Since 1972, Navjeevan Community Development Society has worked alongside women and children in remote rural India — stitching together education, healthcare, livelihood, and hope, one life at a time.
NCDS exists for the upliftment of marginalised communities in the remotest parts of India. We give women skills that earn, children the schooling their villages lack, patients the care they cannot afford, and families a hand when disaster takes everything.
Each programme is a strand. Together they hold a community whole.
Free tuition six days a week, and scholarships that carry rural students all the way to a degree.
1,600+ students · 53 centresSilai Saugath tailoring and digital skills that turn a trained hand into an independent income.
500+ women trainedFree surgeries and village health camps led by Dr. Babitha Kallemel — at no cost to the patient.
980+ surgeriesFrom the 2006 Tsunami to COVID-19, reaching families in crisis with food, shelter, and the long work of rebuilding.
2,000+ families reachedOn 30th October 1972, Mrs. Lilly Vargis arrived in Katra, Jammu & Kashmir, and found herself living among a community of manual scavengers — families pushed to society's furthest edge.
She took their children into her own home: bathed them, fed them, taught them their first letters, then walked them to school and saw each one enrolled.
"There are no unreachable people — only people no one has reached."
Read her full storyHis parents are daily-wage labourers who never learned to read; when he struggled, no one at home could help. He was on the quiet path to dropping out.
Then an NCDS centre opened nearby — a teacher, books, a quiet place to study, six days a week. Within a year he went from struggling to topping his class.
"When I become a teacher, I will come back and teach in this same centre."
Read more storiesWhether ₹500 or ₹50,000, your gift reaches a family the map forgot. 100% goes to programmes.
Donate now 80G tax exemption · transparent reporting · serving since 1972