Background
Thane is one of the northern districts of the Konkan region in Maharashtra. The Sahyadhri hills surround it on the east and the Arab sea on the west, with dense forest of Gujarat on the north and India’s business capital Mumbai on the south.
The Wadi Program – a Holistic Development Program for Rural & Tribal communities – started in the Wada block of the Thane District, a poverty-stricken area located on the northern part, where there are high illiteracy and migration problems. The program began helping approximately 500 tribal families over a six-year period.
Working with BAIF-MITTRA, the project started in April 2009, initially with five families in one of the tribal villages near GEV. Today the project stretches to six villages – Ghore, Ghuir, Galtre, Hamrapur, Nane, and Sange – in the Wada block located around the Eco Village.
