Initiatives that reach lives
The organisations Dr. Panda leads and supports, and the grassroots programmes that carry reform into villages, schools and homes across India.
Organisations
Where he leads and contributes
Trade & industry
Odisha Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of commerce for trade and industry in Odisha.
National Organisation
Reach Lives
A platform for nation-building, education, empowerment and social transformation.
Selfless work for social benefit
Programmes on the ground
Social work guided by individualisation, acceptance, self-determination, confidentiality and a non-judgmental attitude.
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Rural India
Social illuminating rural development
Dedicated to reducing poverty and lifting impoverished communities through sustainable development. The work covers non-formal adult education, women and child development, health and nutrition, low-cost water and sanitation, care of the elderly, disaster relief, public hygiene, organic farming and irrigation, with the aim of developing young people into empowered leaders of a prosperous rural India.
- A holistic approach to quality education through innovative programmes
- Building civic sense and social responsibility in young minds
- Modern technology to raise agricultural productivity
- Vocational training for alternate occupations
- Stronger rural governance: responsive, accountable and transparent
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Community health
Healthcare on wheels
A community health initiative that brings free or affordable care to rural and under-served areas. Mobile health units are run by volunteer practitioners from many specialisations, reaching families who cannot risk a day’s wages to visit a hospital, and pairing treatment with health awareness.
- Mobile medical units that reach the unreached
- Stronger outreach for primary healthcare
- Emergency vehicles and ambulances for reproductive and child health
- Public-private collaboration to meet growing demand
- Helping people become digitally active healthcare citizens
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Child welfare
Children in foster care
Many things in life are not by choice. This programme gives destitute and orphaned children, and those whose parents cannot care for them, a loving home environment and a better childhood, working with government agencies, non-profits and local families until each child moves to a permanent family.
- Community-based efforts to reunite children with their birth families
- Support for living expenses in shelter homes through public-private partnership
- Formal education, nutrition, health and protection
- Empowering each child to reach their full potential
- Training ground teams to prevent children entering the system
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Education
Free education, empowering the future
A movement to end educational inequity in India, providing free and compulsory education to all children aged six to fourteen as a fundamental right. Free schooling helps end child labour, and volunteer teachers engage children in the social and cultural life of their communities.
- Technology that helps children adapt and thrive beyond the classroom
- Encouraging students to become young changemakers
- Better access to quality education, with a focus on the girl child
- Student-led support for primary, secondary and higher education
- Collaboration with government initiatives for free education
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Empowerment
Women’s rights are human rights
Women have an equal claim to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the empowerment of women is the nation’s empowerment. The work supports training and employment schemes, entrepreneurship, safety, protection of the girl child, gender sensitisation, female literacy and access to technology.
- Self-employment and self-help group opportunities
- Research on women entrepreneurs and their contribution
- Helping women rise above adverse conditions
- Mobilising government schemes and programmes for women
- Services for women who are vulnerable and marginalised
Partner on a social initiative
Volunteers, institutions and CSR partners are welcome to join these programmes.