impacts created in last 35 years include 900+ projects with revenues and grants of over $200 million; 500,000 houses built by rural enterprises using various TARA eco-technologies; more than two million persons have new livelihoods or improved living conditions resulting from TARA interventions; 48,000 environment conservation initiatives through our network of 1.25 million school students; several hundred thousand beneficiaries of environmental improvements designed or promoted by DA; more than seven million households assisted directly or through network partners; some 2 million poor enabled to claim their rights and entitlements; and 200,000+ women made literate and numerate.