Pranava is an endeavour to harness the desire & willingness of people to help others in need. Through the power of the internet, we aim to bring donors, volunteers and charitable organisations closer to each other.

“Social Gifting” is the first initiative under this banner, and hopes to convert the myriad social gifting occasions into opportunities for supporting worthy causes.

Vision

✓ Leverage the power of the internet to encourage and enable Indians to support deserving causes across the country.
✓ To create and curate opportunities for people to promote and fundraise for causes/charitable organisations.
✓ To empower worthy causes to sustain and scale their efforts.
✓ To support the efforts to increase the size, competence and effectiveness of the charitable community.
✓ To accelerate the spread of transparency and professionalism within this sector, through adoption of technology.

Aarey forests in Mumbai is home to almost 5000 tribals and indigenous community spread across 27 padas (village hamlets). Unfortunately the residents living here still use highly polluting rudimentary stoves that need forest fire wood. This hugely impacts the health and well being of women and their families, and puts pressure on forests for the firewood.

Smokeless Cookstove Foundation has pioneered improved mud cookstoves based on Rocket Stove Technology that reduces firewood dependency and smoke by more than 50%. They been actively working with a group of local women to train them in making and setting up these mud stoves across households in Aarey, helping their community reduce the dependency on forest wood while also earning additional income by working on this project.

Contribute as little as Rs 3000 and help move one tribal family at Aarey towards a cleaner cooking environment. With your support, we aim to reach over 100 house holds in Aarey in the next 6 months.