Project Pragathi
- Total Amount Donated
$0
- Donation Goal
$53,986
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Days to goTarget Goal
Campaign Story
About the project
The Anganwadi Centers (AWCs) in this region face infrastructural and manpower gaps, which hinder children and women from accessing essential facilities, particularly in providing nutritious food for pregnant and lactating mothers and implementing Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) for 3- to 6-year-olds. The lack of basic infrastructure in schools and poor maintenance of existing facilities compel students to drop out, often leading them to early marriage or work to support their family’s livelihood.
Making a difference
CRY America’s Project Pragathi is dedicated to ensuring quality education for children in the intervention area, reducing child labor, and mainstreaming them into formal education. Key activities under the project include enrolling children above 3 years into the preschool program at Anganwadi Centers and sensitizing parents of school dropouts, consequences of child labor, and about the importance of education. Additionally, teachers are encouraged to visit the families of child laborers to persuade parents to send their children back to school. Another crucial aspect of the project is the formation of Children’s Collective and Adolescent Girls’ Collectives to sensitize the community on issues of child labor and child marriage.
The Way Forward
● Develop 5 new and 24 existing AWCs into Model Anganwadi Centers.
● Improve infrastructure and facilitate access to quality education in 29 schools.
● Ensure the mainstreaming of 140 dropout children into schools.
● Remove 70 child laborers from work and ensure at least 45 of them are mainstreamed into schools.
● Create Village Child Protection Committees (VCPCs) in 4 villages.
● Ensure the prevention/aversion of 60 child marriages.
● Conduct Year 3 Life Skills sessions with 73 Children’s Collectives.
● Provide Life Skills Education to 1,900 children.
● Conduct regular sessions with 63 Adolescent Collectives on issues of child labor and child marriage.
● Implement Parent’s Module sessions for 800 parents, emphasizing children’s education and development.
Project Impact
149
Dropout children mainstreamed into schools.
67
Children removed from child labor.
40
Former child laborers mainstreamed into schools.
42
Potential child marriages averted.
1,808
Children attended Year-II Life Skills Modules.
1,603
Adolescent girls attended sessions on puberty.
519
Parents were trained in Parent Modules.
208
Children aged 3-6 years enrolled in Anganwadi Centers (AWCs).
136
Children’s Collectives and Adolescent Girls’ Collectives sensitized on child rights.
This year’s approved grant for Jan 25 to Dec 25:
