Pillar 01
Digital inclusion
Getting people online, and useful once they are there.
Non-profit · Since 2019 · Uttar Pradesh
Coverage is not access.
Dollu Foundation is the non-profit arm of Dollu Ltd. We started by connecting the schools and health centres the network reached last, and stayed to keep them running. Today we work across 15 areas in 11 states - and we publish the numbers that make us look bad alongside the ones that do not.
Nobody Offline. Nobody Left Behind.
- 180,000+
- People reached
- 420
- Villages
- 11
- States
- 87%
- Spent on programmes
What we do
15 programmes across four pillars.
We began with connectivity because it is what our parent company knows how to do well. We added the rest because a connected village with unsafe water is not a developed one.
Pillar 02
Education and livelihoods
Skills that lead to work, and work that lasts.
Pillar 03
Health and welfare
Care for the people the system reaches last.
Pillar 04
Environment and community
The shared things a village depends on.
310
Schools connected
6,500
Women trained
1,200+
Volunteers
7
Years running
Initiatives
All 12 initiativesThree of the things we run.
Each has a name, a place, a start date and published numbers.
ScalingUttar Pradesh · since 2020
Connected Classrooms
A connected, maintained computer lab in every government secondary school in the districts we work in.
- 310
- Labs
- 94%
- Still running at 12 months
ScalingBihar · since 2021
Digital Didi
Women trained as their village's paid digital helper - the person who fills the form, makes the claim, spots the scam.
- 1,150
- Digital Didis
- 290,000
- Claims assisted
RunningOdisha · since 2021
Signal in the Storm
Pre-staged emergency communications in cyclone-prone coastal districts, ready before the season starts.
- 31
- Kits staged
- 9
- Responses
“Anyone can cut a ribbon.”
How we work
Fund the second year.
Five principles decide what we take on and what we turn down. Three of them are here.
- 01
Fund the second year
Anyone can cut a ribbon. We budget maintenance, stipends and repairs at the point of installation, because the projects that fail almost never fail on day one.
- 02
Publish the bad numbers
Survival rates at three years, retention at twelve months, referrals actually confirmed. We report these even when they are worse than we hoped, because a sector that only publishes successes teaches nobody anything.
- 03
The community decides
Where a panchayat's priority is not something we fund, that is a legitimate answer. We do not substitute our own plan for a village's.
Get involved
Six ways to help, and no donate button.
We do not take money from a form. Every route ends in a conversation, so you see the accounts and get your questions answered first.
CSR partnership
Fund a programme, a district or a named initiative, with the reporting your board and auditor need.
Companies with a CSR obligation under Section 135
In-kind giving
Working laptops, network equipment, professional services and end-of-life electronics we recycle responsibly.
Companies with equipment, services or expertise to contribute
Volunteering
Mentoring, teaching, companion calling and skilled professional help - remote and in person.
Individuals and corporate teams
Individual giving
Regular or one-off support. We will talk to you first rather than take money from a form.
Individuals who want to support the work directly
Fundraise for us
Run something in aid of a programme - with our materials, and our rules about how you describe us.
Supporters, schools, workplaces and community groups
Institutional grants
Programme grants with formal monitoring, evaluation and reporting frameworks.
Foundations, multilaterals and government programmes
Start a conversation
Tell us what you care about.
Money, equipment, expertise or an afternoon a week. We will come back with something specific - and if we are not the right organisation for it, we will say so and suggest who is.