Aaina
Bhubaneswar, India
E-mail:   aaina50@hotmail.com
Development of women and children who are distressed, disabled, or trafficked. They have organized several programs like counseling for distressed women through Art therapy, responding to natural disasters in terms of relief and rehabilitation, Community Based Rehabilitation for children and adults with disability, and special schools for children with disability.

Aid India
SATANKULAM, India
E-mail:   ttn_aidindia@sancharnet.in
Since 1992, Aid India has expanded to include focus on the welfare of dalit women and widows. Aid India stands for "Empowering the women and disabled people in rural areas where they have no access to economy and education.” It implemented programs for awareness rising, free medical camps, adult literacy for the rural illiterate women, and educational assistance for the poor.

Akshara - A Women's Resource Center
Mumbai, India
E-mail:   aksharacentre@vsnl.com
They work for women in poor or marginalized areas with the necessary information to allow them to assert their rights and realize their full potential. Their mission is to enable women to continue with education, to develop critical thinking skills in regards to gender and development, and to promote self-awareness. Akshara presently works with young women in schools, slums, and institutions through training groups, discussions, and workshops, as well as by issuing scholarships for education.

Anubhooti
Patna, India
E-mail:   sbhartiraj@indiatimes.com

Anubhooti works in underprivileged areas of Bihar State to improve the lives of women. The organization focuses on the limited awareness of women's legal and human rights. It is also working to stop violence and crime against women in India.

Anveshi Dalit Women's Trust
Tiruvalla, India
Anveshi's main goal is to empower Dalit women and the Dalit community, as a whole for social change. Anveshi wants women to recognize the daily exploitations that they face in order to challenge the existing social structure. The organization therefore encourages women to develop and demonstrate those capabilities which are often suppressed due to their marginalized status in society.

Arpan
Himatnagar, India
E-mail:   arpan1_in@yahoo.com
Advancement of Rural People and Nature (ARPAN) works in more than 120 villages offering programs to raise awareness about women's conditions. Rural tribal women are deprived of their right to common property resources such as land, forest and water, the help groups of ARPAN help them overcome poverty and to create a sense of empowerment. ARPAN's programs and self-help groups focus on pressing matters such as economic dependence, participation in decision making, age of marriage, unwanted pregnancy, discrimination of female children, illiteracy, atrocities against women and economical issues.

Association for Bottom Strata (ABS)
Pudukkottai, India
E-mail:   abs_organisation@yahoo.co.in
ABS is an organization that aims to uplift the Narikkuravar Gypsys, Kuravan community, dalit women and children through exclusive programs constructed for the development of the poor people living in rural areas of Pudukkottai District of Tamilnadu, India. ABS has been active in a variety of programs including environmental awareness, welfare associations, child labor elimination, and women awareness.

Blossom
Virudhunagar, India
E-mail:   blossomtrust@eth.net
BLOSSOM's mission is to "facilitate a process where marginalized groups, particularly women and children, have an improved quality of life, by working in partnership with other development actors."

Centre for Women's Development and Research
Chennai, India
CWDR's mission includes creating awareness about gender issues, increasing the income of women, and eliminating violence against women. CWDR primarily works with slum women and female children who are employed as domestic workers.

Council for Tribal and Rural Development (CTRD)
Bhubaneswar, India
E-mail:   ikfoundationofindia@hotmail.com
CTRD was founded to promote the leadership of rural women, to address their health issues, and to strengthen women's self-help groups through capacity-building and linkage with international donors. They aim to alleviate rural poverty by promoting self-employment among women and involving women in micro-enterprise activities and community-level food security initiatives.

Dalit Women Forum
Secunderabad, India
E-mail:   dalitwomen_forum2000@yahoo.co.in
The mission of Dalit Women Forum is "to enhance their bargaining skills in order to increase their living levels in the fields of economic, social, political, cultural".DWF does not solely target Dalit women but includes all poor and oppressed women irrespective of their caste or religious background and aims to empower women by raising awareness on various issues, fighting for the rights of the oppressed and organizing women’s and self-help groups.

Deepak Charitable Trust
Vadodara, India
E-mail:   deepakfoundation@yahoo.com
Deepak Charitable Trust aimed at improving the health, education and socio-economic status of the entire Nandesari community in Western India, with a particular emphasis on providing women with a better quality of life. The vision of the organization is for women to have expanded horizons of autonomous decision making, as well as control over their own bodies and resources and wants women to have equal rights to men.

Foundation for Low Income Group & Social Health (FLASH)
Pondicherry, India
With an overall mission of "women's holistic development", FLASH's current goals are women's education, awareness building, and skill training for income generation. Its mission is to help very poor rural Dalit women and downtrodden people suffering from social exploitation, denial of basic human rights, and fear of sexual exploitation.

Guidance Society for Labour Orphans and Women (GLOW)
Tamil Nadu, India
E-mail:   annaduraiglow@rediffmail.com
GLOW has been assisting the poor, marginalized and vulnerable Dalit women of Taminadu with the mission to "raise the socio-economic condition of the poor and the marginalized and to empower them politically using Micro-Credit small savings and credits as its main strategy."

Guild of Women Achievers (GOWA)
Bangalore, India
E-mail:   womenach@hotmail.com
GOWA is to help women maximize their potential by networking and helping each other to grow personally and professionally. Their current goals are to build a strong membership base of women from different walks of life and also to motivate them to reach out to women from marginalized sections by volunteering their ideas, time, talent, services, experience and expertise.

Indira Social Welfare Organization ISWO
Dhenkanal, India
E-mail:   puspanjaliiswodkl@hotmail.com
The organization aims to empower the slum dwelling women, who are mostly Dalit and tribal women, to enable them to rise above the poverty line. The activities  include community organization, health, education, and infrastructural development plus environmental and agricultural improvement.

Integrated Women Development Institute (IWDI)
Chennai, India
E-mail:   womenaid@md3.vsnl.net.in
IWDI fulfills its mission to uplift women and girl children from the devastating situations they encounter by setting up income generating programs for deserving women to become self-employed. The IWDI targets homeless women, low income bonded labourers, the destitute, the deserted aged, and nutrition lacking girl children and provides them with better water facilities, proper sanitation, hygiene education, and savings micro credit programs.

JEETA (Joint Endeavour for Emancipation, Training and Action for Women)
Cuttack, India
E-mail:   dollidash@rediffmail.com
EETA works to inform and organize poor and disadvantaged women in rural and urban areas who are distressed and vulnerable. The organization promotes empowerment by focusing on issues such as socio-economic development and access to government organizations.

MAHILA MANDAL BARMER AGOR (MMBA)
BARMER, India
The vision of MMBA is to "establish a society with equal rights for men and women." The organization aims to inform villagers, especially women, of their fundamental rights and to promote their upliftment through education and participation in organizational activities.

Mahila Sankshem Sangh (MASS)
Hyderabad, India
E-mail:   massknr@rediffmail.com
The organization has created self managed women's groups which build the capacity of women to create "socially and economically self sustained women with equal participation in decision making of their respective families."

Nari-O-Sishu Kalyan Kendra (NSKK)
Howrah, India
E-mail:   nskk@vsnl.net
NSKK initial goal was to empower women living in seven Muslim dominated villages who due to their faith were unable to receive an education. Their strategy is to encourage women to share their hardships as a way of silently mobilizing a form of resistance. The organization serves all ages of women because they believe that at each stage of life women face different problems.

Nirnaya
Secunderabad, India
E-mail:   hyd2_nirnaya@sancharnet.in
The organization's main mission is to work towards gender justice by increasing women's decision making capabilities. Their mission is accomplished by financially supporting both rural and urban grassroots women's groups. The organization focuses it's works on Dalit tribal women and girls because they are the ones who are most vulnerable to poverty and violence in Indian society. Nirnaya supports and promotes the formation of grassroots women's groups, in urban slums as well as in rural areas.

OLAKH - A Space For Women. A Feminist Documentation Resource & Counseling Centre.
Vadodara, India
E-mail:   olakh@satyam.net.in
This organization stresses the need to have an alternative space for women to share their own frustrations and to gain education and skills to empower themselves. This organization stresses the need to have an alternative space for women to share their own frustrations and to gain education and skills to empower themselves.

Organization for Women Liberation (OWL)
Nilgris District, India
E-mail:   rdotrust@satyam.net.in
OWL was founded as a response to the felt needs of women in the Nilgiris District under the auspices of the Rural Development Organization. Poverty and the lack of resources are major problems facing these communities which lead to domestic issues, bonded labor, illiteracy and lack of education. OWL identifies economic independence and education as major ingredients for the liberation of women living in very poor conditions.

PROJECT SWARAJYA
CUTTACK, India
E-mail:   projectswarajya@sify.com
The vision is to “prevent atrocities against women, prevent drug abuse and alcoholism, to promote policy planning for women, to increase the role of women in eco-development, and to empower the women weavers and fisher women.” Project Swarajya has grown to be governed mostly by women. Today, its mission is to “ensure human rights, to provide employment opportunities to women, to ensure the participation of women in all spheres of socio-economic-cultural development.”

Qaiser Foundation
Patna, Bihar, India
E-mail:   reads_j@yahoo.com
Their main goal is community development and women empowerment through education and health awareness, family welfare and primary health care.

Rural Educational Awareness Development Society (READS)
Sathankulam, India
READS organizes women in order to raise their social and economic status. READS goals include forming female self help groups in local villages, gathering young female drop-outs and providing them with an education, and creating vocational training for women and girls.

Rural Health and Environment Development Trust (RHEDT)
Coimbatore, India
The mission of RHEDT is to organize the Tribal women into self-help groups and equip them with knowledge, awareness, analytical skills etc. It also works to help the women take responsibility for their own development initiatives and to enable them to become economically independent.

Saraswathi Meenava Magalir Sangam (Society for Fisher Women)
Tamil Nadu, India
The organization's goal is to empower marine fisher women residing in 30 coastal hamlets so they can ultimately provide alternative and supplementary income for themselves.

Shaishav
Bhavnagar, India
E-mail:   shaishavad1@sancharnet.in
The organization mainly focuses on improving issues such as child labor, uneducated children and slum children, especially girls. Their primary goal is to improve the general society by beginning with empowering children to take charge and initiate change. Shaishav's philosophy is that a healthy child leads to a healthy adult, which ultimately makes a healthy society.

STREE ATYACHAR VIRODHI PARISHAD (Social Organization agitating For Socio-Legal Justice to Women and Girl Children)
NAGPUR, India
It aims to bring awareness, awakening and information to women about their constitutional rights, laws and judicial procedures. It also works to create equality, liberty and social justice for women in the society. Although the organization serves all groups of women, they focus on the uneducated poor rural women of Vidarbha Division of Maharashtra State.

Vikalp (Women’s Group)
Baroda, India
E-mail:   vikalpgroup@hotmail.com
Vikalp believes that "an aware woman is a revolutionary being who can initiate changes in her surroundings, and in gender relations through collective and individual power." As a means to change, the organization focuses on strengthening women's health, education and rights. Vikalp strongly feels that all three spheres are highly inter related, therefore, change needs to take place simultaneously. The organization has a strong community base, involving the local village women and representatives of the panchayats (local government bodies) who work together in implementing programs.

Wake Up India Women's Wing
Bangalore, India
E-mail:   wakeup77@sify.com
Working primarily with rural village women, Wake Up aims to help poor and underserved village women.

Women Development Resource Centre (WDRC)
Madurai, India
E-mail:   ismmdu@eth.net
The mission of WDRC is to help promote a strong grassroots women's movement. The organization also addresses the livelihood needs of women, works on actions against violence on women and encourages the political participation of women in local governmental systems.

Women's Emancipation and Development Trust (WED)
Tamilnadu, India
E-mail:   wedtrustindia@sancharnet.in
The aim of WED is of "building a gender-just society with self-sustained, economically independent, politically empowered women." The organization's mission is to "empower women and children in all spheres of life through education, training and intervention programs along with networking of peoples' movement for campaigning and lobbying."

Women's Organization for Rural Development (WORD)
Tamil Nadu, India
E-mail:   siva_word@hotmail.com
Their goals include eradicating gender disparity through the attainment of social, economic, health, cultural, and environmental development. Focusing on serving primarily rural poor women, the organization works to improve the status of women by promoting women and children in livestock rearing and bio-diversity conservation. Through training and awareness they also work to improve women's health rights.

Women's Political Watch (WPW)
New Delhi, India
E-mail:   nayyar@del3.vsnl.net.in
The organization works to promote development and democracy for women who live below the poverty line in slums and tenements. To encourage development, WPW works to enhance the social and economic status of women by bringing centrality to women's needs.