Empowering rural communities across India
Arunya Foundation runs integrated rural development programmes in agriculture, education, skill development and health care, working alongside the people they are meant for.
Seven areas of work for stronger villages
Our programmes cover the needs of rural life together, from the field to the classroom to the clinic.
We work through a participatory approach, in the belief that nonpartisan effort is needed to address the critical issues shaping society.
Programmes in the field
In pictures
Work with us
Partner on a programme, volunteer at an event, or invite us to your village or school.
Arunya Foundation
A registered foundation based in Mangaluru, working towards the empowerment of the rural populace across India.
Arunya Foundation was established with a mission of working towards the empowerment of rural people across India.
We work through a participatory approach and integrated rural development programmes, in the belief that nonpartisan effort is needed to address the critical issues shaping society.
Our work spans agriculture, rural development, skill development, education, research and development, art and literature, and health care.
- Based in
- Mangaluru, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka
- Working since
- 2018
- Registered as
- Arunya Foundation (R.)
- Programmes
- Bhattada Thene, Krishi Sangama
Where we work
Our programmes
Workshops, fairs and outreach that connect farmers, students and the wider agricultural community.
Bhattada Thene ಭತ್ತದ ತೆನೆ
A seed-to-seed workshop series that gives school children one full monsoon season of hands-on paddy farming.
Growing the next generation of farmers
Bhattada Thene is a unique seed-to-seed workshop series that brings young agriculturists into the picture. It gives school children aged 10 to 15 practical farming experience.
Students monitor sowing, harvesting and grain separation themselves as each stage happens, which trains them through one complete monsoon agriculture practice.
What students do
- SowingStudents sow the paddy at the start of the monsoon.
- MonitoringThey watch the crop grow, in real time.
- HarvestingThey harvest and thresh the paddy by hand.
- Grain separationThey clean and keep seed for the next sowing.
From the workshops
Krishi Sangama ಕೃಷಿ ಸಂಗಮ
A gathering for everyone in the farming sector, with a special focus on growers and farmers.
Knowledge sharing for modern farming
Krishi Sangama reaches out to all stakeholders in the farming sector, with a special focus on growers and farmers.
It aims to share knowledge, inspire, and connect agricultural stakeholders towards adopting and supporting the modernisation and industrialisation of farming.
The event brings together talks from farmers and experts on stage with an exhibition of farm machinery, tools, seeds and inputs.
Krishi Sangama 2018
Photos from the field
Moments from Bhattada Thene workshops and Krishi Sangama 2018.
Get in touch
Write to us, call, or visit our office in Mangaluru.
#1N-6-453/16, 1st Floor
Above M/s Super Automobiles
NH-66, Daddalkad, Ashok Nagar Post
Mangaluru – 575006 Open in Google Maps
