Our team consists of board members who are act as mentors. This is followed by the Secretary and Treasurer who are the chief functionaries on the behalf of the board. Then there are project teams with coordinators, field level workers and volunteers.

As a group of committed professionals coming from different backgrounds working together with an aim to bring about quality change in the lives of the people we work with. We engage in different projects in rural as well as urban areas to advocate for the rights of people and work together to bring about favorable policy changes.

Our partners:

• Actionaid India
• Oxfam India
• Oxfam Novib
• Water Aid
• Care India 
• Catholic Relief Services

The right to quality education is recognized as a human right by the United Nations and is understood to establish an entitlement to free, compulsory primary education for all children, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all children, as well as equitable access to higher education, and a responsibility to provide basic education for individuals who have not completed primary education. In addition to these, the right to education encompasses also the obligation to eliminate discrimination at all levels of the educational system, to set minimum standards and to improve quality.
Currently we are conducting one program focusing on education namely-
Cluster Education Program

Supporting Agency: Catholic Relief Services

Core Objectives:

• Provision of quality education in private recognized schools
• Increase the girl child enrolment in school
• Community sensitization
• Develop child-friendly school system
  
  

Core Issues:

• Creating girl education friendly environment
• Enhancing skill of teachers
• Community participation
  
  

Target Groups:

• School going children, especially girls
• Teachers
• Parents
  
  

Working area: Rural blocks of Barabanki district

The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the first legally binding international instrument to incorporate the full range of human rights—civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights. In 1989, world leaders decided that children needed a special convention just for them because people under 18 years old often need special care and protection that adults do not. The leaders also wanted to make sure that the world recognized that children have human rights too. The four core principles of the Convention are non-discrimination; devotion to the best interests of the child; the right to life, survival and development; and respect for the views of the child.
Protection rights cover those pertaining to all forms of child exploitation and cruelty, arbitrary sepration from family, and abuses in the criminal justice system. This right includes:

• RIGHT TO A NAME AND NATIONALITY
• RIGHT TO EQUALITY
• RIGHT TO PROTECTION AGAINST SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE
• PROTECTION FROM ABUSE AND NEGLECT
• PROTECTION OF PRIVACY
• PROTECTION OF A CHILD WITHOUT A FAMILY
• RIGHT TO BE PROTECTED FROM WORK THAT THREATENS A CHILDS HEALTH, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
• DRUG ABUSE
• PROTECTION FROM OTHER FORMS OF EXPLOITATION

Currently we are undertaking a program named UDAAN supported by Action aid.

Core objectives:

• To provide child-friendly environment to the identified street children for protection and repatriation/rehabilitation of these children.
• To sensitize and develop effective linkages with different stakeholders for proper implementation of child protection provisions.
• To institutionalize a child-surveillance system for planning and actions to address the issues affecting them adversely.
• To build a city-specific network of organizations and individuals for collective efforts towards rights of children.
• The 3 broad areas of interventions are (i) protective (ii) rehabilitative/restorative, (iii) policy influencing measures to cater to the needs of the children without care and protection.

Target Group:

• Street & platform children
• Stakeholders involved in child protection
• Parents/Guardians
  
  

Working area: Urban area of Kanpur

Security of tenure is one of the cornerstones of the right to adequate housing. Secure tenure protects people against arbitrary forced eviction, harassment and other threats. Most informal settlements and communities lack legal security of tenure. Crores of people currently live in homes without adequate secure tenure protection. Security of tenure is a key issue for all dwellers, particularly women.

Adequate housing requires access to basic amenities, including clean and affordable drinking water, energy for cooking, sanitation and washing, waste disposal & drainage facilities and emergency services. When one or more of these attributes of adequate housing are not available, the right to adequate housing is not fully in place.
Everyone has the right to a decent standard of living. Essential to the achievement of this standard and therefore to the fulfillment of human life beyond simple survival is access to adequate housing. Housing fulfills physical needs by providing security and shelter from weather and climate. It fulfills psychological needs by providing a sense of personal space and privacy. It fulfills social needs by providing a gathering area and communal space for the human family, the basic unit of society. In many societies, it also fulfills economic needs by functioning as a center for commercial production.
The human right to adequate housing is the right of every woman, man, youth and child to acquire and sustain a secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity.

Ensuring Inclusive Spaces for urban poor in city planning in Uttar Pradesh

Supporting Agency:
Oxfam India, Lucknow

Core Objectives:

• Urban poor have access to legitimate identity proof and recognition as citizens
• Urban planning processes and development schemes such as JNNURM, Rajiv Awas Yojna (RAY) are inclusive and benefit the most vulnerable groups
• Urban poor become organized and demand their rights from the Government to secure housing tenure rights and access to basic services

Core Issues:

·         Identity & citizenship rights for urban poor

·         Collectively demanding tenure security and basic services by urban poor collectives

·         Recognition of domestic workers as workers

·         Better livelihood opportunities and enhance income for marginalized occupational     

        groups

Target Groups:

·         Urban poor residing in slum areas

·         Domestic workers

·         Women leaders

Working area:
Urban slum areas of Lucknow, Allahabad and Kanpur district