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Unleash potential of youth so that they can contribute as active citizens of the society

Briefing About Youth Development

In India, Rajasthan ranks third in the prevalence of child marriage. This practice drives early childbearing, dropping out of school, sexual exploitation, and domestic violence. Furthermore, the State also has the third highest adolescent fertility rate in the country. Besides the taboo & patriarchy which persists in society, Illiteracy, unawareness, and un-employability are the major causes of this problem.

Considering this, Manjari Foundation’s Udaan Project in partnership with CIFF (Children Investment Fund Foundation), IPE Global and The YP Foundation, is working on designing an intervention, using the Human-Centred design approach, which will enable unmarried adolescents in Rajasthan to identify sexual and reproductive health issues, prevent risky behaviours, and seek help to improve their sexual and reproductive health.

Improving knowledge, attitudes & behaviour of girls & the community around sexual and reproductive health is one of our main strategies. To implement this strategy, we collaborate with Govt. Schools of block Bari and conduct different sessions with the adolescent girls and boys of standard 9th to 12th.

We work to ensure that all adolescents and young people receive accurate information about their sexual and reproductive health and rights including gender, contraception, consent etc.

We advocate for comprehensive sexual education to enable girls and boys to develop the skills, knowledge, confidence, and ability to make free and informed choices about relationships and sexuality and to challenge discriminatory attitudes and gender norms.

Our Co-designed Curriculum

Gender Based Violence

We orient the youth on Sex and Sexuality, gender equality, stereotypes and belief, various types of gender based violence, its effects on adolescents and how to reduce the risk of gender based violence and the possible ways to overcome.

Nutrition

We provide the knowledge on the importance of nutrition and balance diet in adolescent age and pregnancy, food pyramid, the importance of healthy lifestyle etc., so that youth can adopt the healthy practices for a better growth.

Non Communicable Diseases

We orient youth on the types of ncds i.e. cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, hypoglycaemia, cancer etc., some reasons, facts and misconceptions related to these diseases, healthy lifestyle to avoid the ncds, various tests and reports to diagnose, and various govt. Schemes to support the patient.

Masculinity

This covers what is masculinity and its adverse impact on adolescent covers which includes no sharing of feelings by boys which leads for pressure and fear etc. Which effects their personal and professional life.

Mental Health

We orient youth about the importance of mental health in adolescent age, identifying mental health issues i.e. exam pressure, anxiety, fear of unknown, change in body language, depression, excessive use of the technology etc.

Substance Misuse

We orient youth about the possible reasons of being addicted to toxic substance i.e. for being stylish and cool, for coming out of depression and mental health issues, broken relationship, fear, anxiety etc., various misconception and facts on substance misuse, various laws, helpline, institutions and counselling support by the govt.

Reduuce Discrimination

There are three themes we covering, puberty & associated changes, menstrual hygiene, personal & genital hygiene, RTIS/STIS & HIV, conception & contraception, right age for marriage, maternal health care.

Creating Safe Space

We are striving for creating safe space and developing life skills as well. We have devised the sports led methodology which aims to build the capacities and confidence of youths especially young girls and women across

Effective Communication

We orient youth about the importance of the effective communication, various ways of effective communication be it with the parents, partners, friends, teachers etc., and the implications of not putting their thoughts and grievances effectively.

We enable youth to build the 5 'C's -  Competence, Confidence, Connection, Compassion and Character.

Employability

Manjari Foundation focuses on improving employability of youth from rural areas and underprivileged sections of society who do not have access to modern facilities and resources. Our youth development programmes therefore aim at identifying unemployed youths primarily from SHG families, who are eager to earn a better living but do not know how to start. With partnerships with some renowned organisations and institutions, these youths get quality training and become self-sufficient & self-reliant. We facilitate their access to career counselling, job oriented training and placement.   

Developing life skills

We have devised a sports-led approach to developing life skills, that aims to build capacities and confidence of youth, especially young girls and women. Using games & activities like Kabaddi, we encourage young people, especially girls, to break the stereotype, open up and express themselves on issues relating to gender taboo, patriarchy, sexual and reproductive health.

We also trained them on various life skills theoretical and practical aspects. These all activities contributed for life skill development, nurturing and inspire young lives to become a sensitive and responsible citizens.

Impact Stories

What People Say

  • Nusrat Pathan
    We are happy to collaborate with Manjari Foundation under Social Initiative Parivartan. Parivartan and Manjari share a common goal of bringing about a comprehensive and sustainable development at the grassroots. The partnership has brought about a positive change through several thematic interventions including micro-enterprise development, capacity building, health, and education. As a result of this initiative, we have seen effective community engagement and empowerment and the resident of Dholpur district (Rajasthan) continue to get benefitted. We will continue to work on similar projects to improve the lives of the less privileged through our Holistic Rural Development Programme.
    Ms Nusrat Pathan, Head Corporate Social Responsibility, HDFC Bank
  • ‘Sakhi’ means a friend in Hindi, someone who stands by in trying times and during jubilations too. 26500+ women from across 2212 SHG’s and 6 Federation have come together to be the same for each other by making Micro Finance work for them. Sakhi is a platform of rural women which aims at economic well-being, reduction in poverty, self-dependence, and development of personal and social standing in the society through establishing Micro Finance and Micro Enterprises. Hindustan Zinc Limited together with its partners Saheli Sameti and Manjari Foundation are working towards unlocking their potential and empowering them to lead as Enablers.
    Mrs. Anupama Nidhi, CSR HEAD HZL
  • Manjari Foundation is IPE Global’s implementation partner in Dholpur, Rajasthan under the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), UK supported Project Udaan that aims at reducing teenage pregnancies. They have been instrumental in successfully piloting interventions for improving the knowledge of adolescents around sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in Bari block of Dholpur. Their efforts in organizing a team to take up the issue of adolescent SRH and facilitating its implementation with great sensitivity across the block has not only been recognized by the district administration, but has also paved way for attempting a scale-up across the district. Their coordination with the community-level institutions, local government bodies and the target group has been noteworthy and exemplary.
    Mr. Ashish Banerjee, IPE Global
  • Without larger vision and dedication of the team of MF and its leadership, both vertical and horizontal growth would have never been possible to pick up at this level in this short history of its evolution. Since I have been associated with the Sakhi project of MF funded by Hindustan Zinc for the last 2 years, the happiness and confidence seen in their faces of hundreds of women in the villages proves its vitality. I have also witnessed the UN-women funded second chance education project (SCE) being implemented in 3 districts under the guidance of PRADAN is a much worthy to reach out to those young women in the age group of 16-35 who have been deprived in their childhood with the education, skills and employment are now happily enrolled and trained to overcome these deprivations with much positive outcome. While writing all these statements, I recall each visit to the project area to witness the change processes that were taking place within those women who had never dreamed of being so empowered and self-reliant so soon in their lifetimes.
    Binod Raj Dahal, Integrator- PRADAN
  • Our collaboration with Manjari has allowed us to better understand the approach of solidarity groups and concretely towards the empowerment of women in the commune of Logo.The participation of Indian PRCs has been beneficial because the women have appropriated easily by seeing that they are rural women Indian women who share their experiences with them. The Camide team was formed by the professionals of Manjari with enthusiasm and professionalism and is able to reproduce most of the activities. This period of collaboration opens up prospects for our two structures to replicate the model in Mali and Africa. We again thank Manjari for all the efforts made for Camide and particularly the Director Sanjay Kumar. We were able to reach more than 2,500 women and more than 180 million CFA francs of credit granted four test henhouses substantial support for the winter and market gardening campaign in terms of results thank you.
    Mr. Aou Keita, Director Camide, Kayes, Mali, West Africa
  • Development of Corporate Citizenship (DoCC), the social internship program of SPJIMR has been collaborating with Manjari Foundation since 2015. This has been fruitful relationship for us. I want to emphasise the four following themes. First the internships give our students a different idea of leadership which also gives them a sense of requirements for the future and adds to the ethics of sociological content. The participants acquire a notion of innovation- both social and technical which gives them a systemic view of the society. Such an empirical location gives them both a sense of limits and possibilities of what they can do. Environmental consciousness and gender sensitivity constitute two critical parts of social responsibility as we define it today. The participants of the internship understand what these key concepts mean in everyday sense. Internship at Manjari adds to their imagination in this direction. We value this relationship.
    Dr. Chandrika Parmar, S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research

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