Empowering the Community
The urban poor are often devoid of basic entitlements otherwise prescribed to citizens of India. Their capacity to influence systems is extremely restricted. They invariably have limited or no opportunity to make demands on the system, and often operate within frameworks which do not guarantee them their basic entitlements.
Apnalaya empowers the community to help themselves, by imparting Civic Education, building a cadre of Community Volunteers, and organizing people into Civic Action Groups to engage with municipal authorities on issues of common concern.
Civic Engagement & Action
Civic Training
Apnalaya empowers the urban poor via civic education, which teaches them about civic rights and responsibilities and how to harness citizen leadership to access fundamental civic entitlements.
Group of Volunteers
Apnalaya trains community leaders to engage with local government authorities to receive basic entitlements.
Civic Action Groups
Graduates from our Citizenship programme form Civic Action Groups. They identify issues of common concern and engage with government authorities to ensure the issues are adressed.
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Civic Engagement & Action
Civic Training
Apnalaya empowers the urban poor via civic education, which teaches them about civic rights and responsibilities and how to harness citizen leadership to access fundamental civic entitlements.
Group of Volunteers
Apnalaya trains community leaders to engage with local government authorities to receive basic entitlements.
Civic Action Groups
Graduates from our Citizenship programme form Civic Action Groups. They identify issues of common concern and engage with government authorities to ensure the issues are adressed.
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Awareness & Engagement
Social Campaigns
Apnalaya conducts a variety of social awareness campaigns to educate community members on key issues such as gender, domestic violence, child sexual abuse and health seeking behaviour and disability, which affect the community at large.
Camps & Melas
Apnalaya organises a number of camps and melas on subjects such as careers and skill training to provide information opportunities to learn and participate.
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Awareness & Engagement
Social Campaigns
Apnalaya conducts a variety of social awareness campaigns to educate community members on key issues such as gender, domestic violence, child sexual abuse and health seeking behaviour and disability, which affect the community at large.
Camps & Melas
Apnalaya organises a number of camps and melas on subjects such as careers and skill training to provide information opportunities to learn and participate.
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Water for All
Shrusha is a resident of Sanjay Nagar in Mumbai’s M East Ward. Up until last year, she would trudge her way at 12 noon to the common tap at Baiganwadi where hundreds of other people also flocked to get water for their daily needs. But water at this tap did not come for free! Shrusha and her family had to cough up Rs.5 per 30 litres and upto Rs. 60 for 200 litres (approximately – Rs. 800 per month)
Illegal Schools in Govandi
In Shivaji Nagar, the government-run schools are only till 8th standard (RTE years), after which, children have to join a private school or have to travel far to attend government senior secondary schools. As a result, un-registered schools have mushroomed across Shivaji Nagar jostling for space with kirana shops in the area. Awestruck and poorly informed parents are enticed by the trappings of these little education shops.
Govandi goes to New York
“I come from a very conservative family. Growing up was really difficult, I wasn’t allowed to go school and had to drop out when my father forced me to. I was 12 when my sister, who was barely 18 at that time, was made to marry. Soon we got to know that she was pregnant and had lost her baby. She was heartbroken. It got me thinking about my own life. I was certain I didn’t want to marry early. I wanted to study.
Water for All
Shrusha is a resident of Sanjay Nagar in Mumbai’s M East Ward. Up until last year, she would trudge her way at 12 noon to the common tap at Baiganwadi where hundreds of other people also flocked to get water for their daily needs. But water at this tap did not come for free! Shrusha and her family had to cough up Rs.5 per 30 litres and upto Rs. 60 for 200 litres (approximately – Rs. 800 per month)
Illegal Schools in Govandi
In Shivaji Nagar, the government-run schools are only till 8th standard (RTE years), after which, children have to join a private school or have to travel far to attend government senior secondary schools. As a result, un-registered schools have mushroomed across Shivaji Nagar jostling for space with kirana shops in the area. Awestruck and poorly informed parents are enticed by the trappings of these little education shops.
Govandi goes to New York
“I come from a very conservative family. Growing up was really difficult, I wasn’t allowed to go school and had to drop out when my father forced me to. I was 12 when my sister, who was barely 18 at that time, was made to marry. Soon we got to know that she was pregnant and had lost her baby. She was heartbroken. It got me thinking about my own life. I was certain I didn’t want to marry early. I wanted to study.