A Public Charitable Trust · Tumakuru, Karnataka
We work across education, health, culture, environment, and social welfare — without discrimination, for the public good.
§ 01Why Trivarna
Most charitable trusts choose a single cause and go deep. Trivarna took a different path — because the people we mean to serve rarely live their lives in tidy categories. A child who drops out of school is also a child whose mother has no income, whose grandmother has no medical access, whose village has no clean water. The nine focus areas in our trust deed are not nine separate departments. They are nine angles on one question: what does the public good look like in practice?
We are a new trust, registered on 2 May 2026, with no track record yet to point to. What we bring instead is clarity of intent, disciplined governance, and trustees with decades of combined experience in social service, business, and community work. We are publishing our plans openly — including the gaps — because that is how trust gets built.
§ 02Our Signature Commitment
Across every field, there are people doing extraordinary service and never being thanked. The teacher who stays back for the slowest reader. The ASHA worker walking eight kilometres to a delivery. The volunteer who shows up at every camp and never asks for a name plate.
Honouring Achievers is the commitment that gives Trivarna its particular character. We exist, in part, to thank them publicly — through awards, citations, and lasting documentation of their contribution.
Recognition is not a side activity for us. It is its own form of public good.
Recognition tells a society what it values, and the next generation what is worth aspiring to.
§ 03Our Purpose
Trivarna Foundation was established to advance public welfare across nine interconnected domains — from a child’s first day at school to a community’s recovery from disaster, from a yoga student’s first breath to an unsung hero’s long-overdue recognition.
We believe meaningful change happens when education, health, culture, and community all move forward together — patiently, in partnership with the people already doing the work.
§ 04In practice
Concrete examples of the work Trivarna intends to take on — small in scale, specific in design.
Education
A village in Tumakuru taluk has 340 children and no library. Trivarna’s first planned education programme is a small reading room with 800 books, a part-time librarian, and Saturday storytelling sessions. Cost: about three lakh rupees a year.
Honouring Achievers
She has taught at the same government school for 28 years. Three generations of one family have learned to read from her. She has never been invited to a felicitation. Trivarna’s first recognition cycle will identify three such teachers in Karnataka.
Health
Most rural health camps come once and never again. Trivarna’s planned model is a four-camp cycle in the same village across one year — same families, follow-up care, real records. We are scoping the first cluster in Sira taluk.
Indicative examples. Specific programmes will be announced as they are scoped and funded.
§ 05What we do
Each focus area is grounded in our trust deed and treated with the same care.
Learning
From a child's first day of school to scholarships, libraries, and learning centres for those left behind.
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Practice & Heritage
Yoga, traditional arts, music, and cultural heritage — practices that anchor communities to themselves.
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Care & Relief
Camps, hospitals, mobile clinics, and emergency relief — health care that reaches where it's needed most.
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Community
Support for women, children, elderly, and vulnerable communities — without discrimination of any kind.
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Stewardship
Tree planting, water conservation, sustainable practices, and protecting the places we call home.
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Research
Supporting research, innovation, and the scholars working on problems that matter.
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Athletics
Training, infrastructure, and opportunity for athletes — especially those who would otherwise be overlooked.
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Recognition
Recognising the quiet servers, grassroots workers, and unsung heroes whose contribution often goes unnoticed.
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Public Good
Disaster relief, emergency support, and any cause of public utility that aligns with our values.
Read more§ 06Trustees
Founder trustees with diverse experience in social service, business, and community development.
Founder Trustee & Managing Trustee
Has spent his working life in grassroots social service across rural Karnataka. Anchors Trivarna's day-to-day direction and field engagement.
Founder Trustee & Secretary
Brings business and operational experience to the trust's administration, governance, and partnerships.
Founder Trustee & Treasurer
A steady custodian of the trust's finances and compliance — every rupee accounted for, every report on time.
Founder Trustee
Entrepreneurial background with a long-standing commitment to women's welfare and local community development.
Built in public
We publish our plans, gaps, and progress openly — because trust starts with what we say before we have results to show.
Work with us
We welcome enquiries from individuals, institutions, CSR teams, and government agencies.