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Organizational overview:

Academy of Gandhian studies (AGS),an apex level NGO operating for the past thirty eight years is committed to end injustice,inequality and poverty through ‘Satya, Ahimsa and Dharma’. The key areas of intervention during the last three decades include peace initiatives, programmes for gender equity in six states, environmental awareness campaigns and networking at district levels in three states, youth for development and in the recent past has more focused on HIV/AIDS, Trafficking children for Labour, Trafficking in women and children, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Disaster management and response and natural resource management. The Academy currently provides the needed leadership to a network of organizations spread across the four states Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu and working against the contemporary issue of trafficking in children and women, child trafficking for labour, Climate Change Adaptation
& Mitigation in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and City of Bangalore.

Inception of AGS:

The Academy of Gandhian Studies was founded in 1976 at the initiative of its Founder Chairman Sri.Prabhakarji, adopted son of Mahatma Gandhi and a close associate of Acharya Vinoba Bhave, along with Sri. K.S. Acharyulu, Sri. Kodati Narayana Rao, Sri.Damodar Pangrekar, Sri. K.S. Radhakrishna and Sri. G. Sivaramamurthy, all of whom had been a part of India’s freedom movement.

Our Guiding Philosophy:

The key words that defined development to us are ‘Antyodaya’ (the awakening of marginalized people), Education (in values and relationships), Grama Swaraj (a community approach of individual in society) and Satyagraha (to dissent and struggle for justice). As the transformation was to take place in this frame work,non-violence automatically becomes the sheet anchor of our struggle.