ADITHI

About us

Established in 1988, ADITHI is a non-profit making women’s organization working for the socio-economic development and empowerment of resource-poor and resource-less women and girl children through awareness generation, leadership development, livelihood and income generating programs and developing replicable models and organizational methods for fostering the same.
ADITHI is headquartered at Patna, with project areas in different rural and urban areas of Bihar state (18 districts) and Jharkhand state (3 districts).

Mission
ADITHI is set up to enable the empowerment of vulnerable communities through economic and social development focusing on women and girl children to eliminate violence, discriminations and exploitation.

Vision
ADITHI envisions a society with a participatory culture, where women have rights over their lives, where they enjoy equal participation in decision making and where every woman is treated with dignity and equality.

Thematic areas
Sponsorship of Adolescent Girl Children, Child Protection, Health, Innovative Education, Women Development, Water and Sanitation, Disaster Risk Reduction, Watershed Management, Livelihood & Income Generation, Issue Based Activities like Female Infanticide, Feticide, Child Marriage, Women and Children in Difficult Circumstances (Red Light Area), Panchayati Raj, Combating Modern Slavery, Street Vendors, etc.

Activities
Rights of Children:
• Child Sponsorship
• Awareness & Education
• Distress Help, Trafficking Prevention
• Feticide & Infanticide Prevention
Health:
• HIV/AIDS Awareness & referral
• TB Awareness & Referral
• Reproductive & Child Health
• Adolescent Reproductive & Sexual Health
Education:
• Promotion of Girls’ Education
• Running IGNOU Study Center
• School Education Improvement
Distress Relief:
• Flood Relief
• Child Line

Asita Maldahiyar is the Executive Secretary of ADITHI.

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