Phoenix India was founded in 1994 to provide grant aid to the Comprehensive Rural Tribal Development Programme (CRTDP) in order to relieve poverty, sickness and the distress therefrom and to advance education, particularly but not exclusively of children, in the city of Nagpur and its surrounding area. In 1995, Phoenix India provided additional funding to CRTDP to establish another element of the organisation, called the Destitute Women and Children Development Institute (DWCDI), to concentrate on the particular rights and needs of women and their children. Since our inception, we have assisted our Indian partner to realise our joint vision of improving the living conditions of rural, slum and migrant people, irrespective of religion, caste or creed, by implementing various initiatives including: • Delivering justice for landless people over a 30-year struggle • Constructing low cost and sustainable housing for homeless people • Watershed projects to preserve water and reduce soil erosion • Educating people to understand the root cause of their poverty and providing a means to overcome it • Providing basic nursing training to enable young women to establish a career and help in their communities • Setting up Children’s Day Care Centres in five slum areas • Providing health care and education in communities through health clinics • Responding to emergency appeals during periods of extreme hardship.