Swasti dreams of a world where no one is left behind - where all surmount barriers, embracing well-being, striving together adding 100 million healthy days to the lives of the most marginalised.

Climate change could result in an additional 100 million people living in extreme poverty by 2030 according to the World Bank.

In our communities and across the world, we are seeing a rise in :

• Heat-related strokes, cramps, and effects such as stillbirth, preterm births, and co-morbidities.
• Vector-borne and water-borne infections.
• Respiratory and cardiovascular diseases due to air pollution.
• Mental health issues: anxiety, trauma, lack of access to mental health services, and medication.
• Food insecurity, anemia, and nutritional deficiencies.
• Loss of basic necessities like food, shelter, clean drinking water, safety, and livelihood

This burdens people living and working in difficult conditions.

Our work aims to lessen the brunt of climate disasters on all the vulnerable communities we work with.

We prioritise differential impacts due to gender, pregnancy, age (elderly and children), geography and disaster risk, occupation and exposure, and of course pre-existing infections or chronic health conditions.

By building community resilience in inclusive, participatory ways, we can mitigate the adverse effects of climate change by providing relevant, accessible tools for further coping strategies

This involves

• Developing a skilled, sensitive community health workforce
• Capacity building for policy change champions 
• Facilitating decentralised, sustainable, and climate-resilient infrastructure for healthcare facilities
• Integrate climate risk intelligence through AI-powered dashboards and risk communication to support health governance in partnership with provincial and district health administrations.