AAMBRA came into formal inception in the year 2012 with its roots in the dynamics of India’s development. The journey of Aambra Foundation has its roots in the dynamics of India’s development. Every small step that we take to reach out to the others is a small journey towards the mammoth task of improving the canvas of human lives. We touch human life in many ways. There are social constructs and
paradigms as old as human civilization is on our planet. In this ever changing and ever evolving world there is a constant give and take and a constant flow of information and communication from each one of us inwards and outwards. There are many things around us which we have observed right from the time when we were born so much so that we stop noticing them or pondering about them. We feel gender bias is one such area where more needs to be done than is being done. One of our primary objectives as an organization is to highlight issues of contemporary relevance to the modern Indian. We believe both the genders complement each other and are not in competition with each other to prove supremacy. Notwithstanding our status as the world’s largest democracy and focus of governmental actions on development of disempowered population, vulnerability of weaker sections of the society, like women and children, to abuse, neglect, discrimination and exploitation remains a gigantic developmental challenge for the country. India occupied 108th position in a list of 144 countries which were covered under the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Index 2017. The country’s female labour force participation (FLFP) rate at 31.1% in 2015-16 (ILO data) is abysmally low in comparison to males (75.7%). Children under the age of 18 years, who constitute 39% of total population (2011 census), continue to suffer due to abuse, malnutrition, inadequate access to quality education and other challenges. There are multiple other forms of deprivation that people at the bottom of society continue to face due to lack of access to development opportunities like skill training, prevalence of obscurantist social practices like patriarchy, and inadequate awareness of rights and entitlements as guaranteed under the Constitution of India and system of governance. Aambra Foundation is an attempt to counter people’s vulnerabilities, especially with focus on women and children, by bridging developmental gaps that are manifested at the level of knowledge and access to opportunities. Although the Trustees were actively advocating gender equality and social justice since past many years, the Foundation saw the light of the day in 2012 as a collective expression of their desire to contribute to the cause of social development. It was registered in Delhi in the same year as a non-profit charitable Trust under the Indian Trust Act, 1882. This marked the beginning of a journey that continues to gain momentum with every passing year.
