Pratigya

Pratigya is Jharkhand based youth initiative to ensure access of quality education to every child and mobilize youth to action. It was started in 2007 by a group of committed youth who strongly believe that change is possible only through Education. Pratigya has several grassroots initiatives and community based programs both in urban and rural areas of Jharkhand along with policy level advocacy on issues of Education, Child Rights & Protection, Youth Development and Women Empowerment. Its initiatives in education with underprivileged children includes scholarship of school education, special focus on girls’ education, life skills center and children health-finance-sports cooperative. It had also run advocacy campaigns like Rape Free India, Child Trafficking Free India and National Campaign to End Child Marriage initiated from Jharkhand. Engagements with youth include programmes for sensitisation, civic-constitutional education and leadership development thereby enabling them to become agents of change in the society.