Community Empowerment

Women, Dalits, tribal, and minority communities and all people concerned about social justice are working to ensure that India lives up to the promise of the Constitution and democratic institutions guaranteeing civil liberties and people’s rights to life and livelihood.  

AID supports the struggles of these groups through the following means:

• Community Organizing: Severely marginalized communities mobilize on basic needs such as health, education and livelihood and raise their voice to assert their rights.
• Advocacy:  People demand implementation of laws and get legal and social services to fight injustice.
• Research:  People’s organizations study impacts of state policies on poor and marginalized communities, and discuss their findings with concerned officials.
• Awareness:  AID chapters screen documentaries and invite social workers and activists to speak publicly about their causes.
• Solidarity:  Through demonstrations, letters to press and public officials, AID volunteers raise voices and build public opinion in solidarity with communities struggling for justice.

Learn about our current active projects.​

Empowering communities in ~120 villages to ensure food security and livelihood opportunities through a movement initiated and sustained by the people in Uttar Pradesh 

Empowering poor rural households through livelihood promotion in remote Odisha

Promoting alternate livelihood for the community involved in manual scavenging or agrarian labor and education for their children in Karnataka 

Leadership development among bonded laborers and landless dalits and adivasis to reduce distress migration by ensuring proper implementation of government schemes in Odisha

Offering LGBTQ members access to clinic services and peer counseling; organizing monthly advocacy, awareness raising and community mobilization activities in West Bengal

Organization of domestic workers in Delhi

Supporting women and children survivors of violence in Rajasthan