Statistics

Seva Mandir works with 1,300 villages, touching the lives of 500,000 people. Here are just some of the ways it has made a difference:

Seva Mandir runs Youth Resource Centres attracting 50-70 young people daily, and catering to over 3,000 young people per year (45% of them girls)
YRCs offer skills training, access to internships, and training in sexual and reproductive health and gender equality

Seva Mandir has empowered hundreds of women to become community leaders and decision-makers, thus changing traditional gender-normative roles which have dictated women’s place in society
Helped rural women form over 700 Self-Help Groups, reaching more than 10,000 women, giving them access to safe, affordable credit and loan schemes, as well as a forum to discuss and take action on issues affecting them
Helped women become earning members of their families, increasing their ability to engage in income-generating activities, and giving them some level of financial independence

Seva Mandir runs around 150 small village primary schools (bridge schools) in villages where there is no functioning government school; it has provided a quality education to around 40,000 children since the programme began
It runs three residential leaning camps a year for out-of-school children, giving them an accelerated grounding in basic maths and Hindi
Almost half of Seva Mandir’s pupils are girls, hugely encouraging in an area where female literacy is low and traditionally girls have received no education
Seva Mandir is transforming the demand for quality education among families from the most disadvantaged backgrounds, and empowering young people to achieve their best

Seva Mandir runs over 160 day-care centres looking after more than 4,000 children aged 1-5 every year, offering them preschool education and social skills, monitoring them for malnutrition and providing nourishing food every day
This programme allows 25,000 mothers to work without worrying about the safety and wellbeing of their children
It is also helping strengthen over 1,300 government-run childcare centres, thus improving the lives of 60,000 children and their families

In a newly integrated approach to malnutrition, 100 child health workers have provided care 8,000 children under 5 in their homes
Nearly 80,000 women have received advice and support on maternal and child health from Seva Mandir’s trained health workers
9,600 families have been helped to plant kitchen gardens so that they have fresh fruit and vegetables readily available to eat
Community malnutrition camps monitor hundreds of at-risk children and deliver care for those suffering from malnutrition

7,000 families given access to clean and safe drinking water and 1,800 families given access to functioning toilets
Over 90% of families now have access to safe water for consumption
Water-borne disease reduced by 30-60%
Women spend 20-50 fewer minutes a day collecting water (70% decrease)

Developed and afforested 16,350 hectares of land, benefiting 63,000 families
Planted 120 million trees
224% increase in cropping intensity for 13,400 farmers
4 months’ increase in food grain availability for households; 22,000 families now have enhanced food and water security

Over 67,500 men and women now belong to community institutions set up with Seva Mandir’s help
32 federations of community groups have been set up to allow discussions at higher level and ensure a more powerful voice for local people