As humanitarian, gender-sensitive and child-focused development organization, Prayas aims at restoring the lost childhood of neglected children. It believes that this can be achieved only through fulfillment of child’s basic needs of life, access to quality education and life skills to become active participants and contribute to their communities. Children being part of the larger community, it was essential that economic needs of the community were addressed giving the child an opportunity for holistic development.
Prayas Objectives comprise the following:
* Undertaking welfare programmes for care, protection, and development of disadvantaged children, youth and women
* Fulfilling basic needs of the destitute street and neglected children.
* Promoting and organizing meaningful educational programmes, recreational and library facilities for children
* Running vocational training programmes and organizing Self – Help Groups for the economic empowerment of disadvantaged groups and the communities
* Organizing basic health, nutritional and medical services including health awareness programmes for children along with counseling and psychological support
* Running model home under the Juvenile Justice, Act for children in need of care and protection and correction and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders.
* Conducting research on issues related to neglected children and the juvenile justice system in the country.
* Initiating advocacy to usher in policy changes to promote effective child development programmes in the country and
* Bringing out publication on various issues dealing with development of children youth and women in deprived communities.
* Working for the common cause in cooperation with similar organizations in India and abroad and networking with NGOs, government and the corporate sector.
* Sensitizing government, communities and the civil society at large about the needs of such children.
* Promoting smaller initiatives and groups working for such children through capacity building and offering technical expertise.