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Dear Friends,

We are delighted to share, Seva Mandir, has been awarded the Elinor Ostrom Award for its exceptional efforts in conserving commons in southern Rajasthan.

The Elinor Ostrom Award, named in honor of the late Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom, aims to acknowledge and promote the work of practitioners and scholars involved in the common’s domain. Ostrom’s work highlighted the value of community trust and collective action, ideas that are now at the heart of Seva Mandir’s work in the conservation and management of forest, waste, and agricultural land in Aravalli tribal communities.

Seva Mandir worked directly with villagers to end encroachment on community lands, facilitating the protection and restoration of 11,000 hectares in 700 villages, while generating 11,000 tons of fodder (enough for 2,888,000 cattle) and removing 3 lakh tons of carbon from the air, all while helping building community relationships through peaceful dialogue.

Receiving the Elinor Ostrom Award serves as a testament to the unwavering commitment and dedication in conserving commons in Rajasthan by Seva Mandir’s grass root workers who are the most defining factor in empowering communities and protecting the environment.

We thank all our donors for believing our work and helping us achieve this milestone.
We do hope that you will once again extend your generous support for our grassroot workers by donating through this link : 
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/empathy-fund/ 

Our best wishes to you, and, again, thank you for supporting our marginalized communities. You are now a part of their lives, too.

Kind Regards 

Ronak Shah

Chief Executive

Links:

• Seva Mandir Website
• Seva Mandir's Facebook Page
• Friends of Seva Mandir Chapter U.S

Dear Friend,

Greetings from Seva Mandir. We hope you and your loved ones are well.

It has been 55 years since Seva Mandir has been running its interventions under various thematic areas. Through GlobalGiving we at Seva Mandir always feel excited to share about our work, the stories of our village communities and the milestones we reach. In the last year, Seva Mandir has been able to:

• Reached over 3,500 out of school rural and tribal children coming from marginalized communities by running Shiksha Kendra’s and education camps to cover the learning gaps and mainstreaming them in schools.
• With an overall outreach of 1 lakh children, we provide lifesaving treatment, nutrition and childcare treatment to combat malnutrition in remote villages which lack government facilities.
• Over 30,000 women coming from severe vulnerabilities participated in Seva Mandir’s Women’s Self-help groups and availed credit and saving facility, further strengthening their social status and livelihood. While 92 women who have faced abuse and distress have been provided shelter home and rehabilitation facility.
• Currently 967 village development institutions created by Seva Mandir are running, with a participation of 85,000 members, working together to solve socio-political barriers to harness the growth of their villages through participatory approach.
• 3.6 lakh sapling have been planted covering 1,400 hectares, while reaching 15,000 small farmer households, as our effort in preserving the common lands, promoting sustainable agriculture and income generation.

All of this and so much more we aim to achieve, only with the encouragement and backing we receive from donors like you.

Today, we are delighted to share, our participation in GlobalGiving’s July Bonus Day 2023 Campaign, where your donations will be matched by GlobalGiving.  The campaign will begin on July 12, 2023, at 09:00:00 EDT and will end when matching funds run out, or on July 12, 2023, at 23:59:00 EDT, whichever comes first.

• Donations of $100 - $499 USD will be matched at 15%
• Donations of $500 - $749 USD will be matched at 30%
• Donations of $750 - $1,000 USD will be matched at 50% 

Therefore, every donation will have deeper impact and will enable us to maximize our reach. We do hope that you will once again extend your generous support and enable us to move one more step ahead towards our vision.

Best Regards, 

Links:

• Seva Mandir Website
• Seva Mandir's Facebook Page
• Friends of Seva Mandir Chapter U.S