Anweshi functioned in the initial years with almost no funds at all. Occasionally, we collected funds from the local public. Our office shifted from a small room without even a toilet to a small house in a slum area in 1997.Then we conducted a fund raising music programme with which we rented a better house in 1998.

It was in January 2000 that we got a grant from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Our average annual budget is at present of Rs. 10,00,000/- with a bare minimum of salary for all the workers. The grant from the UNFPA, through the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has helped us tremendously to acquire the minimal infrastructure to conduct all the activities taken up in the project called Anweshi Women's Support and Advocacy Centre. Not only that. We were able to streamline our work and spread our activities to the interior areas of the district, thus gradually forming a network with grass-root level women's organizations .

The project grant will be continuing for two more years. But the main requirement at present is for a building of our own, which can also function as a short stay home or a shelter home for battered women and children. For this purpose we will have to buy land and construct a building. We aspire to stand on our own legs so that we need not depend on particular agencies for our work and existence. Anweshi has to find a way to stand on its own legs economically.

We hope to do it in the future with the help of all our friends and well-wishers. We acknowledge all donations in our newsletter, and all donors will receive a copy of the newsletter. If you would like to contribute in cash, please send a demand draft payable to Anweshi Women's Counselling Centre.

We would welcome donations of equipment (new and used), furniture, relevant books, articles, or documents, volunteer work, etc. Our work would be much more efficient with computers, a good photocopy machine, more counselling assistants, an efficient librarian and assistant, and office help.