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Ready to join the collective? Browse this page to keep up-to-date with inspiring work happening across India, and stay in the know. Below, check out the ways you can plug in—by joining an existing circle as a volunteer, creating a new chapter in your city, attending one of our workshops, or proposing a new community-based project YOU will lead to advance human rights.
Join a circle.
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Rights for Children of Prisoners (Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Nagpur)
Community members come together to create a safe, joyous space for children of women who are under trial, in the form of a crêche within the prison where their mothers live. Join the circles in the locations listed above, or ask this group of six incredible women about starting one in your city. Get involved here.
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Dignity & Rights of Ragpickers (Mumbai, Alibag)
More than 1.5 million ragpickers provide a vital service to the country–cleaning up a significant proportion of the 62 million tonnes of waste generated annually in India. Yet they are marginalized rather than applauded for their contribution to society. Join this compassionate listening session on 10 June in Alibag, which combines a beach clean-up, community art project, and a conversation about their daily experience to plan joint action to advocate for informal worker rights. Sign up here.
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Mental Health & Wellbeing for Frontline Workers
Deepika & Vasundhara have created a support network for 200 frontline workers across NGO sectors, who work on issues like gender-based violence, human trafficking, and climate change. The circle provides tools to boost mental health and address community worker burnout. Tools and technique-centric sessions support those at the front lines to care for themselves and preserve their ability to do demanding work. Indicate your interest in working with them.
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Advocacy for Diversity and Inclusion in India (Virtual, International)
Design and lead a remote campaign for marginalized Indian youth, so that higher education institutions and companies take diversity and inclusion-related specific action in order to make employment and education more accessible to groups typically sidelined.
Whether you live in India or are an NRI, join this internationally located working group, attend virtual planning sessions, and drive a multi-city campaign across India. Click here to join the campaign.
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Inclusion & Belonging for Neurodiverse Teens & Their Families (Mumbai)
Moneisha and Gopika are starting this community to create inclusive social spaces for teens with disabilities to create vibrant peer networks. Mothers of neurodiverse teens themselves, they strive to center joy to combat exclusion, and create spaces for celebration and inclusion.
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Students Supporting Labour Rights of Domestic Workers (Mumbai, Bangalore)
This action circle strives to raise awareness about ways that employers can support labour rights of their domestic workers. Led by Aneesh (age 17), Arushi (age 17), and Geetika (age 14). Information campaigns and advocacy efforts equip domestic workers with more awareness of their rights, and bargaining power.
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Participatory Mental Health Research by Adolescents, for Adolescents (Virtual)
Students across India lead this research project to report on the mental health issues that are most important to high school students, such as exam stress, bullying, and gender rights.
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Enabling Non-Violent Communication for Human Rights (Coming Soon)
Ranjitha facilitates a session to help participants learn tools to peacefully and effectively resolve conflicts in personal, organizational, and political settings.
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Combating Hate Speech & Bullying Online (Virtual)
Vaishnavi (age 17) has launched 1k2k, an initiative to encourage compassionate, fact-based communication to address hate speech on social media. Trained volunteers are tapped to meet hate speech with balanced counter-arguments. Join the team as a volunteer.
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Brainstorming Solutions to Enable Inclusive Employability for Youth in India
Young people have the opportunity to support Priya Agrawal, Founder of the Antarang Foundation, on a new initiative to level the playing field for youth employees in India. 4 virtual brainstorms on Zoom, with option to contribute long-term in-person. Sign up here.
Attend a workshop.
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Dignity & Rights of Ragpickers (Alibag)
More than 1.5 million ragpickers provide a vital service to the country–cleaning up a significant proportion of the 62 million tonnes of waste generated annually in India. Yet they are marginalized rather than applauded for their contribution to society. Join this compassionate listening session which combines a beach clean-up, community art project, and a conversation about their daily experience to plan joint action to advocate for informal worker rights.
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Enabling Non-Violent Communication for Human Rights (Coming Soon)
Ranjitha facilitates a session to help participants learn tools to peacefully and effectively resolve conflicts in personal, organizational, and political settings.
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Mental Health & Wellbeing for Frontline Workers (Virtual, Pan-India)
Deepika & Vasundhara have created a support network for 200 frontline workers across NGO sectors, who work on issues like gender-based violence, human trafficking, and climate change. The circle provides tools to boost mental health and address community worker burnout. Tools and technique-centric sessions support those at the front lines to care for themselves and preserve their ability to do demanding work.
Launch your own.
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Start a Chapter in Your City
Does one of the ideas above catch your eye? Is it something that needs to happen where you live? Let us know, and we’ll connect you to members of our existing circle to exchange tools and strategies, and see how it’s done!
Send us a message with your city and the program you’d like to launch there.
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Start a New Circle
Got a social change idea you’ve been meaning to work on, and looking for other folks to join?
Tell us a bit about it and if it’s a fit, we can help you find fellow passionate, purpose-driven volunteers.
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Each of these projects is volunteer-driven and led. TIC does not award funding for project proposals.