Jagruthi and Birds Heal are based in rural areas of Gulbarga district, working amongst isolated communities where frequent drought, physical isolation and lack of economic opportunities leave many people struggling to survive. The effects of population growth are seen everywhere, schools are too small for the number of children that should be in them, the village water supply put in twenty or only ten years ago is nowhere near sufficient for twice the number of people, land for cultivation is in short supply and so people encroach on the forest areas and people without land or work are forced to migrate from these rural areas to swell the slums of Bombay and other cities.