RAAVI NGO · Jaipur, Rajasthan Donate

गाँव · गरिमा · ग्रोथ

Rural Rajasthan, rewritten by the people who live it.

RAAVI works alongside villages across Rajasthan — from the Aravallis to the Thar — on water, schools, women-led enterprise, and dignified livelihoods. We don't parachute in. We sit on the charpai, listen, and build what the village says it needs.

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42
villages reached
11,800
lives touched
17
women-led SHGs
9
districts in Rajasthan

Our mission

We don't fix villages. We back them.

Rural Rajasthan is not a problem to be solved by outsiders. It is a civilisation already running — with its own systems, leaders, and intelligence. Most of what the development sector calls "intervention" is a stranger walking in with a clipboard.

RAAVI exists to do the opposite. We embed in a village for years, not months. We hand budgets to women's collectives, not contractors. We measure success by what the village keeps running after we leave.

— founded 2024, registered Section 8 NGO, Jaipur

What we do

Five pillars. One village at a time.

Schools that don't close

Foundational literacy and numeracy with local teachers, attendance built around the agricultural calendar, and after-school baithaks for first-generation learners.

Water that lasts the summer

Reviving traditional johads, building rooftop rainwater systems, and training village water committees so the well doesn't run dry by April.

Women-led livelihoods

Self-help groups around block-printing, bandhej, dairy, and millet farming — with bank linkage, fair-trade buyers, and budgets the women actually control.

Primary health on the doorstep

ASHA-partnered maternal-health camps, anaemia screening for adolescent girls, and tele-consults with Jaipur doctors over a single shared device.

Panchayat capacity

Plain-language workshops for elected sarpanches and women panchayat members on schemes, budgets, and how to actually move a file in Jaipur.

Open data for the village

Every rupee, every borewell, every child enrolled — published on a public dashboard the village itself can read and challenge.

Impact, honestly

Numbers a village would recognise.

We publish what worked and what didn't. Pilots that failed get a write-up. So do the ones that scaled.

42villages where we work
11,800people directly served
17women-led SHGs running
3,240children in our learning circles
94%of programs still active 18 months after handover
₹0spent on consultants in 2025

Get involved

Three honest ways to help.

Long-term only

Embed with us

We don't take weekend volunteers. We do take engineers, designers, doctors, and teachers willing to spend 3+ months in a village.

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Stipend covered · Hindi or Marwari helpful, not required

For orgs

Partner with us

CSR partners, government departments, and other NGOs working in Rajasthan — we share data, training material, and (occasionally) bandwidth.

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CSR · government · cross-NGO

Contact

Come find us.

We're a small team. One of us will reply within 48 hours — usually less, unless we're in a village without signal.