URIMAI KURAL TRUST
Voices for Rights. Spaces for Dignity. Communities for Change.
Urimai Kural Trust is a community-led organization working to advance dignity, equality, and justice for LGBTQIAP+ communities, children, youth, women, and persons with disabilities.
Who We Are
Urimai Kural Trust is a community-led organization working to advance dignity, equality, and justice for LGBTQIAP+ communities, children, youth, women, and persons with disabilities.
We believe that every person deserves safety, healthcare, opportunity, and the freedom to live authentically. Rooted in lived experience and collective leadership, our work challenges discrimination, builds resilience, and strengthens communities to create lasting, systemic change.
What We Do
We work across advocacy, direct services, and long-term systems change to address intersecting forms of marginalization.
Advocacy & Rights Protection
We advocate for inclusive laws and policies and provide legal awareness and rights-based support to combat discrimination, violence, and social exclusion. Through our work, we empower individuals and institutions to uphold justice, equality, and human rights for all.
Sensitization & Awareness
We conduct gender, sexuality, disability, and human rights sensitization programs for educational institutions, workplaces, healthcare providers, government bodies, law enforcement agencies, and other establishments, promoting inclusive and equitable environments.
Mental Health & Wellness
We offer affirming mental health support, peer counseling, crisis intervention, and psychosocial services that prioritize healing, resilience, and community care.
Health & SRHR Rights
We promote inclusive access to Healthcare and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), Gender-affirmative care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Communities, ensuring bodily autonomy and stigma-free services for all.
Safe Spaces & Shelter Support
We create safe, affirming community spaces and provide temporary shelter support for individuals facing violence, displacement, or crisis.
Education & Life Skills
We support children and youth through life skills education, leadership development, and protection from discrimination, neglect, and abuse. We also provide fee assistance, stationery and nutritional support
Empowerment & Leadership
Empowering communities to organize, lead, and create impact through strong grassroots leadership.
Economic Justice & Employment
We promote skill-building, workplace inclusion, entrepreneurship, and equitable access to dignified employment.
Housing & Livelihood Support
We assist individuals in accessing safe housing and sustainable livelihood opportunities to reduce vulnerability and insecurity.
Cross-Movement Solidarity
We collaborate with feminist, disability rights, child rights, labor, and other social justice movements to build collective power and shared struggles.
Collective Care
We prioritize community-led care models and mutual aid systems that center well-being, solidarity, and shared responsibility.
Our Approach
Our work is grounded in human rights principles, aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and guided by the values enshrined in the Constitution of India. We adopt a holistic, justice-oriented framework that centers dignity, equity, and long-term transformation.
- Community-led and participatory: We place communities at the heart of our work—centering their voices, leadership, and lived experiences in identifying challenges, shaping solutions, and driving change.
- Evidence-based and research-informed: Our interventions are grounded in credible data, rigorous research, and continuous learning. We adapt and evolve our strategies based on evidence, ensuring relevance, effectiveness, and accountability.
- Rights-based and intersectional: We recognize systemic inequalities and actively address overlapping forms of discrimination and marginalization. Our approach seeks to dismantle structural barriers and promote inclusive access to justice and opportunity.
- Survivor-centered and trauma-informed: We prioritize dignity, safety, agency, and healing in all engagements. By fostering supportive and empowering environments, we ensure that survivors remain at the center of decision-making processes affecting their lives.
- Sustainable and long-term focused: We are committed to advancing structural change and lasting impact, moving beyond short-term outcomes to create resilient systems and empowered communities.
Who We Work With
We collaborate with a diverse range of communities, grassroots leaders, and institutions to drive systemic change and ensure inclusive support.
- LGBTQIAP+ communities
- Children and youth
- Women
- Persons with disabilities
- Grassroots community leaders
- Institutions and policymakers
Our Impact
Transforming lives through dedicated support, advocacy, and community empowerment. Watch our reach grow every day.
38+
Shelter Residents Supported
276+
ID & Documentation Support
119+
Communities Lab Work & Direct Referrals
161+
Gender Affirmative Care Referrals
10+
Healthcare: Women, Children, Youth
45+
Education, Lifeskills & Mentorship
23+
Women Empowerment Initiatives
6+
Economic Justice & Livelihood
225+
Community Empowerment
Join Us
Change is strongest when it is collective.
Whether you are a community member, ally, institution, donor, or volunteer, there are many ways to stand with us—by collaborating, supporting our work, amplifying voices, or building inclusive systems together.
Join us in creating a future rooted in dignity, justice, and shared care.