Swades creates a cadre of community health workers (Swades Mitras: SMs); Our focus is on Vision-care, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, Cardiac-care for children and ensuring strong government linkages.

1. Community Health Workers: 2,450 highly trained SMs serving a population of ~3,71,000
2. Vision-care: Screened 3,35,298 people through SMs and 2,49,345 by Optometrists and provided 1,16,890 spectacles free of cost. Supported free of cost 21,021 cataract surgeries
3. Children with Special Needs (CWSN): Supported 672 children with low vision and hearing surgeries. Provided assistive devices to 1,653 children.
4. Anaemia: Screened and tested 45,083 children. 7,779 children have completed their medication, of which 5,303 children have shown positive change in anaemia level
5. Cardiac-care: Supported operations for 178 children & 57% children have shown improvement in school attendance and 79% in doing daily activities (as per cardiac survey of 122 children)
6. 98% of institutional deliveries in the geography
7. Cancer screening: 30 individuals screened for breast cancer, 18 individuals screened for cervical cancer and 33 screened for oral cancer.

Swades aims to holistically transform schools – improve infrastructure, provide scholarships and undertake training for principals & teachers.

1. Impacting 136,666 children in 1,394 schools, 831 Anganwadis and 41 Junior colleges
2. Leadership training to 1,214 principals and in-service training to 4,748 teachers
3. Career counselling for better prospects to 60,625 students
4. Scholarships: 598 Excellence scholarships for professional courses and 7,452 mass scholarships (Grade XI & XII)

Swades will ensure that every household in its geography has a toilet and receives 200 litres of potable water/ day through taps installed at homes.

1. Constructed toilets in 31,077 homes and 1,518 hamlets are verified as ODF
2. Built 726 drinking water schemes with taps in 45,826 homes impacting ~2,23,977 lives
3. Built drinking water and sanitation facilities in 254 schools.

Agriculture & Livelihoods

Swades will uplift and enrich the lives of its farmers and entrepreneurs; targeting annual income of INR 2 lakhs per household, empowering and enabling them to live with dignity.

1. Capacity Building: Exposure trips, visits and trainings for ~29,018 farmers; teaching new farming technologies to enhance yield at low costs
2. Advanced Paddy Cultivation: 12,050 farmers trained on the technique, for better and progressive increase in yield & income
3. Water for Irrigation: Transformed 3,668.2 acres through drip and flood irrigation
4. Poultry (egg & meat): ~ 7,212 households supplemented with 12,661 units leading to an avg HH income gain of INR 10,000 per annum
5. Dairy: ~4,885 entrepreneurs created with 6,611 milch cattle leading to an avg HH income gain of INR 50,000 per annum
6. Goat Rearing: 7,894 households engaged with 27,159 animals leading to an avg HH income gain of INR 20,000 per annum from 2nd year onwards
7. Skilling: Trained 6,249 youth and placed 5,379 in formal employment and 79% have completed over 1 year at their jobs
8. Grafted >143,955 trees and distributed ~ 12,44,375 new plants for horticulture
9. Reverse Migration: 375 people have migrated back to Raigad and over 356 are in different stages of migration
10. 1,317 VDC’s formed and 10,290 Community Volunteers created