Need to work on the rights of women and girls?

• ActionAid is global movement of people whose vision is to defeat poverty and attain human rights for all

• At ActionAid India asserting the rights of women and girls’ rights as human right is one of our core values and priorities.

• Through the 500 odd projects that we support in almost every state in this country, we facilitate processes that enable women to come together and collectively claim their rightful position in the society.

• The various women’s collectives that we support critically analyse the challenges and confront it through their sustained efforts. Our focus has always been to support the poorest and most excluded groups, who are often denied all means of self-expression.

• We reach out to Dalit, Tribal and differently abled women and girls who have to face more than double deprivation - social exclusion in the name of caste and economic exclusion aggravated by poverty.

Need….

What is W4W?

• An initiative where the socially aware women from economically advantageous positions support various Women Collectives that AA works with

Tamil Nadu Differentlyabled Federation Charitable Trust

• This collective of differently-abled women conducts programmes that would ensure proper access to education, health care, livelihood and 4 ‘A’s in public spaces in 3 districts of Tamil Nadu.

A success story

Ms.Joythi, a deserted women having speech and hearing impaired disability was working as a domestic worker and earning INR 2000 per month. She has two children in an age of 15 years (M) and 11 years (F). Her elder son worked in the morning as part time worker and also gets income through door to door distribution of news papers. With this income it was very difficult for her to run the family of three members. Due to such financial constraints, Joythi was not able to purchase hearing aid and also was not able to meet the children’s education. With the TNHFCT intervention she joined in the Women with disability Forum to strengthen her skills and gain confidence to move ahead in life. She was undergone the vocational skill development on cleaning solution, soap making and wire bags making and entrepreneurship skill training. With the support of TNHFCT, she received a bank loan of Rs. 20,000/- and started her own entrepreneurship. Now she is able to earn Rs. 4,000/- per month. She received a hearing aid (Rs. 13,000/- and also educating her children. Ms.Joythi stated that “after being associated with Forum for Rights of Women with Disability, I feel proud and confident to run the new business for my livelihood”.

Who is a potential donor?

Your support to us• Awareness on rights and entitlements• Livelihood support to women• Jobs, trainings-computer, tailoring, mat-making etc• Aids & Appliances – Wheel chairs, Tri cycles, Calipers,

artificial Limbs, Hearing aids etc.• Social security schemes – Disability certificates, widow

and old age pensions, marriage assistance, maintenance allowance for intellectual impaired etc

• Advocacy activities: Protest, Hunger strikes, Human chain, Press releases for denial of PwDs rights, to implement subsidised travel scheme, add railway coach for PwDs, against attitude of authorities etc.

We intend to reach out to them through the following ways

• Through Public Kiosks - Malls, Community Centers, Housing Societies, Public Spaces like Airport etc. This will be a one-on-one, face-to-face approach.

• Through Corporate Spaces – At offices – This will be a one-to-many approach where we reach out to a group of women at one go

• Through the web – reaching out to women and girls on the web

Ask Amount

• Pooling of money received

What will the donor get once he/she donates?

• Welcome Letter (online/offline) from ED• Bi-monthly newsletter• 6 monthly updates with milestones and stories of

change.