India's monsoon months are an opportunity for tribal households across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to build a self-sustaining kitchen garden using materials and coaching through Samaritans for the Nation. Project Annapurna and SFN have built a long-standing relationship with these tribal communities, which is the foundation for change like this.

Project Poshan, run by Samaritans for the Nation, is distributing Nutrition Kitchen Garden Seed Kits to tribal households this season. Each kit contains 15 varieties of vegetable seeds and costs ₹100. A family that plants it gets continuous access to fresh vegetables grown at home, which means better nutrition across multiple growing seasons, not just this one.

I'm Tanya, and I've worked with Project Annapurna a volunteer-driven initiative fighting hunger, since I was 13 years old in Hyderabad. Over eight years, I've spent time on the ground with the team, helping prepare and distribute meals in communities where access to food is never guaranteed. This program works because it doesn't stop. July is one more month of not stopping.

The Problem

Food insecurity in tribal areas isn't just about calories and cannot be solved by donations of vitamins or food. It's about consistent access to nutritious food over time. Fresh vegetables are expensive to buy and unreliable to source in remote hamlets. When families can't access them, the people who pay the highest price are pregnant women, new mothers, and young children.

Before consistent programs reached the communities Project Annapurna works with, pregnancy-related deaths and infant mortality were as high as 37%. Five years of showing up, month after month, has brought that down to 2%.

A seed kit doesn't replace medical support or ration distribution. But it adds something those interventions can't: a household's ability to grow its own nutrition, on its own land, without depending on supply chains or market access. This has generational impact on the lifestyle and health of these communities.

What This Campaign Funds

₹500 = 5 seed kits = 5 households
₹1,500 = 15 seed kits = 15 households
₹3,000 = 30 seed kits = 30 households

Each household receives 15 varieties of vegetables they can grow themselves.

The full 3,000-household target is ₹3,00,000. We're starting with what we can, and going further if you help us get there.

Donate now. Forward this to one person who might. A small amount, passed on, is how 3,000 families get seeds this planting season.