About AWARE India Trust

AWARE - Awareness for Wo+men to Advocate their Rights through Equality is a registered Chennai-based not-for-profit organization driven by the vision of a world where all vulnerable groups exercise their rights through equality. We aim to create safer spaces for everyone, everywhere through conversations that are unspoken, unacknowledged and unanswered. We nurture this path by alleviating social injustice and creating awareness on key issues that disproportionately abuse, discriminate and violate each of us.

We primarily run 6 projects enabling gender equality through awareness and education by promoting safety across different spaces from Schools, Colleges, Workplace, Communities, Public Places and Online. In the past 9 years, we have provided our comprehensive education modules on Child Safety, Gender Sensitization, Sexuality Education, Mental Health and Holistic Community Development to more than 45,000 children across Tamil Nādu. We are slowly expanding to reach 100,000 children in the next 5 years.

Our Mission

We create safe spaces for everyone, everywhere through a conceptual framework for a more comprehensive approach. The model emphasizes that to change individual behavior, programs need to not only work with individuals, but to also address the systems and groups—peers, families, communities, media, policies—that influence individuals. This model encourages individuals and mixed-gender groups to think about the:
• Changes that are needed across all sectors of society
• Range of different strategies across different levels of action that will be required to bring about these changes
• Roles of different social actors during such changes

Implementation - Our Approach

We strive to achieve its core goals by working closely with all the beneficiaries and stakeholders in order to create a lasting impact. We believe that the causes we work for are need-of-the-hour societal issues but are long-existing issues that need to be addressed from the roots consistently rather than a one-time approach. We do this through various programs conceptualized to sensitize and train different other stake holders, while educating and empowering girls to feel empowered is also done simultaneously.