Despite constraints of office space and funds, MAVA has in the last 10 years, provided free face-to-face & telephonic counseling and guidance to over 3000 men and women facing marital conflict and other gender problems. This has been done through a trained team of experienced counselors. Necessary legal support is also provided by the organization. A heartening fact is that a large number of distressed women , apart from men, have been approaching the organization.

Mass awareness programmes on gender issues for different target groups like school and college youth, community mandals, voluntary bodies, residential colonies and employees of business organizations are organized by MAVA. This is done by using different, innovative media like street-plays, essay and poster-competitions, wall- newspapers, radio-plays, poetry reading sessions, talks and discussions by veterans in the field.

For the last 2 yrs., MAVA has been also organizing pre-marital guidance workshops (in English & Marathi) for boys & girls desirous of marriage and needing basic inputs on various aspects of marriage. Apart from one-day workshops, MAVA also arranges personalized guidance on pre-marital aspects for individuals.

In collaboration with Purush Uvach (Men Speak), a like-minded organization in Pune, MAVA brings out Purush Spandana (meaning male vibrations) - an annual magazine in Marathi. Published since 1996, the magazine contains short stories, first -person accounts, interviews, poems, analytical articles and media-trends that voice sentiments of men. The subjects cover a vast canvas of contemporary issues ranging from misuse of sex-determination tests, dowry system, woman sexuality and male psyche. The writers hail from varied professions.
The said magazine is the first systematic effort by men to publish issues concerning men and women. Attempting to provide a platform (exclusively) for men, of varied age-groups and backgrounds, to spontaneously express their innermost thoughts on personal lives, upbringing, man-woman relationship, companionship, beauty, friendship, aspirations, vices, violence and various gender-related contemporary issues, the magazine provides fresh insights in understanding men's attitudes. The expressions reflect the collective thinking of gender sensitive men in the nineties.

In 1995, when a 19 year-old college girl Dipti Khanna was badly burnt by an acid attack in 1995, MAVA raised over Rs. 75,000/- by appealing to well- wishers and members of the public to contribute towards Dipti's medical treatment expenses. The underlying issue behind the attack-- the perpetrator's non-acceptance of a woman's negative response, was discussed by MAVA activists at various levels. Similarly, the issues of jilted love resulting in heinous forms of violence on girls in various parts of Maharashtra and the public's apathy to these incidents have been raised in a big way by MAVA in the last 3-4 yrs. On the occasion of 8th March- International Women's Day, every year, MAVA organizes symposia, workshops on contemporary gender issues like Section 498 A and Domestic Violence, Misuse of Sex-Determination Tests, Child Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment at the workplace . Men from the field of art and culture are invited for the programmes to express their concerns and solidarity on gender issues.

This is done through referral of cases of domestic violence whenever their / MAVA's intervention is required and by jointly organizing activities aimed at tackling specific gender issues. Joining hands with leading women's bodies like Akshara and Stree Mukti Sanghatana, MAVA has been involved in projects which help youth in questioning and changing 'stereotyped' roles of men & women in society.

Empowering them against attacks by men on streets, in buses-trains or even in homes. Over 3000 women from different backgrounds and age-groups, across the city, have participated in these workshops. Requests for similar workshops from educational institutions, corporate and specific groups have been coming to the organization recently.