We Didn't Start With Orchards. We Started With a Question.

In the early 2000s, our health team noticed a troubling rise in HIV cases in the Tansa Valley.

We asked: Why?

The answer wasn’t just medical — it was economic. Young men were leaving their villages in search of work. Away from home, without support systems, they faced increased health and safety risks. Families were left vulnerable.

We realized we needed to address why they were migrating in the first place.

That’s how the Orchard Program began.

We partnered with farmers to plant fruit trees — mango, custard apple, cashew — on their own land.

It meant long-term income, right at home.

It reduced migration, strengthened families, and created new hope in the soil beneath their feet.

Today, hundreds of farmers continue to care for orchards that were planted years ago. And we continue to ask:

What’s the root cause?
What does this community need?
How can we bring health, livelihood, and dignity together?

At PRASAD Chikitsa, every program grows from listening.
From orchards to oral health, we believe that real change comes from working across boundaries — and with communities, not just for them.