About Margshala Foundation
A BRIEF HISTORY
In 2019, a team of motivated development sector professionals came together to solve tough problems in hard places. We asked ourselves a simple question – how can we create opportunities for young people in the most remote of communities?
Since then, we have run a number of innovative experimental pilots related to livelihoods, entrepreneurship, career awareness and environmental sustainability for close to 2000 young people.across remote districts of Uttarakhand. Over the last 3 years, our flagship program – the Margshala Swarozgar Fellowship – has grown into one of the few well-recognized youth entrepreneurship programs in the Himalayan region.
Margshala Foundation works with the mission of creating sustainable rural livelihoods by enabling rural youth change makers with experience, exposure, and capacities to create local futures for themselves. We seek to empower underserved communities in rural and remote parts of the country, with a unique focus on the Himalayan region.
Till now, we were fortunate to be incubated by India and Bharat Together, or IABT Foundation. In 2022, Margshala Foundation has been incorporated as a non-profit Section 8 Company to take forward this mission independently and build on the early success of our programs in the Himalayan region.
Meet The Team

JASMEET SINGH
DIRECTOR, PROGRAMS

JASMEET SINGH
DIRECTOR, PROGRAMS
Facilitator and mentor with 10+ years of experience across urban and rural locations with cross- disciplinary and entrepreneurial expertise in operations, marketing and sales; based in Delhi

AADYA SINGH
FOUNDING DIRECTOR

AADYA SINGH
FOUNDING DIRECTOR
10+ years working on skills, rural livelihoods and biodiversity conservation with extensive experience in the Himalayan Region (Chirag, WWF-India, Leap Skills, IABT Foundation); MA in Development Studies from IIT-Madras

VPJ Sambhavi
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE

VPJ Sambhavi
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE
Sambhavi handles mentorship, communication, and coordination for the Margshala fellowship program. She has Masters’ degrees in Psychology and Education and has an ethnographic research background in the area of Environmental education. She is also an alumna of Delhi University and KU Leuven, the latter where she was an Erasmus Mundus Scholar and an IRO Scholar.

Deepika Nandan
CONSULTANT: DESIGN AND STRATEGY

Deepika Nandan
CONSULTANT: DESIGN AND STRATEGY
Deepika is an artist from Bengaluru whose practice explores the use of found objects and natural, sustainable material. Her enchantment with the natural world began with observing ants as a young child. Now, she uses her art to communicate about the fascinating life around her. Using location and context-specific media and visuals, she investigates the biosphere and how humans interact with it. She hopes her curiosity is contagious and her work inspires sustainability and conservation. Follow her work at https://www.instagram.com/deepikanandan/