Friends of Wotr Inc

American Friends of WOTR, Inc. (WOTR) has a dual mission: first, to support and conduct education and training for American university graduate students. Second, AFOW helps to promote and fund the programs and capital operations of the Watershed Organization Trust based in Pune, India. AFOW's partner organization is the Watershed Organization Trust (WOTR). As an umbrella nongovernmental organization (NGO) established in 1993, WOTR's mission includes helping village governments (village panchayats or councils and other governmental and NGO bodies) to manage their own economic development, improve water security, create jobs, maintain existing livelihoods, increase women's empowerment, create and maintain microfinance funds, and implement climate change mitigation, adaptation and small-scale clean energy strategies and technologies.