Our Projects
Six programmes, one district, no theatre.
Each line of work is designed to leave something a household can still use a year later: a skill, a saving, a school habit, a cleaner bill. The map is the country.
Education & literacy
Literacy is treated as a public good, not a privilege reserved for those who can already pay for it.
Too many children in cities, towns and villages across the country are the first in their family to sit a full school day. The Foundation supports that crossing — with reading rooms, after-school coaching, and material help to government and community schools that are already open.
We also work with adults. A mother who can read a health card, a ration slip or a bank passbook changes the household’s bargaining power. Adult literacy classes are run in community halls, with women facilitators wherever possible.
Vocational and professional skill classes sit beside the books: so that education is not only a certificate, but a path into work.
What we do
Reading rooms and first-generation learner support
Aid to existing schools and training institutes
Adult literacy, with a focus on women
Vocational classes linked to local livelihoods
Who it reaches. Children, first-generation learners, and adults across the country who were left outside the classroom.
Health & family welfare
Most families we meet do not lack courage. They lack a clear, nearby path to preventive care.
The Foundation runs awareness camps and screening days with local health workers — blood pressure, anaemia, maternal nutrition, childhood immunisation follow-up. The aim is not a one-day crowd. It is a habit of checking before a crisis arrives.
Family welfare, for us, includes mental load. Dr Jagannath Patnaik’s teaching of positive living is used here as a practical discipline: sleep, breath, attention, and a calmer household — not as a substitute for medicine.
We work alongside existing PHCs and ASHA networks rather than competing with them. Where a camp finds a case that needs a hospital, we help the family get there.
What we do
Preventive screening and nutrition awareness
Maternal and family wellbeing sessions
Coordination with local public-health workers
Referral support when a camp is not enough
Who it reaches. Women, children and older people in villages and peri-urban settlements across the country.
Youth skills & sport
A district full of young people is not automatically a district full of livelihoods.
We run mentoring and skill workshops across the country — trades, digital basics, and the civic habits that keep a first job: showing up, keeping accounts, speaking in a room.
Leva Sports Club Federation sits inside this programme. It is a platform for talented sportspersons from cities, villages and the ground between — coaching, competition, and the direction a talent actually needs. Sport here is character work as much as medals.
Youth work is not a camp with a certificate at the end. We prefer small cohorts, follow-up, and introductions to employers, coaches and institutes that already exist.
What we do
Livelihood and digital skill workshops
Mentoring for first-generation job seekers
Leva Sports Club Federation — coaching and competition
Civic purpose and character education
Who it reaches. Young people across the country who need a skill, a coach, or a first professional corridor.
Women’s livelihoods
A household energy saving that a woman cannot control is not a livelihood. It is a rumour.
Women’s development in our work is not a side event. SHG convergence, solar awareness and livelihood-linked training are led by and for women in the community.
We support dignity, income and leadership for women and girls; protection of the girl child; and practical help that keeps families intact without keeping anyone small.
Where a woman already runs a group, a stall or a farm, we do not replace her. We add skill, market access, and a cleaner energy bill so the surplus stays in her hands.
What we do
SHG support and livelihood-linked training
Solar and clean-cooking awareness led by women
Leadership practice inside neighbourhood groups
Protection and schooling support for the girl child
Who it reaches. Women and girls in BPL, tribal and peri-urban households across the country.
Environment & land
Climate work that cannot be walked to from a village is not climate work we will sign.
The Foundation’s environmental programme is deliberately local: tree lines, water sense, and soil care on the ground people already use — in communities across the country.
We run community planting days, awareness on waste and water, and household energy reform — because a solar roof is also an environmental act, not only an economic one.
The Foundation’s climate work is local first. A strategic partnership with UNAccc will enhance that objective — it does not replace community implementation.
What we do
Community greening and sapling care
Water and soil awareness at habitation level
Household energy as climate practice
Alignment with SDG and clean-energy partners
Who it reaches. Rural and peri-urban habitations nationwide, and tribal blocks as the solar programme expands.
Solar housing & clean energy
Traditional welfare hands over assistance. This model helps a family permanently reduce a recurring bill.
Electricity, LPG and cooking fuel are not small lines in a poor household. They are the monthly leak. Jagannath Foundation’s energy work is a household-asset philosophy: rooftop solar, cleaner cooking, and women at the centre of the training, so a recurring bill becomes a saving.
The sequence is the Foundation’s own: identify households, assess the energy load, solarise where it is viable, cut LPG dependence with clean cooking, and put women at the centre. The saving is then available for school, food and livelihood — not for the next cylinder.
India’s PVTG challenge is large and geographically complex. Odisha alone has 13 particularly vulnerable tribal groups — the highest of any Indian state — spread across 20 Micro Project Agencies in 14 districts. Isolated camps will not meet that scale. An integrated household model might. A strategic partnership with UNAccc will enhance this objective; it does not substitute for it.
What we do
Rooftop solar and energy-efficiency retrofits for BPL, tribal and PVTG households
Clean cooking to reduce LPG and conventional fuel dependence
Women-led awareness and SHG convergence
Pilot across states, then district and national replication with government partners
Who it reaches. Low-income, tribal and PVTG households first; then a wider rollout across the country with partners.
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Health & Family Welfare
Health camps, nutrition awareness, preventive care and family wellbeing. The work joins modern public health with the Foundation’s teaching of a calm mind and a disciplined body.
13 PVTGs, 14 districts, 54 blocks
Ministry of Tribal Affairs PM-JANMAN data identifies 1,759 PVTG habitations, 72,988 PVTG households and over 3.12 lakh PVTG persons across Odisha — the largest PVTG population base of any Indian state.
39% of Odisha's rural poor are tribal
Though tribal communities make up roughly a quarter of the rural population, they account for 39% of the rural poor — with an estimated 67% of rural tribal people living in poverty, and over half of the poorest tribal households dependent on wage labour.