Action Aid is an international development agency working with some of the poorest communities in 26 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to usher in lasting improvements in the quality of their lives. Action Aid has been working in India for the last 30 years, helping the developing countries of the world.

Action Aid Bangalore has today 300 partners working on the field, all over India, with every region having one NGO working towards bringing in skills to reduce poverty. In its bid to be closest to the scene of disaster, the organization regionalised subsequently and set up operations in seven different states of India. The Bangalore office was a by-product of such an initiative, and one of Action Aid's offices was set up here to offer timely help for those in distress.

In line with the perspective defined by Action Aid globally, the Bhubaneswar region particularly , on its introspection and analysis of the causes of poverty in Orissa zeroed down to problems of egalitarian distribution. In order not to lose focus on planning and implementation, it was agreed in the course of the first regional strategy paper in the year 1995, that the efforts of the organization would be concentrated on the southern and the western parts of Orissa, which were identified poverty pockets, long neglected by the state. These pockets were represented by the tribal and the Schedule caste population who, are dependent on the forest and work as marginal labourers in the fields of the landowning castes and class.

Action Aid's interventions focussed on the need to make its development initiatives sustainable and not ad hoc. The efforts of the region have over the years been on ensuring that the socially and the politically marginalised have access to and control over the resources that define their livelihood.

All are invited to volunteer and be a an integral part of Action Aid's circle of love !

For more information on Action Aid, contact:
Action Aid India Society,
Skip House, 3rd Floor, 25/1,
Museum Road, Bangalore-560 025
Phone: 224 0399/299 0420/320
Fax: 558 6284

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