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World Development Foundation


World Development Foundation is a non-profit organisation, established in 2003 that works primarily in the domain of Child & Youth Development, Gender, Education, Tourism, Technology, Food & Nutrition, Employment, Legal, Human Rights, Health, Disaster Management, Specially Abled, Art & Culture and Agriculture. Its primary office is in New Delhi, Delhi.


Name

World Development Foundation

Type

Non-profit

Sub Type

Trust

Website

http://wdfindia.org

Sector(s)

Agriculture Art & Culture Specially Abled Disaster Management Health Human Rights Legal Employment Food & Nutrition Technology Tourism Other Education Gender Child & Youth Development

Start Year

2003

Government ID

DL/2009/0008017

Registration ID

54217

Projects in States

Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Puducherry Tamil Nadu West Bengal Chhattisgarh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chandigarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand Kerala Lakshadweep Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Jammu and Kashmir Odisha Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Projects in Districts

Andaman Nicobar Adilabad Anantapur Chittoor Cuddapah East Godavari Guntur More Hyderabad Karimnagar Khammam Krishna Kurnool Mahabubnagar Medak Nalgonda Nellore Nizamabad Prakasam Rangareddy Srikakulam Visakhapatnam Vizianagaram Warangal West Godavari Changlang Lower Dibang Valley East Kameng East Siang Lohit Lower Subansiri Papum Pare Tawang Tirap Upper Siang Upper Subansiri West Kameng West Siang Dibang Valley Kurung Kumey Anjaw Barpeta Bongaigaon Cachar Darrang Dhemaji Dhubri Dibrugarh Goalpara Golaghat Hailakandi Jorhat Kamrup Karbi Anglong Karimganj Kokrajhar Lakhimpur Marigaon Nagaon Nalbari North Cachar Hills Sivasagar Sonitpur Tinsukia Araria Aurangabad Banka Begusarai Bhagalpur Bhojpur Buxar Darbhanga Gaya Gopalganj Jamui Jehanabad Kaimur (Bhabua) Katihar Khagaria Kishanganj Lakhisarai Madhepura Madhubani Munger Muzaffarpur Nalanda Nawada West Champaran Patna East Champaran Purnia Rohtas Saharsa Samastipur Saran Sheikhpura Sheohar Sitamarhi Siwan Supaul Vaishali Bastar Bilaspur Dantewada Dhamtari Durg Janjgir-Champa Jashpur Kanker Kawardha Korba Korea Mahasamund Raigarh Raipur Rajnandgaon Surguja Chandigarh Central Delhi East Delhi New Delhi North Delhi North East Delhi North West Delhi South Delhi South West Delhi West Delhi North Goa South Goa Ahmedabad Amreli Anand Banas Kantha Bharuch Bhavnagar Dahod Gandhinagar Jamnagar Junagadh Kachchh Kheda Mahesana Narmada Navsari Panch Mahals Patan Porbandar Rajkot Sabar Kantha Surat Surendranagar The Dangs Vadodara Valsad Chamba Hamirpur Kangra Kinnaur Kullu Lahaul & Spiti Mandi Shimla Sirmaur Solan Una Ambala Bhiwani Faridabad Fatehabad Gurgaon Hisar Jhajjar Jind Kaithal Karnal Kurukshetra Mahendragarh Panchkula Panipat Rewari Rohtak Sirsa Sonipat Yamunanagar Mewat Bokaro Chatra Deoghar Dhanbad Dumka Garhwa Giridih Godda Gumla Hazaribag Koderma Lohardaga Pakur Palamu West Singhbhum East Singhbhum Ranchi Sahibganj Seraikela Jamtara Latehar Simdega Anantnag Budgam Baramulla Doda Jammu Kargil Kathua Kupwara Leh Pulwama Poonch Rajauri Srinagar Udhampur Alappuzha Ernakulam Idukki Kannur Kasargod Kollam Kottayam Kozhikode Malappuram Palakkad Pathanamthitta Thiruvananthapuram Thrissur Wayanad Bagalkot Bangalore Bangalore Rural Belgaum Bellary Bidar Bijapur Chamrajnagar Chickmagalur Chitradurga South Kannada Davangere Dharwad Gadag Gulbarga Hassan Haveri Kodagu Kolar Koppal Mandya Mysore Raichur Shimoga Tumkur Udupi North Kannada Lakshadweep East Garo Hills East Khasi Hills Jaintia Hills Ri Bhoi South Garo Hills West Garo Hills West Khasi Hills Aizawl Champhai Kolasib Lawngtlai Lunglei Mamit Saiha Serchhip Bishnupur Chandel Churachandpur Imphal East Imphal West Senapati Tamenglong Thoubal Ukhrul Balaghat Barwani Betul Bhind Bhopal Chhatarpur Chhindwara Damoh Datia Dewas Dhar Dindori Guna Gwalior Harda Hoshangabad Indore Jabalpur Jhabua Katni Mandla Mandsaur Morena Narsinghpur Neemuch Panna Raisen Rajgarh Ratlam Rewa Sagar Satna Sehore Seoni Shahdol Shajapur Sheopur Shivpuri Sidhi Tikamgarh Ujjain Umaria Vidisha Khargone Khandwa Anuppur Burhanpur Ashoknagar Ahmednagar Akola Amravati Bhandara Beed Buldhana Chandrapur Dhule Gadchiroli Gondia Hingoli Jalgaon Jalna Kolhapur Latur Mumbai Mumbai Suburban Nagpur Nanded Nandurbar Nashik Osmanabad Parbhani Pune Raigad Ratnagiri Sangli Satara Sindhudurg Solapur Thane Wardha Washim Yavatmal Dimapur Kohima Mokokchung Mon Phek Tuensang Wokha Zunheboto Angul Balangir Baleswar Bargarh Boudh Bhadrak Cuttack Deogarh Dhenkanal Gajapati Ganjam Jagatsinghapur Jajpur Jharsuguda Kalahandi Kandhamal Kendrapara Kendujhar Khordha Koraput Malkangiri Mayurbhanj Nabarangapur Nayagarh Nuapada Puri Rayagada Sambalpur Subarnapur Sundergarh Karaikal Mahe Pondicherry Yanam Amritsar Bathinda Faridkot Fatehgarh Sahib Ferozepur Gurdaspur Hoshiarpur Jalandhar Kapurthala Ludhiana Mansa Moga Muktsar Nawanshahr Patiala Rupnagar Sangrur Ajmer Alwar Banswara Baran Barmer Bharatpur Bhilwara Bikaner Bundi Chittorgarh Churu Dausa Dholpur Dungarpur Sri Ganganagar Hanumangarh Jaipur Jaisalmer Jalore Jhalawar Jhunjhunu Jodhpur Karauli Kota Nagaur Pali Rajsamand Sawai Madhopur Sikar Sirohi Tonk Udaipur East Sikkim North Sikkim South Sikkim West Sikkim Chennai Coimbatore Cuddalore Dharmapuri Dindigul Erode Kanchipuram Kanyakumari Karur Madurai Nagapattinam Namakkal Perambalur Pudukkottai Ramanathapuram Salem Sivaganga Thanjavur Nilgiris Theni Tiruvallur Tiruvarur Thoothukudi Tiruchirappalli Tirunelveli Tiruvannamalai Vellore Viluppuram Virudhunagar Krishnagiri Dhalai North Tripura South Tripura West Tripura Agra Aligarh Allahabad Ambedkar Nagar Auraiya Azamgarh Bagpat Bahraich Ballia Balrampur Banda Barabanki Bareilly Basti Bijnor Budaun Bulandshahr Chandauli Chitrakoot Deoria Etah Etawah Faizabad Farrukhabad Fatehpur Firozabad Gautam Buddha Nagar Ghaziabad Ghazipur Gonda Gorakhpur Hardoi Hathras Jalaun Jaunpur Jhansi Jyotiba Phule Nagar Kannauj Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Nagar Kaushambi Kheri Kushinagar Lalitpur Lucknow Maharajganj Mahoba Mainpuri Mathura Mau Meerut Mirzapur Moradabad Muzaffarnagar Pilibhit Pratapgarh Raebareli Rampur Saharanpur Sant Kabir Nagar Sant Ravidas Nagar Shahjahanpur Shravasti Siddharthnagar Sitapur Sonbhadra Sultanpur Unnao Varanasi Almora Bageshwar Chamoli Champawat Dehradun Pauri Garhwal Haridwar Nainital Pithoragarh Rudraprayag Tehri Garhwal Udham Singh Nagar Uttarkashi Bankura Bardhaman Birbhum South Dinajpur Darjeeling Howrah Hooghly Jalpaiguri Cooch Behar Malda East Medinipur Murshidabad Nadia North 24 Parganas Purulia South 24 Parganas North Dinajpur West Medinipur Less

Primary Office Address

(Registered Address) Plot 5, Sector 3, Karuna Kinj, DwarkaBehind DPS in front of BSESNew Delhi-110075

City

New Delhi

State

Delhi

Major Activities

Major tasks and accomplishments (as reported by the NGO):
World Development Foundation (WDF) is a knowledge-based, global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world. WDF strives to empower the poor by providing education and training with the use of Radio, TV and the Internet. It also conducts research and seminars on social and economic issues. All these efforts are aimed at one goal, namely, Life Enrichment of the Poor and Socially Challenged.WDF is implementing a number of projects and providing consultancy for use of ICT for sharing knowledge, removal of poverty, improving health, increasing food production, empowerment of poor and under privileged, propagating the rights of women and children etc. Towards this end, WDF is implementing or has implemented schemes of Community Radio Stations in Birsa Agriculture University Ranchi, Narendra Deva University, Kumarganj, UP, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, CSS University Hissar, CMS Lucknow, Allahabad Agricultural University, Siyasat Hyderabad, KVK Karda & Ghazipur, and many more. In fact 80% of the CRSs in the country were established with our guidance and advice. We are also working with Media Lab Asia (MLAsia) under Ministry of IT, Govt. of India towards dissemination of innovations and technology that benefit the greatest number of the underprivileged population.WDF and MLAsia, have joined hand to use the CRS and ICT for the help of farmers through broadcast of improved methods of agriculture in various regions of the Country.Capacity building is very important. We are running training programmes at a number of places in the country to train the youth from poor families and to make them employable. We have already conducted training courses jointly with the Universities.Other activities are:��_�� Research and Innovation of new modes of use of Radio media with ICT for improving the livelihood of poor and underprivileged. ��_�� Holding Seminars, Workshops, Tutorials to interact with professionals, communities, stake holders.��_�� Developing portal for content on Health & Hygiene, Livelihood Generation, Farming and agriculture, Entrepreneurship etc. which could be shared by various users.��_�� Deployment of the ICT solution in Agriculture and other Universities and rural areas.��_�� Imparting training for hardware maintenance, content production, broadcast ethics, rules and regulation, broadcasting and IT.��_�� Development of multimedia content and documentary film in various language and dialect. ��_�� Conducting Surveys and assessing the impact.��_�� Developing Broadcast and Communication infrastructure

Income Tax ID Verification

Verified

Parent Organisation

Charitabletrust

Contributions/Source(s)

NGO DARPAN, Government of India (Learn more)

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