Youth Empowerment
Encouraging children to embrace values of equality, rights, diversity and democracy
Key AchievementsÂ
- Child Parliaments established in 22 primary schools, with 465 children elected through a democratic process—53% of them girls.
- 1,350+ children reached every year, creating sustained platforms for participation, leadership, and civic learning.
- Nutrition and care in action: 182 children and 65 youth maintain nutrition gardens across 9 schools and 94 households, strengthening food awareness and collective responsibility.
- Children influencing governance: 475+ children present their priorities directly to Panchayats through Bal Sansad Sabhas.
- Model scaled through public systems: Inspired by successful Child Parliaments in Thiba and Kirnahar II, Bara Sawta Gram Panchayat conducted its own Bal Sansad, gathered 32 child-focused plans, and committed to becoming a child-friendly Panchayat.
Swabhimaan: Skill development of youth and women in the margins
Strategies
Swabhimaan is a gender-transformative, enterprise-oriented livelihoods programme that supports marginalised youth especially adolescent girls and young women to transition from vulnerability to economic self-reliance and dignity of work.
The programme integrates:
- Vocational skills training (jute products, tailoring, allied crafts)
- Residential and non-residential safe learning spaces
- Wellbeing, gender and digital safety inputs
- Market-linked production and enterprise incubation
- Ongoing mentoring and ecosystem building
Key Achievements | Sustainable Livelihoods & Enterprises
- 191 youth trained in 2 years (75% women and girls)
- 600+ community members reached
- Training & residential centres established
- 10 small enterprises launched
- Production Incubation Centre created, enabling trainees to execute real market orders
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