Transforming
Creating sustainable models of empowerment for rural communities with a goal to bring prosperity to 100,000 villages in ‘Stranded India’
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Rural India
Changing Attitudes
A rural transformation model that engages communities, local change agents and women’s collectives with realistic goals
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Building Hope
Livelihood,
Generating ideas that work to bring prosperity through transformation in the most fundamental aspects of development
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Education, Healthcare
Learn more about our Community, Governance, Marketplace change model
A grassroots foundation, deeply focused on challenges faced by marginalized communities and in particular of women in the bottom 100,000 villages of India. We bring a deep knowledge and an inventory of working solutions for stranded India and mechanisms for scaling-up those solutions.
How We Work
Samaj - Sarkar - Bazaar
Community
Nothing is possible without community participation and numbers. Sometimes it includes breaking ingrained attitudes and customs, and this behavioural change is slow. Once communities see their lives are better they are more open to change.
Government
Our close contact with communities enables us to provide relevant information that shapes government delivery programmes. This could be in identifying beneficiaries for livelihood, identifying pockets that need skilling or even basic need for infrastructure.
Marketplace
We skill rural communities to improve their output and then connect them to a marketplace for their goods. Our skilling ensures they move from being small farmers to agri-prenuers who can improve output, plan ahead and become key suppliers in the market.
How We Work
Community
Nothing is possible without community participation and numbers. Sometimes it includes breaking ingrained attitudes and customs, and this behavioural change is slow. Once communities see their lives are better they are more open to change.
Government
Our close contact with communities enables us to provide relevant information that shapes government public service delivery programmes. This could be in identifying beneficiaries for livelihood, identifying pockets that need skilling or even basic need for infrastructure.
Marketplace
We skill rural communities to improve their output and then connect them to a marketplace for their goods. Our skilling ensures they move from being small farmers to agri-prenuers who can improve output, plan ahead and become key suppliers in the market.
TRIF Strategy 2025
Developing Solutions for Stranded Rural India and Impacting at Scale
Our leadership team has worked actively in the field for more than two decades. Our ideas for change are based on methods that have been tested and proven to be useful.
If you are interested in engaging with rural communities in India and helping them access better education, healthcare and livelihoods, please write to us at info@trif.in with details on whether you are interested in volunteering or a full time role. Please attach your resume. Because of the high volume of applicants we get TRIF will respond within a month to suitable applicants. Please do not send your resume twice. We will save it in our database.
Why Support Us
Support us because you believe the poorest need an opportunity to climb out of poverty and no one deserves to be trapped in a vicious cycle of hunger, deprivation and inequality.
We initiated the Jhola Pustakalaya during the Covid-19 lockdowns to bring books to children stranded at home. Love for reading is still alive and well.
Neha Kaul
Volunteer, Jaipur
Mata Samiti
Keeping children in school has been a focus of our work in Madhya Pradesh. Forming Mata Samitis to increase parent-school interaction has been an important step towards that.
Sidharth Pande
Volunteer, Jabalpur
Growing Ideas
We organized ‘Kaun Banega Business Leader’ in two villages, inviting business ideas from local people. The focus was on breaking the myths about the pursuit of entrepreneurship.