Pravah has been working since 1993 in India, on developing leadership capacities of young people to unleash their ability to bring about transformational social change. Pravah’ s core mission is to build future looking, wholesome adolescents and youth leaders through psychosocial interventions leading to economic, political and social inclusion.
We believe that social change is affected through deep mind-set change of individuals and along with the empowerment of the socially excluded. We therefore work with young people from diverse backgrounds to build their agency and enable them to take action, such that they become self-aware, deeply empathetic, understand systems and are socially responsible leaders. We also work with organizations and young leaders to co-create empowering spaces where local youth take leadership and action on the issues affecting them and others in their communities.
Our national presence is through long term, quality partnerships with youth led and youth engaging organisations across India. Till date Pravah has supported over 400 social entrepreneurs; impacted over 50,00,000 youth extensively and 2,00,000 young leaders intensively. With our efforts in joint programming and implementation with our regional partners; our presence is across 10 states in India (NCR, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, North East region).
Through our work we continue to impact issues like human rights, peace, sustainable development, social justice, education, sexual and reproductive health, early child marriage, environmental sustainability, social inclusion, gender-based violence, social entrepreneurship and employability, communal harmony, youth development.
Our vision is to co-create a sustainable national ecosystem that nurtures empowering spaces with and for young people, through joint programming and partnerships, capacity building of people and organizations; and engaging with multiple stakeholders in the adolescent and youth space- focusing on youth development and youth- centric development issues