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Welcome to AWWA (Affus Women Welfare Associatio) nonprofit site!
About AWWA
Affus Woman Welfare Association (AWWA) is a small Non-Governmental Organization established in 1999, Registration no 4465 of 1999 under the Societies Registration Act 1350 Fasli. Affus Women Welfare Association (AWWA) is a socio-economic Association established with an aim to improve the social, economic and mental condition of the Muslim women at Grass root level. In the last 8 years we are voluntarily conducting Health, Community Development, Educational, and Vocational Programmes without any support in urban and rural areas. As an organization with social concern AWWA 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 trade, cutting & tailoring, saree & bed sheet 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. AWWA 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 Menorrhagia. Various gynaecological 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 children are not included in the community, and then as they grow up, may not be aware of their existence, let alone their value and rights as equal citizens.
AWWA is also conducting 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. AWWA also conducts seminars/workshops for women and many such activities. Presently we are engaged in these activities without any outside institutional support.
During the 8 years of its existence, we believe that our activities were restricted due to lack of resources. As an organization of social concern, we need to further spread our activities. We have set-up a training institution named AFFUS Arts and Crafts Institute at Anantapur and Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, and Hubli in Karnataka for skill development among the orphans & vulnerable children and women. The institution is offering 75 valued courses to the women. Apart from imparting training, the institution is also providing counseling to those who have finished their training programme. That way we are striving in our own small way to bring about a change in the society.
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