About Us

MANT is a non-profit, non-racial, non-political, and non-religious organisation that, since 1960, has been working in development, research, advancing community action for the preservation of local ecology, promoting the adoption of community media like community radio, health service delivery, and health behaviour change to reduce the massive health burden in the poor and marginalized sections of society. We primarily work in the eastern and northeastern parts of India and have a team of 116 trained workers and 12 volunteers. We have been touching almost 1.5 million lives, mostly tribal, annually through our different activities. We have been partnering with various departments of both the state and the central governments like the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Ministry of Textile, the Ministry of MSME, the Ministry of Minority Affairs, the Department of Health, the Directorate of Sericulture, and government organizations like TRIFED, DC-Handicrafts, and the like, UN agencies like UNICEF, Universities like Johns Hopkins University, USA, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicines, UK, Gothenburg University, Sweden and international agencies like the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.