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Participants gathered at an EduCARE India biogas workshop.
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Localising Global Goals

Through Community-Led Action

At EduCARE India, we translate the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into lived reality, one community at a time.

Who We Are

EduCARE India is a grassroots NGO working in community-led sustainable development since 1994.

When the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, we already had two decades of practice.

Volunteers and community members planting a sapling outdoors

Our Vision

Development that sustains itself

We envision a world where every person has the opportunity and the means to build self-sustaining positive outcomes for themselves, their communities, and the natural environments we share.

We believe that…

  • Girls club meeting in a school courtyard.

    Communities can develop from within

    We can provide the ignition by nurturing awareness, knowledge, and skills within the community.

  • A volunteer and community members building a compost toilet.

    Change begins with people helping people

    Money is not the only driver of change. Passion, initiative, and action can make a crucial and lasting impact.

  • Group of volunteers discussing something whilst standing outside.

    Creativity can solve persistent problems

    People with different backgrounds and perspectives can get together and come up with new solutions that make a real difference.

  • A volunteer carrying bamboo sticks, looking behind at the camera, as another volunteer carrying bamboo sticks leads on in the background.

    You can lead by example

    Your actions will inspire others to also become the drivers of development that sustains itself.

Volunteers configuring tools during a disaster-management training exercise.

What We Do

We help communities build self-sustaining solutions that create lasting positive outcomes.

Every community already has its protagonists: self-help groups, health workers, masons, youth, women, and retirees with time and talent to spare.

We show them what that talent could become... what they can achieve for themselves and their community. And we bring what it takes to get there: training and certifications, guidance, connections beyond the community, and more.

We collaborate with them on building self-sustaining programs that will keep generating positive outcomes for their community.

Every program is built to be handed over.

Success, for us, is a community that no longer needs us.

Our work runs through four pillars…

  • Volunteers demonstrating disaster management skills at a workshop.

    Safety

    • Disaster preparedness for earthquakes, landslides, and flash floods.
    • Village volunteers certified as first responders.
    • Masons trained in earthquake-safe construction.
  • A medical camp in Naura, Himachal Pradesh.

    Health

    • Community health where the state’s reach thins out.
    • Elder care that keeps people in their own homes.
    • Clean water and sanitation.
  • A volunteer and women posing with sapling boxes in their hands, in the Kangra Botanical Garden.

    Environment

    • Livelihoods that regenerate the land instead of depleting it.
    • Kitchen gardens, botanical gardens, watershed protection, and ecological restoration.
  • Pink Wheels Taxi Initiative group photo at an event.

    Empowerment

    • Women running their own micro-enterprises.
    • Financial literacy training.
    • After-school centres and youth mentorship.

Together, these pillars cover what a community needs to develop on its own terms.

The things listed under these pillars are just a few examples.

To learn more about all the things we do, check out Our Work

Volunteers loading furniture onto a truck.

Let’s Work Together

  • Partner with us

    We work with government agencies, universities, and CSR programs that want grassroots reach for their initiatives.

  • Intern or Volunteer

    Learn sustainable development through experience in the real world. Live and work inside the community, collaborate on launching new programs, and help run the existing ones.

    Remote internships and volunteering exist too.

  • Come as a Professional

    Professionals, researchers, and visiting scholars take on longer engagements: program design, applied research, training delivery, and more.

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Talk to Us

Questions, suggestions, feedback, something else?

Please reach out, we’d love to hear from you. 😊

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