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Emperor Ashoka Charitable Trust supports unreached communities through Education opportunities, Natural Resource Management and Promoting Livelihoods
Participatory Water Management
Water Harvesting Structures – Build | Revive | Repair | Reconstruct
Emperor Ashoka Charitable Trust uses the Participatory Ground Water Management (PGWM) principles and emphasizes Building, Reviving, Repairing and Reconstructing Water-Harvesting structures through its initiatives. The programme is based mainly to understand the groundwater scenario in the regions of Prayagraj and Uttar Pradesh. Groundwater is an essential resource for farmers, especially in arid to semi-arid regions where the rainfall is a most non-reliant phenomenon. The enormous amount of usage of groundwater for drinking and irrigation purpose has sounded alarm bell for everyone as the deterioration of groundwater quality is a problem that has created severe water crisis.
Education
Emperor Ashoka Charitable Trust believes in increasing accountability of the Public Education System (schools and Anganwadi) so that the local government takes positive steps to address the inequality by ensuring universal quality public education system for children ages 3-14 years. Samerth’s Education Program focuses mainly on: Improvement in the quality of learning outcomes; Increasing awareness amongst parents towards importance of educating their children; ensuring the continuation of education and retention of children from distress migration affected families along with strengthening the implementation of ‘Right to Education Act’.
Disability
Working with children and people with disabilities is one of the focus areas of Emperor Ashoka Charitable Trust. It is estimated that in any population, 10% of the overall people suffer from some form of disability. In poor and marginalized communities, their vulnerability increases and they become the last layer of the bottom of the pyramid. Emperor Ashoka Charitable Trust works towards creating an inclusive society and that include disability. The Kanpur programme houses a day-care and vocational centre for children / young adults with a disability which also offers community-based rehabilitation services in severe cases. The first intervention was initiated in 2015 in Kanpur, as a response to community demand for a space for children and young adults with special needs.
Livelihood
In our quest for creating sustainable and economical empowered communities, promoting on-farm and off-farm livelihoods of the marginalized groups become a focus area of Emperor Ashoka Charitable Trust work. Our Livelihood interventions in Kanpur in 2007 to address the pressing issues of livelihood for PVTG (Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group), PwDs (People with Disabilities) and Small landholding farmers. The effort aims to strengthen the process of claiming individuals as well as Community Forest Rights under Forest Rights Act and by the means of Emperor Ashoka Charitable Trust, working on the conservation of the forest as a source of livelihood, community forest management and conservation.
