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Awareness Generation
The target groups that ASSIST works with are the poorest and most marginalised communities in our society. These people have faced nothing but great misery in their lives and they feel trapped in a state of despair. Poverty has passed on for many generations and their...
Capacity Building
ASSIST strongly believes that sustainable development can only take place when the people themselves effectively own, execute and manage their development process. Therefore, the cornerstone of our work depends on the forming and strengthening of People’s...
Women Empowerment
Despite their enormous contributions to family, community and society, many women in rural India continue to live as secondary citizens, facing severe discrimination and deprivation in all domains. ASSIST believes that community development is incomplete without the...
Child Development
Many children in poor communities in rural Andhra Pradesh are missing the opportunities to dream of a bright future. With the prevailing poverty, illiteracy and lack of infrastructure, children in rural areas are being let down in terms of care and education. Lack of...
Community Health
One of the major problems in poor and neglected rural communities is health – or rather, the opposite of health. The consequences of poor sanitary facilities, unhygienic practices, and lack of safe water and health care are visible in many rural villages....
Housing & Sanitation
Thousands of poor people in rural areas are still living straw huts without electricity, water or sanitation, exposed to the elements, dangerous animals and an unhealthy environment. Houses do not only protect people, and sanitary facilities do not only improve their...
Water Provision
Provision of water is one of the major challenges that global community is facing nowadays. Lack of safe drinking water and irrigation water are a central problem for millions of poor people living in rural India. ASSIST focuses on the provision of drinking water,...
Emergency Response
Comprehensive rural community development is the overall objective of ASSIST’s work. However, the frequency of natural disasters like tsunamis, cyclones, fires and floods in our target areas often cause an overwhelming demand for instant aid and recovery measures. Too...
Comprehensive Community Development
Comprehensive Community Development In more than three decades of rich experience in working with poor and marginalised communities, ASSIST has formulated a development process that aims to break the cycle of poverty by focusing on three main components:...
Income Generation
The majority of ASSIST’s target groups consist of daily wage labourers, marginal farmers and artisans. Many labourers depend on agricultural seasonal work in an area where rainfall is decreasing year by year. To break the cycle of dependence on agriculture and menial...
Sustainable Farming
Unpredictable climate, overexploitation of farming land, lack of irrigation water and tough competition from large commercial farms have made life difficult for small and marginal farmers in poor rural areas. Ill management of natural resources has created an urgent...
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