Current Projects

Driving Impact Today: Transforming Lives Across Bihar and Delhi NCR

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UDAY: Family well-being and poverty alleviation through family planning

Agragami works in the field of reproductive health and family planning among low-income (mostly migrant) populations in selected areas in Noida, where early and high fertility is the norm. Agragami works towards improving the economic condition of families by motivating couples to have small and planned families that will result in better health of mothers and children, thus enabling them to achieve an improved standard of living.

The intervention began as a family planning project, but in 2023, maternal and child health aspects too were included, emphasizing pre- and post-natal care of women, and complete and timely immunization of children.

We endeavor to increase knowledge, build a desire to change, build a supportive social environment to enable behaviour change, and facilitate access to and utilization of essential health services.

Self-defence for girls and women

Since 2016, Agragami has empowered 16,876 school and college girls and professional women, with skills of self-defence.

Agragami’s current self-defence project has trained a group of nineteen school girls as self-defence trainers. The girls are from the 2 Government Girls Higher Secondary Schools in Hoshiarpur, NOIDA and Madanpur Khadar, Delhi. Between May 2024 and March 2026, the 9 trainers will train over 7,600 NOIDA school girls in self-defence.

The model and methodology of self-defence training used have been developed by Martial Vout, a Swiss self-defence instructor and security advisor. To visit his website, click on the following:

https://martialvout.com

This program is funded by ALORVIE, a support association for women victims of violence, based in Switzerland

Livelihoods and income supplementation activities

The livelihoods project works with women from 200 poor, Dalit and Scheduled Caste families of Atiya, Basadih and Mocharim panchayats, including those from marginalized communities – Dalit, Manjhi and other scheduled castes and tribes. About 90% of the families have land holdings of 1.5 bighas or less, and 10% are landless.

Agragami helps the families undertake activities to supplement family income – kitchen gardening, goat and pig rearing. Families receive training inputs and ongoing technical guidance for carrying out these activities profitably. They are given information about government schemes, and helped to avail of them. Agragami also links these small farmers to government farm extension services so that improved agricultural practices are adopted and higher productivity achieved.

These villages lack the basic veterinary services needed to protect animal rearers from loss of capital due to mortality and morbidity of their animals. To fill this gap, young women from the villages have been trained to provide basic veterinary services for goats, pigs and cattle. These “Pashu Sakhis” have been linked to a qualified veterinarian. Agragami provides continuing support to Pashu Sakhis, helping to establish them as successful barefoot veterinary practitioners / livestock nurses” and earn a livelihood.

Agragami is grateful to The Goat Trust, a Lucknow based not-for-profit, for technical support for the Pashu Sakhi program.

The Bodhgaya Hotel School (TBHS)

The Bodhgaya Hotel School (TBHS) was set up to provide underprivileged youth of Bihar with quality training that ensures skill development, job-readiness and high employability in India’s rapidly growing hospitality sector.

TBHS is located in the historic town of Bodhgaya, where Lord Buddha gained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree nearly 2,500 years ago. Today, this most sacred of Buddhist pilgrimage sites attracts lakhs of visitors from across the Buddhist world.

A unique institution, TBHS is a school attached to a twenty-room hotel that caters to Indian and international guests. Along with providing students with a real-life learning environment, this one-of-its-kind set-up also generates revenue to recover a part of the costs of running the school.

TBHS is supported by EHLsmile Association and IFPD. EHLsmile is the alumni association of the Ecole Hôtelière, Lausanne, one of the world’s leading hotel schools. EHLsmile’s technical support to TBHS includes curriculum and teaching methodology development, training of trainers, and regular monitoring and assessment of operations to ensure that training quality standards are being met. IFPD is a Swiss Foundation dedicated to the development of skills for entrepreneurship. IFPD provides continuing financial support to TBHS.

Please click on the following button to visit The Bodhgaya Hotel School:

Early childhood development:

1. Pre-school & remedial education

The Early Childhood Development program offers both pre-school and remedial education classes to children in the low-income settlement of Madanpur Khader, Delhi. Pre-school classes initiate 3 to 6-year-olds in the three ‘R’s – reading, writing and arithmetic – using play-way methods.

Remedial classes help primary school children who are experiencing difficulty keeping up with what is being taught in school. Remedial education helps these children to understand their school lessons, catch up with their class, and minimize the chances of their dropping out of school.

2. Shishu Ghar: Rural Creche Initiatives

The Azim Premji Foundation’s Rural Creche Initiative seeks to improve child nutrition, and promote early childhood development through early stimulation and learning and the provision of safe and nurturing day-care for children of working mothers. The Foundation is supporting a coordinated program in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Bihar, in which “shishu ghars” are set up to serve children in the age-group 7 months to three years, living in vulnerable communities.

Under this project , Agragami is setting up and running forty “shishu ghars” in Mohanpur block of Gaya district, Bihar.

Tarakki

Tarakki is designed to empower adolescent girls and boys growing up in resource-poor settings, by equipping them with the awareness, information, knowledge, skills, ;motivation and voice that they need to complete 12 years of school, lead healthy lives, be gender sensitive, be aware citizens, and serve their communities. Core interventions of the project include the formation of adolescent clubs, structured training programs, opportunities to participate in sports and develop other hobbies and interests, the promotion of peer leadership and the creation of an enabling community environment through stake-holder engagement. The project provides adolescents with the opportunity to participate in and lead social action projects.

The project aims to reach out to all adolescents aged 12 to 19 (an estimated 2000) in Basadhi panchayat, over a three year period.