Lack of children’s education and poor health are two of the biggest problems that ‘Prayas Welfare Foundation’ works to reduce in the target area. Girl education is of particular concern, with much lower importance still being placed on daughters’ schooling than sons’. Many villages in our sphere of influence do not have a school. The nearest school is often more than 3km away. Lack of immunization programmes and poor awareness of health issues is also a significant problem.
The condition of children, particularly in the age group of 4-15, throughout the region is characterized by a systemic pattern of gross gender inequity. The situation is worse for rural girls. The number of girls living in poverty has increased disproportionately to the number of boys living in such poverty, due to girl’s limited access to education, health, hygiene, nutrition, skills training and exposure and the rigidity of socially-ascribed rules. Girl children are accorded low status and as victims of unequal treatment find it increasingly difficult to overcome socially ascribed roles. This is most critically reflected in her physical, social and economic conditions.
Female children in the villages get less food, poorer health care and a reduced access education than male children
7 out of 12 children in the villages are illiterate, particularly girl child.
In the rigid social taboos that idolizes sons and dreads the birth of a daughter, to be born female is often as good as being born less than human.
The gross enrolment rate at the primary level is 60% for boys compared to 15% for girls.
Our efforts therefore aim at mainstreaming children into the direct development process and development education.
The region suffers from very weak linkages between the support agencies. There is also a complete absence of well-coordinated implementation strategies. We work on advocacy and campaigning involving policy-level functionaries and other networking stakeholders towards integrated child development. We aim to distill and disseminate concurrent training and grassroots case study documentation through a trickle up approach. We work at building and widening community-oriented child-based platforms as grassroots organizations.
Market based product specific skill training & enterpreneruship management.
Gender sensitivity approach to Entreprenruship Linked Income Generation for Self Enterprising Person.
GrassrootReahout and Networking on Trade & Economic.
Sodic Land Reclamation
Diversified Agriculture based products
Support for Community Mobilization and Livelihoods in urban slums and rural community.
Powering the capacity of Youth Owned Livelihood & Micro-Enterprises
Socio-Economic Empowerment of Deprived Community, Especially Women, Through Building Their Grass-Root Organizations, Creation of Opportunity & Enhancing The Human Resource Capacity In A Sustainable Manner
Community way to promote Fair Trade, Producer groups, Asset management and Economic Enterprises
Organic way to promote eco-friendly cum environment based economic clusers of enterprises
Micro-Finance way to promote Micro-Enterprises and Livelihood
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