As 2026 greets us, the air is buzzing with New Year celebrations and resolutions, as well as anticipation for the upcoming festivals of Lohri and Sankranti. For over 17​1,000 Nanhi Kalis, though, a unique kind of festive spirit burns brightly across thousands of villages in 17 districts and 7 states

In today’s rapidly shifting job market, technical knowledge and a perfect ​resume are no longer enough to secure a young person’s future. Employers still seek qualified individuals with field-specific experience, of course, but they look for something more: adaptability, confidence, effective communication, a results-oriented work ethic, creative problem-solving, and the ability to

Welcome back to the unfolding story of MACs—Araku’s Small and Marginal Tribal Farmers Mutually Aided Cooperative Society. After reading in Part 1 how MACs emerged from humble beginnings to become the heartbeat of a chemical-free, organic-regenerative coffee revival deeply rooted in community knowledge and sustainable practices, we now invite you

With the United Nations declaring 2025 as the International Year of Cooperatives, it prompts us to reflect on what cooperation truly means in practice. For many of those at Naandi who have worked directly on or supported agriculture-based livelihoods projects for smallholder farmers in Araku Valley, this reflection feels quite

Each year, as new girls join the nationwide community of 171,000 girls under the wings of Project Nanhi Kali, drawstring bags in Nanhi Kali’s unmistakable canary-yellow soon arrive at their sides. Each bag and the six items packed inside it make up what we call a Nanhi Kali Kit: a

India is sitting on a goldmine of potential—its young people. With one of the largest youth populations in the world, the choices we make today in educating and preparing them will decide not just their futures, but the country’s economic and social trajectory for decades to come. But how do

“6.4 million saplings transported up hills to remote tribal villages, distributed to farmers in customised species combinations, in just two months! How is that even possible!?” We hear that a lot. The sheer scale of our annual sapling drive comes as a surprise to many. And to be fair, it

Naandi, and the 170,000 Nanhi Kalis we support each year, are very serious about sports. So serious, in fact, that we have a sports app – one we’re sure is the first of its kind in India, perhaps even the world. The story of how this app came to be

India is home to one of the largest populations of young people in the world. This very vast demographic dividend—millions of individuals aged between 18 and 25—holds the potential to shape not just the economy, but the very nature of our society. But potential alone doesn’t fuel progress. To transform

If you think back to your biology lessons, you may remember being taught about photosynthesis as a chemical reaction with a specific formula to memorise. You may also remember not being encouraged to consider just how extraordinary this process really is​. We encourage you to do that with us.​ Through the act

Naandi’s Sports for Life programme was launched in 2018 with the goal of unlocking the potential of Nanhi Kali girls across India by building a vibrant sports community just for them. Today, it is a community led by women, for women and young girls, and it makes sports and physical

Subhasmita Nanda, a quiet and reserved woman from a humble village near Balasore, Odisha, harbored a dream: to forge an independent life and career beyond the familiar confines of her home and small town. She understood the inherent challenges of this ambition, particularly for women in Odisha, a state historically