Know NCT
NewBeginnings Charitable Trust (NCT) was founded in 2009 on a conviction that every girl should grow up safe, protected, and free to decide her future, and every woman should have the confidence, opportunity, and freedom to shape her own. Registered in Vijayawada and rooted in Andhra Pradesh, NCT is a grassroots, women-centred non-profit that stands for the rights, safety, and equal opportunity of women, girls, and children in communities where poverty, exclusion, and discrimination shape everyday life.
Our mission is to advance rights, promote equal opportunity, and empower women, girls, and children in vulnerable and underserved communities, particularly where poverty and deeply rooted social norms continue to limit what women and girls can learn, achieve, and become.
Working in some of the region’s most isolated villages and hamlets, NCT works with both individuals and communities to prevent child marriage and human trafficking. We equip women, girls, and families with the knowledge and confidence to recognise risks and take action, while helping communities build collective responsibility for protecting their children through:
- Individual and community Awareness building
- Protection Forums and Vigilant Groups at the grassroots level
- Education & Sponsorship
- Career support and guidance
- Vocational skills and livelihoods
- Community-led Prevention and Protection Model
When a woman is safe, and a girl stays in school, the whole community moves forward.
Approach
NCT’s approach is built on Prevention. A major part of NCT’s resources is spent on prevention strategies. However, reintegration and rehabilitation of victims of violence are victim-specific and targeted.
Our prevention of violence against women and girls is built around accessible education, building a knowledge-based society (rights awareness), career guidance, workforce readiness with 21st-century skills, economic empowerment, functional literacy, livelihood support, community-based prevention systems, collaboration with men and boys, and systemic collaboration at the state and district levels.
NCT works with families, community leaders, and local institutions to challenge attitudes and practices that place women and girls at greater risk. By encouraging communities, with special focus on men, to become active partners in achieving gender equality, we help create safer and more inclusive familial environments for everyone, promoting sustainable attitudinal change and fostering partnership for equal gender rights.
Evidence-based decision-making
Field-based evidence reflects the strength of our partnership with communities and frontline stakeholders. From project monitoring and community feedback to independent evaluations, we continuously examine interventions and impacts on women, girls, and children.
Pursuing Sustainable Transformational Impacts
Behind every NCT intervention lies a deliberate and non-negotiable commitment that every woman who is a beneficiary of any of NCT’s interventions, such as vocational training, healthcare support, SHG membership, or agricultural training, must commit to enrolling and retaining her girl child in school. This intentional link between women’s empowerment and girls’ education is what makes NCT’s work transformational beyond its immediate outcomes.
It helps a girl stay in school rather than leave early for marriage. It helps a woman build economic independence and greater choice over her future. Women and girls become active agents of change in their lives and communities, exercising greater autonomy and shaping the futures they choose.
We hold ourselves accountable
Beyond project reporting and independent audits, NCT conducts a Sustainable Impact Assessment Survey (SIAS), carried out by independent researchers two years after project completion.
SIAS examines whether outcomes achieved during implementation remain sustainable over time and whether they continue creating positive effects in individuals, within families and communities. The findings help us understand the durability and nature of those impacts and strengthen future programme design.
Our annual financial statements are audited by an independent firm of chartered accountants. Grant-funded projects are also independently audited, with findings shared alongside project completion reports.
