Partner: Axis Bank Foundation (ABF) Focus Areas: Livelihood Support, Organic Agriculture, Women Empowerment Status: Core Programmatic Initiative

Spreading education, healthcare, livelihoods, and protecting child rights to empower and transform Adivasi, Dalit, and marginalized communities.

Early Childhood is acknowledged as the most crucial period in a person’s life, when the rate of development is very high and foundations are laid for cumulative lifelong learning and human development.

People’s Rural Education Movement (PREM), in partnership with the UNFPA Odisha office, is actively engaged in the ICPD25 Nairobi commitments program of action. This initiative is a core part of UNFPA India’s 10th country program (2023-2027). The primary goal is to achieve Three Transformative Results among indigenous communities:

PREM (People’s Rural Education Movement) in partnership with Educo, Spain, has initiated a project to reduce child marriage, child labour, and to strengthen child care and protection system in different villages of Daringbadi block of Kandhamal district, Odisha” in the month of January 2021. Focus Areas: Child Protection, Education, Adolescent Empowerment, Legislative Advocacy

In recent years, India has witnessed a paradigm shift regarding youth development, specifically focusing on livelihood generation through micro-entrepreneurship. However, a severe lack of job opportunities—especially for rural youth—has forced many to migrate away from their communities in search of employment.