Field Notes
The past two months at APNA have been focused on strengthening our approach, connecting with communities and helping workers access essential welfare services. From internal discussions on our plans for the year ahead to labour card camps across Ranchi and Jagannathpur. August and September brought opportunities to reflect on our
28th September, 2026| Creating safer communities for women requires more than responding to cases after harm has occurred. A system that is accessible, coordinated and responsive to the realities women face is a system that most often doesn’t fail them. On 21 September 2026, APNA took an important step
13th September,2026|For a small organisation, opportunities to step outside the day-to-day work and learn from people working across sectors can be incredibly valuable. That is exactly what the two days at Connect Karo 2026, WRI India’s flagship annual summit in New Delhi, offered our team. Our members,
July was a month of moving from one community to another, one conversation to the next and one question to another: How do we make rights and social security easier to access for the people who need them? Across Ranchi, Dhanbad and Hazaribagh, APNA’s team spent the month meeting
This June, Team APNA took its mission of accessible governance directly to the doorsteps of communities across Jharkhand. Through a series of camps set up in wards, colonies, and community halls, the team helped hundreds of residents access their rightful entitlements ranging from pensions schemes to labour cards without the
