In this report, we delve into the events and milestones of the year 2024-25 at
the Mahashakti Seva Kendra. Here, you’ll discover an overview of our diverse
projects and activities
In the year 2024-25, there have been new clients and orders for the stitching
unit. Three batches at the computer center.
The film festival of the 4th batch of the Green Hub fellowship and the fifth
batch coming in.
In January this year in Jan 2025, MSK became a part of Dasra Rebuilt
portfolio. We also received funding from Global Greengrants, Both Ends
Stitching and Mind and life Institute for our mental well being programs.
Our four year partnership ended with Ford Foundation in August, 2025.
The year started with a picnic to the Sanchi stupa, both the ladies from the
stitching unit and girls from the computer center were part of it. In mid January
24, MSK got a stall through the MP Tourism Board to put up a stall at the Lok
Rang Festival, a yearly craft mela in Bhopal. MSK was also invited by NIFT to
be part of the Handloom Pakhwara to display the crafts from fabric scraps.
Being part of the Dasra Rebuild Portfolio, has helped the organization to
increase the salaries of the Staff of the stitching unit and also organize
workshops to enhance the skills of the ladies in block printing.
The year also saw the visit of the students of the Bhopal School of Social
Sciences pursuing their MSW to understand the functioning of MSK and meet
the ladies at the MSK unit.
MSK collaborated with FPA (family planning Association) and organized a
free health check up for all the ladies in the basti.
MSK ladies also went as Master Trainers to train the SHG in Karond Village,
under a project by the Bhopal Zila Panchayat,
MSK also saw the exposure visit of students of Columbia University to discuss
the idea of sustainability and understand the functioning of the organization.
To further the cause of empowering and skilling the girls, MSK has set up an incubation center that helps women and youth to become entrepreneurs and agents of change at the local level.
Apart from the regular classes, The ICT center organised summer camp for the children, where they were taught sketching, art, they had to make projects on the theme of sustainability.
Project FoRe (Fostering Resilience) was conceived as a deeply intentional response to the psychosocial needs of at-risk youth and women from structurally excluded communities in Bhopal—many of whom continue to live with the generational impact of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Recognizing the urgent need for contextually grounded, culturally relevant, and community-rooted mental health support, Project FoRe sought to create safe, self-sustaining spaces where healing and growth could emerge from within the community itself.
A distinctive element of Project FoRe has been its integration of contemplative practices as both grounding tools and pedagogical methods. Techniques such as Anapanasati (breath awareness), Heart Chakra chanting, guided visualizations, reflective writing, and arts-based expression were used to foster mindfulness, emotional regulation, and deeper introspection— opening up new ways for youth and women to engage with their emotions, identities, and relationships
Over the course of the program, 50 individuals—primarily youth and women—directly participated in and benefited from the FoRe Clubs.
We formally launched Project Solace in December 2024. Solace is an interdisciplinary open source platform that explores the nature of psychological loss, and its connection with the loss of natural environments in India. It documents voices and stories that reflect this environmental grief, as it manifests in our psyche. Situating this research archive in India enables it to work as a lab for other parts of the world to develop local and contemporary knowledge around the connections between mental health and environmental distress.
We work with three collaborators in parts of India that are at the heart of environmental and many other crises – Odisha, Chhattisgarh and the North Eastern states. All collaborators are living at the frontlines of where climate crises are unfolding.
The Green Hub Central India (GHCI) Fellowship is a 10-month video
fellowship that aims to engage, empower, and digitally equip rural and tribal
youth from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand in the
conservation of biodiversity, traditional knowledge, natural resources, and
sustainable practices.
Every year up to 25 youth are selected for this fellowship. The long term goal
is to work with local youth and their communities to create avenues for greater
exposure, agency, expression, and integration with sustainable livelihood
options. The programme is a collaboration between Mahashakti Seva Kendra
(MSK) and the Dusty Foot Foundation (DFF) with support of the Ford
Foundation
This year the fourth batch of Green Hub graduated and the fifth batch
has started their training.