Background

Across India, migration and displacement are rather urgent realities that are often shaped by factors like conflict, economic instability and environmental stresses. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, nearly 28 million people in India were newly displaced as of 2018, with many of these individuals lacking sustainable ways to rebuild their lives. 

While national policies and humanity-focused frameworks do exist, the immediate responsibility of aiding the integration and recovery of these migrants is often shouldered by NGOs. Yet, these organizations frequently encounter systemic barriers like limited financial resources, inadequate training of staff and further gaps in advocacy-centric tools that curb them from scaling their impact and increasing awareness. As a result, essential human stories remain undocumented, operational bottlenecks continue to persist and communities on the margins? Still largely neglected and underserved. 

ReSettle+ was created as a response to this very gap. Rather than adding another layer of top-down aid, it seeks to strengthen what already exists - non profit organizations and their ability to advocate, document, and grow. By combining tools for ethical storytelling with targeted fundraising and incubation, our project hopes to create long-term and ripple effects that amplify unheard voices and increase civic participation in the discourse of migration and conflict recovery within India.