Welcome to Prayas JACOur Projects

Drop-in-Centre & Rehabilitation Centre -Patna

Prayas drop-in-centre is running under the Geneva Global Project and is located at Karbighaiya, Patna, Bihar. In this centre, Prayas facilitate the Children in Need of Care & Protection (CNCP) children who are handed over to us by Child Welfare Committee (CWC). Apart from the residential care, Prayas provide proper alternative education, nutrition, health care, lodging and extracurricular activities to the children. We also offer proper counseling for their psychological upgradation and benefit.

Rehabilitation & Restoration of the Children under Adoptionscentrum Project

Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre (JAC) has been raising awareness for child rehabilitation through legal adoption for five years in Bihar with the support of Adoptionscentrum. The Prayas JAC has been striving to develop a strong network of agencies working in the area of child welfare, protecting the rights of orphaned children and build up their capacity through a series of seminars and workshops on child rights, Child related legislations, process of adoption, etc. Networking will be strengthened and dialogue established with the government to develop the necessary protocols and quality infrastructure for children. The project would address issues like adoption, child rights, and effective implementation of Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS). The project would extend to stakeholders and spread awareness about adoption in the society at large through various kinds of publicity materials. The goal that the agency has set before it is to work for securing the basic right of the child to a family. The target group would include children below eighteen, professionals, childless couple, students and government officials. The area of work would include the states of Bihar, states languishing at the bottom of the Human Development Index, problems like child trafficking, gender discrimination.