Agneyam Adhvaita International Foundation aims to alleviate poverty and achieve inclusive growth and development. Active community engagement ensures optimal long-term gains and upward accountability. It works through Life Cycle Based, Integrated Community Development Approach with a thematic focus on Education, Health, Skill Development and Livelihood, Environment, and Disaster Risk Reduction and Response. Child Protective Strategies, Inclusion, and Gender Transformative approaches remain central in all initiatives of AAI Foundation, thus ensuring comprehensive development.
Vision To be the source code for sustainable socio-economic and environmental development.
Mission Nurture clean, green and healthy communities where everyone is empowered and equipped to reach their full potential in partnership with its employees, communities and stakeholders, while promoting volunteerism and establishing international standards of strategic planning, implementation and measuring impact.
Nirvana by AAI Foundation
AAI Foundation’s flagship urban community development programme – NIRVANA, seeks to create green, clean, healthy and empowered communities. Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, it is developing an integrated solution to break the vicious cycle of urban poverty.
Defining Nirvana’s approach is its intrinsic belief that urban poor aspire to a life of dignity and selfrespect. With the right opportunities, they can take charge of their lives, dare to imagine a different future and work towards it. Our strategies are carefully designed, such that they speak both to their environment and to their ambitions. Nirvana’s unique ‘Convergence’ approach brings this philosophy to life. Uniting critical stakeholders– the state, nonprofits and AAIF volunteers in a rich partnership, it meets its responsibility to the community and supports them in realizing their dreams.
Aligned to AAI Foundation’s vision statement, Nirvana aims to create source codes for urban socio-economic development, prototypes, using step by step approach, convergence and dialogue with duty bearers such that these can be adopted and scaled up by diverse set stakeholders, including communities themselves.
Nirvana addresses vital issues prevalent in urban areas like access to quality education, universal access to health, sustainable livelihood opportunities, improved water, sanitation and hygiene, environmental conservation including enhanced green cover and solutions to city waste, through 3 campaigns and on ground action for positive urban transformation. Child protective strategies, inclusion and gender transformative approaches remain fundamental. Currently, Nirvana is being planned to be implemented in 11 towns in partnership with like-minded organizations.
Health & Well Being for All
Promoting health and well-being for all individuals in India is a complex and multifaceted goal that requires concerted efforts from various sectors. The National Health Policy, 2017 involves several strategies and interventions to achieve the health of the nation. The policy is guiding document in shaping health systems in all its dimensions- investments in health, organization of healthcare services, prevention of diseases and promotion of good health through cross sectoral actions, access to technologies, developing human resources, encouraging medical pluralism, building knowledge base, developing better financial protection strategies, strengthening regulation and health assurance.