Jeevika Trust

01/03/2026

📣 “Give Me a Pad – End Stigma”

A campaign which is transforming menstrual health awareness among adolescent girls in Daspalla Tribal Block under the MHM Education Programme. This collaboration, led by our partners at Jeevanrekha Parishad (JRP), works locally to produce SNAPs sanitary napkins branded as Jeevan Sathi, ensuring safe, affordable, and hygienic menstrual care. The campaign focuses on breaking taboos, promoting dignity, reducing school absenteeism, and preventing RTIs. Through education sessions, peer discussions, and pad distribution, girls are gaining confidence to speak openly about periods. Together, we are empowering tribal adolescents with knowledge, health, and dignity — because menstruation is natural, not shameful.

18/01/2026

Seven years ago, Jeevika Trust, alongside our partners Jeevan rekha Parishad (JRP), began our work with communities in the Chilika region, improving livelihoods through women-focused projects. This women-led scheme supported a self-help group to find an alternative livelihood, adopting crab fattening and marketing as an alternative livelihood.

With declining fishery resources due to overfishing and biodiversity loss, these women faced poverty and exclusion. Through focused training and handholding, they learned crab fattening techniques and market linkages.

Today, they successfully cultivate high-quality Chilika green crabs, earning stable incomes—a powerful story of resilience, sustainable livelihoods, and women-led change. 🌱🦀

01/01/2026

🎉 A Happy New Year to everyone from the team at Jeevika Trust! We look forward to 2026 as a year of new possibilities and further progress towards improved rural livelihoods in India. We hope all those celebrating have had a joyous festive period.

03/11/2025

💻Have you checked out our latest newsletter?

Jeevika's autumn newsletter is out, filled with updates on our exciting projects supporting women farmers and tribal communities in India. It's been a busy few months!

🍄‍🟫Mushroom cultivation trials are underway in Tamil Nadu with 70% of farmers already turning a profit.

💧Our Water Advocacy Project is empowering villagers, helping women and young people integrate into the decision-making process.

💰Low-cost strategies are improving soil health and diversifying income streams to secure future livelihoods.

🧼Handpumps and soak pits are providing simple and sustainable solutions for hygiene and health in rural communities.

Check out our newsletter to learn more: www.jeevika.org.uk

26/10/2025

🧠To farm Smart, farmers need sustainable and climate resilient solutions. Supporting the poorest farmers with low-cost strategies which improve soil health and diversify income streams is vital to secure livelihoods into the future.

How are Jeevika supporting smart farming?

🌳Agroforestry projects
This year, 200 fruit trees were planted in Daspalla, supporting local soil health and offering a new income stream, benefitting 50 local farmers.

🪱Improving soil health
Farmers in Gunduribari were trained in vermicomposting, reducing reliance on chemical fertilisers and supporting low-cost organic farming.

🌱Crop diversification
Over 50 women farmers have taken part in a trial project, cultivating grafted brinjals to increase crop yields and quality.

Want to learn more? Read the full blog post on our website www.jeevika.org.uk

To farm Smart, farmers need sustainable and climate resilient solutions. Supporting the poorest farmers with low-cost strategies which improve soil health and diversify income streams is vital to secure livelihoods into the future.At Jeevika Trust, we are always looking to support farmers in ways th...

21/10/2025

✨️A Happy Diwali to everyone who celebrates from the team at Jeevika Trust. We hope the festival of lights brings joy and prosperity to all!

Sharing a beautiful photo from a tribal village in Daspalla. During the celebrations, women head to the river to pray to the Water God for rain.

11/10/2025

🔧 As part of our Water Advocacy Project, soak pits are under construction, installed beside handpumps in rural villages around Daspalla. Soak pits collect water, allowing it to slowly seep back into the soil.

How does this benefit the villagers?

🧼Prevents water stagnation, keeping village environments clean

🌧Reduces stress on drainage systems and risk of flooding

💧Recharges groundwater

This cost-effective solution can help improve sustainable water management and help keep rural communities healthy.

21/09/2025

🎉Looking forward to plentiful harvests

This month, farmers from our Smart Farm Project in Daspalla celebrated the New Harvest Festival. As a community, they joined together to worship their farms and the soil, making offerings such as food and flowers. This beautiful celebration highlights the deep connection between agriculture and culture in rural India. Let's join them in celebrating this crop and looking forward to many more successful harvests ahead!

15/09/2025

Brinjals, also known as aubergines or eggplants, are a staple of the cuisine in Odisha. They grow well in the region, and are important to both the nutrition and income of rural farming communities.

As part of our Smart Farm Project, we have focused efforts on improving brinjal harvests, using a grafting technique. Grafting involves joining a desirable fruiting plant with a healthy, disease-resistant rootstock.

What are the benefits of grafted plants?

📅Longer fruiting periods

🌱Larger yields

🍽More reliable crops

💪Enhanced resistance to disease

Want to learn more about our Smart Farm Project? Visit our website: www.jeevika.org.uk

29/08/2025

🌱 Organic farming

As part of our Smart Farm Project, we are working alongside our partners Jeevan Rekha Parishad - JRP to support the transition to organic farming in rural and tribal communities. Currently, women farmers are building nurseries to support organic cabbage cultivation. Organic farming benefits farmers and the environment by:

🍽Producing safer, nutrient-rich food

💰Increasing profits as products can be sold at higher prices

🧪Reducing costs for expensive pesticides and fertilisers

🪱Improving long-term soil health

🦋Benefiting local biodiversity

Want to learn more? Head to our website: https://www.jeevika.org.uk/

09/08/2025

Support the Women Who Are Feeding India—and Rewriting Their Future 🍄🌾

If you want to back something that actually works, here’s where to look.

At Jeevika Trust, we work with some of India’s most marginalised women farmers—those with the least land, the fewest resources, and often, no reliable income.

This summer, our work is scaling in two powerful directions:

🔸 In Tamil Nadu, we’ve launched a promising new mushroom cultivation initiative with our partner SCAD, led by our project lead Vipan. Early signs? Strong. The goal is high returns from low-input crops, with women at the centre of the value chain.

🔸 In Odisha, our 3-year water advocacy programme (with JRP and backed by the Waterloo Foundation) is laying foundations in tribal villages to address one of the biggest threats to farming: water insecurity.

Across both regions, women farmers are also turning low-cost greenhouses into profit engines—growing higher-value organic crops, accessing local markets, and building real independence.

👉 These aren’t one-off handouts. They’re long-term investments in income, dignity, and food security.

But here’s the thing: none of this happens without donor support. Every pound you give goes directly to helping women like Selvi, who turned a small patch of land into a livelihood for her family.

If you believe in smart, grassroots solutions that create real change, support us here:

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Your donation helps fund training, tools, seeds, and the kind of technical support that transforms potential into results.