About Us

Rising Flame is a National Award winning nonprofit organisation based in India, working for recognition, protection, and promotion of human rights of people with disabilities, particularly women and youth with disabilities. Rising Flame’s vision is to build an inclusive world in which diverse bodies, minds, and voices thrive with dignity; live free of discrimination, abuse, and violence; and enjoy equal opportunities and access.

Since our establishment in 2017, we aim to enable persons with disabilities standing at multiple intersections to have a voice, have a space, be heard and lead from the front. As a self-led organisation, we are committed to upholding disability justice values and feminist principles.

Mission

Capacity Building

Capacity Building

Build capacity among PWDs to be leaders and self-advocates, especially among those marginalized by gender and age

 

 

Integration

Integration

Improve PWDs’ integration into society, ability to live independently, and sense of identity and self

 

 

Opportunity

Opportunity

Provide PWDs opportunities to gain skills and knowledge for socio-economic empowerment

 

 

Empower

Empower

Enable PWDs to exercise legal rights and access legal entitlements.

 

Key strategies

capacitybuilding

Capacity building

knoledge

Knowledge dissemination, research, and advocacy

network

Networking & collaboration

Voices-Mumbai-December-2018: Sonal Giani, Nidhi Goyal and Flavia Agnes are sitting at a table. Flavia is addressing an audience. In the background, there is a large screen with the two logos of the US consulate and Rising Flame.

Annual report

Read our 4 year report from September 2017 to September 2021 to know more about our pathbreaking programmes, innovative and pioneering leadership work, events re-authoring dialogues, creative and disruptive campaigns, agile COVID-19 response, and our journey to challenge and shift public and policy discourses.

Where will we operate?

Our registered office is based in Mumbai, India. We work pan India.

 

Legal status

Rising Flame was founded in September 2017 and was registered as a section 8 company (non-profit company) under the Indian Companies Act 2013 on 17-7-2018.