Ownership, not charity.
Hareli is building India's largest women-owned rural manufacturing federation — turning self-help groups across the tribal belt of Eastern India into a community-owned industrial institution.
Photograph — a Kharia tribal woman, Jharkhand. Source image unavailable; caption preserved.
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Rural India's women rarely own what they build.
Across tribal and rural India, women remain economically excluded. Most self-help groups stay low-income; rural manufacturing participation is negligible, and community ownership of productive assets is rare. Household incomes stay low, migration persists, and wealth leaves the communities that created it.
A federation, owned end to end by the women who build it.
Hareli layers women's collectives into village institutions, federation governance and community-owned manufacturing — producing regional brands with real market access, so that value created in the village stays in the village.
See the seven-layer modelFour programme verticals.
Women's enterprise
Microenterprises, producer groups and entrepreneurship support built around existing self-help groups.
Rural manufacturing
Packaged drinking water, value-added beverages, consumer products and contract manufacturing under federation ownership.
Leadership development
Governance, financial literacy and business management training for village, block, district and federation leadership.
"The objective is not charity. The objective is ownership."
— Founder's message, Hareli FoundationBuild this federation with us.
Capital partners, capability partners and scale partners — foundations, CSR teams, development organisations and government missions — all have a role in this institution. See where your organisation fits.