A quiet mind that does nothing about the world is just a comfortable one. All figures below are placeholders.
Each project below has run for at least a decade. Numbers are placeholders.
Seven hundred no-fee schools in districts where the nearest alternative is an hour away. Enrolment is deliberately weighted toward girls, and the dropout rate after class eight is the number we actually track.
Recharge structures, catchment planting and farmer-run water budgeting on seasonal rivers. Built with hydrologists, maintained by the villages themselves, which is why they are still standing.
Skills training, self-help credit groups and market linkage for rural women. The training is short; the follow-up runs for three years, which is the part that decides whether it works.
A six-week program of breath work, dialogue and responsibility inside correctional facilities, running since 1986, plus follow-up after release.
When a disaster hits, volunteers arrive with food and shelter like everyone else — and stay afterwards, when the cameras have gone, to run free trauma-relief sessions for survivors and for the rescue workers who nobody thinks to ask about.
Food, water, temporary shelter, and a register of who is missing.
Daily breath and relaxation sessions in camps, for survivors and responders alike.
Livelihood restart grants, school tents, and long follow-up for the worst affected.
Everything here runs on donated hours. Teaching, driving, cooking, spreadsheets, translation — all of it counts, none of it is glamorous, and it is the most reliable way we know to stop feeling helpless about the news.
Both keep the schools open. One is free.