The One Guntha Project

34-year-old Meena (name changed for privacy) is an Adivasi of Arewada, Gadchiroli. As an agricultural labourer, for a full day’s labour, she earns INR 100. Meena raises two children and gives her best to educate them for a life of better opportunity.

Millions of rural Indians—especially Adivasi women—live on less than INR 100 a day, often with multiple dependents to care for. With little to no economic safety net, Adivasi women farmers form a majority of this population, facing chronic financial insecurity.

For a woman like Meena, even a modest increase in daily income can significantly improve her quality of life—through better nutrition, access to healthcare, and the ability to invest in her children’s education and future.

Like Meena, women in her community are skilled cultivators, livestock rearers, and caretakers of sustainable food systems. They balance hard labour with full responsibility for their households—quietly powering both their homes and local economies.

All they need is a small push to turn their skills into a livelihood. The entrepreneurial nature of Adivasi women must be supported so that they can find livelihood opportunities and economic sustainability through their core history with cultivation.

Support the One Guntha Project and help Adivasi women farmers build dignified, self-reliant livelihoods—One Guntha at a time.

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Cultivating Dignity, One Guntha at a Time

Our project helps Adivasi women turn ancestral knowledge into resilient, circular livelihoods—rooted in dignity, self-reliance, and the land they call home.

For just INR 3,500, an Adivasi woman farmer receives a kit that includes the following:

• heirloom seeds,
• indigenous vegetable and grain saplings,
• Chicks, chicken feed, training, and
• ongoing mentorship;

Basically, everything she needs to start a livelihood rooted in her own skills and control.

We provide the women farmers with Starter Kits and training in:

• Improved Kitchen Gardens,
• Vermi-Compost, and
• Backyard Poultry

INR 35,000 can support 10 women in building food-secure, self-reliant futures.

✨ This isn’t charity. It’s a quiet revolution—led by Adivasi women, one guntha at a time.

🚀 We’re preparing to raise INR 35 lakhs to support 1,000 women farmers.

💥 We are raising money, and building power at the grassroots. Are you with us?

Your early support can rewrite the future for women who’ve always done more with less.

Because when rural women rise, entire communities flourish.

Project Impact

It is envisaged that as a cumulative, each woman farmer will earn an income of INR 48,430 per year through the implementation of the One Guntha Project. 

About Us:

Kherwadi Social Welfare Association (KSWA) is an NGO founded in 1928. Registered as both a Trust and Society under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950, and Societies Registration Act, 1860, KSWA’s flagship movement, Yuva Parivartan (YP), was established in 1998 and was formally launched by the then President APJ Abdul Kalam in 2003.

KSWA aims to provide India’s underprivileged youth with a second chance in life, and to empower women.

KSWA’s One Guntha Project aims at empowering tribal women like Meena in Gadchiroli to strengthen their livelihood through indigenous and sustainable livelihood practices. Under the One Guntha Project, KSWA works with women from rural and tribal communities to support them in enhancing their household spaces for livelihood generation through agriculture, animal husbandry and circular economy-building.

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