One Village One India

Serving since 2011

In this world always take the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no returns.

Swami Vivekananda

Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed.

One Village One India is a registered public charitable trust working in the villages of Vinjamur mandal, in Nellore, and on the streets of Hyderabad. We serve not by religion, not by region, not by race or by any other human-created classification — but from one person to another.

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years of continuous service

Registered July 2011

government schools in the study-hour snacks programme

Vinjamur mandal, from 2012

530 → 1,030

enrolment at ZP High School, Vinjamur

2009 to 2015–16

800

students given a working drinking-water supply

Vengal Rao Nagar, Hyderabad, 2019

Our service

What we actually do

Six programmes, each running on its own annual rhythm — the school calendar, the winter, the festivals. Every rupee is spent within a few hours' drive of where it was given, and someone from the trust is present when it is spent.

Since 2011

Study-hour snacks

Government-school students preparing for board exams sit through evening study hours hungry, and it shows in the results. We serve snacks through the pre-exam season. Results improved, and so did enrolment.

5 schools · Vinjamur mandal · approx. ₹20,000 per class per year

Since 2011

School infrastructure

Land and facilities for a primary school building, benches, library supplies, a cycle stand, and a submersible pump that finally gave a Hyderabad government school of 800 students its own drinking water.

Vinjamur · Hyderabad · ongoing

Since 2013

Winter blankets and sweaters

Every winter, blankets for the elderly in Vinjamur and for people sleeping on the streets of Hyderabad and Nellore. Run without a break for over a decade.

Hyderabad · Nellore · Vinjamur · every December–January

Since 2014

Food for the streets

Hot meals distributed directly, by hand, on the streets of Hyderabad and Nellore — beginning with 100 meals on New Year's Eve 2014, and continuing every year since.

Hyderabad · Nellore

Every Sankranthi

Honouring municipal workers

The people who keep our streets clean are the least thanked workers in any Indian town. Each Sankranthi we stop, gather them, and honour them publicly with a gift and a word of thanks.

Vinjamur · annual

Since 2014

Festivals for families who have none

Groceries, sweets and fireworks at Diwali so that families without means still have a festival — 50 families in 2020, and more each year since.

Vinjamur · Hyderabad · every Diwali

A young girl speaking into a microphone in front of her classmates at a communication skills workshop in Nagole, Hyderabad — **Finding their voice**Communication skills workshop for children · Vivekananda Kendra, Nagole, Hyderabad

Students seated on the floor at a career preparation session at Vivekananda Kendra Kaushalam, Hyderabad — **From college to first job**Career preparation for students · Vivekananda Kendra Kaushalam, Hyderabad

Students eating before the evening study session at ZP High School, Vinjamur — **Study-hour snacks**ZP High School, Vinjamur

New benches and classroom facilities at a government school in Vinjamur — **School infrastructure**Vinjamur mandal

Students at the new drinking water point at the government school in Vengal Rao Nagar, Hyderabad — **Drinking water for 800 students**Vengal Rao Nagar, Hyderabad

Volunteers handing out blankets on a Hyderabad street at night — **Winter blanket drive**Hyderabad

Meals being handed out by hand on the streets of Hyderabad — **Food for the streets**Hyderabad and Nellore

Municipal workers being honoured on Sankranthi in Vinjamur — **Honouring municipal workers**Vinjamur, every Sankranthi

Cricket and volleyball equipment given to the youth of Vinjamur — **Sports for village youth**Vinjamur, Nellore district

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Watch the work, and take it up where you live

We film what we do — not to show ourselves, but so that someone in another village can see exactly how a blanket drive or a study-hour snacks programme is actually run, what it costs, and what to expect.

If you take up a similar project where you live, that is the outcome we want most. Watch, then write to us and we will tell you everything we have learned.

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