Around 70% of India’s population resides in the country’s villages, which because of poor social services and infrastructure, have failed and are continuing to fail in competing with their urban counterparts. The establishment and working of over 3,00,000 NGO’s, combined with the efforts of the central and the state governments, has not been able to bring about a substantial change at the village
level and in the lives of the villagers; it is primarily the urban areas which are being profited by the efforts of these NGO’s. To reduce the differences between the rural and urban areas, alleviate poverty, and other socio-economic disparities, inclusive and sustainable growth needs to be achieved. This is where Connecting Dreams Foundation has stepped in – it establishes a strong connection between rural and urban India that leverages strengths for equitable social and economic growth, by especially empowering the women and the youth of the villages, where both these groups form a considerable size of the population of the rural areas.
