Earth Focus

Empowering indigenous communities & encouraging a nature-based economy

WHAT WE DO

Our holistic depth model focuses on education and livelihoods built around landscape restoration in the park’s buffer zone.

We work with forest-dwelling communities to combine indigenous and local knowledge with scientific and technical know-how to build ecological and socio-economic resilience.

Impact In 4 Years

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Villages
20
Anganwadis Schools
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(Acres)
Land Restored
1000
Children
Impacted
6000
Lives
Transformed
0
Saplings
Planted

Support Us

Educate a child

Join us in shaping young minds and building a foundation for contextual education. Your donation isn't just an investment in education; it's an investment in the potential of a child's dreams.

₹500.00

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Education

Educate a child

Personal Info

Donation Total: ₹500.00

Help Us Secure The Sustainability Of Our Work

The founders have built up Earth Focus in the first 3 years largely relying on personal resources. Now that the work is well past pilot stage and is poised to be scaled, we need support. Your support will enable us to work with more cohorts of students and build our livelihoods intervention. When you donate to Earth Focus, you are joining us in our mission to empower forest dwelling communities through holistic development.

₹2,500.00

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Communities

Help Us Secure The Sustainability Of Our Work

Personal Info

Donation Total: ₹2,500.00

Support a Samuday Prerak

We build capacity of the community by hiring and training local youth as Samuday Preraks (Community Mobilisers). Your donation helps us cover their monthly stipend and expenses.

₹11,000.00

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Communities

Support a Samuday Prerak

Personal Info

Donation Total: ₹11,000.00

Support a Shiksha Prerak

We build capacity of the community by hiring and training local youth as Shiksha Preraks (Community Mobilisers). Your donation helps us cover their monthly stipend and expenses.

₹11,000.00

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Education

Support a Shiksha Prerak

Personal Info

Donation Total: ₹11,000.00

Restore an acre of barren land

Your donation helps us restore an acre of degraded land and covers the cost of procurement of saplings & land preparation, protection of land, cost of community mobilisers, cost of irrigation for the land.

₹50,000.00

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Restoration

Restore an acre of barren land

Personal Info

Donation Total: ₹50,000.00

Get Involved To Build a Better Tomorrow

We understand that the challenge ahead of us is vast, and we lean on the support of our community to bring our vision to life.  

From project-specific collaborations to long term relationships, internships, volunteering and investments, we are open to collaborate with interested individuals and organisations.  Come, join us !

Work With Us

Internship
NGOs & Implementation Partners
Volunteers & Researchers

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Earth Focus Featured in 30stades

https://30stades.com/environment/earth-focus-foundation-empowering-kanha-national-parks-tribals-with-farming-education Earth Focus Foundation: Empowering Kanha National Park’s tribal communities with farming, education. Earth Focus Foundation is empowering Gond and Baiga tribal communities which were relocated to the buffer zone…

Meet the Team

Where your funds go

Donor Partners

Excel Controlinkage Pvt. Ltd., Nagpur is a world-class manufacturer of mechanical control systems for mobile equipment. A responsible corporate citizen, Excel Pvt. Ltd. partnered with Earth Focus to support in it's education and restoration interventions.
Datacode provides consulting service and technology that enables Geoscientist/Earth Science professionals to excel in their business thereby creating knowledge and wealth for the stakeholders. Datacode supports Earth Focus in it's restoration intervention.
Precision Drawell is a leading manufacturer of specialty steel wire and wire products. As a responsible corporate citizen, Precision Drawell supports Earth Focus, with special focus on it's education intervention.
Bansuri Foundation’s work is centred around two key areas, Education & Community Development. Over the years, Bansuri has evolved into a foundation that brings a unique blend of developmental and business expertise to the projects, thereby being able to support organisations at an early stage in their journey.  Bansuri Foundation has been helping Earth Focus in the area of early childhood education.
AMA, the pioneer in the field of Airfield Lighting in India, has been involved in aviation since over 6 decades. AMA supports Earth Focus for its capacity building programs for education intervention.
India’s leading coding and marking equipment manufacturer, Control Print supports Earth Focus's education intervention work through its CSR.
EagleBurgmann India Pvt. Ltd. is the market leader in the mechanical seal industry in India, with 50 years of rich experience. They are part of the German Freudenberg and Japanese EKK group. Eagleburgmann supports Earth Focus for its Education intervention work through its CSR.
The BeerBiceps Foundation is a philanthropic organisation dedicated to supporting NGOs that focus on enriching the lives of students, animals, and various other vulnerable communities. Through fundraising, awareness campaigns, and hands-on initiatives, the foundation aims to amplify the impact of these NGOs and create a lasting difference. They support Earth Focus in restoration work.
Nature Safari India believes in Conservation Through Tourism, i.e. to make tourism an alternate economy for the local community dependent on the forests for biomass. Through their safaris, they increase awareness of India’s rich biodiversity, and thus the need to conserve the same.  Nature Safari India helps Earth Focus in restoration work.
Star Circlips and Engineering is one of the leading manufacturers of circlips, retaining rings, washers, shims and formed components, in the world. They support Earth Focus’s restoration interventions.
Featherlite has become synonymous with intelligent, well-designed furniture, desired by consumers, enterprises and corporates across sectors and industries. Featherlite has made it a part of its core values to strive towards sustainable manufacturing and become carbon negative. They support Earth Focus in restoration work.
A world leader in productivity enhancing solutions for bulk conveying, Flexco supports Earth Focus's education intervention work through its CSR.
ATE Group, headed by Anuj Bhagwati, works together in the social sphere with Archana and Amit Chandra, through the ATE Chandra Foundation. The Foundation's core areas of work and implementation are sustainable rural development, rejuvenation of water bodies, natural farming, social sector capacity building, and good urban planning and development. They are currently supporting Earth Focus Foundation's nature-based livelihoods program.
Forbes Foundation is the social initiatives arm of Forbes Marshall. Over the past 40 years, they have strived to build resilience in communities through improved healthcare, access to education, and women empowerment. They work with communities to identify needs, collaborate with organisations and community members to co-design, monitor, and support solutions, and strive to build awareness, perspective and provide access to resources that can catalyse change within the community. Forbes Foundation is providing institutional support to Earth Focus.
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Programmatic Partners

Dell Technologies partners with Earth Focus via their CSR to bridge digital divide. Use of Ed tech in education , computer literacy and youth skilling are areas in which Dell provides active support.
Sandeep Mall is a wildlife photographer, fitness and lifestyle coach and a successful entrepreneur, through his campaigns he builds networks for EarthFocus in its interventions for sustainable livelihoods in the buffer areas of Kanha National Park.
NIIT Foundation (NF) is a not-for-profit education society (NGO). Its mission is to positively impact the underprivileged of the country through educational initiatives and skill development programs. Earth Focus has set up a digital inclusion centre for providing basic digital literacy to tribal youth. NIIT Foundation are our partners who support with course curriculum, teacher training, and final certification to the students who complete the course successfully.
Network for Conserving Central India ( NCCI ) is a network of researchers, NGOs and managers dedicated to conserving biodiversity, improving livelihoods, and fostering sustainable development in the landscapes of the Central Indian Highlands through the application of science. Earth Focus is a member organization and draws upon the science and research of NCCI for its restoration and nature based livelihoods programs.
QUEST is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization working on quality-related issues in the field of early childhood education, elementary education, and teacher education since April 2007.With strong foundations in research and grounding in fieldwork, Quest is our partner for providing inputs to our field team for implementing foundational literacy and numeracy in the classrooms and the development of contextually relevant teaching-learning materials.
Haqdarshak enables every citizen and MSME access to government welfare and financial services, aiming to improve socio-economic conditions and elevate the standard of living of communities by ensuring ‘last-mile’ service delivery of government welfare and financial services. Haqdarshak trains our community mobilisers in community specific schemes which in-turn ensures effective convergence of government schemes with our interventions for communities in the Kanha Landscape.
Evanescence studios was founded by Sara, a wildlife biologist and film-maker who has worked with numerous international networks and brands. The combination of the science education and the filmmaking career inspired him to start this endeavour. Evanescence has been a valuable partner in documenting of EarthFocus’s journey & impact in the form of our first documentary ‘Forgotten People’.
IAHV is an international volunteer-based NGO in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations which along with the Art of living, has touched the lives of people in 155 countries around the world. An international humanitarian NGO, IAHV implements social development programs aimed at increasing global equity, sustainable development initiatives, and social justice for all human beings on the planet.  IAHV is helping Earth Focus in setting up libraries in the schools of Kanha, Madhya Pradesh.
India@75 Foundation taken up by CII is an industry-led multi-stakeholder platform aimed at shaping a country defined by moral, economic, and technological strength. The Foundation has been extensively working towards envisioning an inclusively developed India@100 through dialogue and collaboration to pave the way for a prosperous and equitable future for all, with a focus on digital inclusion and volunteering as its two core pillars. India@75 helps Earth Focus in village outreach and digital literacy programs.
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