Earth Focus
Shaping a Kanha landscape where people and nature thrive
Our Pillars of Impact
Communities | Education | Livelihoods
Communities
We take a community-centric approach to education and livelihoods with Baiga and Gond families in Kanha
Education
Building a cradle to career model for forest dwelling youth in their own context
Sustainable Livelihoods
Developing regenerative agriculture and non-farm livelihoods in sync with Kanha’s ecology
Impact
2Blocks
4Gram Panchayats
14Villages / Tolas
1000+Households
5000+Individuals
14Aanganwadi
12Primary Schools
500Aanganwadi Children
504Primary School Children
Our Vision
A Kanha landscape where people and nature thrive.
Our Mission
Empowering forest dwelling communities through contextual education and nature-based livelihoods.
Why Kanha
Tribal families around Kanha have compromised levels of education and nutrition and few paths for upward mobility. But there is immense potential to leverage these communities’ symbiotic relationship with nature to improve people’s wellbeing and enhance the local ecosystem.
What We Do
Our community-centric approach activates the knowledge and skills of forest dwelling families. The Earth Focus team primarily acts as the backbone or convening platform, driving the vision, strategy, operations and innovative work across education and livelihoods. We partner with implementation experts for our core programs and are directly involved in our pilot initiatives.
EDUCATION
LIVELIHOODS
Our Projects
Education
We build foundational learning, deliver contextual modules, and bolster teachers’ capacity towards quality education outcomes in 14 villages.
Livelihoods
We leverage nature-based solutions to improve household income and nutrition levels.
About Kanha
Kanha is not just a place, it is a feeling. A resplendent sal forest and tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh in central India, Kanha has been home to forest dwelling communities for generations. The protected area is also closely associated with wildlife conservation success stories such as that of the Barasingha or hard ground swamp deer.
Blog
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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. partners with organizations to ensure that its CSR funds reach the end recipients and catalyse the impact needed.
Provides consulting service and technology that enables Geoscientist/Earth Science professionals to excel in their business thereby creating knowledge and wealth for the stake holders.
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.
Precision Drawell is a leading manufacturer of specialty steel wire and wire products. As a responsible corporate citizen, we support a host of community welfare programs, with special focus on education and health.
Sandeep Mall is a wildlife photographer, fitness and lifestyle coach and a successful entrepreneur. Through his fitness campaigns, he raises funds to help Earth Focus 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.
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.
Netwrok 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
The DeFries Bajpai Foundation supports small research grants focused on sustainable development in the Central Highlands of India and has given a grant to Earth Focus for its work on nature based livelihoods.