PRAYAS NGO

A brief description about juvenile aid centre "PRAYAS".

2. PRAYAS NGO
 ABOUT PRAYAS:
Prayas is a humanitarian, gender-sensitive and child-focused development organization with
a vision to restore the lost childhood of children in need of care, protection and
development. Prayas works to ensure that children have a bright future. It is dedicated to
changing the lives of needy children.
Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre Society is a national level humanitarian, gender sensitive and child
focused development organization. Among over 50 Projects, Prayas operates 242 centers
with more than 700 professionals including 47 Homes/Shelters for children, 53 Vocational
Training Centers, across the country in 09 States/UTs directly serving about 50,000
marginalized children, youth and women addressing multiple issues and initiating programs
relating to child protection and juvenile justice, trafficking of children and women, vocational
and life skills training, empowerment of women through Self-Help Groups and Income
Generation Programmes, promotion of entrepreneurship, facilitating credit through bank
linkages and also direct micro finance operations. For nearly 27 years, Prayas has been and
continues to be involved in meaningful, development-driven initiatives that distinctly impact
the quality of life of the weaker-sections of the society, in hundreds of slums/villages
surrounding the National Capital Territory of Delhi, Bihar, Gujarat, Assam, Arunachal
Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Jharkhand and the Tsunami devastated Andaman & Nicobar
Islands.

 Origin & Founder:
Prayas was formed in 1988, through the collaborative efforts of the Delhi Police, the Delhi
School of Social Work and Shramik Vidyapeeth, when a devastating fire in Jahangirpuri, a
major slum area in Delhi, left a lot of children hopeless, helpless and homeless. It aimed at
reorganizing and rebuilding the lives of such children.
Starting its activities in a tiny one-room structure, Prayas began to function by providing non-
formal education to 25 children. Prayas believes that the basic needs of the child are
synonymous with his/her basic rights. These include the right to (i) survival (ii) protection (iii)
development and (iv) participation. We envisage a scenario where every child goes to school
or receives a decent ‘alternative education’ and has the opportunity to satisfy his / her basic
needs for development.

3.  Prayas Governing Body:

4.  Prayas Presence:

5.  Approach of Prayas:



 Aim and Objective:
 The objective of this project is to transform the lives of street/
 neglected/underprivileged children into youth who realize their rights
 through provision of basic services of education, meals, clothing, health
 care, shelter, sports, extracurricular activities, and training. Riots, terrorism,
 earthquakes, poverty, marital discords and various unfortunate incidents
 force children to take shelter on road, beg, for food and to engage in various
kinds of negative activities.
 Mission of Prayas:
Prayas’ mission is to protect children’s rights, to help them meet their basic needs and to
expand opportunities to achieve their full potential. Guided by dreams and aspirations of
thousands of neglected street and working children, Prayas pursue its mission with both
commitment and Compassion because the children it serves deserve the best Vision.

6. • Vision of Prayas:
Praya’s vision is to restore the lost childhood of neglected, street and working children and the
marginalized. It visualizes a world that protects children’s rights. A world that treats every child
equally and lets boys and girls play and learn, and grow to adult hood in health, peace and
dignity, a world that involves children and young people in making decisions about their lives
and finding ways to make the world as better place for all.

• Purpose of Prayas:
Holistic Development of deprived children, youth and women in need and marginalized
populations resulting into the transformation of the socio-economic inequality and injustice
programs through a network of institutional and non-institutional projects and real timr
services active Developmental Approach.

 Thematic Issues:
Prayas protects and promotes child rights and provides a means with which men, women and
children can become economically self-sufficient. The following are the issues which impede
development in these areas and Prayas' strategies in tackling these issues.


 Project of Prayas:

7.  Community Based Project-
We restoring the childhood of neglected and exploited children it is vital to remember
that children cannot defend themselves like adults against various adversities inherent
in an exploitative social milieu, rooted in ‘survival of the fittest’. Prayas also believes
that community participation in all such programmes is an absolute must. To avoid any
feeling of giver and receiver instead of ownership of the community programmes,
Prayas Samudai Samiti (PSS), a body, consisting of parents, children, community
leaders and our instructors were promoted at the grassroots level. Local leaders,
politicians and business class are invited and encouraged to attend these meetings.
The novel idea behind is to make every member accountable of his or her
responsibilities, build a sense of ownership about programs and avoid feeling of
dependency.

This body essentially provides support to our AE programme in the slums through the
management of the educational programmes and monitoring the children’s progress.
PSS provides counseling to dropouts, maladjusted and abused children. Each of the
Prayas AE centre has a PSS to support its activities. The members hold regular
meetings at least once in a month. They interact with the families of children on a
regular basis at a personal level.

Community mobilization and participation of the local community people in the child
protection and community development programs in the form of Prayas Samudai
Samities in all project centres for education, health care and vocational training
programs besides the developmental work of the local community. Prayas Samudai
Samiti is a body, consisting of parents, children, community leaders and our
instructors. Sometimes, the local politicians are also invited to attend these meetings.
This body essentially provides support and strengthens our AE programme in the
slums through the management of the educational programmes and monitoring the
children’s progress. PSS provides counseling to dropouts, maladjusted and abused
children. Each of the Prayas AE centre has a PSS to support its activities. The members
held meeting at least once in a month where they interacted with the families of
children on a regular basis at individual level.

 DELHI PROJECTS
• Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre (JAC) Society – Jahangirpuri
• Institute of Juvenile Justice (Shelter Home for Girls) ‐ Tughlakabad
• Prayas Children's Home (PCH) ‐ Jahangirpuri
• Shelter Home for Girls, 59, Tughalakabad
• Prayas Observation Home for Boys (POHB)

8. • Prayas GRC
• Children’s Hope Prayas
• Raina Prayas, Bawana
• Prayas Institute of Economic Empowerment (PIEE)
• Anupam Prayas (Children's Hope Inc.) ‐ Pandav Nagar
• Naya Prayas ‐ Vasant Vihar
• Prayas Health Service (PHS) ‐ Kirti Nagar
• Prayas Childline (1098) ‐ Jahangirpuri
• An Integrated Program for Street & Working Children ‐ Jahangirpuri
• Astha Prayas ‐ Vivek Vihar
• Jan Shikshan Santhan Prayas (JSSP) ‐ Jahangirpuri
• Bawana Projects ‐ Bawana Resettlement Colony
• Prayas Health Service, Kirti Nagar Industrial Area
• Railway Children Project, Railway’s Godowns, Lahori Gate, New Delhi
• AIMO‐Prayas, AIMO‐House, (Opposite Swami Ram Tirth Mission), 1E/11
Jhandewalan
Extension
• IOCL‐Sangam Vihar Prayas

 BIHAR, PROJECTS
The projects running in Bihar Responding to these need‐based areas, Prayas, with its
missionary zeal, is helping getting their lives back to normal. Patna Coordinating Office
1. Patna Coordinating Office
- Adoptionscentrum Project
- Rehabilitation of Trafficking Victims & Child Labourers‐IDU/Gaya Project
- NABARD Project
2. Bihar Voluntary Coordinating Agency – Patna
3. Prayas Samastipur
4. Mira Memorial Trust ‐ Motihari
- US Visit_Report_The_American_Dream_Indu Rani Singh
- Geneva Global_Report
5. Sambhav Prayas – Nalanda
- Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre (NRC)‐Nalanda Project
6. Supaul Projects
- Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre (NRC)‐Supaul Project
- Prayas Punarwas II_Supaul
- Report_APHC_Karjain_Supaul
7. Bikas Bharti ‐ Bagaha Project

9.  PRAYAS, JHARKHAND
• Prayas Institute of Skill Development
• Prayas Institute of Economic Empowerment
• Prayas Jamshedpur

 Prayas Partners:

10.  Prayas Achievements:
 47 Institutional Care facilities including Shelter Homes, Children Homes, Observation
Homes, Night Shelters and Drop-In-Centres
 242 community based Alternative Education and child protection centres for 50,000
marginalized & at-risk children/youth.
 Approximately 5,000 out-of-school children annually covered under Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan (SSA) in Delhi alone
 Supports 15,000+ youth and women through 46 Vocational Training Centres in market
driven, locally employable skills under Prayas Institute of Economic Empowerment, NIOS,
IGNOU and Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS), Prayas.
 66 Community and project based libraries & study centres with Education Centres.
 Nearly 15,000 children, women, aged and disabled, victims of earthquake, Tsunami and
Floods in Bhuj Distt. in Gujarat, A&N Islands & Supaul -Samastipur in Bihar, respectively.
Thematic projects for marginalized children, youth & women pertaining to Juvenile Justice
& Child Protection, Child Labour & Trafficking, Disasters & Crisis Management etc.
 Running Primary Health Centres in Arunachal Pradesh & Bihar, School Health Program in
A&N Islands under NRHM, as well as Health Care programs in Project areas Water &
Sanitation programs in disaster-affected Gujarat and A & N Islands Chapters & Registered
Charities in UK, USA and Germany.

 WHY DID I CHOOSE PRAYAS:
 Prayas is a humanitarian, gender sensitive and child-focused development organization.
 Their vision is to restore the lost childhood of neglected, street and working children.
 Prayas operates 242 centres with more than 700 professionals including 47
Homes/Shelters for children, 53 Vocational Training Centers, across the country in 09
States/UTs directly serving about 50,000 marginalized children, youth and women
addressing multiple issueshe marginalized.
 Initiating programs relating to child protection and juvenile justice, trafficking of children
and women, vocational and life skills training, empowerment of women through Self-Help
Groups and Income Generation Programmes, promotion of entrepreneurship, facilitating
credit through bank linkages and also direct micro finance operations.

11.  MY CONTRIBUTION AS AN INTERN:
 Prepared time table for children’s -
TIME ACTIVITIES
6:30 AM WAKE UP
6:30 - 8:00 AM BRUSHING, BEDDING, DUSTING
8:00 - 8:30 AM YOGA TIME
8:30 - 9:30 AM MORNING BREAKFAST
9:30 - 10:00 AM ASSEMBLY
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM N.F.E. CLASSES
12:30 - 1:30 PM LUNCH
1:30 - 2:00 PM T.V. ROOM
2:00 - 4:30 PM N.F.E. CLASSES
4:30 - 5:30 PM EVENING BREAKFAST
5:30 - 7:30 PM RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
7:30 - 8:30 PM DINNER
8:30 - 9:45 PM T.V. AND CLOTH WASHING
9:45 - 10:00 PM LIGHTS GET OFF

 Made Poster -

 Taught Mathematics, science, social science to the children’s.
 Sorted out books and stationary for children’s.
 Designed question papers for them to enhance their learning.
 Involved them in different creating activities according to their interest.
 Made nutritious diet plan for them.

12.  Personal Observation:
The condition of the Children home was very bad. The colors of the walls were very dark.
So many children hesitate to talk with other persons and also with their friends because
there were no good consolers for children. Some Children always asks that, when they can
go their own homes. There were different types of paintings on the walls which were made
by the children of those children home. Different types of causations were written on the
walls like "We should always obey our Elders". They try to make the child independent. The
strength of children in the children's home was over crowed. The children's home has the
strength of child more than its capacity. The strength of children is more than other
category of children. The beds for children were very less according the children. The
rooms of the children were not clean. In the lunch time the children make a noise very
much. Children walking independently here and there nobody were there to control them.
The cloths of the children were very dirty. The children make a noise very much here.

 Learning:
Being associated with PRAYAS was a great experience. It was a great opportunity to learn
facets and aspects of NGO functioning which can be summarized as follows:-
 Learnt a lot about NGO functioning, their vision, objectives and the problems its facing in
various departments like Finance, Marketing and others.
 Also understood the initiative takes by private institutions as a part of corporate
governance social responsibility and its impact on the society.
 Studied about how to help the society and what PRAYAS is doing in this particular field.
 It broadened my horizon about thinking about life and spurred me to think about
helping the poor and needy in our society.