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S M Sehgal Foundation engages in strategic partnerships to build strong synergies and collaborate with organizations that help make a greater impact in the lives of rural people. S M Sehgal Foundation continues to strengthen its knowledge base and expand village interventions by working with government, nonprofits, academia, and corporate organizations.

We thank all individual donors for their contributions toward various rural development projects. Every partner ensures value.

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Sehgal Foundation in the US, is a private 501(c)(3) charitable organization based in Des Moines, Iowa, that collaborates with philanthropic partners to support rural development work by S M Sehgal Foundation in India.

Partners

Krishi Jyoti
This project aims to enhance farm productivity and empower farmers in the community to lead more secure and prosperous lives. A key component is promoting water conservation in villages and supporting the development of infrastructures in villages to conserve water. The project also promotes education of children in these remote villages by offering them a healthy learning environment which entails, at a minimum, the provision of potable water, decent sanitary facilities, and a safe school building.
Jaldhara
This project promotes integrated water management for improved livelihoods and food security. The project supports villagers in the building of rainwater harvesting structures to collect, store, and recharge groundwater, and creates infrastructures to manage household wastewater. The project trains farmers on the application of scientific knowledge in farming practices and water-efficient irrigation techniques in agriculture.
Project Vriddhi
Project Vriddhi adopts an integrated approach focusing on various aspects of rural well-being. This includes conserving and harvesting water, improving farm livelihoods, improving delivery of public services, particularly related to education, nutrition, health and sanitation, among others.
Integrated Village Development
Integrated Village Development project titled Project Parivartan aims to improve the lives of rural communities in areas of natural resource management, clean energy, health and hygiene, life skills, agriculture livelihoods, and rural infrastructure. The project goal is to create positive change in the lives of villagers including adolescent girls, young women and mothers, school-going and dropout children, farmers, and the elderly with across four states.
Gram Uday and Krishi Samriddhi
These projects aim to empower rural citizens to play a leading role in the communities and build knowledge and skills of farmers to make agriculture and allied activities more remunerative. They provide information about government programs and services through a toll-free number, builds capacities of villagers to engage effectively with panchayats (village councils) and village-level institutions for improving access to government programs. Farmers are given exposure on agriculture management practices, use of new technology, and are encouraged to adopt allied agricultural activities such as horticulture and livestock development.
Water Conservation Projects
Sehgal Foundation has been working with DCB Bank since 2017 to implement water conservation projects for achieving SDG goal 6 and 17. So far, the partnership has benefitted over 10,000 villagers across 4 states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, harvesting over 300 million (30 crores) litres of water.

Additionally, Project Jal Vikas in Madhya Pradesh will create a water storage capacity of 32 million litres benefiting the community and livestock, and achieving water security in the project villages.
Gram Uthhan and Gram Utkarsh
The project engages with farmers in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, to develop water resilience within the community through an integrated approach which includes construction of water harvesting structures for surface water storage and ground water recharge. Additionally, it aims to mainstream water-efficient agriculture through promotion of micro-sprinkler systems. The project also promotes digital literacy and life skills education for youth, and capacity building of community members towards their village’s growth and development.
Guru Krupa Foundation Inc
Since 2007, the Guru Krupa Foundation (GKF), a private foundation based in NY, has been funding a broad range of social, educational and religious/cultural charitable causes across India and the US. The foundation’s holistic approach to charitable giving is based on the premise that equal opportunity and access must be provided to every individual; the pursuit of knowledge must never end and the acquisition of cultural knowledge must be preserved.
Project Water for Future
Project Water for Future aims at installations of rainwater harvesting systems on the rooftops of government schools in Nuh and Gurugram districts to improve access to drinking water for children and provide storage capacity such that the schools’ annual water needs will be catered to.
Pragati
Project Pragati aims to transform village Chuni Kalan [located in Bassi Pathana block, Fatehgarh Sahib district, Punjab] into an exemplary village. The project builds capacities of rural communities to lead their own development. It adopts an integrated approach, focusing on aspects crucial to the wellbeing of rural lives, including development of rain water harvesting structures to conserve rain water and recharge the groundwater table, development of soak wells for maintaining sanitation, waste water disposal, adopting better farm practices to tackle problems associated with stubble burning; among others.
Water Conservation
Project Water Conservation in Shahjahanpur aims at conserving rainfall to recharge the groundwater table in villages of Shahjahanpur in Alwar district, Rajasthan. The project also promotes water saving irrigation practices and capacity building of community members to participate actively in their village’s development.
Wal-Mart Foundation
The aim of the Project Bolstering Farmer Producer Organizations is to foster a more secure, prosperous, and dignified agriculture sector by creating opportunities for smallholder farmers, especially women producers through the promotion of sustainable and effective FPOs in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. In the long term, our vision is for FPOs to be able to take on the initiatives under the grant supported by Wal-Mart Foundation and ultimately provide value-added services to their members.
Women Empowerment in Local Development
S M Sehgal Foundation together with Crossing Borders is implementing a project supported by CISU (Danish Civil Society in Development), on women empowerment in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. The project aims to create women leaders at the grassroots level through Women Leadership Schools.

These schools will bridge the information deficit women face and improve access of rural women to their government guaranteed rights and entitlement programs, both democratically and financially. In addition, the project will empower elected women leaders to facilitate and monitor compliance of these programs in their villages.
CAWST
CAWST is a Canadian non-profit organization that provides education, training and technical consulting in water, sanitation and hygiene to organizations that serve the poor in developing countries. CAWST is partnering with Sehgal Foundation as Knowledge Partner in the area of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
Sustainable Guar project
Ashland Specialty Ingredients G.P. and S M Sehgal Foundation are solving complex challenges in India and have begun a sustainable farming and education project aimed at the improved productivity of guar and mustard crops through the promotion of better agronomic practices. The project is being implemented in 38 villages of Sri Ganganagar and Bikaner districts in Rajasthan. The objective of the project is to improve sustainable agricultural practices as well as community development by incorporating awareness sessions on health and nutrition for women and children, in order to enhance the quality of life of the farming community.
Project Jal Kushal
The project aims to enhance rainwater harvesting capacity in Thanagazi block of Alwar, Rajasthan. The focus is on creating groundwater recharge and surface water storage structures, thereby increasing water availability for agricultural, livestock, and household needs, benefiting local farmers and communities.
Project Jal Kushal & School Improvement Program
Project Jal Kushal with EY Foundation aims to augment groundwater resources through check dams and ponds in Thanagazi block of Alwar district, Rajasthan. Additionally, the School Improvement Program aims to transform government schools by creating a conducive learning environment for schoolchildren, focusing on the implementation of WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) facilities and digital classrooms in Nuh, Haryana.

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