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About Us
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aaina, which literally means
‘mirror’, is a voluntary
organisation, based in Odisha,
India. The organisation was
conceived as an effort of a few
socially sensitive people who
came from different backgrounds,
charged with the vision of
working with the vulnerable
sections of the society and
addressing issues giving rise to
such vulnerabilities. In this
context, persons with
disabilities,
children and
women became
the core focus areas of the
organisation. aaina has been
working extensively in the State
covering the rural and tribal
population at one end and
professionals, administrative
agencies, Govt. officials and
legislators at the other end.
Since disability has been the
major focus right from its
inception, aaina has
concentrated its energies and
resources on the empowerment of
persons with disabilities,
facilitating them to become
self-sufficient and realise
their hidden potential.
aaina was founded in 1998.
With a backdrop of more than 15
successful years of
operation,aaina is today
recognized as one of the front
ranking NGOs of Odisha working
in the field of disability and
inclusion. Though Aaina provides
necessary services and aids to
people with disability the
broader focus is inclusion of
people with disability in every
aspect of development and
facilitating their role as
valuable contributors. Adopting
the inclusive approach, today
the organisation has a deep
rooted understanding and
experience in Community Based
Rehabilitation, with special
focus on women empowerment,
child rights, and promoting and
strengthening People’s
Organisations. Thanks to our
sincerity, accomplishment and
experience, aaina has been
consistently approached by
different agencies for
partnership, alliance,
orientation and training.
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| VISION |
aaina envisages an inclusive society
where each person has an identity,
independence and exercises his/her rights
with dignity and equality especially persons
with disability, women, children, elderly,
ultra poor and other socially excluded
groups.
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| MISSION
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aaina recognizes the human
rights of persons with disability and
elderly persons and commits to their
realization through appropriate
participatory program interventions leading
to an inclusive society. It further strives
to establish a center of excellence on
research, training and documentation.
aaina recognizes the rights of
children and commits to facilitate their
realization through appropriate
participatory program interventions, leading
to a non-discriminatory society.
aaina commits to promote gender
equality and justice and empowerment of
women in all spheres of life by facilitating
appropriate mechanisms to ensure their
rights, identity, dignity and independence.
aaina believes in being a dynamic,
scientific, learning organization by
appropriately informed through research and
development and networking to actively
influence policy through strategic advocacy
mechanism that incorporates people centered
advocacy.
aaina commits to respond to the
disaster situations upholding the
perspective of human rights.
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| GOAL |
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aaina not only dreams of
achieving a barrier free
community for women, children &
people with disability, but also
of a dignified, self-sufficient
and respectable life for the
disadvantaged, irrespective of
their laggings. We dream of a
society which is free from
stigma for women, children and
persons with disability; where
people realize the potential of
each individual and take an
inclusive approach towards
development. We dream of a world
which is barrier free,
compassionate and understanding
towards the most vulnerable and
neglected mass on earth. We
dream of a future that is safe
and inclusive; and a present
that is full of opportunities
and scope for participation in
every sphere of their life. |
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