Story of the changemaker
Breath Tomorrow — Help pollution victims in Koraput & Kalahandi, Odisha | Tejaswini Khora
A women-led community campaign for pollution-affected families across Koraput and Kalahandi districts, Odisha
he silent crisis
In the tribal districts of Koraput and Kalahandi in Odisha, every breath carries a cost. Decades of unchecked environmental and industrial pollution have poisoned the air, water, and soil that generations of communities depend on. What was once a slow and invisible crisis has become a devastating reality — young people in rural Odisha are falling severely ill, families are collapsing under medical debt, and entire communities are losing hope.
This is not a distant statistic. This is happening in homes, in villages, in families — right now. The poor and tribal communities in Koraput and Kalahandi face this crisis with little access to healthcare, no financial buffer, and no institutional support. They suffer in silence, and most of the world does not even know their names.
"I have seen what pollution does to a body slowly. I have seen what poverty does to a family all at once. When both hit together, there is nothing left to hold on to. I cannot give them clean air today. But I can make sure they do not go to bed hungry. I can make sure they have medicine when they are sick. That is where I begin."
— Tejaswini Khora, initiating the Breath Tomorrow campaign from Koraput, Odisha
Tejaswini Khora was raised in Koraput, Odisha. She has walked these roads, drunk from the same water, and breathed the same air as the families she now fights for. She has witnessed firsthand how prolonged pollution exposure in Koraput and Kalahandi is stealing years from lives — particularly from the young, the elderly, and the poor who have no means to protect themselves or seek medical care.
As a woman-led grassroots initiative in Odisha, the Breath Tomorrow campaign carries something that large organisations often cannot — deep local knowledge, personal trust, and direct access to the families who need help the most. Tejaswini is not working from an office. She is in the field, knowing every household she reaches by name, and making sure every rupee donated is accounted for.
She knows that cleaning up environmental pollution in tribal Odisha is a long and systemic battle. But she also knows that a family without food or medicine today cannot wait for that battle to be won. So she acts now — with consistency, compassion, and accountability.
Why the Breath Tomorrow campaign matters
The name says it all. Pollution-affected communities in Koraput and Kalahandi are not sure about tomorrow. The air they breathe today is the same toxic air they breathed yesterday. The water hasn't changed. The soil hasn't recovered. What can change — right now — is whether they face that reality on an empty stomach, without medicines, alone.
This crowdfunding campaign for pollution victims in Odisha is a bridge between suffering and hope. It is Tejaswini's promise that no family she can reach will feel completely abandoned. Every donation to this relief fund for poor families in Koraput and Kalahandi is a direct act of humanity — and Tejaswini will make sure you see it happen, with transparent updates from the ground.
Help them breathe through tomorrow
Stand with Tejaswini and the suffering communities of Koraput and Kalahandi, Odisha. This is a women-led, community-rooted grassroots relief effort — no middlemen, no overhead. Just one determined woman, and the families she refuses to leave behind.
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