DHAN Foundation and Shanti Brazil Institute signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the development partnership on addressing poverty with building social capital with special focus on Kalanjiam Community Banking Model for the Livelihood enhancement for the poor communities in Brazil and knowledge exchanges through an MOA with DHAN International. .
The Agriculture Immersion Programme (AIP) was conducted for Twenty- Eight Students of Saveetha Engineering College by TDA (The DHAN Academy) from 21st to 25th of July 2025. It is designed to provide Agricultural Engineering students with practical insights into the lives of farmers and the realities of agriculture, water, and irrigation management. This unique programme aims to bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world agricultural practices through a holistic, hands-on experience. This programme will engage the students through simulation games, interactive lectures, exposure visits, interaction with farmers and doing Participatory Learning Methods.
HDFC Bank Parivartan being one of the prominent partners of DHAN Foundation started a new initiative for the Holistic Rural Development Programme in NITI Ayog’s one of the Aspirational blocks called KV Kuppam Block (Keel Valithunaiyan Kuppam) of Vellore District from July 2025 focusing on integrated development in the areas of Agriculture, Health, Education, Environment and Livelihood Development.
Currently, DHAN’s Rainfed Development Programme is working in the block through a KV Kuppam Uzhavaragam Federation with about 3000 rainfed farmers covering 118 villages. This project will focus exclusively on Fifteen Villages for the Holistic Development on education, natural resource conservation, skill building and market development by reaching out to fourteen thousand people.
A Heritage Walk was conducted for the 100+ students and teachers from Sree Visalakshi Mills Government Aided Higher Secondary School, Madurai by the Centre for Heritage and Development Tourism of DHAN Foundation on 9th August 2025 at 1200 years old Melathirumanickam Temple and Kuppalnatham Jain Site of Sedapatti Block, Madurai District, Tamil Nadu.
Through the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), a partnership is built between ACCESS Development Services and Jeevidam Limited under the project “GRASS ROOTS – Generating Resilient Agroecological Systems for Sustainable Rural Outreach and Organic Transformations” for supporting local learning and capabilities for Scaling up Value Chain Development. Through this project a sustainable vermicompost production unit using organic waster to complement sustainable agriculture production, market linkage of organic manure, for all the farmer producer organizations in Tamil Nadu. The project aims to establish a centralized production unit in the DHAN Academy, Madurai for organic fertilizers like vermicompost to provide affordable, high-quality inputs for minimum 1000 small and marginalized producers by impacting 1000 acres of land with a minimum of 1.5 crore annual turnover.
A training programme on Mutual Insurance was conducted for sixty-eight students and five staff from Bishop Heber College, Trichy. It was coordinated by People Mutuals and The DHAN Academy at the TDA Campus for two days in September 2025. As the students are from the UG and PG of Actuarial science background, the Training focuses DHAN’s intervention on Comprehensive Risk Management, the development management and insurance programs of TDA, the broader concept of Micro insurance principles, practices and perspectives in DHAN Collective and to enable the learning for appreciating the community institutions practice by identifying, assessing and mitigate risks among the poor communities.
