The Goa Foundation is the most well known of Goa’s environmental action groups. Founded in 1986 by a group of Goan environmentalists each flighting his or her own individual environmental battles, the organisation today commands the respect of judiciary, government and the general public for persisting with its environment agenda for more than three decades.
The work of the Foundation spans different areas and fields, all related in some way or another with the conservation of Goa’s natural environment.
Arz is a social work organization committed to combating trafficking of persons for the purpose of sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation in Goa. The organization works both with the victims of commercial sexual exploitation, and also against those who are perpetrators of this crime.
We hold space, listen deeply, ask powerful questions and engage in conversations that matter. We believe that many of the issues in the world could be ameliorated once we all speak with intention and listen with attention.
Free food for the people on street and also rehabilitate the alcoholic and drug addict both male and female.
We pick up homeless men & woman they see on the street, give them a shave, a haircut, a bath, warm food and rudimentary medical treatment and rehabilitate them.
The work we do:
1. Food Bank Fridges Across Goa
2. Water Tap – 1000 ltrs a day
3. Ration for HIV infected families in Goa monthly
4.. Homes for homeless street men
5. Homes for homeless street woman
6. Homes for homeless HIV street men
7. Homes for widows
8. Clothes Bank
9. Medicine Bank
10. Bank for second hand house hold items
11. Ambulance service
Human Touch is a registered youth-led non-profit organization based in Goa. Human Touch informs, inspires and engages youth in development so that they get involved and take action to improve their local communities and change the world.
Lokvishwas Pratishthan is a non-profit Non Government Organisation (NGO) working in the field of disability since 1981. It is committed to the welfare and education of the differently abled (Hearing Impaired, Intellectually impaired and the Visually Impaired) children in Goa.
In 1981, Lokvishwas Pratishthan made its modest beginning by setting up a residential school for the Hearing Impaired children, in a rented premises in Bandora. This was the first school for handicapped students in Goa. In 1999, the section for mentally challenged children was opened. The next stage was the school for the visually impaired, which was inaugurated in 2001. The main premises of Lokvishwas Pratishthan are located at Dhavali, in Ponda taluka, which houses two schools and a higher secondary section for Hearing Impairment, a school for the Visually Impaired, a Teacher’s Training Centre for training Special Teachers (with a admission strength of 25), and a school & Day Care Centre for the Mentally challenged.
The RiseNation Trust believes that if our state needs to progress, we need to build good leaders. In this regard, the RiseNation Trust carries out leadership programmes in schools and colleges. The main focus of the programmes is to impart positive values and build ethical, socially conscious individuals.
In the programme, the youth are given leadership skills, so that they are well equipped to become good leaders of the future.
Sethu is a Charitable Trust based in Goa, India, to help all children get the best out of their lives, families, schools and communities to grow and develop.
Sethu’s mission is to be a bridge between children and their families, schools and communities to foster their overall development through awareness, assessments, therapy, educational initiatives, training and capacity building in the community.
We believe that marginalized citizens have as much of a right to be seen and heard as the privileged do. Today, technological advances make it possible—we believe imperative— for journalism and developmental decision-making to become more inclusive and bottom up.
When that happens, better decisions will get made.
We believe that strong alternate voices in the media – representing a diversity of genders, cultures, castes, religions, geographies and socio-economic groups – are crucial to a vibrant democracy. But the fact is, on any given day in India, only 2% of content in mainstream media addresses the issues of the rural areas, where 70% of the population lives. The media does not, yet, show us the real India.
Voluntary Health Association of Goa (VHAG) is a non-profit non-government organization committed to the improvement of people’s health in the state of Goa by conducting research to identify problem areas in health, implementing field interventions, advocacy, policy formulation and recommendations to the government and monitoring the implementation of laws related to public health through active involvement and co-ordination with the public, other NGOs and the government.