Azad Foundation is a professional feminist organisation working across social and religious divides to enable resource-poor women to empower themselves by engaging in viable non-traditional livelihoods. Azad is committed to breaking patriarchal structures so that the women can exercise control over their lives and live with dignity. It does this through transformative capacity-building programmes around the self and the skills needed for non-traditional livelihoods, based on adult-learning principles. It engages both, with men and women in their communities so that they can construct a safe and supportive space for their development.
Azad envisions a world where all women (in particular, women from underprivileged contexts) enjoy full citizenship, earn with dignity and generate wealth and value for all.