Every day, people from diverse backgrounds encounter situations that disrupt their lives. Our purpose is to relieve that burden — through education, healthcare, and sustainable livelihood programs across India.
Chinta Foundation is a non-profit, voluntary citizens' group that performs social service on a local, national, and international level. We work on the issues that matter most — environment, education, health, and human rights — to create lasting, measurable change.
We believe that every individual, regardless of background, deserves access to the opportunities that enable a dignified life. Our approach combines grassroots community engagement with strategic resource allocation, bringing together educators, healthcare professionals, and volunteers to address India's most pressing challenges.
By providing a platform to well-intentioned, educated adults, we channel their expertise into meaningful social change — empowering communities from within rather than imposing solutions from outside.
Full transparency in how every rupee is allocated and what outcomes it produces.
Building programs that endure beyond initial intervention, creating self-sustaining ecosystems.
Uniting NGOs, volunteers, and institutions to amplify collective impact.
Respecting the agency of every community we serve, listening before acting.
Poverty remains deeply entrenched across rural India. The lack of livable wages drives mass migration to overcrowded cities while children in villages grow up without access to nutrition, healthcare, or education.
The absence of livable-wage employment in rural areas is driving millions into rapidly expanding metropolitan centers — Bombay, Delhi, Bangalore, Calcutta — straining urban infrastructure and leaving rural communities depleted of working-age adults.
Nearly three-quarters of India's children live in rural areas with limited access to fundamental needs — nutrition, healthcare, education, and protection. Without intervention, generational cycles of poverty continue unbroken.
Millions of Indians die annually from treatable conditions. For cancer patients, survival depends on early diagnosis and access to medical treatment — both of which remain out of reach for economically disadvantaged populations.
Innovative, low-cost learning models that combine community workshops with digital resources. We provide scholarships, mentorship, and vocational training — focusing on girls and women — to break cycles of poverty through knowledge.
Learn More →From mobile clinics delivering free check-ups and vaccines in remote areas to digital health tools for parents, we work to make preventive healthcare accessible to every child — because health cannot be a privilege.
Learn More →Building a centralized digital platform that connects NGOs with volunteers and donors, providing capacity-building workshops and fostering partnerships between organizations for joint projects and resource sharing.
Learn More →Advancing gender equality through teacher training in gender-sensitive pedagogy, community advocacy, and economic empowerment programs that provide women with the skills and capital to build independent livelihoods.
Learn More →Working for the cause and care of elderly people — improving standards of living, advocating for universal pension and healthcare access, and taking action against elder abuse at national, state, and community levels.
Learn More →Market-focused livelihood programs that equip communities with practical skills aligned to local economic opportunities — from agricultural modernization to micro-enterprise development — creating pathways out of poverty.
Learn More →Improving child healthcare outcomes by educating local communities and mobilizing volunteer networks across underserved regions of India.
Improving access to education for girls and women through innovative, low-cost learning methods that combine traditional pedagogy with modern digital tools.
Creating a centralized platform where NGOs, volunteers, and individuals can collaborate to amplify their collective social impact across India.
Even the most experienced organizations benefit from continuous learning. We invest in coaching, training, and skill development so that every team member contributes to the ongoing success of our mission with growing capability.
With limited funding and countless communities in need, discipline is essential. We ensure sufficient resources and personnel to maintain existing initiatives while carefully expanding into new ones — never overextending our capacity.
We demonstrate how every fund is used and what results were achieved. Accountability means showing funds were deployed correctly within a robust governance structure — because donors deserve clarity and communities deserve integrity.
Operating across local, national, and international levels, we address systemic issues in environment, education, health, and human rights — developing society, enhancing communities, and promoting active citizen participation.
Systemic challenges in India's non-profit sector — from credibility deficits to governance failures — demand a new kind of organization. Chinta Foundation was built to fill that void.
Questions around transparency, trust, and measurable impact make many contributors reluctant to donate. We address this head-on with rigorous reporting and governance standards that exceed industry norms.
In many developing regions, basic infrastructure is absent. NGOs often lack the technical and organizational capacity to implement their mission effectively. We build capacity alongside community programs.
Many NGOs struggle with limited resource mobilization skills, waiting for international donors rather than building sustainable local funding. Our network hub approach creates efficient donor-organization pipelines.
Isolated interventions cannot solve systemic poverty. We explore why connecting NGOs, volunteers, and communities into a coordinated network is the only path to sustainable progress.
How hybrid learning models and community-embedded mentorship are transforming educational outcomes for girls in underserved regions.
The operational model behind delivering free healthcare to remote communities — and the data proving it works.
Whether through volunteering, donating, or partnering, your involvement helps us empower communities across India. Join us in building a more equitable future.
Start a ConversationA technologist and social entrepreneur with deep roots in both Silicon Valley innovation and Indian community development, Naga Rakesh founded Chinta Foundation to bridge the gap between technological capability and social impact.
His career spans engineering roles at some of the world's most impactful technology companies, venture capital experience investing in transformative startups, and advanced academic research in machine learning — all informing a data-driven, scalable approach to social good.
Whether you're an organization looking to collaborate, a professional wanting to volunteer your expertise, or a donor seeking transparent, impactful programs to support — we'd like to hear from you.