Events

A list of some of the events and initiatives organized and undertaken by Anaajoree respectively. These initiatives such as fundraising, advocacy, collaboration, policymaking and social work undertaken by Anaajoree can be categorized into their focus areas viz, education, animal welfare, gender and sexuality, community health, environment and farming and art and craft.
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Aapoon at Adda Ghor

Aapoon at Adda Ghor
Collaborated with Addaghar, Panchbati Ashram, Silpukhri Guwahati for an upcoming Elder Care project ‘Aapon’. The objective of Adda Ghar is to give a place for relaxation and get-together of senior citizens of Guwahati. Various kinds of entertaining programmes’, discussions and sports activities run at their venue. There will be facilities for an annual health check-up, yoga and meditation for permanent members of Ghar.
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Metallic Bin Distribution.

Metallic Bin Distribution.
Supported by the Minneapolis Rotary club, Anaajoree monitored the installation of metallic bins in 15 schools across Guwahati city to sensitize school children on waste segregation and waste management.
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Plantation Drive in Basistha

Plantation Drive In Basistha
In collaboration with the Environmental and Consumer Protection Foundation (ECPFO) and Suryodaya Yoga Sangha 200 fruit and medicinacl saplings were planted in the Basistha area of Guwahati city.
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Urban Farming

Urban Farming
One of Anaajoree’s visions is to create an organic farm/backyard garden to promote permaculture in Anaajoree and also in Govt School. Work has been started for an organic farm in Anaajoree’s premise
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Healing Forest Walk

Healing Forest Walk
Attended Healing Forest Walk 2021, in the neighbourhood forests of Guwahati Garoghuli Forest Trail. The event was organized by Healing Walk, New Delhi.
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Nature's Orbit Collaboration

Nature's Orbit Collaboration
Collaborated with Nature's Orbit, a Guwahati based company established with the Goal of “think global and act local “.By reducing the size of the human ecological footprint, their goal is to make the world a better and safer place to live. Natures’s Orbit is bringing various organizations working on environment together, Anaajoree collaborated with them.
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Bihu Celebrations At Mother's Old Age Home

Bihu Celebrations At Mother's Old Age Home
Celebration of Bihu with Mother’s Old Age Home Grand moms, Guwahati: Team Anaajoree celebrated the first day of bihu, 14th April with the grandmothers of Mother Old Age Home Guwahati. The event was live streamed on Facebook.
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Inspection of existing structure at Chandrapur dumping yard

Inspection of existing structure at Chandrapur dumping yard.
Anaajoree along with Care NorthEast Foundation and Midway Journey Inspected the existing structure to manage waste at the dumping yard at Chandrapur and Boragaon.
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Primary Survey on Solid and Liquid Waste Management.

Primary Survey on Solid and Liquid Waste Management.
Two interns from Tezpur University, Social Work Department conducted primary survey in Margherita, Tinisukia district and Rangapara, Sonitpur district on SOLID AND LIQUID WASTE MANAGEMENT.
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Partnership with British Council and BFI Flare.

British Council and BFI Flare Partnership
Partnership with British Council and BFI Flare to co-host Five Films for Freedom, the world’s first global, digital LGBTIQ short film programme in Guwahati along with The Queer Muslim Project and Poetry Couture.
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Pride March Guwahati

Pride March Guwahati
7th edition of Guwahati Pride March was successfully conducted. Anaajoree was one of the organizers and partners of the Pride March event.
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Five Films For Freedom Screening

Five Films For Freedom Screening
Anaajoree and Poetry Couture partnered with Tezpur University Cultural Studies Department to screen Five Films for Freedom. Post screening of Five Films for Freedom the faculty commented on the powerful discourse that the movies brought out and the need for such awareness. Milin Dutta talked about the challenges of being queer and how to overcome the challenges and build safe communities for the queer.
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Covid Relief distribution in Assam and NorthEastern States

Covid Relief distribution in Assam and NorthEastern States
During the second wave of the Covid crisis, Anaajoree came together with several local NGOs working in the North East for the betterment of trans, hijra, intersex, and non-binary communities. Under SITAL (Save Indian Trans All India Live) initiative by ParivarBayArea and Sewa International, Anaajoree and partner organizations have distributed food and health kits among the Trans community in selected districts of the entire North Eastern States, excluding Manipur.
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Food and Health Kit Distribution

Food and Health Kit Distribution
Food and health kits distributed to the trans community in six areas in Guwahati, Assam and Subhojit distributed in Agartala, Tripura
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Dry rations and Health Kits Distribution

Dry rations and Health Kits Distribution
725 kgs of Dry rations and Health Kits distributed with support from ParivarBayArea, Anaajoree
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Food Distribution for the Trans Community

Food Distribution for the Trans Community
Food distribution for the trans community in Sibsagar on July 2nd. It was a successful collaboration of Farm2food, Haiyya, Bhagyalakshmi sishu kalyan kendra and Anaajoree.
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Food Distribution For the Trans Community In Nalbari

Food Distribution For the Trans Community In Nalbari
Food distribution for the trans community in Nalbari area on July 7th, successful collaboration of Haiyya from Delhi, Pancharatna from Nalbari and Anaajoree from Guwahati.
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Food Distribution

Food Distribution
Food distribution to the trans community in Dhubri, Assam and in Nagaland on July 19th. More ration distributions were also completed in Nalbari, Arunachal and in Dibrugarh.
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Food Distribution In Tinsukia and Goalpara.

Food Distribution In Tinsukia and Goalpara.
Food distribution to Trans community members continued. Distributed in Tinsukia and Goalpara
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Medical Kit Distribution In Nagaland.

Medical Kit Distribution In Nagaland.
Medical kit distribution was done in Nagaland for medical kit.
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Celebration of Pride Month.

Celebration of Pride Month.
Collaboration with Jharna Foundation, Shillong to celebrate Pride Month, 2021 with a month long series of webinars on important topics like mental health issues and legal rights of the LGBTQ community. Eminent lawyers and personalities like Arundhati Katju and Manuraj Shunmugasundaram graced the occasion. The first day of the celebration started with poetry and singing event with Mayuri Deka , Rituparna , Madhu Raghavendra , Benjamin Daimary , Pratik Permey and a few others.
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Creative Writing Workshop

Creative Writing Workshop
As part of the ongoing pride month celebrations, Anaajoree in collaboration with The Labonya Project presented a week-long online creative writing workshop, exclusively for the youth of LGBTQ+ community.
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Project Porisoy, Virtual Fellowship Program for Transgender people of Assam and North East

Project Porisoy, Virtual Fellowship Program for Transgender people of Assam and North East
'PORISOY' - the first and one-of-it's-kind virtual Fellowship program on Skill Orientation for Trans and Gender-fluid persons in Northeast India was implemented. In the first cohort 14 fellows from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh joined. The program is supported by Sewa International Bharat and Parivar Bay Area US.
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Project Xohaay in Dhubri and Nalbari.

Project Xohaay in Dhubri and Nalbari.
Final phase of Covid-19 relief completed with aid received for The Pollination Project , USA. 50 transgender people of Dhubri and Nalbari districts received relief materials and health kits.
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Meeting queer rights activists of Assam.

Meeting queer rights activists of Assam.
Meeting with representatives from queer rights activists of Assam to discuss and brainstorm to improve the lives of LGBTQ community in Assam.
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Workshop (HRLN)

Workshop (HRLN)
Founder Milin Dutta was invited as one of the panelists for the 3-day convention on Human Rights and the Law in the Northeast being organized at Don Bosco Institute, Kharguli, Guwahati by Human Rights Law Network.
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Fundraising

Fundraising
Anaajoree has been raising funds for animal welfare organizations that have been working in the grassroots in rescuing, feeding and fostering street animals. During the year INR 11,500 is raised for animal welfare.
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Local Shelter homes visit.

Local Shelter homes visit.
Visited local shelter homes of Street Animal Welfare (SAW), Guwahati. Rashmi Chaudhury is the founder of SAW, in their shelter home rescued and paralyzed dogs are kept with utmost care. Before starting their own shelter home SAW members cared for the street dogs in a paid facility though it was self-sustainable. Finally that they have created their own animal shelter with lots of love.
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Police Sensitization Workshop on Animal Protection Laws.

Police Sensitization Workshop on Animal Protection Laws.
Anaajoree helped SAW in organizing the worksh Police sensitization workshop on Animal protection laws. The workshop was conducted by Gauri Maulekhi who explained each animal law in detail. Anaajoree’s partner organization Street Animal Welfare Guwahati organized the workshop
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Animal Rescue Collaboration with Purr Paws Foundation.

Animal Rescue Collaboration with Purr Paws Foundation.
Anaajoree collaborated with Purr Paws foundation to rescue many stray animals. On August 19 2021 A skinny kitten without a mother was rescued from the corner of a busy street. The kitten was handed over to PurrPaws Foundation, Anaajoree’s partner organization for shelter and better care. On November 26th 2021 another puppy was rescued from a busy street. On December 6th 2021 a puppy was rescued from a busy street, dewormed and house trained. However, the little puppy could not be saved. He died of canine distemper.
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Fireflies-Jonaki Poruwa

Fireflies-Jonaki Poruwa
Produced by Founder Milin Dutta, ‘Fireflies’ (Jonaki Porua) became the first ever Assamese movie addressing the queer issue that has been well received in India and nominated at International Film Festivals. Anaajoree has vision to come up with more meaningful regional movies on contemporary issues.
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Dog Sterilization Project

Dog Sterilization Project
Guwahati Municipal Corporation has restarted the Street Dog Sterilization Project in Guwahati, implemented by partner organization JBF. Anaajoree is identifying community leaders who are feeding the street dogs, and connecting them to JBF. The presence of the community leaders make the capturing of the dogs easier and make the process less stressful for both the animals and the volunteers.