Despite all the various kinds of evils surrounding our society from all four sides, what makes this world a beautiful place? According to us, it’s ‘hope’. It’s ‘hope’ that whispers in our ears during testing times that good days are ahead. ‘AAs’ means hope, was established to create a Child-Friendly World for every child. A Child-Friendly World where children have access to each and every resource to ensure their survival, development, protection and participation.
The seven founder members of the organization met in the year 2003. They entered the same college from different walks of life, having different struggles in their childhood and adolescents’ age to pursue M.A. in Social work. During their educational journey, they were put in the same group for an internship and were asked to organize different activities in urban and rural communities. They came across lots of children from underserved communities and realized they shares the similar experiences of various difficulties and lack of guidance. They organized different activities like skit plays, awareness campaigns on education, sanitation and drug addiction. All these activities were appreciated and they realized the power of co-creation. The first idea of creating an organization came in the year 2004 and in 2005 this idea converted into reality in a form of AAs.
AAs is on the mission of Creating a Child Friendly World, and we believe that Child development and protection could not be achieved by only working with children, but this should be a comprehensive approach to include each and every stakeholder to address different cross-cutting issues affecting child development. Presently organization is working on four major thematic areas i.e. Child Protection, Girl’s Education, Adolescent and youth Empowerment and Climate Action.