Udan Women Empowerment Welfare Society 

www.udanindia.org

Founded: 2013  

Geographical Focus: Madhya Pradesh 

Organization Overview:

Sangeeta, a survivor of early marriage and abuse, leads the Udan Women Empowerment Welfare Society. The organization initiates its efforts by collaborating with various stakeholders (families, community members, local police officers, and medical professionals) to support the communities. Awareness camps, workshops, and partnerships with schools and law enforcement agencies support their interventions. The organization extends support to victims of sexual abuse, offering crucial services such as medical and legal aid, rehabilitation, and mental health support. Regular engagement with survivor forums reinforces a sense of community, creating a space for shared experiences and healing. Survivor forums provide a support network and foster a resilient community that enables survivors to rebuild their lives. 

NGO List

  • Samarpan 

    www.samarpanjharkhand.org

    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. 

  • Samudayik Kalyan Evam Vikas Sansthan (SKEVS)

    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.

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  • Sanatan Unnayan Sangstha (SUS)

    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.

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  • Santhivardhana Ministries (SM)

    santhivardhana.org

    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.

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  • Sappho for Equality

    www.sapphokolkata.in

    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. 

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  • Satya Special School

    satyaspecialschool.org

    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. 

  • Seva Niketan 

    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. 

  • Sevabharathi

    https://sevaabharathi.org/

    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. 

  • Shaishav

    shaishavchildrights.org

    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.

  • Shakti Shalini (SS)

    www.shaktishalini.org

    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. 

  • Sikshasandhan  

    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.

  • Social Action For Appropriate Transformation And Advancement In Rural Areas (SATRA)

    www.satra.ngo

    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.

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