Our Projects

The Project Strengthening Community Action for development in North East India is a partnership project with the North East partners under the technical support of CASA and the financial and technical support of Bread for the World. Grassroot as one of its partners is implementing in 20 villages of East Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya since …

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Indigenous communities are carriers of traditional wisdom and our spiritual relationship with nature has helped us recognize and identify plants and herbs of nature to heal diseases such as cold, arthritis, fever, diarrhea and many more. This traditional knowledge of IP has been proven to be providing comfort to basic ailments. Meghalaya is one of …

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As COVID19 pandemic continues to spread across the world, many of the vulnerable communities including women, children, elderly, unemployed youths, daily wages earners and disabled members are faced with food security, loss of jobs and no protective equipment for their safety and security. Grassroot intervened with the aim to reduce the impact of COVID19 through …

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The Behavioural Change in Communication programme is supported by National Health Mission (NHM) and is being executed by Grassroot. Five blocks of Meghalaya; Saipung and Khliehriat, East Jaintia Hills and Mawphlang, Shella Bholanganj and Pynursla, East Khasi Hills are the organisation’s selected areas of intervention. BCC was launched with its objective to change the behavioural …

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NAME OF PROJECT: Strengthening Women’s Voices in Land Resources Governance GENERAL OBJECTIVES: Recognizing and securing Indigenous women’s land and resources rights AREAS OF APPLICATION: WEST KHASI HILLS AND KOHIMA, NAGALAND SUPPORTED BY: AYNI (https://fimi-iiwf.org/ayni-fund/) ABOUT THE PROJECT: The project areas we are looking to work in are areas that are inhabited by the indigenous communities …

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The Integrated farming system, implemented by Grassroot, is a partnering project with Bethany Society and Meghalaya State Skill Development Society (MSSDS). The integrated Farming System (IFS) approach introduces a change in the farming techniques for maximum production in the cropping pattern and takes cares of optimal utilization of resources. A judicious mix of agricultural enterprises …

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Sustainable Livelihood and Income generation for youths is a project initiated by Grassroot Shillong to support youths on skills training on carpentry. This project is supported by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). This is a three months training program for youths and is a part of the objective of Grassroot, that is …

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The project Skills to Succeed, supported by Quest Alliance was implemented by Grassroot from August 14, 2020 to November 21, 2020 after receiving written permissions from the District Authority and the respective Community Heads. The project aimed to imbibe the youth members, aged 16 to 30 years, with skills needed for self-employment and employability skills …

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