A New Awakening begins with Community Growth

Navchetana Sarvangin Vikas Kendra Empowering Marginalized Communities in Maharashtra

Voices from the Margins :
A Future Led by the Rural

Navchetana is a dedicated organization committed to empowering marginalized and vulnerable communities, particularly Dalit, Adivasi & Nomadic and Denotified Tribes (NT/DNT). We strive to preserve their rights, dignity, and ethnic identity while facilitating their integration into mainstream society. Our journey began in Beed, a district defined by the struggles of its people. Known for its long time migrant sugarcane laborers, brick laborers, recurring droughts, and alarmingly high farmer suicide rates, Beed’s challenges are stark. As we expand our work to districts like Ahmednagar, Osmanabad, Parbhani, etc. we find similar, if not more severe, difficulties.
Our mission is to create a just, equitable, and dignified society for all these communities and more.

Our Programs

We strengthen Self-Help Groups, enable bank linkages, support women-led enterprises, and promote dairy farming as a sustainable livelihood model.

We run Navchetana International School, provide Abhiruchi Classes for NT/DNT children, and link vulnerable students to seasonal hostels to prevent migration.

We offer training on legal rights, connect women to government schemes, and lead campaigns on land and home ownership.

We focus on holistic, women-centered health programs that combine nutrition, awareness, and preventive care to empower women to take charge of their well-being.

We lead community awareness on climate change, conduct borewell recharges, clean percolation tanks, and promote climate-resilient agriculture.

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Our Mission

Our mission is to create a just, equitable, and dignified society for marginalized communities, NT/DNT communities. With unwavering dedication, we work towards protecting their well-being, dignity, and struggles, and tirelessly advocate for their rights.

Uplift the Vulnerable Communities

Ensure gender equity

Use local resources

Strengthen Local Systems

Go green

Facilitate Holistic Developement

60,000 +

Women Empowered through SHGs

8934

Women Led Enterprises launched

622

Children retained in Education

₹57 Cr

Credit Mobilized

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From Forgotten to Flourishing: What Change Looks Like

Over the years, Navchetana has empowered thousands through education, livelihoods, and resilience-building—reaching women, children, and farmers with lasting change across 300 villages in drought-prone Maharashtra.

Documentary

From the fields to the frontlines of change, women are redefining what strength looks like. Those who wake before dawn, walk miles, work through pain, and still find a way to hope. Their strength isn’t loud, it’s stitched softly into every act of care, every lesson taught, every dream drawn in colour by the next generation.

Navchetana is building resilience where it’s needed most. Join us in our journey.

Their Stories Are Still Being Written

A woman opens her first shop. A child goes back to school.
These are not just stories, they are beginnings.
The next chapter of rural transformation is already unfolding.
Come visit, connect with us, or just spend time understanding how deep, local change is built.

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