All India Women’s Education Fund Association (AIWEFA)

In 1929, a group of visionary women including Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Smt. Sarojini Naidu, Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali and Lady Dorothy Irwin founded the All India Women’s Education Fund Association (AIWEFA) with the objective of helping women to empower the with the objective of helping women to empower themselves. AIWEFA identified areas of social development with priority for education. Education was the catalyst for social change. A giant step was the establishment of Lady Irwin College in 1932. This was a landmark in creating a platform for women to take off into higher realms of scientific advancement and productive employment. In 1950, the college became affiliated with the University of Delhi. For nearly eight decades AIWEFA focused its attention on embellishing the facilities in the college to raise it to the level of a premier institution of learning for women. AIWEFA is proud of the alumnae of the college who have pioneered into fields of Nutrition, Human Development, Community Resource Development,Textiles & Fashion Industry and other scientific areas across the world. AIWEFA has now realized the urgency of the changing needs of a developing and globalizing society. It is intensively engaged in mainstreaming women in these new trajectories.The emerging multiple responsibilities of women call for a faster pace of adjustment with greater awareness of the social, legal, economic and political dimensions using new tools of technology beyond the 3Rs. The emphasis on building a scientific temper for improving the quality of life has become even more important today than when AIWEFA started more than nine decades ago. AIWEFA aspires to demystify scientific knowledge and application of technology through its various educational, skill development, income generation and capacity building projects. AIWEFA believes in building partnerships and networking with like minded people and organizations to enlarge the impact and sustain the process. 1. To manage the fund known as All India Women’s Education Fund for setting up the Lady Irwin College. 2. To promote the education of women in India and in particular. (a) To promote or aid any schemes that further all branches of education of women in India as may from time to time be recommended by All India Women’s Conference or under such other name as the said Conference here after be registered (here in after in these Rules and Regulations referred to as the Conference). (b) To carry on propaganda for education of women in India. (c) To promote education of teachers at all levels, and administrators and planners in agencies working for family and child care, harmonious family environment, sanitation and health with special emphasis on the development of rural families. (d) To encourage the production and publication of better text books and attractive and suitable literature in English, Hindi and the regional languages. (e) To initiate schemes for undertaking research in educational materials, methods of teaching and allied activities pertaining to pre-school child. (f) To provide for suitable housing accommodation for women teachers in rural areas. (g) To initiate schemes for vocational training and courses at undergraduate and post graduate levels and to encourage skills for self employment through small-scale and home industries. (h) To increase awareness on social, legal, economic and political matters pertaining to all aspects of life. (i) To impart appropriate skills and technology at various levels for removing drudgery, increasing productivity and improving quality of life.