A future of dignity and self-determination.
Sehr is a grassroots organisation working with the Sahariya Adivasis of Central India, supporting the community in their fight against social oppression and marginalisation.
Meet the Sahariyas
An Adivasi community rooted in the forested landscapes of Central India, the Sahariya carry generations of ecological knowledge, cultural memory, and a profound relationship with Jal, Jungle, Jameen.
Our theory of change
From intergenerational crises to intergenerational change.
The Sahariya’s deep relationship with forest and land has long sustained their livelihoods, knowledge, and identity. Yet social prejudice, administrative failure, and economic exploitation have systematically pushed the community to the margins.
The crises facing the Sahariya are deeply entrenched, passed from one generation to the next. We’ve visualised them in our theory of change—an interactive walkthrough of the Sahariya reality today, the change we're working towards, and how your support can help make it all possible.
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Reclaiming identity
Protecting, healing, and nurturing the Sahariya Adivasiyat — the community's essence, ecological knowledge, and cultural memory.
Restoring dignity
Ensuring that rights are not just written into law but translate into lived experiences and social attitudes towards the Sahariya community.
Rebuilding agency
Enabling leadership, solidarity, and the collective capacity in the Sahariya to imagine and choose their own future based on their own unique worldview.
Renewing meaning
Creating spaces where Sahariyas can imagine alternatives, work towards new possibilities, and feel inspired to use their power to create change.
OUR PROGRAMMES
The mission in action.
Our work takes shape through distinct yet connected programmes – some active, some emerging.
ACTIVE
Samavesh
Samavesh (inclusion) is our programme to lower the barriers that prevent the Sahariya from accessing and using public institutions and systems.
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Sahvas
Sahvas (solidarity) is our programme to strengthen Sahariya power, voice, and critical consciousness, and shift social attitudes towards Sahariya.
Behind every programme is a way of seeing the world. Explore the questions we're asking and the commitments we're making — thinking that continues to evolve as we learn from Sahariya experiences and make sense of realities on the ground.
A grassroots organisation at heart.
Community workers, lawyers, paralegals, organisers, and researchers work across Madhya Pradesh. Local knowledge and sustained follow-up are central to our work.
Stories from the ground.
Cases, community accounts, interviews, and media coverage.
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