With the membership rising to 40 active members in 2008, AWWA decided to organize itself into seven program areas with seven sub-committees:
1. Education,
2. Health,
3. Environment and Home Gardening,
4. Micro-Industries and Vocational Training,
5. Cultural and Religious,
6. External Relations, and
7. Finance.
Since then various projects have been initiated by each sub-committee while working in collaboration with all the other sub-committee and committee as needed.
The Educational programme included organizing workshops for school children on examination preparation, and career development There was also training for members in computing and Sinhala languages.
The Environmental program included projects on setting up household composting programs, and home gardening and training on agricultural practices. School children were provided awareness programs on environment, on proper preparation for examination.
The Health programme has been promoting Ayurvedhic, Unani and other traditional forms of healthy living, disease prevention and less-invasive forms of cure cure. Separately, awareness projects on dengue, tuberculosis, dental care, sexually transmitted diseases, and child care were conducted. Each project was carried out in different location making it possible for women across Akurana to participate.
The Cultural and Religious program included distribution of funds to needy women and speech and recitation competitions / events for school children.
The External Affairs program has been engaging with outside partners, organizing trips, visit to exhibitions, garden shows and events such as at the Department of Agriculture.
The Finance sub-committee looks at ways to supplement income and how to manage the needs from other sub-committees.
These programmes obtain the support of collaborating organizations from the Divisional Secretary (AGA) office, the Pradeshiya Sabhawa, Schools in the region, other womens organizations in the region and other service organizations such as NewsView and AWWA.
