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What we do

SAHAJ - Society For Health Alternatives works with communities to build awareness of rights and empower people to claim their entitlements in the health and education sectors.

Founded in Vadodara, Gujarat, in 1984, SAHAJ has created as a supportive and facilitative space for individuals committed to original and meaningful work, with a consistent focus on marginalized and deprived communities.

Our work combines direct community engagement, action research, social accountability, and policy influence to strengthen citizenship among children, adolescents, and women, and to improve access to and quality of public services.

While SAHAJ works directly in urban and rural Vadodara, we extend our reach across Gujarat and other states of India through partnerships, networks, and coalitions, enabling wider impact at state, national, and international levels.

What We Do

Our themes

SAHAJ’s themes emerge from the lived realities of communities, spanning health, education, gender, and social accountability. Rooted in a rights-based and people-centred approach, our thematic work is shaped through sustained engagement with children, adolescents, and women, and strengthened through collaboration with multiple stakeholders.

Each theme responds to systemic gaps where access, quality, and accountability intersect—because lasting change is possible only when rights are understood, claimed, and upheld together.

Key Initiatives:

    Our projects

    These are our ongoing projects, currently being implemented with communities, focusing on strengthening access, accountability, and dignity in health and education.

    Geography coverage

    Regions where our work is making a difference.

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    Direct interventions
    Vadodara urban
    • 2 UPHCs — areas covered: Akota, Gotri, and Atladra
    • 30 anganwadi areas, 10 schools, and 1 institution for adolescents with disability
    Vadodara rural (Taluka Padra)
    • 5 anganwadi areas across 2 villages — Mujhpur and Mahuvad
    Indirect interventions — through partners
    District Anand (Taluka Anand)
    • PHC Ajarpura — 6 villages, 16 anganwadi areas
    • 5 schools and 1 institution for adolescents with disability
    District Dahod (Taluka Balliaya)
    • PHC Nadukon — 6 villages, 15 anganwadi areas
    • 5 schools and 1 institution for adolescents with disability
    District Mahisagar (Taluka Santrampur)
    • PHC Ukhreli — 6 villages, 15 anganwadi areas
    • 5 schools
    Indirect interventions — through partners (outside Gujarat)
    • Maharashtra
    • Assam

    Demographic coverage

    Key achievements and outcomes from our work over the years.

    Adults (35 and above)

    need apecific interventions

    Children (03 to 09 years )

    500

    adolescents (10-19 years)

    10,000

    in communities, schools and institutions for PWDs

    young people (20 - 35 years)

    2000 +

    (including PWDs and sexual minorities)

    Our partners

    Our mission to create lasting positive change in communities across the country. Together, we can amplify our impact and reach more people in need.

    Project Partners

    Collaborate with us in implementing programmes and reaching communities.

    Funding partners

    Support programmes and help strengthen communities.

    Network Partners

    Collaborate with us to strengthen collective efforts, share learning, and expand the reach.