OUR HISTORY
ACT was founded by Viju Abraham along with a group of Christians for the purpose of community development.
ACT begins to partner with faith based communities. The HIV / AIDS awareness programme was birthed.
ACT takes on the task of holding AIDS/HIV seminars and awareness campaigns in churches and also in Schools
Dr. Lalitha Edwards accelerates the work of ACT which is at this point operating under the name PACE.
Valsa Abraham sets Kalpana into motion with a focus on honor and dignity for the destitute women.
Andy Eicher establishes ACT-Chiraag
ACT-Nirnay is headed by Dr. Lalitha Edwards
Dr. Alita Ram takes over as Director of ACT-Chiraag
Mrs. Shobha Sreekumar takes over as Director of ACT Nirnay
ACT takes up gender awareness seminars and training in communities and "Women's Empowerment" issues.
Commences working in HIV prevention in rural areas
ACT-Nirnay enters the corporate sector, reaches out to the police and works on peer education and amongst HIV positive parents' children. ACT Chiraag works with incorporating wholistic health with all the communities by training them for community preventative health.
Ms Shinnie Steven takes over the Director of Nirnay which now reaches out to the remand homes and holds Child Sex Abuse seminars and parenting workshops. ACT Nirnay also reaches out now to the police and the corporate sector.
ACT Chiraag conducts life- skills trainings for children and youth affected with HIV after being trained by ACT-Nirnay. The life skills trainings is extended to the communities wherein the same training is done with all the youth in our partner communities.
Dr. Alita Ram takes over as CEO of ACT in May 2012
The Integration of all the projects viz. ACT-Chiraag, ACT-Nirnay and ULTI networking team is get amalgamated into one organization with one work one pay.
After an extensive evaluation of all our programs Mental health was identified as a major concern in all communities as a whole, with special emphasis on women and children. This was incorporated as a major thematic area.
Youth Leadership Skills Development project was introduced to build the capacity of young people to make right choices and be a role model for positive masculinity.
The purpose of this project is to provide a safe space for Leaders to share their challenging areas and get help to achieve their goals.
+91 74 2206 2206 - A Crisis counselling Helpline that functions from Monday to Saturday 10am to 10pm caring for people telephonically.
Prevention of Human Trafficking is done in partnership with a legal non-profit, to intercept potential cases of trafficking and prosecute the perpetrators.
Through this project we would like to provide psychosocial care and support to women’s leaders in the community. We wish to build emotional resilience of these women leaders so that they can be strong and care better for themselves, their families and their community.
To inculcate an understanding of Godly Masculinity among young men and women, and how we can transform our worldviews, learning to respect one another, creating deeper and stronger relationships between families, churches and communities.