WIN Foundation is a non profit entity, established in 2018. WIN Foundation’s vision: Empowered poor and lower middle class communities across India, adopting innovations, in (i) Water and Sanitation (WATSAN) and (ii) Maternal and Child Health (MCH), to improve their quality of life and work, in a sustainable and scalable manner.
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Our Approach
Our Approach
WIN’s vision of introducing innovations for social impact in a sustainable manner, requires multiple partners in the ecosystem to collaborate. These include:
Institutions - for research, technology, product, process development
Startups for innovation in product or service and business models.
Innovation in business and delivery model by startups and by some dynamic NGOs
NGO’s to take innovations to communities, including using new delivery models, empowering communities, arranging financing and finance models to meet community needs
Government for providing policy, regulations and local support
WIN Foundation brings collaborations among its diverse partners. This includes collaborations within projects, across projects, and also enabling collaborations between our partners for their non-WIN-supported projects. This is particularly important in the social impact space as the economic drivers are not often strong enough, at least to start with.
Empowered poor and lower middle class communities across India, adopting innovations, in
o Water and Sanitation (WATSAN)
o Maternal and Child Health Nutrition (MCH)
To improve their quality of life and work, in a sustainable and scalable manner
Support Innovations in above domains
Empower local communities through skilling and micro-entrepreneurship to adopt innovations in technology, products and processes
Act as a catalyst for scaling and replication
Water and Sanitation
Water conservation
Smart farming
Mother and Child Health
Mother and Child Health Nutrition
Our Reach in 6 years
Our Reach in 6 years
Water and Sanitation
Water and Sanitation
Water and Sanitation
Water and Sanitation
Water Conservation with participatory approach
Smart farming for demand side management
Grassroots empowerment
450+
villages
800+
Recharge Structures
9 MCM
Water deficit reduced
8L+ Population
Touced
Mother and Child Nutrition
Mother and Child Nutrition
Mother and Child Nutrition
Mother and Child Nutrition
Sustainable approach to Nutrition through Local Market Creation approach with Simultaneous Push (Supply) and Pull (Demand) creation
Nutri-gardens - in rural areas with focus on soil health → Plant Health & Yield → Family Health and Nutrition.
Maternal, Infant and Young Child nutrition: “First 1000 days – Maternal & Child Nutrition” -Training of Trainers- Field Health Worker training
4000+
Fiel Health workers trained
1L+ Population
Touched
220+
Women Nutri-preneurs
550+
Nutri-gardeners
Innovations and Student Support
Innovations and Student Support
Innovations: Identify innovations from Institutions and Startups and bring them to communities at grassroots, for understanding, trials, and adoption.
Student programs: Engage students from premier institutions to work on WIN projects. Students get exposure to communities and social impact markets. Communities and NGOs get new generation perspective, technology and management inputs
WIN Nutri-gardeners Training
WIN Nutri-gardeners Training
Workshop was to train and give practical insights / guidance to WIN Nutri-gardeners on Soil health management, Plant health management, Community and Family health and Nutrition management.
Local Leadership Development Conclave
Local Leadership Development Conclave
Local Leadership Conference at Bhuj, Kutch, organised by WIN and ACT: Over 100 local leaders, from village to district levels, discussed initiatives, challenges and the way forward.
The NutriShakti Program Launch
The NutriShakti Program Launch
A joint initiative by WIN Foundation and Aagamya Foundation:On the occasion of Republic Day, the NutriShakti program was officially launched, marking a significant step towards empowering women in the community with nutritional cooking and business skills training.
Testimonials ("people speak")
Testimonials ("people speak")
Apart from the validation of our product and business model at NBEC-2022, WIN Foundation has been actively involved in helping our team with networking opportunities. The market access they have provided will accelerate growth for Tellus in the years to come while also providing an experiential learning opportunity for the team. WIN foundation has helped us solve strategic problems....
It is a huge inspiration to see the passion of WIN foundation to seek home-grown technologies that can bring a huge change in the lives of grass-root levels of society through access to clean water, healthcare and nutrition.
It is a huge inspiration to see the passion of WIN foundation to seek home-grown technologies that can bring a huge change in the lives of grass-root levels of society through access to clean water, healthcare and nutrition.
WIN foundation is supporting Arid Communities and Technologies for a participatory groundwater management project (PGWM) at Kutch, Gujarat, named “K-Marc” (Kankavati – Managed Aquifer Recharge through Communities). ACT started this project in 2010. It started showing significant impact after six years of initial processes. Now the project learnings and processes developed can help others to adopt climate resilient and community managed groundwater management practices. At this crucial juncture, WIN foundation is supporting ACT and her other project partners viz., Geo-science Services, Parab, Tata CGPL CSR for establishing project area as PGWM field laboratory. The ACT-WIN collaboration has opened many avenues for future, through many collaborations, partnerships, and developing linkages with institutes like IIT Gandhinagar. I am sure that this collaboration will help the project and its various outcomes like Bhujal Jankars, PGWM field lab, Farmer Friendly Groundwater Recharge Techniques, among others, and also to pitch this complete strategy and process at various levels of the society. On behalf of all project partners and stakeholders I am heartily grateful to WIN foundation for this inestimable support.
WIN Foundation has helped us to achieve our vision of empowering community health care workers on the knowledge of Maternal Infant Young Child Nutrition. This will help them to eradicate malnutrition from India. They have also partly funded Health Spoken Tutorial series on health and nutrition from IIT Bombay which are translated in multiple languages for the training of the mothers and health care workers in local language. The excellent results are already being seen in the field.
WIN and ChiNu have similar thinking on the issue of the food products. Both are looking at affordable, nutritious and convenient products. WIN is also supportive of the decentralized production through SHGs and micro-entrepreneurs and to promote locally compatible foods. Of course many local foods e.g. Idli or Dhokla have now become national foods! We of course need to be careful about the quality control aspects and do local capacity building for this. I am sure the ChiNu – WIN partnership will be able to contribute to the important goal of tackling child malnutrition in the difficult times ahead in the post pandemic era.
WIN and ChiNu have similar thinking on the issue of the food products. Both are looking at affordable, nutritious and convenient products. WIN is also supportive of the decentralized production through SHGs and micro-entrepreneurs and to promote locally compatible foods. Of course many local foods e.g. Idli or Dhokla have now become national foods! We of course need to be careful about the quality control aspects and do local capacity building for this. I am sure the ChiNu – WIN partnership will be able to contribute to the important goal of tackling child malnutrition in the difficult times ahead in the post pandemic era.
Under the roof of IIT Kharagpur and WIN foundation’s support for research and innovation in the areas of water quality, purification and sanitation (WATSAN), my Research team is involved in design , installation and operation of treatment plant for upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor (UASB) effluent to produce potable quality treated water with a capacity of 300 cubic-meters/day. I thank WIN foundation for initiative and support extended and looking forward for successful demonstration of the technology for replication elsewhere.
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