Location: Jodphur Setting: Urban Established: 2007 Staff: 7

Health: HIV/AIDS, Infectious Diseases

JVSS, a sister organization to Gram Vikas Seva Sansthan (GVSS), aims to empower the marginalized and disadvantaged so that they can improve their life.

• Promote reproductive health and target HIV/AIDS transmission among marginalized sections of society
• Provide basic healthcare in rural and urban areas and promote community health by awareness-raising and community health programs targeting women, children, and addressing common health scourges like malaria and TB
• Provide education and prevent child labor in rural areas through informal education programs
• Empower women and promote economic independence through Self-Help Groups and vocational training
• Address domestic conflict and abuse through family counseling and gender sensitization programs
• Reduce sex-based feticide and gender selection practices through awareness-raising programs and village-based rallies
• Protect and rehabilitate women and girls suffering from economic distress and exploitation through the provision of shelter and counseling
• Promote sustainable agriculture practices and provide food security in rural areas through trainings and technical support
• Encourage inclusion of all sectors of society in village planning and participation through the establishment of Village Development Committees, Village Old People's Associations, and women's Self-Help Groups, and Dalit village-level committees

Location: Jodphur Setting: Urban Established: 1997 Staff: 7

Youth & Education: Skill Building, Guidance and Counseling, Leadership Training
Health: Social Development, Food Security Awareness, Nutrition, Personal Hygiene
Women's Empowerment: Skill Enhancement, Building Cooperatives, Women’s Entrepreneurship, Awareness and Training Programs, Capacity Building, Education, Reproductive Health Care and Rights, Career Counseling.

JGram Vikas Seva Sansthan (GVSS) was founded in 1997 with the vision of "constructing an exploitation-free society" in India. The organization's mission is to acieve “Social, Economic and Political Empowerment of poor, Dalits (“untouchables”), Children, Women and other Marginalized community through Awareness and leadership development.” In order to achieve its mission, GVSS pursues the following objectives:

• Promote reproductive health and target HIV/AIDS transmission among marginalized sections of society
• Provide basic healthcare in rural and urban areas and promote community health by awareness-raising and community health programs targeting women, children, and addressing common health scourges like malaria and TB
• Provide education and prevent child labor in rural areas through informal education programs
• Empower women and promote economic independence through Self-Help Groups and vocational training
• Address domestic conflict and abuse through family counseling and gender sensitization programs
• Reduce sex-based feticide and gender selection practices through awareness-raising programs and village-based rallies
• Protect and rehabilitate women and girls suffering from economic distress and exploitation through the provision of shelter and counseling
• Promote sustainable agriculture practices and provide food security in rural areas through trainings and technical support
• Encourage inclusion of all sectors of society in village planning and participation through the establishment of Village Development Committees, Village Old People's Associations, and women's Self-Help Groups, and Dalit village-level committees

Location: Jodphur Setting: Urban Established: 2009 Staff: Office: 3 Field: 47

Health: HIV/AIDS, Infectious Diseases

AEA is an international organization that confronts urgent issues in development by working in 21 countries to lift barriers that obstruct full access to quality education. Their approach is of accompanying and reinforcing the capacity of local actors and stakeholders. Thereby, AEA accompanies local actors and organization partners in planning, developing, and evaluating their own projects. Through this, AEA guarantees the relevance and sustainability of its projects by encouraging the autonomy of communities and respecting local cultures. AEA works in 9 major areas.

• Access to quality education
• Early childhood education
• Education for women and girls
• Inclusive education
• Education for the development of global citizenship
• Life skills education
• Health education
• Migration
• Emergency and post-crisis

Location: Udaipur, India Setting: Urban Established: 2004 Staff: 21 Regular; 123 Micro-level Workers

Subject Areas:
Youth and Education: Social Leadership, Child and Adolescent Development, Complimentary Learning, Cognitive Development, Teaching
Community Development: Community Empowerment, Building Social Capital
Health: Public Health, Nutrition, HIV/AIDS Counseling, Adolescent Sex Education

Organization Objectives
Satya (Social work Academy for action and protection of Truth and Yearning for its Anticipation) functions as a resource centre dedicated to the larger goals and objectives of the social sector. In an effort to uphold truth in all its endeavors and to facilitate human development for all strata of society, Satya An NGO operates through a set combination strategy including research, interpretation of findings, design of practical strategies, and effective implementation of their programs. More specifically, Satya directs its programs toward education, health, child welfare, and livelihood generation.

Location: Kiwangala (Masaka, Uganda) Setting: Rural Established: 2003 Staff: 3

Organization Overview:

Founded by an orphan himself, COTEFONE is a school, and community development organization that aims to provide a free and holistic education for orphans and other vulnerable children(OVCs) COTFONE provides over 500 orphan and OVC with a free traditional education that is supplemented by various other training including vocational skills, health, and hygiene. In addition to these activities COTFONE seeks to assist the guardians of these children, and provides them with a variety of services. This includes a Self Help Group project in which community members pool their financial resources in order to provided for emergency assistance and loans for income generating activities.

Subject Areas:

Youth and Education: education and vocational training for orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs)

Health: HIV/AIDS education, malaria prevention, reproductive health education

Community Development: Income generating projects (IGAs), elderly support

Organization Objectives:
COTFONE aims to support underprivileged children and community members to live a better life and to achieve their full potential. The organization uses a holistic approach by targeting the children, their households and communities as parts of their activities. COTFONE’s specific objectives as an organization are to:

• Improve the quality of life of the poor orphans and marginalized members in Kiwangala through the provision of free basic formal education and vocational training with literacy skills
• Improve food security through the introduction of new techniques of farming and other income generating activities
• Provide health education and initiate health care services for general awareness among people about HIV/AIDS and related problems
• Recruit and train counselors and volunteers to take care of persons with HIV/AIDS as well as their children
• Establish Orphans Assistance Scheme, children, youths and older persons recreation center
• Support the elder persons and entire community members through guidance and counseling, income generation by offloading the weight of their grandchildren and providing social services to them