Affus Woman Welfare Association – Hubli

Affus Woman Welfare Association is a small
non-governamental organisation established in 1999. Affus Women Welfare
Association is a socio-economic Association established an aim to
improve the social, Economic and mental condition of the women at
grass root level, since these 7 years we are voluntary without any
help are conducting health, community development, educational and
vocational programmes. In urban and rural areas. As an organization
with social concern affus womans welfare association has embarked
upon a programme to educate the poor women. The poor women face triple
trouble of class, caste and gender. These hapless creatures could
be used as tools to bring about a transformation in the society, by
imparting skills useful in gaining livelihood. We are working in both
urban and rural areas to make the poor women self-reliant by imparting
them training in beautician course, cutting and tailoring, saree and
bedsheets painting, soft toys, pot decoration, banjara work, mehandi
designing and other courses. Already more than 200 poor and other
women were imparted special skills since the past three years. Summer
camps were conducted by us to impart free training to the women. Making
them self-reliant is one of the ways to emancipate them from the yoke
of caste discrimination. Similarly the women are languishing under
abject health conditions. Innumerable health problems of the women
go unaddressed due to poverty and ignorance of their families. Affus
womans welfare association has conducted several free health awareness
camps for the women in the remote villages of the backward anantapur
and nalgonda districts. During our camps it was discovered that the
women were facing critical health problems like leucorrhoea and menorragia.
Various gynaec infections were the culprits behind this tendency.
During the awareness camps, our volunteers have been closely interacting
with the women on issues that are never openly spoken. The women were
nudged to visit the local hospitals to get themselves checked. Local
doctors were also involved in interacting with the poor women. Both
educated and uneducated women have restricted employment opportunities,
due to discrimination, lack of education, experience and confidence.
In fact, employment opportunities for women in developing countries
are often almost non-existent. Many women have to beg for a living
whereas, in actual fact, employment is the only way out of life long
exclusion. If, during childhood, girl child are not included in the
community, then as they grow up, may not be aware of their existence,
let alone their value and rights as equal citizens. Awwa is also conduction
beautician, tailoring, soft toys, paintings, embroadary and consumer
awareness camps, pulse-polio programme, women and child welfare programmes,
aids awareness camps and conducting exhibitions to provide a platform
for women to market their products. Conducting seminars/workshops
for women and many such activities. Presently we are engaged in income
generation progrmmes to women.