Rural Mirzapur (map) to google maps-Hallia, Lalganj, Marihan block, Rural Sonebhadra (Map), Ghoralwal
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Location of Projects
AAK works in the city of Allahabad on issues of urban homeless(link to 2.8) and with people pulling cycle rickshaws and in rural Mirzapur and Sonebhadra districts around issues of land rights, education, health children with disability, organising self help groups, livelihoods, community organising, supporting local self-governance. Urban Allahabad View…
Dignity and livelihood of Rickshaw Pullers
The City of Allahabad has about 50,000 rickshaws; the rickshaw “Khatal” (2000 approximately) owners release rickshaw to the pullers at rate of Rs. 25 to 35 per day per 12 hours. Most of the rickshaw pullers are not in a position to own it. Besides, there is always a risk…
Urban Homeless
AAK urban interventions are relatively recent and began with supporting urban homeless and unorganised workers in the city of Allahabad. AAK supports the cities homeless by not only making arrangements for shelter but to link them with vocational training and access to loans and credit to enable them to sell…
Natural Resource Management
AAK has been working to improve the productivity of land of the poorer and marginalised sections, a number of who have recently acquired land. AAK has significant experience in undertaking micro-level watershed management, nursery and pasture development and creating water harvesting structures based on the requirements of the community. Given…
Land Rights
The rural areas of Mirzapur and Sonebhadra that AAK works in are marked with highly skewed distribution of agricultural land. Interventions to ensure access and control over lands by local tribal communities have been AAK’s major thrust. Nearly 2265 hectares of land has been redistributed in the name of Kol…
Enabling Self-help and Livelihoods
AAK has been working to organise community groups to address livelihood and sustenance issues. The thrust have been on enabling women to work collectively as saving and credit groups, ensuring that poor people have access to land and work together to improve its productivity though locally generated action to generate…
Child Centered Community Development
While sectoral inputs on health and education cater to children, AAK believes that children serve as strong agents of change. An early focus on children to develop their leadership and their participation in social and developmental processes around them serves as an effective intervention. This has meant that AAK supports…
Health
Health is an issue of special concern for AAK. In its rural interventions, AAK has realised that inadequate attention to health results either in a high expenditure or neglect. The latter is especially true for women and girls. AAK has sought to integrate health education along with own educational interventions,…
Education- Focussing on the girl child and children from the marginalised communities
Education is a major intervention for AAK, especially that of the children of the SC/ST category and that of the girl child. AAK believes that it is the responsibility of the government to provide education for all children. AAK has sought to increase education facilities in the area, improve the…