Founded by Ms. Manisha Ghule in 2008, Navchetana is a non-profit organization that does important and admirable work at the grassroots level across a diversity of domains. From women’s rights to banking, health and wellbeing to climate change, the work Navchetana does has thus far impacted the lives of over 65,000 people across 298 villages. 

Navchetana also specifically operates within the drought-prone Beed district focusing on communities with deeply marginalized and vulnerable backgrounds including the the Nomadic and Denotified Nomadic Tribes (NT-DNT), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Scheduled Castes (SC), and Other Backward Classes (OBC).  In addition to a diversity of sociocultural issues, these communities are also grappling with the adverse effects of climate change. This situation has led to meager livelihood opportunities and a scarcity of arable land and water. Consequently, these communities are forced into seasonal migration which has significantly disrupted children's education, depriving them not only of their fundamental rights, but also any awareness of these rights.

While Navchetana tackles various issues in the communities through interventions across land rights, menstrual health and livelihoods for women, The Climate Resilience Project aims to support them most directly in their education interventions that are geared toward addressing the devastating effects of forced climate migration.