Peoples Action For National Integration

People’s Action for National Integration – ‘PANI’ is a social development organization working in underdeveloped regions of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Raja Read moresthan, and Himachal Pradesh in India. It has been active for more than 38 years to create positive and enduring change in the lives of communities living in abject poverty and inequality. PANI works at the grassroots to empower the community with special focus on women, adolescent girls, farmers, and the most vulnerable and marginalized population enabling them to grow and prosper through awareness, learning, and by taking control of their own life situation. It was founded in the year 1986 by a group of Gandhian social activists under the visionary leadership of Paras Bhai – a prominent and devoted Gandhian activist. The Gandhian philosophy of rural reconstruction and nation building by keeping people’s actions in center was the key guiding principle behind the establishment of the organization. PANI was formally registered in 1989 as a not-for-profit entity under Societies Registration Act XXI, 1860. Its objective is to bring positive and sustainable change in lives of communities living in abject poverty and undue inequality. The organization has directly reached out to more than 2.5 million households in the last three decades through various program interventions.