Photo archive
The work, as it actually looked.
Field photography from Project Ravi Kiran in Jammu & Kashmir and Telangana, the Gratitude Farms product range, the Woloo Powder Room model, and the communities every programme exists for.
Loading the dryers at the end of the day's slicing.
Dichpally, Telangana
Sourcing and grading. Apples sorted at a local collection point, October 2022.
Anantnag, Jammu & Kashmir
Before. The open ground identified for the Qazigund drying yard.
Qazigund, Jammu & Kashmir
Building skills. Solar-drying and food-processing training, Hyderabad, Jan–Feb 2023.
Hyderabad, Telangana
Selecting the team. Local women interviewed and selected for training.
Qazigund, Jammu & Kashmir
Soft launch, 11 March 2023. The team briefs Athaang's GM, Mr Aftab Darvesh.
Qazigund, Jammu & Kashmir
Before. The roadside building in Dichpally, earmarked for conversion.
Dichpally, Telangana
Built and inspected. Solar dryer components loaded for transport, Indore.
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
On the way. Solar dryers despatched from Indore, March 2023.
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Soft launch, 11 March 2023. A traditional pooja marks the start of operations.
Dichpally, Telangana
At work. Local women washing and slicing fresh tomatoes ahead of solar drying.
Dichpally, Telangana
The drying yard, from above. Rows of solar dryers in operation at Dichpally.
Dichpally, Telangana
Gratitude Farms solar-dried turmeric powder.
Gratitude Farms
Gratitude Farms solar-dried ginger powder.
Gratitude Farms
A Woloo Powder Room in the network on its opening day — café counter, retail and safe space in 200 sq ft.
Woloo network
The Powder Room specification — clean toilets, beauty and changing room, feeding room, café and convenience shop.
Woloo
Six interconnected services: Powder Rooms, IoT hygiene monitoring, Loo-Locater, retail, cleaning SaaS and facility management.
Woloo
Why sanitation is never only about sanitation — health, life expectancy, education and economic growth all move with it.
India
The households at the centre of every programme we run.
Rural South India
Learning: the thread running from Udyam and Vidya-Jyoti to every programme since.
Rural India
Livelihoods built around women's collectives and self-help groups.
Rural India
Water stewardship and native planting — the Jal Sanchaya lineage.
Rural India