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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.
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