Partner Communities
•  Tribal people
•  Dalit people
•  Muslims affected by Communal Riots
•  People living with HIV and AIDS ( PLWHA)

Campaigns we support
•  Education
•  Right to Food
•  Against atrocities/denial of justice to poor and marginalized people

Focal Rights Issues
•  Right to Food and livelihoods
•  Shelter Rights
•  Right to human security, Peace and Justice
•  Right to Education
•  Right to Health
•  Right to Identity and Dignity

Regional Initiatives:

Mahila Patchwork Cooperative Society (MPWCS)

Stirring portrait of Struggle for dignity

"I don't remember my mother. She died when I was three. But my childhood was good. I went to school and played 'Gilli-Danda' and had lots of fun", says Roshanben Shaikh, who hails from Deesha in Gujarat . "I finished high school and at 18 I was full of dreams." Soon she got married, went on to have two daughters & was happy. till her husband was mercilessly snatched away by TB. A few years later she re-married but misery & unhappy matrimony led her nowhere. The responsibility of grooming Muni & Rukshana - her children, took over all other priorities. Going it alone was a choice she had to make & took to stitching as a business. Working her sweat through day & night she groomed two bubbling children & her horizon looked bright. Then came the floods, which swept a working class settlement. It submerged everything - the market yard, her homes & her hopes. Over 2000 families were on the streets. It was during their rehabilitation that her leadership qualities and creative talent stood out. She mobilized a whole community when the government gave alternate site for resettlement. Then she never looked back. Her people never forgot her selfless service, and elected her as their Councilor in the Corporation. [Download full report]