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Girls empowered by digital literacy and health knowledge

Asia Initiatives projects span from over 20 sites across India, Kenya, Ghana, and the United States. We are proud to present our programs, each of which takes a holistic approach to development, through education, health, livelihood, and women-focused initiatives.

Education & Technology Initiative

Technology has become synonymous with opportunity, and digital knowledge centres utilise SoCCs to create educational and professional advancements that in turn contribute to alleviating poverty.

Women are using the SoCCs program to secure low-interest loans to develop or expand their businesses, ensuring financial security for their families whilst advancing their sense of confidence and personal empowerment.

Environmental Sustainability Initiative

Working in rural and urban communities, SoCCs are used to promote economic and environmental sustainability through improved farming techniques, waste-management and hygienic living.

Health
Initiative

Women and girls are provided with the tools needed to live healthy lives, whilst concurrently creating independent choices concerning their own bodies. On a community level, this initiative also contributes to societal advancement, and economic development.

Community Initiative

In both rural and urban settings, this initiative encourages people to become more involved with their communities by doing social good and enhancing livelihoods through issues such as hygiene and food security.

Micro Credit and Livelihood Initiative

ALL PROJECTS

SoCC Buddy Lessons Over Zoom

Young SoCC Buddies in the US and elsewhere have started to video conference with children in the underserved communities we work in to help improve their spoken English skills.

Job Skills for Formerly Incarcerated Women

AI has partnered with Hour Working Women to provide advanced and beginner computer classes for women to prepare them for when they re-enter the workforce.

Digital Literacy Through Low-Cost Tech Solutions

Adolescent young girls earn SoCCs by mentoring or tutoring two younger children. They can redeem for Kids Who Kode Digital Literacy classes.

Cascade of Learning for Adolescent Girls in Lucknow

Through multiple Gender Resource Centers, equipped with libraries, classroom and low-cost computers, Udaan reaches adolescent young girls from underserved communities to empower them.

SoCCs For Advocay

These programs have “been designed to equip girls with the skills and resources they need to thrive. When girls are strong, healthy, and educated, they change their communities and transform societies”

Zuri Initiative, Economic Empowerment for Women

Asia Initiatives has partnered with Zuri to use their well- established and tested concept of social capital credits (SoCCs). This innovative model of economic and social development tackles poverty issues while promoting sustainable development of communities

SoCCs for Bicycle Banks

Asia Initiatives, with support from the Women’s Rehabilitation Group in New Jersey, launched bicycle banks to address the lack of access to public transport.

Nutrition Gardens

More than 1500 women have set up kitchen gardens where they grow vegetables to increase their families nutrition and achieve financial independence.

Adult Literacy For Women Artisans

Asia Initiatives has partnered with SEWA (the Self-Employed Women’s Association) to promote economic empowerment and drive education initiatives by improving literacy for women weavers in Delhi.

Adolescent Job Skills Training

More than one out of every five are disengaged and disconnected in the state of Connecticut.

Tribal Credit Cooperative

Programs in childcare, education, and community connectivity support the livelihoods of Katkari women, whilst utilising microcredit societies to improve financial opportunity.

Micro-Poultry Farming to support Women-Led

Women are given loans from Asia Initiatives to purchase and raise chicks, and begin their small poultry farming business which allows them to become key stakeholders in their own success.

Organic Floriculture Businesses for Women

As part of our push for women economic empowerment, Asia Initiatives has partnered with the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) to help farmers start floriculture businesses.

Water Conservation for Water Security

Working with tribal and rural farmers and families, SoCCs are implemented to enhance livelihoods and ensure food security, whilst conserving and sharing water amongst the Tamil Nadu community.

Empowering Embroidery Artisans

Women in Delhi earn SoCCs for a timely delivery of products weaved without mistakes, sending their children to school, and improved saving habits, which they then redeem for adult literacy classes, tutoring services, and important supplies.

Waste Management for Community Health

In 2015, we partnered with the Alice Visionary Foundation Project (AVFP) and WomenStrong International (WSI) to incentivize individuals in the Manyatta neighborhood of Kisumu to perform social services through the SoCCs program.

Water Conservation for Agriculture

Asia Initiatives has partnered with Save Indian Farmers to support water conservation activities in six villages in the Beed district of Marathwada, Maharashtra, India.

Goat rearing to support Women-Led Businesses

To combat seasonal droughts, women have redeemed SoCCs for loans to purchase goats. This has eliminated drought-fuelled migration, while improving women’s financial independence and wellbeing.

Leveraging Social Capital for Organic Farming

We have strategically involved the female family members by empowering them to earn SoCCs through participation in monthly meetings, agri-camps, anti-tobacco camps, health camps, and self-help groups.

Women's Rural Health Development Program

In Haryana, India, Asia Initiatives has partnered up with Arpana Hospital to implement a rural development program. With our innovative SoCCs methodology, women will be given access to health care and participate in village sanitation.

Tree Planting in Doon Valley

Students from 25 schools have participated to plant over 8,000 trees in the Doon Valley, a lush ecosystem in the lower Himalayas.

Health and Education for Van Gujjar Women

With support from the Women's Rehabilitation Group of New Jersey, Asia Initiatives launched a SoCC program to empower the Van-Gujjar women of the Himalayas in India in partnership with Samanta Foundation and Mantra Social Services.

Cascade of Upskilling: System of Rice Intensification

Women are earning SoCCs for establishing bird perches in their rice fields and home-made sticky traps for natural pest control, install structures to reduce firewood use in their kitchen, construct vanarai bunds to reduce water run-off and plant native trees in their farmlands.

Organic Farming In Yavatmal

The program empowers underserved women with low-cost organic farming techniques to ensure they do not end up in an inescapable debt cycle.

PAST PROJECTS

Kadam Resource Center

In 2016 Asia Initiatives collaborated with the Center for Development in Ahmedabad, India, to implement sustainable changes in the areas of women’s self-help groups, safe institutional births, involvement of community leaders, healthcare workshops, and girls mentoring their peers.

SoCCs in Kumasi, Ghana

In collaboration with WomenStrong International and Women's Health to Wealth, AI has launched two projects in Kumasi - the Kumasi Market Women Project and the Girls’ Club Project.

SoCCs in Washington DC

In April 2016, WomenStrong International and Bread for the City, in partnership with Asia Initiatives, has launched a SoCCs project in Anacostia, Washington D.C., to help women improve their lives and their communities.

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