Swades Foundation

Founded by Ronnie Screwvala with Zarina Mehta as its Managing Trustee and previously known as SHARE (Society to Heal Aid Restore Educate), the Swades Foundation operates with the single-minded focus of empowering Rural India.

At Swades, we believe that India cannot rise to its true potential without a fundamental transformation in the lives of people in rural India. We stand committed towards fostering partnerships of rural India with corporates, young urban India, the Government and other foundations to create a permanent and irreversible change for good. 

Our strategy is to Engage, Execute, Empower and Exit: To engage rural communities with corporates, young urban India, not-for-profit organizations and Governments to execute programs that empower our communities to transform their own lives, enabling us to exit and allowing them to serve as role models and change agents for the rest of the country.