Prayas is a humanitarian organization established in 1988 that operates 242 centers across 9 states in India focused on children's rights. It provides vocational training, education, child protection services, and programs to combat trafficking. Prayas' mission is to protect children's rights and help them achieve their full potential. It aims to restore the lost childhoods of neglected, street, and marginalized children through programs providing basic services, education, shelter, and training. Prayas is governed by a board and operates various community projects, children's homes, vocational centers, and partner organizations across Delhi, Bihar, and Jharkhand to transform the lives of underprivileged children.

2. ABOUT PRAYAS
• Prayas is a humanitarian, gender sensitive
and child-focused organization.
• Prayas operates 242 centres with 700
professionals including 47 Homes for children,
• 53 Vocational Training Centers, across the country in 09 States/Uts.
• Initiating programs relating to-
• Income Generation Programmes
• Vocational and life skills training
• Trafficking of children and women
• Child protection and juvenile justice
• Women empowerment through Self-Help Groups

3. ORIGIN AND FOUNDER
• Prayas was formed in 1988, through the efforts of the Delhi
Police.
• Started its activities in a tiny one-room structure.
• Prayas began to function by providing non-formal education to 25
children.
• A devastating fire in Jahangirpuri left a lot of children homeless.
• It aimed at reorganizing and rebuilding the lives of such children.
• Prayas believes that the basic needs of the child are synonymous
with his/her basic rights. These include the right to-
• Survival
• Protection
• Development
• Participation

4. Mission of Prayas
• Prayas’ mission is to protect children’s rights.
• To help them meet their basic needs and 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.
Vision of Prayas
• Praya’s vision is to restore the lost childhood of neglected, street
and the marginalized.
• It visualizes a world that protects children’s rights.
• A world that treats every child equally
• Let boys and girls play and learn, and grow to adult hood in
health, peace and dignity.
• A world that involves children and young people finding ways to
make the world a better place for all.

5. Purpose of Prayas
• Holistic Development of deprived children, youth and women and
marginalized populations.
• Transformation of the socio-economic inequality and injustice
programs through a network of institutional and non-institutional
projects.
Aim and Objective:
• The objective of this project is to transform the lives of street/
neglected/underprivileged children.
• Provide them basic services of education, meals, clothing, health
care, shelter, sports, extracurricular activities, and training.
• And also Riots, terrorism, earthquakes, poverty, marital discords
and various unfortunate incidents
• To help those children’s who are forced to take shelter on road,
beg, and are engage in various kinds of negative activities.

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7.  GOVERNING BODY
•MR. SHATRUGHAN SINHA – PRESIDENT
•MR. D.N. MATHUR – VICE PRESIDENT
•MR. AMOD K. KANTH – GENERAL SECRETARY
•MR. R. N. GUPTA – TREASURER
•MR. SUBHASH NARANG – MEMBER
•PROF. C. J. DASWANI – MEMBER
•MR. M. B. KAUSHAI – MEMBER
•DR. K. S. SACHDEVA – MEMBER
•PROF. R. R. SINGH - SINGH

8. PROJECTS OF PRAYAS
COMMUNITY BASED PROJECTS:
We restoring the childhood of neglected and exploited children.
To avoid any feeling of giver and receiver a body
PSS, Consisting of parents, children, community
leaders were promoted at the grassroots level.
PSS provided support to AE programme in the
slums through the management of the educational programmes.
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)
• Prayas GRC
• Children’s Hope Prayas

9.  BIHAR, PROJECTS:
Patna Coordinating Office
Adoptionscentrum Project
NABARD Project
Bihar Voluntary Coordinating Agency – Patna
Prayas Samastipur
Mira Memorial Trust ‐ Motihari
Sambhav Prayas – Nalanda
- Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre (NRC)‐Nalanda
Supaul Projects
- Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre (NRC)‐Supaul Project
- Prayas Punarwas II_Supaul
- Report_APHC_Karjain_Supaul
 PRAYAS, JHARKHAND
Prayas Institute of Skill Development
Prayas Institute of Economic Empowerment
Prayas Jamshedpur

10. Prayas Partners

11. Prayas Achievements
• 66 Community and project based libraries & study centres.
• Supports youth and women through 46 Vocational Training
Centers.
• Approx. 5,000 out-of-school children annually covered under
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in Delhi alone.
• 242 community based Alternative Education and child protection
centres for 50,000 marginalized & at-risk children/youth.
• 47 Institutional Care facilities including Shelter Homes, Children
Homes, Observation Homes, Night Shelters and Drop-In-Centres.
• Locally employable skills under Prayas Institute of Economic
Empowerment, NIOS, IGNOU and Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS),
Prayas.

12. MY CONTRIBUTION AS AN INTERN
• Prepared time table for children’s -

13. • 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.

14. Learning:
• 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
 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.

15. THANK YOU