Tara Chandavarkar
Founding trusteeFounder of AVAS - Association for Voluntary Action and Service
Tara Chandavarkar is the founding trustee of AVAS - Association for Voluntary Action and Service (1980)[1], an Indian non-profit working on livelihood, healthcare, education and women & children from Bengaluru.
AVAS - Association for Voluntary Action and Service
AVAS (Association for Voluntary Action and Service) is a Bengaluru trust founded in 1980 by professionals and social activists concerned about the deprivations facing the city's slum dwellers, including founder-member Anita Reddy. It works on participatory, in-situ housing development, healthcare through a community health-worker network, education and skills/income-generation programmes, and has advocated at a policy level against evictions and demolitions affecting slum communities in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
AVAS - Association for Voluntary Action and Service reports the following, on its own site:
- 683 families rehabilitated after eviction through the G. Byappanahalli in-situ housing project
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