Karunar Kheti Trust

14/02/2026

We just finished completing our 2024-25 Annual Report in Assamese (it was in October published in English).
Read at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1voLhcTG7Zlg9w3CXv--RikzdImWon5KO/view

28/01/2026

A beautiful reference film for the work of our community & its school, Selenghat Valley School, has been created by Carly Althoff, a documentary photographer and former humanitarian architect exploring how people adapt, build, and thrive in the face of global change (carlyalthoff.com/mystory).

With heartfelt gratitude for Carly's efforts, we share this film with you.

For more on this film, please visit carlyalthoff.com/india-school-project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1AJZpKT74Y

This school in the middle of a tea plantation in Assam, India, puts students' happiness first. The local people of this rural village have taken the initiati...

06/10/2025

On behalf of Karunar Kheti Trust (KKT), we are delighted to bring to you our 2024-25 Annual Report & Journal.

Read & download PDF: https://tinyurl.com/KKT-AR-2024-25
Read in browser: https://tinyurl.com/KKT-AR-2024-25-Flipbook

This offering provides a consolidated summary of Key Highlights from the year accross our work in Education, Livelihoods & Organisational Development along with a special essay titled "Curiosity, Freedom, Love, and Education" by our Founder delving deeper into our philosophy and vision.

We hope that you will enjoy reading it and look forward to your feedback on our work.

15/07/2025

On behalf of Karunar Kheti Trust (KKT), we are delighted to bring to you our Quarterly Newsletter for January - March 2025 (the 4th quarter of 2024-25)

Read & download PDF: https://tinyurl.com/KKT-Q4-Newsletter
Read in browser: https://tinyurl.com/KKT-Q4-Newsletter-Flipbook

In this issue we share such tips~depths of cultivating conditions that allow curiosity, compassion, creativity, confidence & problem-solving to flourish spanning education to livelihood development.

14/04/2025

On behalf of Karunar Kheti Trust (KKT), we are delighted to bring to you our Quarterly Newsletter for October - December 2024 (the 3rd quarter of 2024-25)

Read & download PDF: https://tinyurl.com/KKT-Q3-Newsletter
Read in browser: https://tinyurl.com/KKT-Q3-Newsletter-Flipbook

In this issue:
Cultivating Freedom to begin Education with Curiosity
Entrepreneurial Self-Sufficiency of our First Trainee Farmer
Shanti Ghar & Emergence of Aesthetics of Peace
Glimpses of Freedom with Matt
Key Highlights & Financial Summary
And more

19/03/2025

"Curiosity, Freedom, Love, and Education" (page 45), an article that our Founder Arjun Trivedi contributed to Wipro Foundation's latest issue of Samuhik Pahal focusing on the inextricable wellbeing of individuals & organizations.

The writing shares practical insights from the churn of our 5 foundational years to, above all, cultivate wholesome processes for being lovingly compassionate (the namesake of Karunar Kheti Trust), so that not just our children, but we all can learn & live with freedom & love, for ourselves, for our communities, and, now, more than ever, the wellbeing of wholesome life on earth.

Read Here:https://www.wiprofoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Samuhik-Pahal-4.12.pdf

18/02/2025

On behalf of Karunar Kheti Trust (KKT), we are delighted to bring to you our 2023-24 Annual Report & Journal.

Read & download PDF: https://tinyurl.com/KKT-AR-2023-24
Read in browser: https://tinyurl.com/KKT-AR-2023-24-Flipbook

This issue maybe late, but only to take the time to arrive in the right condition because it felt paramount that we communicate deeply our efforts of responding with freedom to the education crisis, becoming a wholesome organization in a fragmented landscape, and our emergent principles of action that are guiding us so.

As KKT turned 5 years in 2024, there cannot be a perfect time to publish this report & journal documenting our journey over these years in building an empowering community institution.

We hope that you will enjoy reading it and look forward to your feedback on our work.

11/12/2024

On behalf of Karunar Kheti Trust (KKT), we are delighted to bring to you our second Quarterly Newsletter of our organisation.

Read & download PDF: https://tinyurl.com/KKT-July-Sept-Newsletter-2024
Read in browser: https://tinyurl.com/KKT-Q2-2024-Newsletter

It has been deeply encouraging to receive the warm responses and feedback on our first newsletter, and we hope this offering further contributes to understanding our work around the processes of building a quality school, livelihood development, a youth-led initiative, and much more.

For the past more than 5 years, we have been working patiently & persistently towards our vision to build an empowering community institution at the heart of the rural landscape in a tea plantation from Assam. We feel deeply content that we are at a stage where we can reflect & come out into the world by sharing our work with you.

01/12/2024

**Shanti Ghar & Emergence of Aesthetics of Peace & Confidence**

It gives us immense gratitude to note that we have been able to make significant strides along our vision for a Shanti Ghar (a House of Peace for our community) by stirring next-level collaboration between local artisans, construction workers, modern professional architects, and the general community, and where it feels particularly powerful to behold the emergence of what appears to be a seedling for a culture of confidence to be artfully skillful with local resources, which, to say the least, have become prosaic to even not aspirational — for example, arched beams made out of bamboo are now emergent, which we take to be signs of a renewed confidence with local materials combined with joyful creativity of the heart and the peaceful skill of the hand!

Coalescing our community participatory ethos with traditional & modern sustainable architecture, 12 local artisans went on an exposure visit to Guwahati to learn about scientifically advanced bamboo construction techniques in September, following which a 2-day workshop was organised in our school premises on the 9th- 10th November, where 14 local artisans/construction workers gained hand-on experience on such techniques of working with bamboo.

Both the exposure visit and workshop were curated in collaboration by our School’s Manager, Deba Nayak, and our architect Uday Ranjan Goswami, and facilitated by Piyush Sharma, Structural Engineer and Co-Founder Ekarth Studio.

During the workshop the participants learnt to deploy a combination of their new learnings on their traditional knowledge base to design and construct an Entrance Canopy Structure for our school, for example, a new treatment of bamboo for durability, identification of different types of bamboo suited for construction, their new joineries, and new techniques for fixing bamboo with concrete. Additionally, in the workshop, participants discussed the upcoming construction of Shanti Ghar, specifically focusing on the structural elements of the space, such as the ground and the circular top structure.

These experiences have set us on a firmer footing as we start preparing for the construction of Shanti Ghar in the coming months and could go a long way in boosting the confidence of the people to work with bamboo as a feasible modern sustainable construction material in the balance of its traditional & emergent modern knowledge.

We are hopeful that Shanti Ghar will be aesthetically as well as functionally beautiful and structurally strong for the times to come.

21/09/2024

We are grateful to Wipro Foundation and in particular Aastha Maggu for ~
~ listening so deeply to our experiences of building an empowering rural-community organization and, as such,
~ of our challenges~opportunities in building from the ground-up & based on first-principles,
~ its structures & processes of Governance based above all on truth & its great discipline,
~ and reflect it back as a deep reference for our hard work in a beautiful article titled "The Importance of Community, Participation, and Trust" (page 28).

I also feel grateful in no lesser degree for such work at Karunar Kheti Trust to be featured along with other such organizations like Atma - An Accelerator for NGOs, Dasra, Samerth Trust, Gram Vikas, and Makkala Jagriti.

And, last but in the least, we want to acknowledge the signficant support of:
* Piyush Saurabh Sharma & Dhwani Foundation in empowering us with modern Governance's compliant structures & processes
* Azim Premji Foundation & Roots to Branches Foundation for their grants to support such deep work

This issue of Samuhik Pahal focuses on governance, and how the adoption of good governance practices can help CSOs fulfil their objectives effectively. Its pieces shed light on some relatively neglected aspects of this vital theme. The issue carries reflections and opinions from multiple vantage points.

Read now: https://lnkd.in/g5MEdd_Y