OUR WORK

1200

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

Ensuring Water Security Through Earthen Nala Bund Water Storage Structures

Asia Initiatives has funded the construction of two earthen nala bund water structures, each of which will hold 4,000,000 liters of clean water.

SoCCs For Digital Literacy

In order to battle against the strong cultural and environmental barriers such as gender inequality, poverty, inadequate support, and child marriages, Asia Initiatives is striving to bridge the digital divide and empower adolescent girls in all communities by supporting their education and development.

SoCCs For Contextualized Multi-Level Learning In Conflict Areas

Asia Initiatives, in collaboration with Karunodaya, is battling those statistics by developing primary school classes into learning spaces where children can excel in their needed fundamental and foundational skills.

SoCCs For Education Through Community Changemakers

Asia Initiatives in collaboration with Mera Gaon Meri Duniya is transforming education in the community through building platforms for youth to connect with their society and themselves.

Availing Drinking Water By Rainwater Harvesting Cum Storage Tank

This Asia Initiatives’ program assisted by local partner, Dilasa Janvikas Pratishthan, is targeting the Wavna village in Maharashtra, India to promote water conservation and accessibility through the construction of 4 rainwater harvesting cum storage tanks.

Nutrition Garden For Food Security

To provide food security with improved nutrition and livelihood opportunities, Asia Initiatives is supporting Savera Foundation through the supplement of Kitchen Gardens which enhance agricultural productivity through cost-effective and sustainable resource use.

Farm Pond Structure For Alternate Source Of Income

This Asia Initiatives’ program assisted by local partner, Dilasa Janvikas Pratishthan, focuses on Babra village in Maharashtra, India to ensure water conservation and security through the construction of farm ponds.

SoCCs For Design Thinking, Innovation And Entrepreneurship In AI Funded Maker Labs

Asia Initiatives is assisting Vidhyalay Udhyam to achieve the goal of all children to have the right to an education and access to tools to improve educational intellectual development.

SoCCs For Moringa Tree Plantation

Asia Initiatives in partnership with Dilasa Janvikas Pratishthan is significantly contributing toward bringing the economic empowerment of women and sustainable livelihoods through drumstick cultivation (moringa plantation).

Digging Fresh Water Ponds For Fish-Breeding

Asia Initiatives partnered with Shramjivi Janata Sahayyak Mandal (SJSM), to provide water ponds for 2 tribal communities in the Mahad and Poladpur blocks of Raigad district in Maharashtra, India by utilizing SoCCs.

Women's Groups Revive Traditional Watershed Structures

Asia Initiatives partnered with Savera Foundation to ensure water security to 9 villages in the Koderma district of Jharkhand, India through the revival of traditional watershed structures.

Seedless Lemon Tree Plantation Program

Sankalptaru Foundation has partnered with Asia Initiatives to implement scientifically informed tree plantation campaigns that improve biodiversity and support sustainable livelihoods! Through this initiative, 4000 trees are going to be geotagged, tracked and nurtured!

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 Advocacy

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.

SoCCs For Neighborhood Improvements

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.

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.

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.

Learn More

Support Our Work

Donate

Join Our Community

Volunteer