VIEWS India – Empowering People

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Who We Are

VIEWS is a growing grassroots organisation working in Odisha for the empowerment of marginalised communities, especially women and girls through various high-impact projects since 2008. Its customised interventions in Livelihood, Education, Health, Climate Change and Disaster Management enable communities to improve their quality of life and take lead as changemakers. It has been working alongside different national and international agencies to integrate traditional knowledge and expertise with modern-day development practices for capacity building of targeted groups and delivering outcomes. VIEWS has received a Special Consultative Status by the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 2019.

Our Vision

A self-reliant Odisha where communities thrive in peace and dignity.

Our Mission

Empowering vulnerable communities to improve their quality of life.

What We Do

Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods

Promoting Organic farming, revival of millets, sustainable agricultural practices and other agriculture allied sectors among marginal tribal communities through women collectives.

Enhancing Inclusive Education

Providing quality education to the poor slum children & adolescent girls and imparting inclusive education to visually impaired students by using digital technology.

Improving Health And Hygiene

Improving Sexual Reproductive Health and promoting menstrual hygiene among the poor adolescent girls and young women in urban slums.

Climate Change & Disaster Risk Reduction

Working towards climate change adaptation, engaging in humanitarian relief and restoration in disaster-affected areas.

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VIEWS COVID-19 response

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the Indian as well global community at large. The poor in the state of Odisha (India) have weak access to the right information, healthcare and are mainly engaged in the labour and unorganized sector, are expected to bear a disproportionate brunt of the economic fallout of this unprecedented health emergency.
Over those last two weeks and lockdown time, the people in Urban Slums of Bhubaneswar and Rural areas of Odisha who don’t have access to basic services including food,

safe water and the inability to take the most basic of precautions against COVID-19. I know a family in Jali Munda Slum of Bhubaneswar, India who has been working as a daily wage labourer and feed their Four kids and now they are not allowing outside to work and struggling to feed their children’s. The reason VIEWS India exists, and we are dedicating our life to Social work, our thoughts also turned to support hundreds of poor people who now have access to food, safe water and sanitation because of your support.
We want to do our best to make sure that communities with the greatest needs are not hit the hardest. VIEWS India COVID 19.

What They say

Our team had a great experience working with VIEWS during our summer internship. We worked in the coastal fishing villages of Ganjam district, which included teaching spoken English and computer classes to young students besides training the youth on different teaching-learning methods. Our team also conducted career counselling and personality development sessions.

Lauren Matranga

University of Texas, Austin, USA

We began with English classes and computer literacy classes and gradually shifted into micro-projects. We began with typing skills and progressed through Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and excel. Once the micro-project planning became more concrete, the students used Microsoft applications to further develop their ideas. It was a great exercise for both project development and computer.

Elizabeth Bahret

Virginia Tech University

The Resource Centre for adolescent girls established at Shikharchandi Nagar of Bhubaneswar is a space for the girls to interact and learn. At Cheysta Resource Centre, I learned to share my opinions. Our schools may not be perfect but we still have the responsibility to show up every day and learn as much as we can.

Mohini Adolescent Girl

Under the Project Chesta, both high schoolers and dropouts in the age group of 13 to 21 were helped to complete their education. We were provided support in terms of remedial classes, coaching, exposure visits, life skill lessons, career counselling and more.

Gangotri

Adolescent Girl

The visually impaired students have been facing multiple challenges time and again due to unavailability of textbooks. I am happy to learn about the use of technology to make their learning more convenient. However, the students should be equipped with other supporting devices too if we want them to really make use of the audiobooks

Mrs. Minati Singa

Senior Journalist, Times of India

Technology has helped us crossed many obstacles and it is wonderful to see how this has helped us overcome the barriers between education and visual impairments. I would want all the students to make use of the VIEWS audiobooks to achieve their goals in life.

Mr. Kumar Manish

State Project Officer, UNFPA, Bhubaneswar

Every visually impaired student has the right to access education. We thank the team and all those who have contributed to making this project a successful one. The audiobooks will certainly help bridge the gap between visually impaired students and education. We request VIEWS to create more audiobooks for higher education and establish an Odia blind student-friendly website and android app to reach all the students at any time.

Prasant Bhuyan

President of Odisha Association for the Blind, Bhubaneswar

When we make one adolescent girl digitally literate, we make one household digitally empowered. AI is committed to collaboration with VIEWS to use digital literacy to empower marginalized communities.