community action

The last 25 years have seen more than 300 engineering graduates coming out of this weavers' village.

Timely intervention and training have turned around the fortunes of a remote tribal community facing severe water problems in Jharkhand.

In Coimbatore City, people from all walks of life are coming together to build toilets in every household. The City is on a construct-a-thon to make itself open defecation free.

Kalitala in Sunderbans was devastated after Cyclone Aila. Under the 'cloth for work' initiative by Goonj, the villagers did not only work to build a crucial road link but also planted mangrove saplings to help preserve the ecology of the area.

Manayali village in Maharashtra not only became water secure but also managed to provide a solution to a small Banjara community that lives 3 km away from it -- through community participation.

Itchy skin lesions, changes in skin colour, hardening and thickening of skin into nodules - these were some of the afflictions suffered by the villagers due to arsenic contamination of their drinking water sources. But read how this brave village fought back against this scourge, with even a 95-year old pitching in very actively!

Change is possible only if each of us accepts our responsibilities and it gets even better when your entire community is willing to support and stand by you. The idea of harnessing the power of gated communities may not seem like much, but the change it has wrought in the lives of 1000-odd families in this apartment complex is indeed remarkable.