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[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

Building skills that save lives. Building a new generation of climate and humanitarian leaders.
ActionAid Association is conducting a Humanitarian Action School from 30th June to 2nd July 2026 in Gosaba, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal.
Ms. Dipali Sharma, Director – Organisational Effectiveness, ActionAid Association, led a session on inclusive disaster response. She highlighted why we must prioritize the most vulnerable communities and understand how disasters impact different regions in different ways. She also emphasized how climate change is making disasters more frequent, intense, and complex across the world.
Mr. Debajyoti Chakraborty, State IAG Coordinator and expert trainer, led sessions on evacuation mapping, early warning systems, and the critical role of first responders, equipping participants with practical knowledge and life-saving skills.
The training brought together 70 young climate warriors and social workers who engaged in discussions on disaster risk reduction, inclusive rescue planning, and climate resilience. Through these sessions, participants strengthened their capacity to lead, respond effectively, and advocate for change in their communities.
#ActionAid #ClimateAction #HumanitarianLeadership #DisasterResponse #WestBengal #YouthForClimate
@sndeep @dipalisharma02

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

On National Doctors’ Day, we honour the dedication, compassion, and service of doctors who care for people in their moments of greatest need, often under challenging conditions.
Their work also reminds us of an important principle: healthcare, like education and care work, is too fundamental to be left to market forces alone. These are public goods that every person should be able to access, regardless of income or social status.
The best way to honour doctors is not only to celebrate their commitment, but also to strengthen public health systems, invest in those who provide care, and ensure that quality healthcare remains a right enjoyed by all—not a privilege available only to those who can afford it.
This National Doctors’ Day, let us recommit to building a society where care comes before profit and health belongs to everyone @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

ActionAid Association organised a Majdoor Pathshala in Gotarka village, Patan district, Gujarat, bringing together over 150 women workers from the informal sector. The sessions created awareness on various labour welfare provisions, social security schemes, and Gram Sabha and Gram Panchayat processes. Participants gained information on accessing these schemes and collectively agreed to take these up in their communities to help secure greater social and economic protection for families #WorkersRights #SocialJustice @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

At ActionAid Association's Jubasathi Learning Centres in Sambalpur, children are overcoming learning gaps through joyful, innovative, and activity-based education. Creative learning experiences are helping them strengthen their language, mathematics, and life skills while building confidence, curiosity, and a lifelong love for learning. @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

Children from the Primary School in Tekari, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, participated in an Environmental Justice Dialogue organised by ActionAid Association. The session helped children understand important issues such as climate change, rising temperatures, heat waves, and the need to protect nature and the environment. Through creative drawings and discussions, they shared their experiences and suggested local solutions to address environmental challenges. The children also pledged to take collective action to protect the environment. This dialogue empowered young voices and encouraged children to become active leaders in building a greener and more sustainable future. #ClimateAction #ChildrenForChange @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

Over 150 workers, officials, and community members joined ActionAid Association’s Capacity Building Workshop on the New Labour Codes, 2025, at Addagutta, Telangana. The session explained key rights under the Four Labour Codes—wages, social security, industrial relations, and workplace safety—helping workers understand protections and welfare schemes. Brochures on BOCW benefits and Workers' Facilitation Centre(WFC) were released, and a Mobile WFC was launched to spread awareness in communities. Knowledge shared here empowers workers to claim their rights. #LabourRights #MazdoorPathshaala @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

ActionAid Association conducted a field visit to Chaf village in Dudhi Block, Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, where the team met with community collectives, Human Rights Defenders, and workers to review progress and strengthen future action.
Discussions focused on improving workers' access to housing, ration cards, pensions, employment under the rural employment guarantee programme, registration under the Building and Other Construction Workers welfare scheme, Ayushman Cards, and eShram Cards, while continuing community advocacy on local development and land rights.
The visit also included meetings with union representatives to strengthen organisational systems, documentation, and future planning. A review with the field team highlighted the need for stronger monitoring, case tracking, and documentation of programme achievements.
The team also visited a zero-investment Worker Facilitation Centre at Kuber Sthan, recognising it as an effective community-led model and encouraging its expansion to more blocks. @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

ActionAid Association conducted a field visit to Badli village, Rajasthan where a meeting and a Mazdoor Pathshala were organised with women construction workers to strengthen awareness of workers' rights and social justice.
The session focused on the dignity of labour and the everyday discrimination faced by workers. Discussions highlighted that work is a source of identity, dignity, and self-respect, and that labour promotes equality while building collective resistance against exploitation. Participants also explored how caste-based discrimination creates inequality, divides communities, fuels exclusion and hatred, and makes it easier for vulnerable workers to be exploited.
The programme further discussed the constitutional and legal safeguards that guarantee equal rights for all citizens and prohibit caste-based discrimination. The interactive session helped participants better understand their rights and the protections available under the law.
During the programme, one offline application under the Building and Other Construction Workers welfare scheme and two offline scholarship applications were completed. A total of 17 participants attended the session, including 15 women and 2 men. @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

Communities are always the first to respond when disaster strikes. To invest in this reality, ActionAid organised the Tamil Nadu Humanitarian Action School from 25–27 June 2026 at DakshinaChitra, Muttukadu, Chengalpattu District, Tamil Nadu. Bringing together 78 grassroots leaders from six disaster-prone districts, the three-day school deepened participants' knowledge in disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, humanitarian principles, accountability, gender and protection, and psychosocial care through interactive sessions, simulations, and hands-on exercises. The programme concluded with participants developing Village-Level Humanitarian Action Plans and laying the groundwork for a statewide network of Community First Responders dedicated to inclusive, accountable, and locally led humanitarian action. By placing trust and resources in grassroots leadership, this initiative is building the resilience that ensures no one is left behind when the next disaster comes. @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

ActionAid Association’s Heat Wave Relief Campaign continues across Delhi, reaching workers at labour addas and construction sites in the Central and West districts. Awareness sessions are being conducted to educate workers on preventive measures to protect themselves from extreme heat and heat wave conditions.

As part of the campaign, Heat Wave Relief Kits containing a water bottle, a cotton towel (gamchha), and Electral powder packets are being distributed to support workers' health and well-being. The kits help workers stay hydrated, reduce the risk of heat-related illnesses, and better cope with rising summer temperatures. @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

ActionAid Association organised an Interface Meeting at Government Primary School, Datu (Jauljibi), Uttarakhand, bringing together parents, teachers, school monitoring committee members, and local representatives. Discussions focused on quality education, regular attendance, safety, cleanliness, and preventing dropouts. The meeting strengthened school-community coordination, encouraged greater parental participation, empowered the School Monitoring Committee, and helped identify solutions to create a safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environment for every child. #QualityEducation #CommunityEngagement. @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

ActionAid Association's Worker Facilitation Centre in Jodhpur organised a Social Security and Safety Camp to connect workers with social security schemes, healthcare services, and legal support. Mr. Rakesh Ramawat, Secretary of the District Legal Services Authority, Jodhpur, attended as the Chief Guest and shared valuable information on workers' legal rights and the support services available to them.

During the camp, support was provided for 13 Ayushman Bharat Health Account cards, 44 Ayushman Bharat Health Account registrations, 25 applications under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2 registrations on the e-Shram portal, 15 applications under the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, 7 applications for silicosis screening, and 15 applications for other welfare schemes.

Workers also participated in awareness sessions on occupational safety, climate change, and heatwave prevention. The camp strengthened access to social security schemes, healthcare services, legal awareness, and safer workplace practices. @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

ActionAid Association organised a Sramik Pathasala at Tarini Basti, Ward No. 17, Bhubaneswar, bringing workers together to strengthen awareness of labour rights and collective action. The session also explored how climate change is affecting workers' livelihoods and living conditions, encouraging dialogue on building resilience and securing access to rights and social protection. @sndeep

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35 Human Rights Defenders from 6 villages joined a Perspective Building Workshop in Askot, Pithoragarh by ActionAid. Focus: leadership, rights awareness, social justice, gender equality , climate change & community action. @C9Khalid @sndeep @ActionAidIndia

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

Celebrating Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Day
Nature’s resilience comes from diversity. Healthy ecosystems depend not only on giant trees but also on shrubs, grasses, insects, fungi, and microscopic life—each playing a vital role.
Our economy is no different. Its strength lies not only in large corporations but in the millions of medium, small, micro, and household enterprises that create livelihoods, drive innovation, and sustain local communities.
Just as biodiversity strengthens ecosystems, enterprise diversity strengthens economies. By investing in businesses of every size—and in the workers and entrepreneurs behind them—we build a future that is more resilient, more inclusive, and more sustainable.
#MSMEDay #EconomicResilience #InclusiveGrowth #DecentWork @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

The absolute prohibition of torture was once regarded as one of humanity’s clearest moral and legal achievements. It reflected a global consensus that no circumstance—not war, terrorism, political instability, or national security—could ever justify the deliberate infliction of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.

In recent decades, however, these principles have come under growing strain. Practices such as “extraordinary rendition”, secret detention, indefinite incarceration without due process, and the use of euphemisms such as “enhanced interrogation techniques” have sought to obscure or legitimise actions that violate the spirit and letter of international human rights law. Around the world, torture and ill-treatment continue to be reported in prisons, police custody, conflict zones, and under all kinds of regimes, including the USA.

On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we reaffirm a simple but essential principle: human dignity cannot be suspended in the name of security. Justice, accountability, and respect for human rights remain the strongest safeguards against violence, abuse of power, and impunity.

#EndTorture #HumanRights #Justice #DignityForAll @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

ActionAid Association held a Community Awareness Programme on Heatwave, Climate Change, and Labour Welfare in Nagwa Block, Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh. The programme helped workers, farmers, and tribal communities understand how heatwaves and climate change affect their lives and health. People also learned about ways to stay safe from heat-related illnesses and got important information about labour rights and social security schemes. This effort has created awareness and given participants the knowledge they need to protect themselves and their rights.#ClimateAction #LabourWelfare @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

Continuing the commemoration of International Single Women’s Day, ActionAid Association organized a community event in Songadh, Gujarat, bringing together over 150 single women, children, local leaders, and community members from 12 villages.
The event raised awareness about the rights and entitlements of single women and encouraged collective action against discriminatory social norms. Representatives from the District Legal Services Authority and Bank of Baroda shared information on legal rights, free legal aid, insurance, nominations, and protection against banking fraud.
As part of the campaign, women wrote postcards to the government demanding an increase in widow pensions and the inclusion of deserted, divorced, and unmarried women in pension schemes. In a powerful act of reclaiming dignity and freedom, many women wore bangles and applied mehndi for the first time after widowhood.
The event helped single women feel informed, supported, and empowered to claim their rights and challenge social stigma. #InternationalSingleWomensDay #SingleWomen
@sndeep @psushila92

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

As part of the Community Resource Centre initiative, ActionAid Association, Wayanad, Kerala organised a Community Entitlement Camp at Thondarnad Grama Panchayat to support farmers in updating their details under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme.
The camp primarily assisted elderly farmers and rural community members who often face difficulties accessing digital services and completing online government procedures. A total of 67 beneficiaries, including a large number of elderly farmers and women, received support through the initiative.
The camp enabled eligible farmers to complete the required identity verification process and continue receiving benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. Community members appreciated the effort to make essential government services more accessible and available closer to their homes. @sndeep

[ActionAid Association @ActionAidIndia]

ActionAid Association organised an interaction meeting in collaboration with the Labour Department at Jauljibi, Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, to raise awareness about workers’ rights and government welfare schemes.
Labour Department officials shared information on labour card registration and renewal processes, as well as various welfare benefits available to workers. Participants were guided on eligibility criteria and the procedures for accessing these schemes.
As part of the programme, 80 labour cards were verified to help update records and improve workers’ access to social protection measures. The meeting also strengthened coordination between the Labour Department and workers, promoting greater awareness and inclusion. @sndeep