My name is Priti Vinayak Patel and I am a Senior Manager at Intellect Design Arena Ltd in Mumbai.

My colleagues and I are running a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to empower panchayat members and key leaders in tribal areas across Maharashtra. This is done with the NGO - GSMT which educates panchayats and individuals on how they can leverage forest produce to create more wealth for themselves.

This is done at the village level and takes 3-years typically. It results in the GDP of a village going up by 3-5 times. This means the tribal families there suddenly see more income and this moves them out from poverty to prosperity. The aim is to accelerate their Self Government process for their sustainable livelihood and ecological security through the management of natural resources in 25 tribal Gram Panchayats of Yavatmal district of Maharashtra.

My campaign aims to impact 70 families of more in a village in Maharashtra. Please support and fund my campaign as we can together impact many villages.

As an Individual, I am trying to raise INR 60000 or more to impact on an average of 70 families in a village for a year. The more we raise the longer we can impact this village for. Once a village is impacted this becomes a sustainable income for them for life.