CULP - Centre for Unfolding Learning Potentials

CULP in association with The Desai Foundation Trust implementing the ‘ASPIRE PROGRAM’, in Tonk and Dausa districts in rural Rajasthan. 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 project focuses on the activities are: 1. Health Awareness and Check-up Camps. 2. Vocational training: Skill Training Program has been launched by CULP under ASPIRE project for training in computer as well as in Sewing to adolescent girls and young women. 3. Banking and Saving Awareness among rural women; 4. Entrepreneurship Skill Trainings to Young women. 5. Primary Health and Hygiene Education to school children and adolescent girls.

The innovative and collaborative flagship project ‘Pehchan’ was initiated for Educating Out-of-School Children, especially Adolescent Girls (9 to 18 years) of socio-economically most marginalized communities & their mainstreaming in formal schools in two blocks of Jaipur district in July 2002. Subsequently, the project was scaled up in 17 blocks of six districts (Jaipur, Tonk, Jhalawar, Banswara, Pratapgarh and Dungarpur), reached out and benefitted to more than two and half lakh children (75% girls). The efforts have been made to bring these children in mainstream schools, through alternative education and supporting them to complete school level education.

Project Prajwala was conceptualized which aims at comprehensive development of KGBVs in which education is one of the central components. CULP acts as the implementing agency of the program in the Banswara and Pratapgarh districts of Rajasthan whereas that Bodh Shiksha Samiti acts as a technical support institution and nodal agency for the Prajwala program in partnership between the state government and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) foundation. The broad objective of the project was to strengthen the KGBVs to ensure quality primary literacy and numeracy skills to all its girls at the foundation level thereby facilitating autonomy for studying the upper primary (6 to 8) grades.

Heroes for Humanity (HfH)’ program which was initiated in August 2021 in the locations where CULP works. Key program components: 1. Health awareness sessions with local population especially with women, adolescent girls and boys 2. Baseline survey of 30487 HHs in 150 villages of 2 districts with the objective to assess the status of COVID vaccination, education, employment, required legal documents to access the benefit of various social schemes etc. 3. Developing IEC material / Posters which are being used for Health Awareness programs among adolescents and women in the community.4. Menstrual Hygiene awareness 5. Help Desk (Social Welfare Schemes)

Project ‘Making it Happen’ was designed by the government of Rajasthan and The India Nutrition Initiatives of Tata trusts to strengthening the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) system and to improve the nutrition level in maternal, infant and young child. In addition to Dausa district, the program was also implemented in Alwar, Dholpur, Karauli and Tonk districts. Below presented data graph shows the status of maternal, infant and young child nutrition as given in NFHS4 for Dausa district at the beginning of the project interventions. In March 2020, a survey of the nutritional status of all children aged 0-3 years was completed in the project area; and compared with the growth standards adopted by the ICDS. CULP as a field support partner for Dausa district provided support for ensuring quality services under the program in the district and made a significant impact in improving the status of nutrition in the district.