Where our partners work
History of ATIA’s work in India
In India, ATIA works on two themes:
- Tuberculosis control, a disease made endemic in these neighbourhoods by severe overcrowding and poverty
- Psychosocial family support for the most deprived households, which since 2022 has focused more specifically on women’s empowerment and socio-economic inclusion
To run these programmes, ATIA works with four local partners with complementary profiles, each long established in the neighbourhoods of intervention:
- LSS (Lok Seva Sangam), founded in 1976 to fight leprosy, extended its work to tuberculosis control in 2003, first in partnership with Inter Aide and then with ATIA, when ATIA took over Inter Aide’s urban programmes in 2008. With ATIA’s support, LSS also runs the family support and women’s empowerment programme in deprived neighbourhoods in Mumbai (since 2013) and Jaipur (since 2019).
- ALERT India (Association for Leprosy Education, Rehabilitation and Treatment), founded in 1978, began its collaboration with Inter Aide in 1996 on community development and tuberculosis, before extending its work to family support in 2004. ALERT is now supported by ATIA in both of these areas of intervention.
- KGST (Keshav Gore Smarak Trust), the oldest of these organisations, founded in 1958 to work across a broad social spectrum (education, health, housing), became a partner of Inter Aide in 2004 and then of ATIA in 2008 for family support, early learning and microcredit. Today, ATIA supports KGST to run the family support and women’s empowerment programme in deprived neighbourhoods in Mumbai.
- NSVK, created in 1996 with Inter Aide, has developed activities in access to credit, family support, education and tuberculosis control. In 2001, NSVK became a founding member of Uplift India Association, and since 2016 it has managed its microcredit activities independently. ATIA now works actively with NSVK on tuberculosis control.
An ATIA unit providing technical, financial and administrative support in Mumbai coordinates all the partner associations on a day-to-day basis. Its missions include monitoring the quality of support, ongoing training of field teams, and checking accounting and operational reports.
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about the tuberculosis control programme
about the family support and empowerment programme