8 programmes · one city
Pick the change you want to see.
Every programme publishes what one unit of help costs, audited each year. Give to one, or let us send your gift where it is needed most.
NutritionMidday Meals
Rice, dal, a vegetable and an egg or banana — cooked fresh every morning in our Hebbal kitchen and carried to 38 government schools across north Bengaluru.
₹500 = child's school lunches for a month
EducationGirls' Education
Fees, uniforms, books, a bicycle for the long road and an evening learning centre — so girls from low-income families finish school and choose what comes next.
₹1,200 = girl's books, uniform and fees for a term
EnvironmentUrban Forests
Miyawaki-style mini forests of native species on school grounds, lake edges and unused civic plots, planted by volunteers and cared for three full years.
₹300 = native sapling, planted and cared for three years
HealthClean Water
Household water filters, school RO units and village water committees that keep them running — in settlements where borewell water fails every test.
₹2,500 = family's water filter, maintained for five years
LivelihoodsWomen's Livelihoods
Tailoring, food-processing and loom cooperatives for women from low-income households, with training, equipment, and buyers lined up before the first piece is made.
₹5,000 = woman's sewing-machine starter kit
HealthHealth Camps
School and settlement health camps with volunteer doctors: screening, referrals, spectacles and follow-up until the problem is actually solved.
₹800 = child's full health screening and follow-up
DignityElder Care
Monthly rations, medicine, a doctor's visit and a weekly volunteer call for elders who live alone in the city's low-income neighbourhoods.
₹1,500 = elder's monthly ration, medicine and check-up
EducationCommunity Libraries
Reading rooms in settlements and government schools, stocked in Kannada and English, with weekly story sessions led by volunteers.
₹250 = new book for a reading room
The price list
What one rupee buys, cause by cause
From last year's audited spend. We publish it so you can hold us to it.
- Community Librariesnew book for a reading room₹250
- Urban Forestsnative sapling, planted and cared for three years₹300
- Midday Mealschild's school lunches for a month₹500
- Health Campschild's full health screening and follow-up₹800
- Girls' Educationgirl's books, uniform and fees for a term₹1,200
- Elder Careelder's monthly ration, medicine and check-up₹1,500
- Clean Waterfamily's water filter, maintained for five years₹2,500
- Women's Livelihoodswoman's sewing-machine starter kit₹5,000