About Us

Naavi was founded in 2014 with the objective of promoting sustainable practices and technology. We believe that humanity should live in harmony with nature in a symbiotic way. Naavi is a not-for-profit company registered under section 8 of Companies Act. The founders Aarti Shrestha and Ranjan Kumar have decades of hands on experience in the development sector.

We also work with other social enterprises with similar objectives:

  • To replicate our projects in their areas of operation
  • To implement their projects with our project participants/ beneficiaries

Please visit the following page to know more https://naavifoundation.in/partnerships/

Naavi ecosystem approach

Within the identified themes, our projects cut across themes and have multiple benefits. This novel approach has helped us identify themes which are high impact and have multiple benefits – to various stakeholders. Commercial organisations are also part of the eco-system as they help generate surplus (profits) which make the projects sustainable and replicable.

THEMES: Our projects revolve around the core themes of Water, Employability and Rural Development.

  1. Water:

Fresh water availability is going to be reduce over the years. And with increasing population, urbanisation and changing climate this is going to become a crisis. We anticipate that the crisis will set in suddenly and will be acute.

At the same time we have period of excess water – during monsoon months. With the changing weather patterns the rains have become erratic and lead to problem of floods/ excess water. We also have areas of perennial floods – Eastern parts of India.

2. Employability – Skill Development

We have been working in the area of skill development since inception  2015 and have trained more than a 100 electricians, carpenters. We have also started computer training.

  • Rural Areas
  • Semi-urban areas
  • ITES

3. Rural development – Income generation:

  • Fisheries
  • Wasteland reclamation
  • Rural clean Energy
  • Eco tourism/ “Voluntourism”
  • Arts & craft
  • Family Health