Welcome to Isha Outreach—the social development branch of the Isha Foundation. Registered as an independent trust in the state of Tamil Nadu, Isha Outreach enhances the impact of Isha’s ongoing activities for human and community revitalization. Central to the initiative is a growing corps of thousands of volunteers, inspired to rouse the underserved sections of urban and rural India toward improved health, education and environmental well being.
Isha Outreach’s three principal development initiatives are:
Isha Vidhya, providing highly creative English and computer education to rural children. more...
Action for Rural Rejuvenation, offering health care and wellbeing in village communities. more...
Project GreenHands, stimulating ecological renewal and protection through large-scale tree planting and agro-forestry. more...
In the last five years, Isha’s programmes reached more than 4,600 villages and 7 million people in 33 districts of Tamil Nadu and parts of Karnataka, Pondicherry and Kerala. Action for Rural Rejuvenation treated over 1.5 million patients and conducted yoga programs for 1,51,500 villagers; Project GreenHands raised more than 8 million tree saplings for plantation and nearly 2,000 poor children are enrolled in 6 Isha Vidhya schools.
Isha extends assistance to all, regardless of ethnic or religious origins, with focus on India’s marginalized tribal populations.