Agragami India

District

Haridwar

Visakhapatnam

States

Andhra Pradesh

Uttarakhand

The American India Foundation’s (AIF) MANSI program targets adolescent girls in the remote, hilly, and underdeveloped areas of Paderu Mandal in Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh, and the mountainous villages of Haridwar block in Uttarakhand. AIF selected Agragami to enhance the skills of frontline communicators working with these adolescent girls in both states.

The program’s goal is to empower these girls with essential adolescent health education, addressing issues such as undernutrition, anemia, menstrual hygiene, early sexual debut, early marriage, and childbearing. Additionally, the girls received crucial information on newborn care, which they can apply when they become mothers at an appropriate age.

Agragami provided the communicators with the necessary materials and tools to effectively engage with and educate the adolescents.

District

Gaya

States

Bihar

This comprehensive community development project was built on three key pillars: health and sanitation, education for children, and skill development for income generation. The project spanned multiple locations in Bihar, including 10 villages in the Mocharim and Bakraur panchayats of Bodh Gaya block, and 7 wards of Bodh Gaya town in Gaya district, reaching a total of 35,000 rural beneficiaries. In the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi, the project was implemented in the low-income, urban resettlement colony of Madanpur Khadar, covering its 75,000 residents. Overall, the project impacted more than 100,000 people.