Main target group is disabled people of age 0 and above in 140 villages where Timbaktu collective works in Anantapur district. Indirect beneficiaries are expected for 15000 families with whom Timbaktu collective works.
Major Goal is to enable disable people and their families to form their own organization to promote and protect their rights and provide services to disable people.
Specific objectives include
# Institutional building (Pratibha) towards a sustainable autonomous organization,
# Advocacy and campaigning to inculcate a rights based culture in Prathibha work,
# Livelihood support towards economic self sufficiency,
# Inclusive education for promoting a culture of inclusion in family, community and in the mainstream education system,
# Rehabilitation intervention for inclusion and participation of disabled people in family and community life,
# Program management for Prathibha to take ownership of Militha.

Timbaktu collective has been working since 1990 for sustainable development in the drought prone Anantapur district of Andra Pradesh. It focuses on landless, small and marginal farmers with special emphasis on women, children, youth and dalits. With local self governance being the underlying theme of Timbaktu collective work, they formed numerous Community Based Organizations (CBOs) of the rural poor, to work in the areas of:
# Regeneration of forests in common lands (Revenue waste lands and Reserve Forests)
# Revitalization of agricultural lands belonging to small and marginal farmers
# Rejuvenation of traditional water-harvesting structures (tanks, kuntas, wells & other water bodies)
# Developing a relevant banking system with rural women from marginalized families
# Relevant education for the rural deprived children
# Education and organization of youth and Dalits.
# Awareness building on local self governance (panchayats)
# Awareness building and empowerment of disabled people
# Networking with other voluntary, civil society, community based and mass organizations at district, state and national levels.

Timbaktu Collective has been actively supported by Asha for Education. To learn more about Asha's support to Timbaktu Collective please visit the project page link given below.

Timbaktu Collective page on Asha for Education's website
<a href="http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=204">http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=204</a>

Project Co-ordination team:
Asha London Chapter:
Neil Gandhi neilDOTpDOTgandhiATaexpDOTcom
Ramakrishna prkgoudATyahooDOTcom>

UFlorida Chapter:
Sharan Asundi sharan_asundiATyahooDOTcom
Akshay Kumar Reddy akshaykumarreddyATgmailDOTcom