The HCF funds over thirty organisations all over India. Here is a small selection of the kinds of organisations we support:
disability & Mental Health Rights
Anjali – MENTAL HEALTH - West Bengal, India
Anjali strives to shape the field of mental health and human rights in India, through a combination of right-based programs, policy initiatives and cross-sectoral partnerships with state and national government institutions, local panchayats, as well as the media and civil society.
Kolkata Sanved – MENTAL HEALTH - West Bengal, India
Kolkata Sanved is a Dance Movement Therapy organisation in West Bengal. They use this form of therapy to heal, empower and transform individuals who are survivors of trafficking, exploitation and violence.
Shishu Sarothi - DISABILITY - Assam, India
Shishu Sarothi has been working in the Northeast region of India since 1987. It runs a centre for rehabilitation and training for people with multiple disabilities and works to empower people through education, rehabilitation, training, help finding employment and protection of human rights.
Anjali strives to shape the field of mental health and human rights in India, through a combination of right-based programs, policy initiatives and cross-sectoral partnerships with state and national government institutions, local panchayats, as well as the media and civil society.
Kolkata Sanved – MENTAL HEALTH - West Bengal, India
Kolkata Sanved is a Dance Movement Therapy organisation in West Bengal. They use this form of therapy to heal, empower and transform individuals who are survivors of trafficking, exploitation and violence.
Shishu Sarothi - DISABILITY - Assam, India
Shishu Sarothi has been working in the Northeast region of India since 1987. It runs a centre for rehabilitation and training for people with multiple disabilities and works to empower people through education, rehabilitation, training, help finding employment and protection of human rights.
Youth empowerment
SAKAR - ADOLESCENT GIRLS' EDUCATION - Bareilly, India
Sakar has adopted the curriculum created by Nirantar for working with out-of-school girls and young women. They are working in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.
Vishakha - ADOLESCENT GIRLS' EDUCATION - Rajasthan, India
Vishakha is based in Jaipur, Rajasthan. They work on issues of literacy, education, comprehensive health and combating violence against women. This year they will build collectives of girls and young people and create a common learning space and agenda. They will use stories and narrations of lived realities along with local and popular music and art forms to develop perspective on power, gender, sexuality, caste, labour and violence.
Thoughtshop Foundation - YOUTH-LED SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT & ENTERPRISE - West Bengal, India
Thoughtshop Foundation creates strategies and resources that aid social transformation and empower individuals, groups and communities at the grassroots level. This specific project trains community based youth to respond to social needs by establishing social enterprises.
Sakar has adopted the curriculum created by Nirantar for working with out-of-school girls and young women. They are working in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.
Vishakha - ADOLESCENT GIRLS' EDUCATION - Rajasthan, India
Vishakha is based in Jaipur, Rajasthan. They work on issues of literacy, education, comprehensive health and combating violence against women. This year they will build collectives of girls and young people and create a common learning space and agenda. They will use stories and narrations of lived realities along with local and popular music and art forms to develop perspective on power, gender, sexuality, caste, labour and violence.
Thoughtshop Foundation - YOUTH-LED SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT & ENTERPRISE - West Bengal, India
Thoughtshop Foundation creates strategies and resources that aid social transformation and empower individuals, groups and communities at the grassroots level. This specific project trains community based youth to respond to social needs by establishing social enterprises.
sexual & reproductive health rights
SAMA - WOMEN'S HEALTH - India
SAMA is a Delhi-based organisation working on issues of women's health and rights, ensuring that women of all castes, classes and religions can access improved health care, and access information relating to their health in order for them to make informed decisions. They monitor medical companies to ensure that women and families are fairly treated.
TARSHI - SEXUAL HEALTH - Delhi, India
TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues) is an NGO based in New Delhi, India. They work towards expanding sexual and reproductive choices in people’s lives. They run an infoline, conduct training sessions and institutes, develop publications, participate in public awareness and education initiatives, and provide technical support for advocacy initiatives.
Sappho For Equality - LBT RIGHTS - West Bengal, India
Sappho For Equality was founded in 2003 in Kolkata, India. It was constructed upon a support group for lesbians, bisexual women and transmen, operating since 1999. Sappho For Equality's approach is to help empower the LBT community, do advocacy and sensitisation projects with the larger population, and to lobby with state and non-state institutions, such as the police.
SAMA is a Delhi-based organisation working on issues of women's health and rights, ensuring that women of all castes, classes and religions can access improved health care, and access information relating to their health in order for them to make informed decisions. They monitor medical companies to ensure that women and families are fairly treated.
TARSHI - SEXUAL HEALTH - Delhi, India
TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues) is an NGO based in New Delhi, India. They work towards expanding sexual and reproductive choices in people’s lives. They run an infoline, conduct training sessions and institutes, develop publications, participate in public awareness and education initiatives, and provide technical support for advocacy initiatives.
Sappho For Equality - LBT RIGHTS - West Bengal, India
Sappho For Equality was founded in 2003 in Kolkata, India. It was constructed upon a support group for lesbians, bisexual women and transmen, operating since 1999. Sappho For Equality's approach is to help empower the LBT community, do advocacy and sensitisation projects with the larger population, and to lobby with state and non-state institutions, such as the police.
labour & migration rights
Aajeevika Bureau - LABOUR MIGRATION RIGHTS - Rajasthan, India
Aajeevika Bureau provides services, support and security to rural, seasonal migrant workers. It was established to help transform migration into a positive opportunity for migrant workers and their families. Their resource centres offer a wide range of services including registration and photo ID, pre-departure counseling, legal aid and education, health services, linkages to social security such as insurance and pension and more.
Grameen Evam Samajik Vikas Sanstha - WOMEN MIGRANTS' RIGHTS - Rajasthan, India
GSVS is working with women workers in Beawar, Rajasthan in stone-crushing industries. They are helping women to collectivise in order to demand improved labour rights and working conditions, especially relating to health and safety. GSVS are monitoring working conditions and working to expose the injustices and the demand that the government supports the workers.
Jeevika - WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT & ENVIRONMENT - West Bengal, India
Jeevika has been working in Sustainable Agriculture since 2008. This year they will continue to pilot a women farmers' empowerment project focusing on Nutrition Gardening. The project uses resourceful strategies to enable women to cultivate fruits and vegetables on very small plots of land. This will create a livelihood opportunity, the sense of doing something on their own, and enable them to have control over their own produce and income. They will be using sustainable methods, such as using household waste to produce organic manure.
Kotda Adivasi Sansthan - WOMEN MIGRANTS' RIGHTS - Rajasthan, India
Working in the Kotra region of Rajasthan, KAS is mobilising tribal women who migrate for employment. They seek to empower the women by educating them about their labour rights and linking them to health and financial services, as well as governmental schemes. They are working with sharecroppers to demand improved rights from their employers.
Kislay - WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT - Delhi, India
Kislay is working towards empowering urban informal working women in Delhi slums to take proactive initiative in addressing structural forms of gender oppression and violence, alongside strengthening their participation in local governance by establishing women’s collectives in 15 slum communities.
Aajeevika Bureau provides services, support and security to rural, seasonal migrant workers. It was established to help transform migration into a positive opportunity for migrant workers and their families. Their resource centres offer a wide range of services including registration and photo ID, pre-departure counseling, legal aid and education, health services, linkages to social security such as insurance and pension and more.
Grameen Evam Samajik Vikas Sanstha - WOMEN MIGRANTS' RIGHTS - Rajasthan, India
GSVS is working with women workers in Beawar, Rajasthan in stone-crushing industries. They are helping women to collectivise in order to demand improved labour rights and working conditions, especially relating to health and safety. GSVS are monitoring working conditions and working to expose the injustices and the demand that the government supports the workers.
Jeevika - WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT & ENVIRONMENT - West Bengal, India
Jeevika has been working in Sustainable Agriculture since 2008. This year they will continue to pilot a women farmers' empowerment project focusing on Nutrition Gardening. The project uses resourceful strategies to enable women to cultivate fruits and vegetables on very small plots of land. This will create a livelihood opportunity, the sense of doing something on their own, and enable them to have control over their own produce and income. They will be using sustainable methods, such as using household waste to produce organic manure.
Kotda Adivasi Sansthan - WOMEN MIGRANTS' RIGHTS - Rajasthan, India
Working in the Kotra region of Rajasthan, KAS is mobilising tribal women who migrate for employment. They seek to empower the women by educating them about their labour rights and linking them to health and financial services, as well as governmental schemes. They are working with sharecroppers to demand improved rights from their employers.
Kislay - WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT - Delhi, India
Kislay is working towards empowering urban informal working women in Delhi slums to take proactive initiative in addressing structural forms of gender oppression and violence, alongside strengthening their participation in local governance by establishing women’s collectives in 15 slum communities.
Culture
Sparrow - Documenting Women's Social Movements
SPARROW - Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women is a women's archive that collects oral history and visual material connected with women's lives and experiences. The scope of SPARROW’s work includes the entire South Asian continent and it already has both visual and print material from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh. SPARROW’s ongoing projects include oral history recordings and video recordings of several freedom fighters, educationists, feminists, and activists in various movements.
SPARROW - Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women is a women's archive that collects oral history and visual material connected with women's lives and experiences. The scope of SPARROW’s work includes the entire South Asian continent and it already has both visual and print material from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh. SPARROW’s ongoing projects include oral history recordings and video recordings of several freedom fighters, educationists, feminists, and activists in various movements.
