Aagor Daagra Afad is a nonprofit organization for the benefit of some of the poorest tribal women in Bodoland, Assam (India).Aagor –means “design” in Bodo language and is the brand name of product from Aagor Daagra Afad, an organization of the weavers. It was started as a weaving project under the ant in 2002 with an aim to promote the traditional craft of rural Bodo tribal woman in order to make it significant source of livelihood and also to build a positive image of the Bodos in other part of the country.

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Aagor aims to focus on the business of weaving while its parent organization, the ant along with Aagor

works to help empower the women socially and economically. It hopes that it will directly or otherwise inspire many more women to use their existing skills to build a movement of self-reliant women. The women, apart from earning through weaving, are exposed to a number of training programmes and entrepreneurship programmes to enable them to explore different choices while thinking about how to invest the money they earned during their stay.

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Aagor integrates a housemaid rehabilitation programme whereby some 25 to 30 of the poorest girls in the area, most of who worked as housemaids for as little as 5000 rupees a month, reside for 6 months at Aagor’s weaving centre. This tenure allows them to earn and save as much as 25 to 30 thousand rupees, which has allowed about 75% of them to be liberated from a life of housemaid drudgery.