Citizenship education
Learning at school and in society

Change Makers

Gujarat, India

Pravah, a non-profit NGO, was founded by a group of professionals from diverse backgrounds to extend a healing touch to the fractured society in the wake of Babri Mosque demolition and the communal frenzy that gripped the Indian nation. Their goal was to enable young people to acquire a profound and insightful perspective of problems like violence, through debates and self-reflection. The Change Makers project aims to develop innovative training methodologies in the field of citizenship education, by exposing children to rural life or developing "life skills" at school.

Pravah is dedicated to equipping young people with skills for personal growth and development, to building sensitivity and responsibility towards the society they live in and developing them into positive "Changemakers of the future". Pravah works with the college students under the aegis of a program called SMILE ( Students Mobilization Initiative for Learning through Exposure). After an orientation, the college students are taken to various rural centers for exposure. In the schools, a life skills development program for adolescents, a four-step curriculum, called "From Me to We", is delivered through a 40-hour program.
A session conducted on one problem, held with students, is designed for maximum participation and in the belief of the valuable ideology of experiential learning.

Pravah through the Change Makers, endeavors to reach out to adolescent students in schools and enable them to develop their potential and become socially aware and responsible citizens who can usher in the desirable changes in society through personal example and leardership qualities. Its aim is to reach out to youth in schools and colleges and sensitize them towards their responsibility in society, and make them harbingers of social change.

Teresa Khanna
Fellow-Making Changemakers
NGO Pravah
Gujarat, India
Pravah@del6.vsnl.net.in

Institutional Partners
Colleges of Gujarat

The Change Makers project began in 2000, but Pravah curriculum on life skills called « From Me to We » started since 1993

Formal program evaluation of the curriculum every year