ADIRE is a registered charitable trust in India with a mission to improve the lives
of rural poor, applying appropriate modern technology, renewable energy and local
capacity building for reviving cost effective and environment friendly village clusters
of ancient India.
ADIRE has been working since 2003 in the villages of Orissa, India bringing out
sustainable development with green environment, clean energy, integral education,
local jobs, healthy communities and happy life for all. ADIRE’s initiative is focused
on two fundamental concepts: Harness local natural resources and Develop & modernize
local skills in four major areas through its program "HELP" centers:
H - Health & Hygiene (Prevent diseases)
E - Energy & Fuel (Safe, local, affordable, sustainable, renewable, and
reliable)
L - Learning (Basic education and skills advancing clean energy)
P - Production (Green jobs for rural income growth)
along with building or acquiring appropriate Infrastructure (Roads and Internet
broadband) so that villagers use renewable energy and efficient technologies (RE)
to quickly update their primitive skill with modern appropriate SKILL.
ADIRE's
PHASE-1 of HELP activities was concentrated in 3 villages
Jahangirabad, Balabhadrapur, Kalyanpur (JABAKA). Please see JABAKA
project for more details
ADIRE's
PHASE-II
of HELP activities will be expanded to 10 villages surrounding
JABAKA as a SMART Ville program. Please see SMART VILLE program
for more details