As an organization with social concern Affus Womans
Welfare Association (AWWA) has
embarked upon a programme to educate the under privilege women. The under privilege women face triple
trouble of class, caste and gender. These hapless creatures could be used as
tools to bring about a transformation in the society, by imparting skills
useful in gaining livelihood. We are working in both urban and rural areas to
make the under privilege women self-reliant is one of the ways
to emancipate them from the yoke of caste discrimination
Our Main activities are:
- Women Empowerment through livelihood
- Skill and Vocational training for under
privilege women and widows
- Awareness camps for slum and rural women
- Medical and Health awareness camps
- Adult Education
- Orphan support programmes.
AWWA
believes that the people who are underprivileged can improve their living
conditions only when they realize their potential and become self reliant. In
order to achieve this, AWWA is committed to
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Sustainable economic development through income generation.
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Poverty Reduction and women empowerment.
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AWWA’s objective is to support the greater national initiative of poverty
reduction by its activities.
Women
in these areas, particularly Minority communities, are mostly deprived of
many rights like Right to Education and Right to earn a Livelihood. Their conditions
are further worsened when the families in question are poor and are themselves
suffering from lack of basic necessities. Widows suffer even more so then the
breadwinner of the family is lost.
Our
aim to all Children’s and Women have the basic right to dignity and
self-determination, and all people should have the opportunity and choice of
cultivating their own potential.
Cultural
and Social norms in these areas also prevent women from attaining benefits and
the desired standards of living.
Women
in our target areas mostly work in menial jobs that don’t pay well. Vocational
and Skill is a trade that is predominantly done by women. Then by
training them to earn a livelihood, we are empowering them to have better life
circumstances. Adding literacy to the program does value addition to the
capacity building of these women.
Our
work involves understanding rural livelihoods systems through research,
building women's savings and credit groups, providing enterprise support and
linkages, literacy support, and researching reproductive health.
Experience
has shown us that effective development requires maintaining long term
relationships with people and working to understand their needs and situation
holistically in order to enable their self-driven journeys towards empowerment
and self-sufficiency. Experience also shows that effective improvement of rural
livelihoods needs to incorporate poverty, gender, and environmental aspects as
co-equal motivating factors.
AWWA
supports women's empowerment of a varied but interlinked nature. It is AWWA's
belief that one enlightened and committed woman can set aglow a 1000 candles.
Our mission therefore is to light these individual candles who will in turn
bring light into the lives of many, and change the world for the better.
AWWA’s
mission is to help people to gain direct control over their own situations by
expanding the capacity of vulnerable and poor people, especially women, to
improve their lives, primarily through increasing their income-earning ability
A
brief profile of the areas we have been working, our
work and some outstanding experiences have been outlined for the benefit of our
readers. This gives the reader an idea of the extent of our work and its
success.
Impact
The
enterprise and skill training programme is having a direct impact on the
behavioural and managerial qualities of its beneficiaries, which is reflected
by the following aspects that were observed:
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Many have imbibed the positive qualities of punctuality and professional
attitude towards their entrepreneurial work.
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Team interaction among women from various villages has been strengthened.