ACTION VILLAGE INDIA (AVI) believes that every man, woman and child in rural India has the right to take control of their lives and to prosper in fair and equal communities. AVI works to secure the rights and livelihoods of India’s rural poor through supportinglocal partners to deliver projects focused on education, health, land and fishing rights, agriculture and women’s development.

AVI has worked with its partners in India since 1989. Since then, India has changed dramatically – the economy has grown at seven per cent a year over two decades, with a rapidly growing middle class. Yet, a third of India’s population still live in poverty, most of those in rural areas. AVI’s work today focusses on some of these millions who have been left behind by India’s economic development.

AVI has been supporting CRUSADE since 1997 funding initially it’s Women Development project and presently extending support to Rehabilitation and Livelihood Promotion of People with Disability and Elderly Women Groups.Besides, through Partners Solidarity Fund, AVI is extending support for the last three years for environment promotion activities such as Home solar DC systems and solid waste management and sanitation through Health Committees formed by CRUSADE.

AVI was founded by, and is run by, people inspired by India. The rural development projects that AVI supports are devised and managed in-country by our partners, who work with disadvantaged communities in the Gandhian tradition of non-violent change and self-organization.

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