Projects of the
Integrated Village Development Trust

Our concern is to relieve poverty in the long run, not just in the immediate future. Our funds are best invested in developing skills, and enabling people to solve their own problems. Project development is shared between IVDT, our partner and the community. In this way the work is most likely to be effective. Our projects are designed for sustainability, socially to discourage long-term dependency, and environmentally as well.

MANGRO is a community-based mangrove regeneration project in Kendrapara, Orissa, where we help over fifty villages protect themselves against the consequences of climate change, and to prepare for an uncertain future.

EMCOR is a Community Radio project in the tribal uplands. Over half a million people can listen in their own language, to programmes they help make and which address issues of real concern to them. Many of them listen in groups and are able to work out strategies for addressing their problems.

We fund two projects run by the BALIGA TRUST in Delhi - KALA KUTIR which is an arts education programme, and STEP-UP which remedial support to children who have been out of school, helping to enter mainstream education.