Founded: 1979
Headquarters: Kolkata, West Bengal
Geographical Focus: West Bengal
Lives Impacted: 547,000+
Organization Overview:
NOSKK is formed and governed by aspirational women from disadvantaged groups who envision a self-reliant, sustainable society. In West Bengal, it works to empower women and children, migrant workers, and minority groups who are vulnerable to trafficking, exploitative work conditions, and gender-based challenges.
Founded: 2006
Geographical Focus: Jharkhand
Organization Overview:
Samarparan aims to break the cycle of poverty using a rights-based and agency-building approach. They bring together and support the target community by focusing on education, forming women’s and farmer’s collectives, and creating safe spaces for youths. Working with various target communities, they encourage agenda-based discussions, facilitate community based planning for interventions, and provide resources. Their objective is to develop local leadership in socio-economically deprived communities that depend on mica mining.
skvs.org
Founded: 2004
Headquarters: Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh
Geographical Focus: Uttar Pradesh
Lives Impacted: 48,000+
Organization Overview:
SKVS aims for justice & equity of the Musahar (‘rat eater’, Dalit) communities in Kushinagar district at the Indo-Nepal Border. These communities were traditional rat-hunters and historic social exclusion and stigma has retained them in undignified living and work conditions. SKVS believes that providing access to land rights, political agency, education and skilling can empower these communities for a self-reliant & dignified life.
Founded: 2007
Headquarters: Silchar, Assam
Geographical Focus: Assam
Lives Impacted: 40,000+
Organization Overview:
Sanatan Unnayan Sangstha (SUS) works with tea garden workers* in Southern Assam. By empowering the target communities through livelihood support, education, and healthcare interventions, the organization is building resilience against adversities such as floods, and challenges posed by discrimination, and economic hardships.
Founded: 2005
Headquarters: East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
Geographical Focus: Andhra Pradesh
Lives Impacted: 1,300+
Organization Overview:
Santhivardhana Ministries aims to build self-reliance in person and children with disabilities (PWDs and CWDs) from flood-prone East Godavari district of Tamil Nadu. SM believes the quality of life for PWDs can be improved through meaningful education, skilling and community sensitivity and support. They focus on building self-reliance through residential schools, livelihoods programs, micro-enterprises and access to rights and entitlements.
Founded: 1999
Headquarters: Kolkata, West Bengal
Geographical Focus: West Bengal
Lives Impacted: 196,000
Organization Overview:
Sappho strives to build a safe, gender affirmative society for members of the trans and queer community by enabling advocacy and dialogue around gender and sexuality. Sappho predominantly focusses on working with members of community assigned female at birth – (Lesbians, Bisexual women, Trans men, non-binary), through various support initiatives – peer support, capacity building, crisis helpline, counselling and shelter homes.
Founded: 2003
Headquarters: Puducherry
Geographical Focus: Puducherry
Lives Impacted: 12,000+
Organization Overview:
Satya Special School aims to empower people with special needs and lead the way toward inclusion in education, employment, and society at large by specialized intervention, rehabilitation, capacity building, and public policy advocacy. One of their objectives is to support mothers of children with special needs (CWSN) to facilitate the holistic development of their children to lead a life with dignity.
Founded: 2003
Geographical Focus: Odisha
Organization Overview:
Seva Niketan is led by Kanchan Bhag and Dashrati Behera. The organization has been actively engaged with the community for a long period, refining its methodology to effectively work with community members. Employing a rights-based approach, the organization initiates its efforts by generating awareness within the community. This involves engaging in open discussions on the rights of the community. Though time investment is required, the organization aims to enhance the community’s capacities, enabling them to advocate for their rights.
Founded: 2004
Headquarters: Mangalore, Karnataka
Geographical Focus: Karnataka
Lives Impacted: 8,000+
Organization Overview:
Sevabharathi aims provide support to persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) by raising awareness of the degree of injury, access to rehabilitative interventions. They aim to set up an institutional rehabilitation center that can support eight paraplegic and two quadriplegic patients from low socioeconomic backgrounds to optimize recovery, adapt to a new way of life and support them to rebuild their independency and re-enter the communities.
Founded: 1992
Headquarters: Bhavnagar, Gujarat
Geographical Focus: Gujarat
Lives Impacted: 200,000+ (children)
Organization Overview:
Shaishav aims to fight child developmental issues such as child labour and education in small, remote, underdeveloped, and aspirational districts of Gujarat. It works on the holistic development of children of migrant labourers from the Dadvi, Vasava, and Tadvi tribes, through a rights-based approach and innovative teaching methods to enable awareness, learning, and leadership building of these children.
Founded: 1987
Headquarters: New Delhi
Geographical Focus: Delhi NCR
Lives Impacted: 15,000+
Organization Overview:
Shakti Shalini approaches gender-based violence through a response and prevention model. Through response interventions they work with survivors and children of survivors of GBV through crisis intervention, shelter and counselling support. They work with socio-economically poor migrant communities in South-East Delhi focused on prevention of gender & sexual violence.
https://www.sikshasandhan.org/index.php
Founded: 1995
Geographical Focus: Odisha
Organization Overview:
The organization was founded by Anil along with support from Agragamee, another NGO that works tribals in Rayagada, who decided to specifically work on the cause education for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in remote areas of Mayurbhanj. Sikhshasandan works with the tribal communities and Denotified Lodha tribe to build community leadership and promote tribal culture and education. They facilitate school-level meetings among community members, Panchayat leaders, and teachers to discuss the issues and challenges in education. They collectivize people in new areas through sports activities and community feasts and start engaging them in community meetings. They capacitate tribal women through locally run Sabai grass crafts and provide marketing and resource centers for them.
Founded: 2002
Headquarters: Sipajhar, Assam
Geographical Focus: Assam
Lives Impacted: 2,00,000+
Organization Overview:
SATRA supports families from economically poor ST communities (Bodo, Rabha and tea-tribes) as well as religious minorities and Nepalis living in flood prone areas of Assam. Their mission is to empower them for economic growth and self-reliance. They do this through interventions in livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, mental health, literacy and child protection.