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2 years ago

For women like Basanti, who lives in the slums of Kolkata, India, life means clinging to hope. Basanti is one of many women who is learning embroidery skills as part of the Cathedral Relief Service training centre, which AOA supports. Being the mother o...

Successful disability project wraps up in India

4 years ago

For two years Anglican Overseas Aid has been supporting a project giving new hope to people with disabilities in India through our small grants program. The project finished in July 2018 and was evaluated afterwards by Rebekah Pederson from the University o...

Disability Inclusive Livelihoods Initiatives Project, India

4 years ago

The Disability Inclusive Livelihoods Initiatives Project (DILIP) was run through the Community Health Global Network: Uttarakhand Cluster and implemented by the Herbertpur Christian Hospital in Uttarakhand, India. The project ran from August 2016 to July 2...

A job opportunity leads to provision for a whole family

5 years ago

We have just received an update from our Women’s Empowerment project in Kolkata, India. The project is run by our partner there, Cathedral Relief Service (CRS). They provide skills training for more than 300 women in slum communities so they can set up the...

Helping Ram get his medicines on time

6 years ago

Our Disability Inclusive Livelihoods Project in Uttarakhand, India trains people with disabilities to enable them to have opportunities for income generation for themselves or their families in the Uttarakhand region. We are working there with Ram, a 16 yea...

More than four decades of service

7 years ago

During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, which led to East Pakistan becoming the independent state of Bangladesh, an estimated 10 million refugees fled from the conflict zone over the border into India. Most went to the nearest city – Calcutta, where they...

India (6 posts found)

Hope and determination in Kolkata’s slums

Successful disability project wraps up in India

Disability Inclusive Livelihoods Initiatives Project, India

A job opportunity leads to provision for a whole family

Helping Ram get his medicines on time

More than four decades of service

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