Nisha, an ordinary girl from a backward class, turned out to be a great inspiration and personality. From a very young age, she used to support her family by grazing cattle and fetching water. It wasn’t just Nisha’s life but of almost every girl in the village who wasn’t sent to school. People believed that girls should rather learn and perform household chores.

Manthan’s water project has been in the run for the past 20 years. It built watersheds and implemented water regulation and harvesting systems in various villages and had an impact on around 50-60 villages. In the current date, Nosal Village has the highest total storage capacity of 252,792,674 liters of water

A small child with dreams much higher than his age, belonging to a Banjara community unaware of the importance of education, became the source of the change of beliefs. The families were deprived of very basic commodities and wanted their children to work. They had seen people studying for 10-12 years and ending up jobless and believed that studying was a time not worth spending.

Tejaram Mali is a visionary social reformer dedicated to education, women’s empowerment, and sustainable development. Inspired by his time at the Tilonia night school in the 1980s, he founded Manthan Sanstha in 1998 to address rural challenges.