Overview
Lokpath Charitable Trust is a grassroots NGO based in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, working across rural villages in the Bundelkhand region — focused on adolescent girl education, community health, and rural livelihoods since 2017. Their new website replaces a static HTML setup with a fully content-managed Hugo site that is fast, lightweight, and maintainable by non-developers through markdown files.
Tech Stack
- Framework: Hugo (static site generator)
- Hosting: Custom domain
lokpath.org.in - CI/CD: GitHub Actions — auto-build and deploy on every push to
main - Content: Markdown-driven pages; no database, no backend
Key Features
- Live Events Ticker — scrolling banner across the top of every page showing upcoming community events with dates and locations
- Community Events Calendar — interactive month-view calendar widget showing scheduled programs and village summits
- Impact Stats Bar — prominently displays key metrics (80–85% school retention, 20+ villages, ~100 outreach villages, established 2017)
- Multi-section Navigation — Home, About, Programs, Impact, Media, Get Involved, Contact with dropdown support
- Structured Contact Form — collects name, organisation, email, phone, purpose of contact, and message; responds within 2 working days
- Donate CTA — prominent donate button in the nav bar on every page
- Fully Static Output — no server-side rendering; pages are pre-built HTML served directly, making the site extremely fast and resilient
CI/CD Pipeline
Every push to the main branch on GitHub triggers a GitHub Actions workflow that:
- Checks out the repo with Hugo submodules
- Builds the site with
hugo --minify - Deploys the generated
public/output to the production host automatically
No manual FTP or upload step — content editors push markdown, the pipeline handles the rest.
Try It Out
Live at lokpath.org.in — the website of Lokpath Charitable Trust.
