ETPA foundation

About Us

Who we are

Happiness spread with inclusive society

Empowering and transforming lives of people for good

Empowerment and Transformation through Progressive Actions

ETPA Foundation stands for Empowerment and Transformation through Progressive Actions. It is section 8 registered non–profit company.  The Foundation aims to empower, transform and improve the lives of people through the intervening areas of,

  • Environment
  • Youth empowerment
  • Women empowerment
  • Skill development
  • Health & education
  • Rural livelihoods

It focuses on developing, facilitating, and supporting people, especially in the field of,

  • Health,
  • Education,
  • Social justice etc.

It also envisages mobilising poor households into economically independent units and thus empowering them to become self-reliant and independent from financial constraints.

ETPA Foundation is deeply committed to contributing further in the areas of culture and skill development. It has a comprehensive developmental approach with a prime objective to create and support result-oriented activities through communication, collaboration, and convergence to address the pressing social issues of the community.

ETPA so far

A Successful journey

2016 - 2020

Humble beginnings with IJK

1. Project on raising awareness on environmental issues with the help of storytelling in India.

2. Fact-finding survey to understand the eco-system of 2020-2022 household-level water supply, sewerage, and drainage systems across 11 cities in India.

3. Data collection survey to understand the crop behavioural pattern and their consumption attitudes across 3 Indian states (Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, & West Bengal)

4. Project Title – Storytelling Caravan to promote the Japanese concept of “Mottainai” meaning do not waste!

2020 - 2022

Multiple campaigns

1. Campaign Title – “Achhi Aadat (Good Habits)” in collaboration with JICA India.

2. SDGs business verification survey with the private sector for spreading Japanese comics empowering women in India

3, Communication interventions with the school children on the principles of 4 R.

2022 - 2024

ETPA created as a separate arm

A separate philanthropic arm – ETPA Foundation for Social Development was created exclusively to implement social projects

1. ‘Mission LiFE’ with Mottainai Grandma’ in the State of Jharkhand in partnership with Ministry of Rural Development

2. Storytelling Sessions on the concept of ‘4R’ (Respect, Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle) *

3. SBCC Project on the importance of resources complementing Mission LiFE in the states of Haryana, Maharashtra, Gujarat and NationalCapital in association with Itochu India Pvt. Ltd and Asahi Intecc Co. Ltd.

4. Extra-curricular Activities in the government schools propagating the judicious and mindful utilisation of resources.

*Ongoing projects

Our Core values

The core values are the introduction of an organisation, foundation of its Growth and reason for its employees retention. ETPA Foundation holds the deep roots to the humanity and founded with an objective to serve for the amelioration of livelihood of the society . The core Values of any orgnisation makes it different from the others. The core values of ETPA Foundation are as follows:

Inclusiveness & Diversity

Striving for inclusiveness and diversity

Respect

A dignified life is the birthright of every individual

Commitment

Timely deliberation of expected results had been our growing habit

Integrity

We stand united for a greater cause

Our TeaM

Sanjay Panda
Managing Director
Sanjay Panda is the Founder and Managing Director of IJ Kakehashi Services Pvt. Ltd. (IJK) headquartered at New Delhi, India. IJK was founded in the year 2006 and its group organizations work in diverse fields such as consulting, market research, advisory, trading, social sector, and others, with all converging to a single agenda of “Empowering India Japan business and cultural relations”. Spearheading IJK, Sanjay has created a niche name for IJK truly contributing as a Kakehashi (Bridge in the Japanese language) between I (India) and J (Japan), through services ranging from Market research, Training, Human resource placement, India entry support, and Language services. IJK has catered to the business requirement of more than 500 clients over the years. On many forums, Sanjay has given lectures in India-Japan forums to bring India and Japan closer. Hailing from the KBK region of Odisha, and empowered with three decades of association with Japan, Sanjay Panda has embarked into new dimensions by setting up KBK GloCal to take local products of KBK to the Global level and ETPA Foundation for Social Development to bring in the change in the society. Youth empowerment, Environment, Education, and Skill development are some of the key issues to be addressed in this domain. For successive years IJK has also partnered with Japanese government agencies like JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) for implementation of the JICA funded projects in India in the education and health hygiene sectors. In his early professional career, he worked with The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (now MUFG), Japan, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in both India and Japan in the sales and business development area. On the academic front, Sanjay did graduation from V.D. College, Jeypore, Odisha before doing intensive Japanese language courses at Delhi University, and then Tokyo Gakugei University under the Mombusho fellowship. He holds some highest levels of proficiency certifications in the Japanese language to his credit and with his extraordinary interpretation skills he has facilitated several bilateral engagements at the highest-level engagements between India and Japan. Hailing from Nabarangpur, Odisha, from a family of theatre and cinema artists, he has interest in theatres and committed to contribute to society at large through his rich experience.
Vinit Choubey
Manager- Social Development Projects
Sangeeta Yadav
Senior Project Lead - Social Development Projects
Sangeeta Yadav

What makes us different?

Child centric social issues

With your support, children receive access to health care, educational resources and life-changing programs in safe, clean spaces.

Social ecosystem for growth

We are non-profit organisation to provide social empowerment & bringing change to the society with our collaborative efforts and work on the ground level.

Health & hygiene programs

Your sponsorship encompasses health and educational programs and resources, designed to address the specific issues each child faces in their community.

MOTTAINAI: Swachh Bharat

Under Mottainai swachh bharat campaign, the storytelling session was implemented in the states of Delhi, Haryana, and Gujarat covering 105 schools and reaching directly to 3525 kids in the age group of 09-12 yrs.

Achhi Aadat Campaign

This SDG-6 campaign brought behavioural change  &  witnessed remarkable success in reaching out to 12 crore+ people in India through different activities in the areas of hygiene & sanitation.

Mottainai: Mission LiFE

This Social Behaviour Change Communication project which also complements SDG 12 aims to mobilise citizens to take individual and collective action to protect & preserve environment and use the resources judiciously.