Our Work

We are registered under the Societies Registration Act: 1350 Fasli; #4465/1999.

FCRA Registration #010300084

Area of Operation

Nalgonda; Hyderabad; Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh; Hubli - Dharwad City; rural and remote villages in Dharwad District and Belgaum Districts in Karnataka.

As an organization with social concern, AWWA has embarked upon a programme to educate underprivileged women who face multiple hardships of class, caste and gender. By imparting skills useful in gaining livelihood, these hapless creatures could so easily become tools to bring about a transformation in society; they can truly achieve emancipation from the yoke of caste discrimination.

Educated and uneducated alike, there continues to be restricted (almost non-existent) employment opportunities due to ongoing discrimination, lack of education, experience and confidence. One of the best ways to empower these people is to provide them with skills they need to become independent and thrive. Over the last 3 years, utilizing our Summer Camps, more than 200 women have now learned special skills and we continue to work in both urban and rural areas offering training in such areas as:

Beauty Culture
Cutting & Tailoring
Saree & Bedsheet Painting
Soft Toy Making
Embroidery
Pot Decoration
Banjara Work
Mehandi Design
Conducting Exhibitions of Work

We are providing all these activities voluntarily, and we ask for no assistance from government or Non-government organisations. We have provided support for 8 years and in this this time our activities have been heavily restricted due to a lack of resources. As an organization for social concern we urgently need to spread our activities and in so doing we have set up Training Centres (Affus Arts and Crafts Centres) at, Hubli in Karnataka and Anantapur and Hyderabad Andhra pradesh - offering skills development for orphans, vulnerable women and children. The institution is offering 75 valued courses to women.

Aside from offering training, the institution is also providing counselling to those who have completed their training programmes. We are striving, in our own small way, to bring about a change for the better in society. We are now bringing Zari and Zardose Embroidery training programmes to the remote village of Dharwad District (Holtikotti) in Karnataka and groups have been formed to provide training to urban women who typically earn their livelihood by Beedi making and flower tying (at a meagre wage of rupees 12 per day…!).

Health Awareness and Education

During our camps it was discovered that women were facing critical health problems like Leucorrhoea and Menorragia, and various gynaecological infections were found to have caused this. In maintaining Awareness Camps our volunteers have closely interacted with these women on issues that are seldom spoken of in an open manner, urging them to visit local hospitals for examination. Consequently, local doctors have also begun to interact quite substantially with these poor women.

Health consciousness is of vital importance as these women are languishing under abject health conditions, and innumerable health problems go unaddressed due to the poverty and ignorance of their families. AWWA has conducted several free Health Awareness Camps for women in the remote villages of the backward Anantapur and Nalgonda districts.

Consumer Awareness Camps

Many women are forced to beg for a living but employment continues to be the only real way out of life-long exclusion. During childhood girls are often excluded in the community, and as they mature they may not be aware of their existence, let alone their value and rights as equal citizens. As initially stated (listed above) AWWA is conducting a range of skills training but we also offer Consumer Awareness Camps in the following areas:

Pulse-Polio Programmes
Women and Child Welfare Programmes
AIDS Awareness Camps