Our Story
Change Begins With Villages
Rain Drop was born from real field experience and a deep understanding of rural hardship in drought prone regions. The organisation works with communities where water scarcity affects farming, livestock, income, health, and everyday family decisions. Its work brings together water conservation, tree plantation, women’s livelihood support, animal husbandry, organic farming awareness, and environmental education for children. Rain Drop believes that rural development becomes meaningful when people participate in their own progress. Every activity is shaped with patience, local knowledge, and respect for the lives of families who continue to struggle quietly.
Waste Reduction
Innovative research to initiatives aimed
Nature Renewal
Innovative research to initiatives aimed
Core Areas
Work That Reaches Ground
Rain Drop works across connected areas that shape rural life, from water and farming to women’s income, animal care, and children’s environmental awareness.
Rain Drop supports water conservation through watershed activities, rainwater awareness, farm ponds, contour trenches, check dam repair, and restoration of local water sources.
Water Conservation
Native tree plantation helps protect soil, improve local ecology, and strengthen climate resilience in rural areas. Rain Drop encourages communities to plant, care for, and protect saplings.
Tree Plantation
Rain Drop supports women, farmers, and rural families through Self Help Groups, livelihood training, microfinance awareness, tailoring support, poultry, goat rearing.
Rural Livelihoods
Supporting farming communities through sustainable agricultural practices, rural awareness, and better opportunities that strengthen livelihoods.
Agriculture Development
Encouraging skill based opportunities and income support initiatives that help individuals and families move towards financial stability and self reliance.
Livelihood Empowerment
Encouraging rural growth through awareness and support connected to animal care, dairy activities, and sustainable livestock based livelihoods.
Animal Husbandry Support
Our Missions
Restored damage state ecosystem to natural
Rain Drop helps villages restore damaged land, protect water sources, improve soil health, and promote nature friendly farming through community participation and practical field work.
Purpose Driven
Change Begins From Ground
Rain Drop works closely with rural communities facing water scarcity, environmental challenges, unstable livelihoods, and changing climate conditions. Every effort grows through local participation, practical solutions, and long term community wellbeing.
Tree Plantation And Water Conservation
Many villages across Marathwada continue facing drought, soil erosion, and shrinking water resources that affect farming and daily life. Through plantation drives, watershed activities, rainwater conservation, and restoration of local water structures, Rain Drop works with communities to rebuild ecological balance and protect natural resources for future generations.
Livelihood Empowerment For Rural Communities
Rural livelihoods often depend on uncertain farming conditions and limited income opportunities. Rain Drop supports women, farmers, and local families through Self Help Groups, organic farming awareness, animal based livelihoods, skill development, and small enterprise support that strengthen dignity, confidence, and financial stability within communities.
Community Sangha
Our Working Cycle
Soil and Water Testing
Analyzing soil composition and water quality to understand key environmental factors..
Evaluating potential
Analyzing soil composition and water quality to understand key environmental factors..
Project Coordination
Analyzing soil composition and water quality to understand key environmental factors..
Sustainability Practices
Analyzing soil composition and water quality to understand key environmental factors..
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Real Journey
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Your Support
Together We Restore Hope
Rural change needs people who believe in patient work, honest action, and long term responsibility. Rain Drop invites donors, volunteers, partners, and well wishers to stand with communities working to protect water, grow trees, strengthen livelihoods, care for animals, support farmers, and teach children the value of nature. A single contribution can help a sapling survive, a woman begin an income activity, a farmer learn sustainable practices, a village conserve water, or a child grow with environmental responsibility. When support reaches the ground with care, it becomes more than help. It becomes hope that villages can carry forward.
Community Words
Voices Of Shared Trust
Nature protection has always been close to my heart. Through Rain Drop, I see communities slowly reconnecting with trees, water, soil, and local responsibility. When people care for their surroundings together, the future of the village becomes stronger.
Rahul Mehta
Donor
Women carry many responsibilities inside rural homes, yet their strength often remains unseen. Through livelihood work, Self Help Groups, and small income activities, I have seen women gain confidence, speak with courage.
Ananya Verma
Donor
Farmers need support that respects their land and their knowledge. Rain Drop’s focus on organic farming awareness, sustainable practices, and local resource care helps communities think beyond one crop season and work towards long term.
Arjun Singh
Donor
Team Members
Our Top Skilled Experts
Ashok Sarwade
Founder And Director President
Balasaheb Narwade
Joint Secretary
Sarjerao Sarwade
Secretary
Sulakshana Sonawane
Vice President
Shrikrishna Rapkal
Project Coordinator
Clear Answers
Questions That Build Trust
Rain Drop works with rural communities through water conservation, tree plantation, livelihood development, animal husbandry, organic farming awareness, and environmental education. The organisation focuses on practical activities that respond to real village challenges such as water scarcity, unstable income, soil degradation, livestock care needs, and limited environmental awareness among children.
Rain Drop is based in Shyam Nagar, Latur, Maharashtra, and focuses on Latur district and surrounding drought prone regions of Marathwada. The work is shaped around local rural conditions where families face water stress, farming uncertainty, livelihood pressure, and environmental changes that affect daily life.
Rain Drop was founded by Ashok Shesherao Sarwade in 2014 after years of grassroots experience in rural development. His work in Bundelkhand across health, water, and livelihood initiatives helped shape the organisation’s practical approach for communities in the Marathwada region.
Rain Drop supports water conservation through activities such as farm ponds, contour trenches, check dam repair, rainwater harvesting awareness, watershed development, and restoration of village water sources. The aim is to help communities conserve rainwater, improve groundwater recharge, and protect farmland during dry periods.
In drought prone areas, tree plantation supports soil protection, moisture retention, local biodiversity, and long term ecological balance. Rain Drop encourages native tree plantation and community based sapling care so trees planted today can continue supporting people, animals, and land in the coming years.
Rural Voices