, five states, 20+ programmes.
SEE's thematic clarity + SHEEE's delivery wisdom = SHEE
Centre for Innovation in Experiential Education and Learning — GlobalPEACE international internships, corporate training, volunteer travel, experiential education, visiting scholars. Revenue ring-fenced at 30% for student scholarships.
Regional Institute for Safety, Health, Environment and Empowerment — the academic and training arm. Aapda Mitra certification, AapdaPAR coordinator training, HimNIRMANAC NirmanNAYAK programme, and pipeline PG Diploma/MBA in Disaster Management.
Programmes designed to share knowledge, raise awareness, build skills, create opportunities, and promote capacity building — balanced across all four SHEE pillars.
Panchayat-level community resilience, volunteer mobilisation, and disaster preparedness across Kangra.
Community health, geriatric care through SHG networks, elder care, and senior volunteer mobilisation.
Kitchen gardens, ecological restoration, botanical gardens, watershed protection, and green livelihoods.
CRP/CLF cadre, SHG micro-enterprise, financial literacy, youth skills, and social entrepreneurship.
Earthquake-resistant construction training for 2,500 masons — safer buildings and skilled livelihoods in one programme.
International internships, experiential education, cross-cultural cohorts, visiting scholars, and fellowship programmes.
Water, sanitation and hygiene for health — village-level waste management, clean water access, and sanitation awareness.
Community forestry, wild forest management, river basin conservation, bioengineering, and climate adaptation at the local level.
EduCARE India welcomes engagement from individuals and organisations at every level — from international interns to local community volunteers, from CSR partners to academic institutions.
GlobalPEACE international internships, Academic Research Internship, Graduate Fellowship Programme (GFP), field immersion cohorts, and Visiting Scholar placements.
Short-term volunteer travel, long-term community service, remote/virtual volunteering (OVID), and Aapda Mitra volunteer deployment across programme verticals.
Young Professionals Programme (YPP), pro-bono advisory, corporate training partnerships, CSR programme design, and consulting engagements.
Government agencies (DDMA, NDMA, HPSDMA), academic institutions, CSR programmes, international development organisations, and private sector partners.
NDRF Training Partnership
EDMRC Kangra Campus
CRP Aapda Mitra Training
GlobalPEACE Youth Cohort
EduCARE's intellectual investment extends beyond fieldwork — into documentation, applied research, and knowledge products that inform practice and policy.
Stories, reflections, and updates from the field across all programme verticals.
Reports, manuals, training materials, and institutional documentation.
The conceptual framework underpinning EduCARE's approach to sustainable development.
Three decades of institutional history, programme records, and photographic archives.
Each institution within the EduCARE ecosystem maintains its own web presence and specialised mandate.
Strategic institute for long-term sustainable development vision
insustainedfutures.orgDisaster management, emergency response & volunteer deployment
edmrc.org.inCommunity health, geriatric care & SHG health networks
sehatseva.orgEcological restoration, BAGEECHA & environment conservation
ecodeva.orgAcademic & training institute for SHEE programmes
rishee.orgExperiential education, GlobalPEACE & corporate training
cieel.org.inSenior citizen volunteer mobilisation
varishtha.orgCommunity volunteer training & certification
aapdamitra.inElderly care services & geriatric support
agedcare.org.inPanchayat-level volunteer coordination hubs
aapdamitrakendra.org.in