About The PANKH
PANKH is an organization, formed by different diversified experts and social workers.
PANKH is a dedicated organization focused on sustainable development and community empowerment. With a strong commitment to environmental conservation, PANKH actively works to revive natural water streams, restore dry ponds, and prevent soil and water erosion through innovative afforestation efforts. They advocate for climate-resilient plantations and zero-budget natural farming, aligning agriculture with ecological sustainability.
The organization emphasizes the judicious use of natural resources to create long-term benefits for communities. By promoting sustainable agricultural practices linked to cattle waste management, they aim to improve rural livelihoods and enhance environmental resilience. PANKH’s initiatives are rooted in fostering community ownership, ensuring that local populations take charge of preserving and optimizing their natural resources. Their holistic approach integrates environmental stewardship with economic upliftment, paving the way for a sustainable and equitable future.
To create a global community where every underprivileged individual is empowered to realize their full potential, becoming valuable contributors to the advancement of society and the prosperity of nations.
To foster self-reliance and dignity among underprivileged communities, particularly women, residing in rural, semi-rural areas, and slums, by nurturing their life skills, economic capabilities, and socio-cultural competencies.PANKH aims to forge an inclusive society where every individual thrives with respect and equality.
CEO’s MESSAGE
Aarti Thapa
Founder President & CEO
With Immense pleasure, I would like to reflect into the miles of journey so far that we have achieved with great success and achievements over the years, in reshaping the communities’ fate towards progressive path of development, driven by a vision to empower the lower strata of the society, especially the underprivileged women, youths, children & farmer’s and have made significant impacts in the life of beings through empowerment, capacity building and fostering for becoming self-reliance.
We have successfully capacitated and provided skills support to over 2,000 marginalized youths & women and have empowered them through livelihood opportunities, During the grave pandemic era, we didn’t slowed down in-fact with double capacity and force we extended support to over 50,000 needy families with essential supplies, including ration kits, meals, masks, and virtual counseling, helping them navigate the challenges with dignity and hope. Additionally, we have positively impacted the lives of more than 100,000 farmers by promoting community-owned initiatives, creating need-based institutions (FPOs),establishing sustainable forward linkages and more than 30000 people supported through our health interventions. Our incubation team has developed different innovative solutions for field actions towards environment conservation, water conservation, primitive/ traditional skill enhancement, Green city & clean village promotion through solid & plastic waste management practices etc.
This year, I proud to share that PANKH has been recognised with prestigious awards for its outstanding contributions, including:-
- Top 20 India’s Best NGOs to Work for by Great Place to Work 2024-25.
- Certified by Great Place to Work in 2024-24.
- Best waste management practices by CSR Times 2024.
- Best NGO of the Year for Environment Safety by UBS Forums 2024.
- Most Trusted NGO of the Year by UBS Forums 2024
Our commitment to empowering communities and creating lasting change remains unwavering. Together, we will continue to drive forward, fostering resilience and enabling brighter futures for all.
