The founder who lived in a hut
Shri Sameer Mohan left home in 1987 to give his life to nation building. In 2006 he built a hut on a farm near Bareilly, and Khushhali Foundation grew from there.
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Stories & updates
Field stories, news and events from our camps, classrooms and villages.
Maharana Pratap Chatravas is built
Construction of a hostel for Gadhiya Lohar children was completed in 2025, and GAIL is supporting a 15 kW solar power system so that children can move in.
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Five camps, 25,000 fruit saplings: the 2024 Mathura drive
Between 28 July and 18 August 2024, farmers from 78 villages of Mathura district each took home ten fruit saplings.
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A year with the Indradhanush children
Evening classes, tiffin boxes, Holi and Deepawali, winter kits and an annual function: what a year looks like for the children of Indradhanush.
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A letter, and land for the Gadhiya Lohar families of Bareilly
A request to the Chief Minister in October 2022 led to land being allotted for Gadhiya Lohar families who had lived for generations in roadside tents.
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Three years on, the trees are bearing fruit
In the spring of 2022 our surveyors went back to the villages of Mathura to see how the saplings had fared. About seven in ten had survived, and many were already fruiting.
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1,08,945 saplings in a pandemic year
The monsoon of 2020 arrived in the middle of the pandemic. Camps moved into the open, farmers sat apart, and 11,917 families in Mathura and Sonbhadra still went home with trees.
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Ration kits through the lockdown
When schools closed in the COVID-19 lockdown, the Foundation's vehicle went to the Gadhiya Lohar settlements with groceries instead of schoolbooks.
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61,000 fruit saplings in a single day
On 2 October 2019, 5,215 villagers gathered at Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, and went home with 61,000 fruit saplings.
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Our first CSR partner: 98,000 saplings with ONGC in 2018
In the monsoon of 2018 ONGC became the first corporate partner of the Vriksh Mitra–Gram Mitra Abhiyan, and 9,794 families in Bareilly, Kasganj and Mathura planted fruit trees.
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