Agragamee

Agragamee is a not for profit organisation working for the poorest and most deprived sections in the tribal districts of Odisha. Our approach combines Read more interventions for socio-economic development with awareness and education to  build a synergy of food and voice, that has ensured self-reliance and self-sufficiency of local communities.  Our efforts have helped women leaders like Sumani Jhodia and Sukri Majhi provide outstanding leadership to their community to fight against alcoholism, and exploitation, students like Munni Majhi and Mamata Jhodia shine in their studies and aspire for a better future and farmers like Bhuban Jani adopt sustainable cultivation practices and increase their incomes more than five-fold.  The interventions for people centred natural resources development and sustainable agriculture have ensured food security and enabled poor tribal families come out of the poverty-debt-poverty trap. The work in primary and adult education addressed crucial factors of exclusion and helped thousands of children, youth and adults and specially girls and women learn the three rs, and aspire for a better quality of life by getting higher degrees, finding jobs, and accessing necessary information. Leadership development has enabled tribal youth and women initiate dialogue with the Government to engender pro-poor and pro-tribal policies and enabled the formation of  grassroots organisations to addressed socio-economic problems with collective strength. Women’s organisations have played an outstanding role to ensure fair bargains for the tribal products through collective entrepreneurship and controlling middlemen.  Agragamee has committed itself to siding with the tribal and other poor communities so that poverty and hunger are eliminated. Its models for integrated community development are globally recognised. It has consciously planed various measures to ensure inclusion, focusing on women and girls, women headed and landless households and marginal farmers.  All this has been taken up with a strong engagement with the State. Whether it is for more pro-poor policies, or for the implementation of people centred laws, Agragamee has always sought to play a constructive role to ensure that the most marginalised and vulnerable groups get their due.