ASPIRE Program

WOMEN HEALTH & VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM

The issue of women’s self-reliance is most important as it has been found that the situation of women getting vocational training is really grim in the state.  The adolescents and young women in rural society don’t have proper career counselling / guidance to manage the skills and use potential for their economic empowerment. As per the CULP survey It was found that only 14% women in the age group of 20-30 years are engaged in some kind of vocational training which is very low and the percentage dips further in case of women aged 15-19 years. The situation of child and women health and hygiene is grimmer in the marginalized communities (minorities and tribal) where CULP works. Thus, a multi-pronged approach was required which should focus on planning, supply chain management, capacity building,

Behaviour change communication, monitoring, review and evaluation, we aim to improve the survival and health of those who need it most, especially women, adolescent girls and young children.

Keeping this in view a formal collaboration was established between CULP and The Desai Foundation Trust in 2021 for implementation of the ‘ASPIRE PROGRAM’, beginning from one block in Tonk district now scaled-up in larger area of more blocks and two districts in rural Rajasthan. The program also get support from Crowd Funding on Give India Platform.

Goal

The over-arching goal of the project is to create enabling social environment for Girls and Women to Lead a Dignified and Healthy Life with their full potential. The program activities have specific goal to improve social and economic life in select habitations of rural Rajasthan, and to develop and implement health, hygiene, educational & vocational programs to promote quality of life in underprivileged communities.