The Timbaktu Collective is a registered Voluntary Organisation that was initiated in 1990, to work for sustainable development in the drought prone Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) INDIA.

Today the Collective has a team of 60 members and works in about 100 villages of Chennekothapalli, Roddam and Ramagiri mandals of Anantapur district, serving about 30,000 marginalised people.

The Collective focuses on the landless, small and marginal farmers with special emphasis on women, children, youth and dalits. These are the people who are most affected by situations like chronic drought, unproductive land, unemployment and poor infrastructural facilities.

With local self governance being the underlying theme of our work, we have formed numerous Community Based Organisations (CBOs) of the rural poor, to work in the areas of

• Regeneration of forests in common lands (Revenue waste lands, Reserve forests)
• Revitalisation of agricultural lands belonging to small and marginal farmers
• Rejuvenation of traditional water-harvesting structures (tanks, kuntas, wells & other water bodies)
• Developing a relavant banking system with rural women from marginalized families
• Relevant education for the rural deprived children
• Education and organisation of youth and dalits
• Awareness building on local self governance (panchayats)
• Awareness building and empowerment of disabled people and
• Networking with other voluntary, civil society, community based and mass organisations at district, state and national levels.