Sustainable agriculture
Helping 30,000 farmers cut input costs, repair their soil and stay solvent through bad years.
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Amreli · Gir Somnath · Rajkot
Forty-five years in the same fields.
Across 250+ villages of Saurashtra we put water back in the ground, cut what a small farm spends, and find disease early enough to treat.
A place where nature and all life flourish in dignity, unity and peace.
- Years in the field
- 45
- Villages reached
- 250 +
- Districts
- 3
- Karyakartas on the team
- 100 +
Why we exist
When the rains failed, people left. We were founded to give them a reason to stay.
In the early 1980s, drought pushed families out of Amreli district in search of work. A group of young volunteers, led by Dhirubhai Vagadia, started SSKK to build alternatives at home — water where there was none, income beyond a single failed crop, and schooling for children who moved every season. Four and a half decades later the questions have changed shape, but the method has not: work with the community, measure honestly, and stay long enough for it to matter.
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Our work
Five connected areas of work
They overlap on purpose. A farm pond changes the crop, the crop changes the income, the income keeps a child in school.
Environmental Sustainability & Climate Resilience
Farm ponds, check dams, 1.4 lakh trees and 30 trained disaster-response volunteers — rebuilding the water table and the village's capacity to withstand a bad year.
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Livelihoods & Empowerment
3,000 women trained in a trade, and the groups, credit and confidence to actually use it.
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Health & Well-being
Screening camps that find cancers early, in villages where women rarely see a specialist.
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Research, Policy Dialogue & Knowledge Sharing
Helping Gram Panchayats plan from evidence, publishing what we find, and closing the gap between what a household is entitled to and what it actually claims.
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What four decades add up to
Figures below are cumulative to March 2026, except where a figure says otherwise, and drawn from our annual reports.
30,000+
Farmers trained in climate-resilient farming
To March 2025
1,40,114
Trees planted since 2021
3,000+
Women trained in trades and financial literacy
To March 2025
231
Water structures built or renovated
Check dams, farm ponds, field bunds and well recharge structures
From the field
People, not beneficiaries
Bhadva, Kotda Sangani, Rajkot
“Instead of running toward the city, we decided to make our village like a city”
Bhadva rebuilt its own water, sanitation and enterprise base — and took first rank for cleanliness in Rajkot district while doing it.
Read the storyVeraval, Kotda Sangani, Rajkot
The 29-year-old who moved 125 farmers off chemical fertiliser
Kajalben Vastarpra is a Krishi Sakhi in Veraval. She campaigned village to village for cow-based natural farming, and now holds office in the local Krushi Mandal.
Read the storyPanchvada, Jasdan, Rajkot
From no income of her own to ₹8,000 a month
Shitalben Desani could not work outside the home. She now has two incomes inside it — as a Krishi Sakhi and as an artisan.
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What people who have worked with us say
SSKK is doing really well for the overall upliftment of people in Amreli and Gir Somnath. I personally observed gender education for boys, the Better Cotton project, biodiversity programmes, dental hygiene and much more. These activities can create grassroots-level change in the community.
Tejas Soni
Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand
It was a humble and enlightening experience. This was the first time I volunteered for an NGO, and the team embraced us despite our very little understanding of the field. Children, women, farmers, human rights, social awareness — going through the depth of the work this organisation does is a memorable experience.
Megha Joshi
TATA ProEngage volunteer
When I first heard about farming, I thought it was only sowing, harvesting and selling. It is not. The word is small but its meaning is vast. After meetings, trainings and visits with farmers, much has become clear to me. Working with 4,500 farmers, I have learnt something new every day.
Avantika Tanti
Producer Unit Manager, INGJ46
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