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19+

Years

7 States 5,00,000

Lives Transformed

30,000+

Industrial Workers Trained

5500+

Rural Households Electrified On Solar

5 lac+

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Our environmental resources are not infinite. Therefore, at Advit Foundation, our endeavour is to explore endless possibilities and solutions for their conservation. Our initiatives are focused on the preservation of water and energy. How can we make communities embrace conservation? How can we ensure a sustainable future for generations to come? With our Water Centred Design for life, we empower communities by helping them live and sustain themselves.

ADVIT OPERATES THROUGH THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMME AREAS

Conservation

Livelihood enhancement

Empowerment

Environment awareness

Advit skill centre - Aarohan

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Conservation

The water conservation initiative ensures water availability for drinking, sanitation, agriculture and livestock. As the water scenario improves in the region, the scope and the need for other development activities emerge. The success indicators measured are developed degraded lands, overall socio-economic development of the poor, mitigating drought conditions, employment generation and poverty alleviation.

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Empowerment

The programme is a strategic intervention to address some of the key issues in India's renewable energy development plans, which lay emphasis on promoting the use of renewable energy/ clean energy and development of associated service delivery mechanisms in the country. The programme will enable a strong, diverse, and well trained solar workforce. The programme ensures that solar instructors are well connected to solar employers and vocational as well as engineering students are trained to help increase solar adoption along with improved solar installation.

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Livelihood Enhancement

New skills are introduced and existing ones are upgraded among the community. Advit team closely works on skill upgradation for climate change adaptation with communities as well as farm-based livelihood organisations. In a country like India where poverty, lack of nutrients, postharvest losses, and gender inequality still prevails in the agricultural sector, it is important to address the issues with a promising approach and technology to create an economically aligned community.

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Environment Awareness

The initiate undertakes Environment awareness, action and health and safety programmes among school children, community members and industrial shop floor workers. The efforts are to guide how natural environments function, and particularly, how human beings can manage behavior and ecosystems to live sustainably. The programme also designs and undertakes planning and impact assessment of development projects.

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A Few Glimpses Of Organizations Work

  • Design and construction of micro watersheds/ water conservation models. Have undertaken more than 18 water conservation structures in more than 25 villages in Phagi, Mandore, Rothwara, Dudu blocks in Rajasthan and Amravati (Maharashtra), Medak (Telengana), Kolar (Karnataka)
  • Undertaking Solar Electrical Training with certification from NSDC and Green Council for Skill Jobs. Trained more than 2000 candidates since 2013
  • B.Voc Training partner with TISS for undertaking Solar Electrical Training Set-up Aarohan rural self-employment training centre, at village Pachala in Phagi, Rajasthan
  • Electrified more than 2500 households in the rural parts of Rajasthan and Haryana using solar home lighting systems
  • Undertaking Safe Chemical Handling trainings for workers of apparel, metal, leather and accessories industries all over India. Implemented Occupational health and safety trainings for 25 Carpet weaving industries in Panipat, Haryana
  • Runs an environment education and school upgradation programme - Prakriti Eco School programme
  • Undertaken solar electrification of forest guard cabins at Pench and Bandhavgarh forest reserves in Madhya Pradesh
  • Undertook revival of handloom clusters in Kerala post Floods in 2018
  • Distribution of 100 energy efficient cooking stoves in Phagi, Rajasthan
  • Facilitated set up of community toilets in 5 villages in Phagi, Rajasthan
  • Facilitated set up of largescale drinking water system in Behror. Haryana
  • Facilitate industries to comply with environment standards - Undertake energy efficiency trainings, audits and other resource conservation methods for various industrial processes
  • Implemented roof top rain water harvesting for buildings. Designed and constructed 3 large models for institutions in Gurgaon
  • Prepared guide book on Energy efficiency and Carbon responsibility for apparel industries Knowledge book. Supported by GIZ
  • Implemented a Village Development Programme for NABARD at village Meoka, Haryana

Advit’s rural self-employment training centre located in village Pachala, Phagi block in Jaipur, Rajasthan imparts new skills and upgrades existing ones.

Activities focus on Women and Youth: Benefitting more than 10,000 community members spread across nearly 10 villages

    Water Conservation
  • Water intervention to ensure availability for agriculture, sanitation, livestock and drinking
  • Water quality testing
  • Access to energy (cooking)
  • Improved design of cook stoves
  • Improved cooking fuel – briquettes
  • Making of solar cookers / Solar cold storage, solar thermal dryers
  • Farming and forests
  • Each household to plant 4 trees
  • Set up value chain
  • Set up plant nurseries
  • Access to electricity
  • Impart solar trainings for rural entrepreneurship – solar lights, solar mobile charging units
  • Entrepreneurship
  • 24x7 solar dryers, solar pumps, biogas
  • Tailoring, spice grinding and packaging
  • Improved household chulahs, potters kiln

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