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About the Organisation
This section gives a brief idea about the organisation. Please check the Pics & Docs tab for latest documents.
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Prayasam’s vision of empowering children and youth to facilitate positive,social change by realizing their right to participation over the past 18 years , has been recognized, both at the national and international level. The process of mentoring applied in this context is not limited to adults, but also involves peer to peer relationships. Encouraging youth to ‘share emotions’ and and enhance ‘Self- awareness’ are both helpful skills for making a job or program successful. If anyone is mentally disturbed, they cannot implement their work properly. Knowing one’s self and acquiring the ability to assess one’s strengths and weaknesses is equally important for exploring the world of work and career options. The participatory Ontrack program will involve youth and instill in them to take ownership of programmes, not just tokenism but involvement in planning, decision making and evaluation. Prayasam has initiated its new employment concept to allow young people not only for seeking new jobs but career growth. Prayasam’s Ontrack students will help in strengthening CBOs and contribute towards its effective functioning as well as training other young people as community change makers, in the local areas where Prayasam is presently working.
Salt Lake City Prayasam is known for treating children as partners in the development process rather than beneficiaries. Our partners, the youth and children in progress are from urban slums and squatter colonies. The Grassroot Human Resource Management Institute, Ontrack, attempted to bridge the ever-widening divide between those who have access to opportunities and those who are increasingly being marginalized from the new jobs in the new economy. It offered path-breaking job-oriented training courses to youth who have barely reached high school levels of formal education and preparing them for entry- level jobs in various sectors or emerge as successful entrepreneurs. Life and Career Choices classes will give students the skills necessary for successful entry into the highly competitive job market and to be applied in their professional lives in future.
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In 2015, Adobe Youth Voices Foundation has partnered with Prayasam for opening a “Grassroot Film Studio” on Feb 14, which is first world history , where young people will get a chance to make films directly with Adobe.
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The Revolutionary Optimists’ lead subject, Amlan Ganguly with his two mentees toured US for the film’s formal release and Salim and Sikha got a standing ovation in the TEDx talk with Melinda Gates, who mentioned that Sikha was among the 10 women who inspired her in 2013, alongwith Hillary Clinton Queen Raina& Malala,
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Amlan,was invited by Rockefeller Foundation to attend a Global Urban Summit on Innovations for an Urban World in Italy. Prayasam’s award-winning Area Health Minders were subsequently cited as a successful local solution to public health in Century of the City: No Time to Lose, a Rockefeller Foundation publication.
In 2009, Amlan was selected globally as a public health leader and Prayasam’s work was highlighted in the documentary film Revolutionary Optimists developed by Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics.
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Amlan Kusum Ganguly started his career as a criminal lawyer and realized that little legal justice was provided for the poor. He founded Praysam in 1999 with the goal of engaging youth in decision-making on issues that affect them the most. Under Ganguly’s leadership, Praysam has emerged as a regional expert in child rights programming and workshops. A key element of Prayasam is our mentorship program. It is effective in helping youth stay vocal, active, and informed about their community. Praysam continues to be a platform for youth activists and visionaries who serve as the voices for under-represented communities.
Prayasam’s mission is to organize young people from impoverished and marginalized communities to bring about improved lifestyle changes in their communities. Prayasam was formed by a few committed individuals in the slums of Kolkata in 1996. With a dozen years of experience, Praysam has established itself as a regional expert in child rights with a main focus on the right to participation. Prayasam is a capacity building organization that nurtures young people from impoverished communities in various districts of West Bengal. The work stems from the conviction that children possess the potential and ability to transform their communities by assuming the role of ‘agents of change’. Prayasam provides the tools for them to become aware of their own capacity to direct their lives and influence the lives of others in their community. Interactive workshops and trainings helps mobilize youth groups in neglected areas of West Bengal ranging from the slums, outskirts of town, to the heart of Kolkata. The work Prayasam does has reached out to a million children and continue to make effective changes in different communities across West Bengal.
The vision of Prayasam is to expand the successful programs and replicate them in communities to increase the ripple effect. Since 1999, Prayasam has been working with children from Municipal and Panchayat areas of West Bengal. The goal is to create peer leaders and student educators that influence lifestyle changes within the targeted communities. The primary focus is on education, preventative health, sanitation and hygiene. These youth are changing the physical and social environmental in their community. Through various life skills courses these youth are able to assimilate into the main wave of society. The work we do will inspire youth to give back to their community by taking leadership roles to address local problems.
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AACAS6574N
PAN Registration Document
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147120815
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01/04/2014
Ashoka, and Ford Fellow Amlan Kusum Ganguly, the founder director, was selected as the most innovative public health leader to be profiled in Revolutionary Optimists, a documentary film headed by Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics, Program in Bioethics and Film. In 2009, Amlan In the year 2010 Amlan has been awarded Indian Achievers’ Award for Social Service . He was invited to attend Skoll World Forum, Oxford as speakers to share their field experiences with a global audience.
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Location: Kolkata, WB
Validity: One Year
Description:
An interest in and knowledge of the Child Rights issues covered by Prayasam,
- to be able to take responsibility for tasks and to work well without supervision,
- to have an organised and methodical approach to work,
- to be able to work well within a team
Commitment
- We ask that volunteers make a minimum commitment to Prayasam of six months. The amount of time devoted to training up volunteers means that taking people on for shorter periods is usually unfeasible. Obviously, longer commitments mean we can invest more training and responsibility in volunteers.
What we ask of volunteers:
Punctuality
- We expect volunteers to commit to working 6 hours per week (or 24-hours per month). Usual office hours are 9.30 – 5.30pm but these are flexible. We also have ‘core hours’ when we all try and be in the office, to enable us to hold meetings and communicate with each other. The minimum we ask from volunteers is one day per month.
- We expect volunteers to inform us if they are unable to come in to work for any reason, or if they are running late.
Communication
- We hope that you will let us know at once if anything about the work is making you unhappy.
- In return, you are also expected to be open to constructive dialogue about your work.
Post-Director, Communications
No-1
Location-KOlkata, WB
Validity: 10 years
Description:
This position will support the strategic objective of promoting the organization and providing a high quality of service for its constituents by implementing and executing communications programs and development activities. These activities shall include, but not be limited to, Profile building, Networking, Resource Mobilization, Fund Mobilization, Monitoring, Evaluating, media partnership development, internship chapter support services, conference and event strategies, and copy writing of all types of communications.
Position: Finance Coordinator
No-1
Location: Kolkata, WB
Validity- 5 years
Description-
Regular Accounts Keeping, Budgeting, Auditing, Administration, Fund Mobilisation, Monitoring, Evaluating, Store Keeping, Office Maintenance, File Maintenance, Record Keeping, Logistics
Post-Sector Head
No-2
Location-Kolkata
Validity-5 years
Description:
Profile preparation, Networking, Resource Mobilization, Monitoring, Evaluating, AAR development, Case Study / story Preparation, Profile collection, IEC development, Report preparation, Photographs Maintenance, Graphics and illustration
Translation, Social Media Communication
Position: Field Coordinator / Programme Associate
No-15
Location: KOlkata, WB
Validity-2 years
Description:
Information collection & dissemination, Planning, Budgeting, Data collection (Survey / PRA) and Maintenance, Coordinating, Monitoring, Networking, Evaluating, Resource Mobilization, Community Mobilization, Community mobilization mechanism, Resource Generation / mobilization, Data collection & compilation, Capacity building, Monitoring & evaluation, Promotions, Documentation
Position-Programme Officer
No-2
Location-Kolkata, WB
Validity-3 years
Description-
Information collection & dissemination, Planning, Budgeting, Data collection (Survey / PRA) and Maintenance, Coordinating, Monitoring, Networking, Evaluating, Resource Mobilization, Community Mobilization, Community mobilization mechanism, Resource Generation / mobilization, Data collection & compilation, Capacity building, Monitoring & evaluation, Promotions, Documentation
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