Aranyika is a very young organization recommended to AID by Dr. Parameswara Rao of BCT. He insisted that AID volunteers should meet Ms. Malini from Chintapalli a remote and backward block in Andhra Pradesh in response to AID's request for contacts of small, promising groups working in remote areas.. After 4 years of leadership role in an NGO in the tribal area of Chintapalli (AP), Malini and some of her colleagues have moved to Madugula block that is even more remote to start Aranyika.

In an area where the female literacy rate is 3%, Aranyika's first project has been to set up 10 functional education schools for village girls. At these schools, apart from learning Telugu and Math, they will be trained in vocations such as leaf-plate stitching, pot-painting, glove-making etc. The education itself is geared at preparing them to be leaders in the community.

Within few months after its inauguration, Aranyika has not only made an impressive progress in the functional educational centers project that AID is supporting but it has also succeeded in initiating a few other community participation activities. It had identified teachers for these schools and provided training to them. It has also started working with experts who can teach vocational skills to the participants of the project.

Aranyika has motivated more than 10 high school dropouts (boys & girls) to become volunteers in a large community health center built by World Bank for serving local tribal population. Aranyika provides lodging and boarding to the volunteers on the premises of the health center and encourages them to complete their high school. In turn the volunteers are required to commit 6 - 12 months of their time to work at the health center helping doctors and more importantly the patients with their needs at the hospital. Since these volunteers are from the local community, patients are not intimidated to approach them and seek help. Their efforts received raving reviews from the doctors, supporting staff and as well as from patients. Aranyika is planning to start a canteen in the premises of the center to be run by volunteers and generate enough funds to sustain their efforts in the hospital.