Programmes

ROSE (Residence of Secured Existence) School of Differently Abled has been set up at Badchana in Jajpur district for providing special and inclusive education to children with Intellectual Disability (ID), Cerebral Palsy (CP), Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Multiple Disability (MD) since 2009. 131 children with special needs are being benefitted under the programme with free residential schooling. Teacher and staff of the school are taking full care of these children for their all-round development in a single campus. Other co-curricular activities like painting, yoga, art and craft, indoor and outdoor sports, fun game are also undertaken by the ROSE.

Ama Adhikar has also constantly working for providing therapeutic services to differently abled children since 2014. A therapy centre has been established for children with ID, CP & ASD at Badchana. The children are provided with various types of therapies by qualified therapists.

The organization is conducting skill development training programmes for PwDs in mushroom cultivation, vermin-compost making, nursery and garden raising etc. as per Government of India guidelines and national skill framework.

A physiotherapy and yoga centre has been set up at Badchana for providing geriatric care and rehabilitation, meditation service to senior citizens.

Ama Adhikar has ventured into the domain of sustainable livelihoods practices in Odisha. We have been implementing a project on ensuring sustainable livelihood opportunity for the population belonging to marginalized section of the society in the State.

Awareness generation activities are being undertaken among tribals and forest dwellers to promote biodiversity conservation for livelihood and food security, regeneration of forest resources, water conservation through ground water re-charges, wildlife protection, prevention of causes of climate change, forest-based agro-horticulture, NTFP etc. in forest land (both under individual right and community right).

The Panchayat Extension to the Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act-1996 came into force in India on the 24th December, 1996. Being a civil society, we have been promoting provisions of the Act in Odisha since inception. PESA legally recognizes the right of tribal communities to govern themselves through their own systems of self-government and also acknowledges their traditional rights over natural resources.

Education is not a privilege. It is a human right. We have been creating awareness on education as a human right among the parents in remote areas since 2009. As the RTE is legally guaranteed for all without any discrimination, we facilitate the local administration to protect, respect and fulfill the right to education.

A study on “Capacity Building for Access to Information” in collaboration with UNDP-DoPT, Government of India and Gopabandhu Academy of Administration (GAA), Odisha was conducted. It aims at formulating action plan for implementation of good governance policies and Right to Information Act in Odisha. Other project impact studies are also being carried out in regular interval.

Odisha being a natural calamity-prone state, disaster preparedness and management is core activity of any civil society in the State. Ama Adhikar is facilitating formation of a volunteers-base to encourage participation of people in relief and rescue operation and responses to any disasters in a two-fold approach. The organization’s disaster rescue team immediately rushes to the victims with relief and necessary support to facilitate a quick response to manage the situation. Secondly, the rescue team collaborate civil society response to the emergency by various stakeholders active in the State for wider impact.