Who We Support

The Action Foundation for Social Services (AFSS) is the non-profit partner of Asan, a social enterprise. Asan has developed an easy and safe to use menstrual cup and operates a 1-for-1 donation model: for every cup purchased, one is donated to a woman in need. Soujanya has partnered with them to support their menstrual health and hygiene programme in Mysore, where we serve a marginalised community of waste pickers to enable them to live and work safely during their menstrual cycle.   

The Association of People with Disability (APD) was founded in 1959 and over their 60 years of operations, they have served over a million people with disabilities across India through health, education, employment and advocacy interventions. Soujanya is working with APD to deploy their Community Mental Health Programme in the Tumkur district of Karnataka. This holistic offering ensures people with mental illness and their caregivers receive the supports they need to live a dignified life, such as counselling, access to medication, and employment opportunities.  

Friends of Women’s World Banking, India (FWWB) is a nationwide organization working towards women’s empowerment through capacity building and catalytic lending support, especially in farming communities. Soujanya and FWWB have launched a project in the Surendranagar district of Gujarat to promote the adoption of climate resilient Desi Cotton cultivation with natural farming practices. This program will help improve incomes and health in the community. Value addition services around cotton cultivation will also create employment opportunities for women in the cotton value chain. 

Hasiru Dala champions waste pickers, transforming them from an invisible workforce into recognised and respected professionals. Across our many verticals of work, Soujanya and Hasiru Dala found synergy around textile waste and livelihoods through Hasiru Dala’s Textile Recovery Facility programme. This programme enables a female waste picker to move up the value chain and become a waste entrepreneur or “wastepreneur” in the textile waste ecosystem. Soujanya is collaborating with Hasiru Dala to scale this program offering with the goal of standing up new wastepreneurs across Bangalore.   

Karuna Trust has worked on improving access to healthcare in rural and remote regions across India for the last 40 years. They serve over a million people across 11 states through just 52 health centres. Soujanya has partnered with Karuna Trust to launch a First Response Unit (FRU) in Gumballi, Karnataka. The FRU in Gumballi will provide high quality obstetrics and gynaecology care for women in the community with the goal of reducing maternal and infant mortality and morbidity.  

VIHAAN was founded in 2002 to fight human trafficking and other forms of abuse and exploitation. They take a comprehensive approach to their work, going beyond rescue operations to support survivors through their recovery journey. They also provide critical interventions to prevent trafficking through education and child safety programmes. In Karnataka, Soujanya and VIHAAN have collaborated to launch a safe house employment programme, where survivors will receive residential care services, along with career counselling and skilling interventions to enable them to become independent.