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- 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
- More than 10,000 children go to Child Friendly Spaces in Jammu & Kashmir
- 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 India works in 25 states and 1 union territory of India, with a vision to A world without poverty, patriarchy and injustice in which every person enjoys the right to life with dignity.
A roof of their own!
Champa Devi, a 30-year-old woman from Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh, who belongs to a Dalit community, till recently did…
… and now a forest stands there!
“We used to own a small piece of infertile land. To make ends meet for our family of seven, my…
“I’m happy that I’m now able to support...
Life had never been easy for young Priya Kumari who came to Noida in the Delhi National Capital Region from…
“I always missed our tea garden. I’m happy...
“I like going to school. I meet all my friends there,” is what the cheerful Ronica*, all of 12 years,…
Strengthening the engagement between domestic workers and their...
Paschim Bango Griho Paricharika Samity (PGPS), a state-level domestic workers’ collective from West Bengal, recently started a ground-breaking initiative towards…
Single, yes! But not alone | Organizing and...
“My husband passed away 10 years ago. I was supposed to be the legal successor of the three bighas of…
Humanitarian response to emergencies in 2018
2018 was witness to several natural disasters in the country. Floods, cyclones and drought – we saw it all happen…
Enabling children in conflict areas in the Kashmir...
“Before joining the Child Friendly Space (CFS), Nouman could hardly speak. I am amazed to see him improving now and…
Bringing out-of-school children to school
Education is the right of every child. With the objective of identifying and mainstreaming out-of-school children, including the children affected…
ActionAid India’s drought mitigation initiative wins International recognition
With one-third of the state of Maharashtra falling under semi-arid climatic zone, the rainfall is scanty, thereby resulting in all…
Empowering street vendors of Assam – City-makers of...
“Earlier, we used to be scared of putting up our stalls out of the fear of being evicted anytime and…
Empowering communities, transforming lives!
“Our community had, for long, been excluded from development processes and our socio-economic conditions continued to remain appalling,” says the…
