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September 2026
Building Agency Through Opportunity: New Pathways for Waste Pickers
September 2026
What Does Dignified Work Look Like for the People Behind the Circular Economy?
September 2026
Conversations from the Field: Building Dignity, Voice and Agency for Bengaluru’s Waste Pickers
September 2026
The Ledger Brings Agency: How Self-Help Groups Are Transforming Waste Picker Women's Relationship with Money, Each Other and Institutions
September 2026
Through Their Lens: Seeing Community, Finding Voice
June 2026
Designing for Agency
June 2026
Beyond Representation
June 2026
Beyond Access
June 2026
Conversations from the Field: Beyond Infrastructure
June 2026
Beyond Livelihoods
March 2026
De-Risking Circular Innovation: From Pilots to Systemic Scale
March 2026
Blooming Together: Friendship and Fortitude in Vinayaka Nagar
March 2026
Conversations from the Field: Social Entitlements – From Exclusion to Access
March 2026
Putting Children Back at the Centre of Learning: Medi Agrahara Shows How
March 2026
Growing Nano-Entrepreneurship in Marginalised Communities: What Bengaluru's Waste Pickers Showed Was Possible
January 2026
Working as One: Lessons from Udhyam’s Collective Impact Journey with Saamuhika Shakti
January 2026
Jeeva’s Journey: Restarting a Dream, One Step at a Time
December 2025
When Communities Lead: Six Years of Collective Action with Bengaluru’s Waste Pickers
December 2025
Building Nano-Entrepreneurship in Marginalised Communities: What Bengaluru’s Waste Pickers Taught Us
December 2025
Conversations from the Field: How Kannada–English Dictionaries Are Building Confidence in Young Learners
December 2025
A Community’s Journey of Trust and Transformation
December 2025
A Café as a Catalyst: How Pride and Agency Were Built on Wheels
December 2025
Bridging Languages, Unlocking Learning: One Year of the Kannada–English Bilingual Dictionaries in Bengaluru Government Schools
December 2025
From On-the-Ground Change to System-Wide Impact
November 2025
A circular model catching textile waste before it's lost
November 2025
India’s Textile Revolution Has a Secret: Here’s What’s Behind It
September 2025
Conversations from the Field: PPE with Purpose
September 2025
A Story of Collective Impact and Quiet Resilience
September 2025
Social Mapping: A Ground-Up Tool for Program Design, Delivery, and Monitoring
September 2025
The Textile Recovery Facility (TRF): A Journey of Resilience, Brand-Building, and Economic Viability
September 2025
Rethinking Textile Waste: Four Ventures Giving Discards a New Life
September 2025
How Qilin and Gen Z are driving Sustainable Fashion together
September 2025
How inclusivity and collective impact builds better businesses
June 2025
Conversations from the Field: Working Together to Improve Sanitation Access
June 2025
A Colourful Beginning in Ullal
June 2025
Enabling a Seamless Backbone Transition: Experiences from Saamuhika Shakti
June 2025
Conducting Surveys in Waste-Picking Communities: Key Challenges and Lessons Learned
June 2025
Wash The Dabba: How a Simple Ask Sparked a City-Wide Movement in Bengaluru
April 2025
Old Clothes, New Life — Textile Waste Collection in Bengaluru
March 2025
Bridging Language Barriers: Launch of Bilingual Dictionaries for Government Schools in Karnataka
March 2025
Conversations from the Field: Giving Textile Waste New Life with Scalable & Inclusive Ventures
March 2025
Journey of Advancing Gender Equity in Saamuhika Shakti
March 2025
Beyond Skilling: The Case for Community Hubs to Foster Economic and Social Transformation
March 2025
From Waste Pickers to Entrepreneurs: A Year of Learning and Growth
February 2026
Designing for Habit: The Making of an Income Tracker
February 2025
Forging Livelihoods: Building New Opportunities for Metal Bangle Artisans from Bengaluru’s Waste-Picker Communities
January 2025
Weaving a New Dream: From Housekeeping to Entrepreneurship
January 2025
Crafting a Better Future: How Udhyam is Catalysing Creativity and Livelihoods Among the Informal Waste Picking Community
December 2024
Clean Hands, Healthy Futures: Celebrating Global Handwashing Day with Children
December 2024
Conversations From the Field: Lighting Up Lives with LED Balloons
December 2024
Continuous Communication and Saamuhika Shakti, A Primer
December 2024
Bringing Children Back to School
December 2024
Clean Water, Better Lives: WASH Interventions for Waste Picker Communities
September 2024
Conversations from the field: Saamuhika Shakti’s focus on gender inclusion
September 2024
Behind the scenes of a viral campaign: What it takes to amplify the voices of Bengaluru’s informal waste pickers
September 2024
People and planet positive: How an inclusive circular textile waste management model is improving livelihoods of waste pickers in Bengaluru and saving the environment
September 2024
Circular economy innovations for environmental and social impact
September 2024
Nested Theory of Change: A tool for mapping collective impact pathways
June 2024
Conversations from the field: From the Sidelines of the Maa-Beti Menstrual Health Awareness Workshop
June 2024
In pursuit of equity: Saamuhika Shakti’s focus on gender inclusion
June 2024
From Invisible to #Invaluable: Building awareness and appreciation for waste pickers
June 2024
Empowering Bengaluru's waste pickers with social security access
June 2024
Opening doors to new livelihood opportunities, one centre at a time
March 2024
A day sorting textile waste at the Dry Waste Collection Center managed by Kumuda Ma
March 2024
On boarding with Saamuhika Shakti
March 2024
Collaboration Empowers Sustainability: Saamuhika Shakti Welcomes Sattva for Phase 2
December 2023
Looking back and looking ahead: Marching into Phase 2 of Saamuhika Shakti
December 2023
Women of the crochet bommai’s (toys)
December 2023
A collection of Saamuhika Shakti footprints
December 2023
10 learnings from running India’s first formally structured Collective Impact Initiative
September 2023
Conversations from the field: Making PPE work for waste pickers
September 2023
The Waste Pickers' Dictionary
September 2023
The stories behind our photos
September 2023
Your old clothes are not trash
September 2023
Influencing for good: It works!
July 2023
Bengaluru! Send your textile waste to these waste-picker-run centres
June 2023
Collaborating for impact: How participatory planning will set the agenda for Saamuhika Shakti’s next phase
June 2023
Unstoppable: An evening with an all-woman dream team
June 2023
Igniting Little Minds: Save the Children's work in Anganwadis and schools
June 2023
Climate-pROOFing informal settlements: Roofs To Protect Against Climate Change & Rising Temperatures in Jyothipura
June 2023
Gender inclusive circularity: Unpacking gender within Social Alpha’s architecture
March 2023
#InclusiveCircularity: What we mean by it, and how it can benefit the planet and people without affecting profitability
March 2023
How we do gender at Saamuhika Shakti: Partner Perspectives
March 2023
How children learn: Exploring school readiness of kids from Bengaluru's waste-picking families
March 2023
Inside the unseen world of Electronic City's hair pickers
March 2024
Welcome to two new partners! Sparsha Trust and Udhyam Learning Foundation
March 2023
Conversations from the field: Sisterhood of Success
March 2023
How a top-down approach sustains impact for waste workers
December 2022
The Big Fat MLP Problem
December 2022
From invisible to Bengaluru’s invaluable
December 2022
Gender at heart: How Saamuhika Shakti works with women and girls
December 2022
Our tribe is growing: New partners join Saamuhika Shakti to further #InclusiveCircularity
December 2022
Conversations from the field: Waste Managers
December 2022
Where plastic waste goes to live
September 2022
All the things we do not see: A photostory by children
September 2022
The sweet smell of recycled flowers
September 2022
Behind the scenes: All the work that goes into making waste worthy
September 2022
38,32,50,000: Bengaluru's Happy Number
September 2022
What happens when design, communication and collective impact converge
September 2022
Waste as wealth: A year of learnings from Techtonic
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