ARDAR is keen to continue and take up projects for the sustainable development of traditional fishing communities, tribals and slum dwellers. It focuses its work on quality education, prevention of HIV/AIDS; support to the vulnerable groups like single women, women headed households who lack resources and support from any able bodied person and have the burden of dependants; street children; disabled; and the Aged. It works on entitlement of people to both human and legal rights, mainly concentrating on the above communities and sections of people. Below are some of the projects for which ARDAR is looking for funds.

ARDAR has initiated the work in February 2006. The work is initiated with three objectives 1) to establish rapport with the street children, mainly girls to study and understand their situation, 2) to facilitate and encourage them to identify the solutions to the problem as they see it, and 3) to do some service and support whatever is possible. The Team has facilitated the process where by the children themselves prepared a plan of action for the problems they are encountering.

estimate the approximate number of vulnerable children in the city and to assess their main way of living, including work and free time activities. ARDAR team has spent a good amount of time in these pockets and was able to get qualitative information from the girls. It is estimated that there are about 40,000 street children in Visakhapatnam town. Out of them 40% are most vulnerable as the vulnerable group are girls. Girls from poor families in the 434 slums in the city are increasingly being targeted for trafficking.

In this backdrop, it is proposed to implement a project to prevent trafficking of young girls and to rescue and rehabilitate young girls who have been exposed to trafficking.

37 schools do not have any buildings, whereas 4 schools have incomplete buildings (doors, windows, plastering and flooring is not completed) and 12 schools have their buildings under repair (major repairs like roof leakage, flooring and plastering). In those villages where there is no school building, classes are conducted under the trees, community thatched houses/verandas of the houses. Due to poor infrastructure facilities of schools, children don't show interest in attending school. Subsequently, the illiteracy rate increases much more as growing population. By the existing division of labour, children also participate in daily economic activities of their family such as collecting forest produce, fuel wood, cattle herding and minor agriculture works. Most of the families have more than five children as they are unaware about family planning. ARDAR proposes to build 11 schools that will cater to 30-40 villages/ hamlets and will considerably improve the education facilities in the Mandal.

These Mandals are on a National Highway and consist predominantly of vulnerable communities such as fishing, scheduled castes and shepherds. The communities have less awareness about HIVAIDS and there is a huge stigma and myths about the disease. As hospital deliveries are rare in this area, the chance of a child born of a PLHA being infected by HIV/AIDS is very high. Stigma towards a child can be observed at various levels: family, community and school. Due to poverty the families are unable to afford nutrition and proper health care, which is needed for a PLHA or CAA.. ARDAR is committed to working for empowerment of these children and families and proposes CBCS as it believes that support for PLHA within the community will be the most sustainable way forward.