Because the collapse is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed. In India, 600 million people are already experiencing high to extreme water stress, while 75% of rural households lack access to piped, potable water. The illusion of progress hides a brutal geography—where tribal communities just 100 kilometres from Mumbai still walk 5–8 kilometres daily for access to drying wells. While urban India debates carbon credits, the Western Ghats—one of the last remaining biodiversity corridors and source of six major rivers. has already lost over 32% of its forest cover in 40 years, unraveling ecosystems that feed millions.
Why us? Because most development work treats the poor as passive recipients. We don’t. We place tribal knowledge, lived experience, and collective resilience at the centre of every intervention. We institutionalise equity through 1:1 gender ratios in local governance, through asset ownership models, through embedded exit strategies that ensure the community doesn’t just benefit, it governs.
What does it lead to? Villages where women no longer lose 4 hours a day chasing water, because the water now flows to them. Forests that are replanted, not just to tick a CSR checkbox. Farming systems that generate year-round income and food security, breaking generational patterns of migration and debt. And above all, a development model that proves dignity can be engineered, if you start from the ground up and stay long enough to be accountable. We’re building for after the collapse. And we’re doing it with those who were abandoned first.
