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- Aisha’s Story: How an After-School Programme Enabled Her to Understand Math and Science Better!
- Empowering Change: Paromita’s Fight Against Child Marriage!
- Empowering Girls Through Sports: Babitha’s Extraordinary Journey!
- The Inauguration of a Computer Laboratory at St. Anna School in Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- #HealthForAll: De-stigmatising Menstruation & Promoting Reproductive Health of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kashmir
- Ensuring Old Age Pension for Elderly in Kashmir: A Collaborative Effort
- Kaam Mango Abhiyan: Uplifting the Lives of Informal Workers
- Success of Fish Workers and Jal Shramik Convention in Patna, Bihar
- Act for Climate Justice Campaign: Empowering Communities
- Campaign on Women’s Property Rights in Uttar Pradesh: Breaking Barriers & Paving the Way for Equality!
- Impactful Intervention to Recognize the Rights of Delhi’s Construction Workers
- A Community Campaign to Enact Tribal Sub-Plan Makes Strides in Maharashtra
- Kadudas Kamble from Beed Advances Land Rights for Slum-dwellers and Gairan Dharaks
- Conversations on North-East’s Declining Biodiversity and its Impact on Local Communities
- Jigyaasa: Fostering Critical Thinking, Building Scientific Temper among Students
- #TogetherAgainstCOVID: Enabling Vaccination of Tamil Nadu’s Most Vulnerable Communities
- Humanitarian Response to Joshimath Crisis
- Mehnaza from Kupwara Promotes Access to Education and Social Security for Excluded Communities
- Felicitating Community-based Human Rights Defenders
- Launch of ‘Towards a Feminist Solidarity Economy: A Study of Women Cooperatives in Four States of India’
- Towards Addressing Gender-based Violence against Informal Women Workers
- Odisha Media Summit and Awards: Celebrating Pro-people Journalism
- #SingleButNotAlone | A Campaign on the Rights of Single Women in Gujarat
- Consultation on Uttarakhand State Women Policy
- Bal Darbar: Giving Children the Voice They Need
- Addressing Digital Divide | An E-learning Centre Set Up in Wayanad for Children from Tribal Communities
- Towards Climate Just Cities
- Amplifying Voices of Vulnerable Communities at COP27
- Rajkumar from Panipat Advances Access to Education for Underprivileged Children
- Mental Health Matters: How Anmol Jeevan Promotes Mental Well-being in Barmer
- Advancing the Rights of the Invisible, Unorganised Choultry Workers
- Empowering Women Farmers in Bundelkhand, Celebrating Their Entrepreneurship
- Breaking Stigma, Securing Rights and Dignity
- Protecting Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Promoting Their Ways of Life
- A Study of Women Farmers under Kudumbashree Collective Farming Released
- #ActForScholarship: Facilitating Scholarships for Students in Need
- Humanitarian Response to Floods in Odisha
- Lake Walks: Building Ecological Awareness, Promoting Ecological Justice
- Promoting Land Rights of Marginalised Tribal Communities
- Advancing Informal Workers’ Rights in the Context of Climate Change
- Humanitarian Response to Floods in Gujarat
- A Deepening Climate Crisis, Worsening Pollution Levels and #OnlyOneEarth!
- Towards Better Futures for Refugees
- Gauravi Puts Women on the Road to Empowered Futures
- #TogetherAgainstCOVID: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy, Facilitating Vaccination
- Humanitarian Response to Floods in Assam
- Empowering Women in Kashmir, Promoting Their Livelihoods
- Breaking Taboos, Promoting Menstrual Health and Hygiene
- Protecting Workers’ Rights, Promoting Their Dignity
- Linking Out-of-School Children to Open Schools, Enabling Their Continued Education
- Strengthening Social Movements, Empowering Human Rights Defenders
- ActionAid Association Bags NGO Leadership Award
- Heatwaves, Climate Change and the Need to Promote Climate Justice
- Muktokantho Promotes Menstrual Hygiene and Livelihoods for Women in Kolkata
- Strengthening Medical Infrastructure | Saving Lives and Futures
- Humanitarian Response to Ukraine Crisis
- Building Women’s Leadership, Celebrating Women’s Agency
- Launch of Campaign on Social Security Entitlements
- Strengthening Women’s Livelihoods
- Rejuvenating Water Commons | Promoting Ecological Justice
- Empowering Young Women | Promoting Their Safety and Health
- Integration of Child Protection Issues in Gram Panchayat Development Plans
- Community-based Human Rights Defenders Felicitated
- Witch-Hunting: Its Prevalence and Our Efforts to Make It History
- Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods and Women’s Entrepreneurship in Bundelkhand
- Rebuilding Lives and Livelihoods of Families Dependent on Informal Economy
- Standing with Communities #TogetherAgainstCOVID
- Humanitarian Response to Cyclones Tauktae and Yaas
- Saving Lives, Rebuilding the Future
- Saving Lives, Saving Futures | ActionAid Association Responds to COVID-19 Second Wave
- How Rukma’s Tumour Was Treated | Transforming Lives of De-Notified Tribal Communities in Rajasthan
- ‘Bridges to the Most Vulnerable’: Strengthening Local Governance in Assam
- Women Farmers in Nalanda Lead the Way to Sustainable Livelihoods
- Housing and Livelihood Support for Flood-hit Families in Karnataka
- World Social Forum 2021 | ‘Right to the City’, ‘Women in the World of Work’ and ‘Justice in Climate Framework’
- Campaign against Witch-hunting
- #HerChoiceHerVoice: Girls and Young Women Celebrate National Girl Child Day
- Child Connect: Helping Children Build Back Better
- Human Rights Defenders Promoting Social and Ecological Justice
- How Community Radio Supported Communities During the Pandemic
- Sambhav | Helping Disadvantaged Communities in Lucknow Rebuild Their Lives and Livelihoods
- Medicines for People with Co-morbidities and Nutrition Powder for Adolescents in Bengaluru
- A fundraiser in the time of COVID-19!
- Rejuvenating Ponds, Promoting Ecological Justice
- How an Adolescent Girl from Barmer Said ‘No’ to Child Marriage
- Humanitarian Response to Cyclones and Floods
- Rebuilding Lives and Livelihoods of Families Dependent on Informal Economy
- COVID-19 Crisis and Our Response | Extending a Helping Hand to the Most Vulnerable
- How a Young Women’s Collective in Srinagar Resolved Their Community’s Water Crisis
- Amplifying Voices of Young Girls
- Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Round 2 of Our National Study on Informal Workers
- Act for Scholarship: Helping Students Secure Scholarships
- Responding to Floods in Odisha and Telangana
- “After 17 years of bondage, I am a free man now.”
- River Ecology: An Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown
- Support Domestic Workers | Give a Missed Call
- Yes to School: A Campaign to Promote Free, Quality Education for All Children
- Together with Communities, Changing the Narrative
- Mobilizing Livelihood Support for Particularly Vulnerable Paudi Bhuyan Community
- Pastoralists’ Lives during COVID-19 Lockdown: A Study
- Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups: A Study
- Rapid Assessment of Quarantine Centres in India: A Report
- COVID-19 Crisis and Our Humanitarian Response
- Paving the Way for Children’s Rights and Empowerment
- Rebuilding Livelihoods to Build Back Better
- Floods in Assam and Bihar | Our Response
- Workers in the Time of COVID-19: Round 1 of Our National Study on Informal Workers
- COVID-19: The Crisis and Our Humanitarian Response
- COVID-19 crisis and our response
- ActionAid Association receives Best NGO Award from Delhi Minorities Commission
- COVID could not put brakes on children’s education in Uttar Pradesh, thanks to community-based volunteers
- 21 bonded labourers rescued from a brick-kiln in Siwan, Bihar
- Humanitarian response to emergencies
- Workers in the Time of COVID-19
- How Online Volunteers Made a Difference in the Lives of the Most Vulnerable
- Facilitating Employment and Livelihoods for Returned Migrant Workers
- Relief in Transit for Migrant Workers Returning Home
- ActionAid’s Emergency Teams Are Supporting Communities as They Face the Devastation Caused by Cyclone Amphan, amid the Rising Threat of COVID-19
- COVID-19 Crisis | Our Response
- The acid attack survivors running The Orange Café and Restaurant in Varanasi become COVID Warriors
- Helping vulnerable households coping with COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown
- Baker Elementary Students Fundraiser
- An update on ActionAid Association’s response to COVID-19 crisis
- The Orange Café and Restaurant opens in Varanasi
- Dalit Adhikar Network: Empowering Dalit communities in Rajasthan
- Contemporary Agrarian Systems in the Global South
- Popularizing science among children and youth
- Our work with Koraga community receives World Habitat Award at the World Urban Forum
- Securing rights and enhancing livelihoods of tribal communities in Sundargarh
- Women in the driving seat, on the road to empowerment
- Rights of the girl child | A door-to-door campaign by girls, for girls
- Pasture commons, pastoralists, their economy and environmental sustainability
- Depleting Water, Increasing Demand
- Campaign against debt bondage in Punjab
- Humanitarian response to emergencies: Building back better and stronger
- Building drought-resilient villages in Jharkhand and Odisha
- Empowering women farmers
- Enabling children to enjoy their childhood and realize their potential
- 91 bonded labourers rescued from Rajouri district, Jammu & Kashmir
- Union Budget 2020-21 | Pre-Budget consultations and our inputs on the social sector
- Efforts for peace, harmony and development by the youth of Kandhamal
- Emergency Response: Building back better and stronger
- Yadadri Farmer Producer Company in Turkapally starts a single-window unit to support farmers
- ActionAid Association’s work with Koraga community in Karnataka is World Habitat Awards’ Gold Award Winner 2019
- Raising issues faced by women workers, especially those dependent on the informal economy
- 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence – a report on the campaign in 2019
- Decent work for women dependent on the informal economy
- Musahars assert their right to land, work and social security
- Muslim women’s leadership and the quest for reforms
- #ActForScholarship: A campaign to help students from marginalized communities secure scholarships
- Hope in a Dying River: The Women Fishworkers of West Bengal
- Saying NO to child marriage
- “I’ll use profits from the sale of organic produce to educate my grandchildren”
- Helping flood-affected families in Kerala recover
- Rebuilding lives and livelihoods affected by floods in Kerala
- … and children in Kozhilakudi village get to learn, play and share smiles again
- Promoting rights of workers from the unorganized sector
- Women in the driving seat
- Empowering women farmers of Pithoragarh
- Change by women, of women and for women, in Nalanda
- Highlighting the need to promote water commons for all
- Assam floods and our humanitarian response
- Honouring Women Humanitarians
- Indigenous communities build nearly 280 structures for water conservation in Betul
- Consultation on drought in Maharashtra | Citizens’ Report released
- Rebuilding education in Cyclone Gaja-affected villages of Nagapattinam
- Menstrual taboos start to disappear in Vambay Colony, Visakhapatnam
- Collaborating with Institute of Public Enterprise to start a Centre of Excellence in Urban Management
- Spreading environmental awareness in Delhi-National Capital Region
- Improving biodiversity of Doddakallasandra Lake in Bengaluru
- No child marriage in this village of Rajasthan this Akha Teej!
- Campaign against human trafficking and child labour in Uttar Pradesh
- Women’s Share – A campaign for gender justice in property rights
- Public hearing on child rights in closed and sick tea gardens of West Bengal
- National consultation on stopping child labour
- Introducing computer applications to children from marginalized communities
- Discussion on improving conditions of work and living for circular migrants in India
- Spreading awareness on property rights for single women
- Ranju Bhoi: A single woman but not alone
- Responding to drought in Bundelkhand and Marathwada
- Her smile, her dreams – something that even a cyclone couldn’t shake
- Helping Fani-affected communities get their lives back on track
- Cyclone Fani | Supporting vulnerable communities rebuild their lives
- Cyclone Fani | Helping vulnerable families recover
- Rebuilding education in Cyclone Gaja-affected schools
- Land for the landless | A national consultation on land rights in Bhopal
- Yes, one more water filtration plant can make a big difference!
- Nai Pahal: Empowering adolescent girls | Bringing out-of-school children to school
- Towards creating a fair and just world for people dependent on the informal economy!
- For Equality & Justice: A People’s Agenda
- Enhancing benefits for ‘single women’ in Gujarat
- Dalit communities in Bihar ask for land rights
- Working with the Madhya Pradesh Police on gender sensitization
- Tribals from 10 states come together at Raipur, Chhattisgarh, to highlight their issues
- Promoting rights of Dalits and minority communities in Haryana
- Janakamma from Karnataka honoured with Kittur Rani Chennamma Award
- #ActForWater: Protecting the commons
- #ActWithHer: Furthering the rights of women
- Umeed Centre: Educating children, empowering youth
- Towards empowering urban poor and building inclusive cities
- Musahars for justice: Assert rights to land, work and social security
- Building back better: Rebuilding lives of flood-affected communities in Kerala
- A union of domestic workers in Madhya Pradesh
- A Millets’ Tiffin Centre set up by women farmers in Turkapally
- Go Girls!
- A new lease of life for women and children with disability
- “Now that I have a sweater, I can go to school”
- Empowering women domestic workers in Visakhapatnam
- A roof of their own!
- … and now a forest stands there!
- “I’m happy that I’m now able to support my family”
- “I always missed our tea garden. I’m happy to be back home”
- Strengthening the engagement between domestic workers and their employers
- Single, yes! But not alone | Organizing and empowering single women
- Humanitarian response to emergencies in 2018
- Enabling children in conflict areas in the Kashmir valley enjoy their childhood and realize their potential
- Bringing out-of-school children to school
- ActionAid India’s drought mitigation initiative wins International recognition
- Empowering street vendors of Assam – City-makers of the state
- Empowering communities, transforming lives!
- Ensuring the residential rights of tribal labourers working in coffee estates
- Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights felicitates community-based platform of children against child marriage
- When adolescent girls lead social change
- Training in housekeeping for former manual scavengers
- Securing justice and protecting rights
- New farming practices | Improved yield, increased incomes, better nutrition & a better life
- Getting a village school re-opened in Odisha
- Single, yes! But not alone
- Pushpa: Her story of struggle, her story of grit
- Helping adolescents reshape their lives, for the better
- Breaking stereotypes: Women in the driving seat
- A new lease of life for women and children with disability
- A NaiPahal for out-of-school children
- “Children love going to the school now”
- Domestic Workers come together for their rights in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu
- Women’s cooperative registered in Nalanda district, Bihar
- The story of ManjitKaur and empowering Punjab’s women domestic workers
- Meet Sudha – the masala powder entrepreneur!
- How the Gujjars of Chamba moved into the district market
- Housing plots to 54 Dalit women in Thiruvallur
- Building child leadership in marginalised communities
- Yanadis reclaimed over 3000 acres of land in Andhra Pradesh
- Tuensang’s women learn to help themselves
- Acquiring an Identity
- Organic farmers of Odisha show the way
- “SHE IS OUR WATCH TOWER”: PUSMA’S BATTLES IN THE TEA GARDEN
- Halima Khatun, inspiring women to fight patriarchy
- The woman leader who inspired many to fight for their rights
- WHEN WOMEN LEAD
- ‘Seeds bank reviving our traditional agricultural practices’
- ‘My land gave me confidence to move on’
- No arms, legs but spirit high
- Sarbani Barman: In Search of a New Horizon
- Mariam Toppo – a leader dedicated to the well-being of her community
- Degrees Of Change
- The wage struggle of Maruti Mukhni
- Planting Prosperity, Sowing Dignity
- Power Of One: ‘Netaji’ Vibhuti Chauhan
- Purulia’s Grey Zone
- Sushila Nada – a woman of substance
- Helping break traditional gender roles in Chennai slums
- Raising awareness amongst children to fight against discrimination
- Advocating Land Rights for BPL Dalit communities in Alampur village
- Empowering women through awareness initiatives in Chennai
- Education and awareness programmes for the youth in Bangalore
- Develop Women’s Leadership
- Knowledge empowerment for better livelihoods in Amravati
- Will hope triumph over the Musahars of Shivrajpur?
- Now we have drinking water in our school
- Challenging inheritance of indignity
stories of change
ActionAid Association works in 24 states and two union territories of India, with a mission to work in solidarity with the poor and excluded and participate in their struggle to eradicate poverty, patriarchy and injustice.
Pushpa: Her story of struggle, her story of...
Pushpa’s story is an extraordinary one. This 40-year-old woman from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, has led a life of transformation. She…
Helping adolescents reshape their lives, for the better
“Our family’s income is enough just to meet the basic needs as food, clothing and shelter. Given the financial hardships,…
Breaking stereotypes: Women in the driving seat
“I always thought car-driving was reserved for the well-learned people only but now, I don’t think so,” says Nancy. Nancy…
A new lease of life for women and...
“I used to carry my child wherever I went. It was extremely exhausting for me. During the floods, we felt…
A NaiPahal for out-of-school children
Education is the fundamental right of every child. With the objective of identifying and mainstreaming out-of-school children, including the children…
“Children love going to the school now”
Romola, a mother of two, living in a village in Anand district (Gujarat) knew why her kids didn’t like going…
Domestic Workers come together for their rights in...
The long struggle and consistent efforts of Paschim Bango Griho Paricharika Samity (PGPS), a state-level domestic workers’ collective, finally paid…
Women’s cooperative registered in Nalanda district, Bihar
Early in 2017, the Nav Bihar Samaj Kalyan Pratishthan Kendra (NBSKPK), Nalanda district, Bihar took the decision to organise the…
The story of ManjitKaur and empowering Punjab’s women...
Poverty pushed ManjitKaur, from NangalKhurd village in Mansa district, Punjab, into domestic work at the house of a local landlord.…
Meet Sudha – the masala powder entrepreneur!
Sudha (extreme right in the picture), mother of two and a home-maker from Kaluvankadu village in Thiruvarur district of Tamil…
How the Gujjars of Chamba moved into the...
Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh is home to nearly 40,000 Gujjars, a pastoral agricultural ethnic group rearing buffaloes, that moves…
Housing plots to 54 Dalit women in Thiruvallur
In April, 54 Dalit women from Nemili village in Thiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu received housing plots of 2.5 cents each.…
