About Us
We are co-creating empowered and sustainable communities.
With the aim to empower village communities towards self-reliance, Urmul Seemant Samiti has been working since its inception in 1994 in Indo-Pak border village of Bajju, Bikaner, to develop a safe and enabling environment for people that ensures that their right to health, education and employment is respected and realized without discrimination and exclusion, with special focus on children and women. Striving for development in the most distant and underdeveloped villages of Bikaner and Jodhpur district to ensure that people are empowered to decide, design, implement and eventually self-finance the package of development services which are made available to them under different projects.
Vision
Breaking barriers for promoting desert centric social innovations
Mission
To design and implement package of sustainable development services leading to direct benefits for communities of desert
Our Focus Areas
Urmul Seemant focuses on children, organizing collectives of women and other community groups to oversee and actively participate in implementing various focussed programmes
Livelihoods
Education
Disability
Health
Child and women rights
WASH
OUR PROGRAMMES
Income Generation Programme
Urmul Model Farm
The Camel Partnership
OUR IMPACT
Villages reached
Women formed SHGs
Provided with better health services
Camel herders turned entrepreneurs
Children Educated
Awareness on Child Rights
Founder Chair of Urmul Seemant Samiti
Shri Arvind Ojha
Shri Arvind Ojha Ji was the Founder Secretary of Urmul Seemant Samiti, Bajju (Bikaner), Chief Executive, Urmul Trust, and Chairman of Girls Not Brides, Rajasthan. Often referred to as Guruji by his colleagues and staff, Shri Ojha dedicated over four decades of his life for the empowerment and sustainable growth of disadvantaged vulnerable groups, women and children in Rajasthan and other parts of the country. During his journey, he was involved as an active member in all the 14 organisations of the Urmul Family. A strong advocate of women empowerment, girl child education and aborgation of child marriage in Rajasthan, he was a humanitarian of the highest order. Urmul Group of Organisations continue to march on the path of growth and innovation with kindness and integrity as set by him.