Children, youngsters, and families who are an active part of the system will have access to better empowerment and enhanced skills. It is a holistic approach that leads to a comprehensive change in not only mitigating problems but also motivating lives. It helps to change the mindset of people for some positive changes. Child empowerment projects help to motivate, educate and encourage young children to tread on the right path. 

Some Of The Most Celebrated Projects Of Victas Foundation

Victas Foundation perceives the poverty situations which a child experiences as an interplay of various issues. Therefore they work on designing programs that focus on addressing all these issues simultaneously.

Victas Self Confident & Self Sufficient Education Mission

With an objective to bring fundamental change in the way, people in the community perceive education, several awareness programs on the importance of education came into existence. 

• School dropouts and retention being a major issue, several Non-Formal Education Centres and Bridge Centres are running for mainstreaming these children to the formal education system. Back to School campaigns became highly popular as they gave positive results. This campaign helped to identify drop-outs and bring them to centers with a special focus on girl children. 
• To spread awareness about the ill effects of malnutrition, the officials introduced another campaign. The theme was the promotion of local food supplements and bridging the gap between government facilities and beneficiaries. The campaign resulted in improvement in the overall health status of children with 52% showing weight gain. Children with severe malnutrition gained referral services as well. 
• Youth empowerment projects like this help today’s youth gain access to resources and opportunities. It helps them build confidence and work in the direction of attaining growth and transformation. 

Victas Healthy and Secure Infants

• The major intervention in this stage was towards ensuring safe motherhood through organizing awareness programs on institutional delivery and also, breastfeeding. One of the successful awareness campaigns conducted proved community participation was overwhelming.
• In one area, the officials deployed a unique strategy of upgrading the skills of the Traditional Birth Attendants. This resulted in ensuring safe deliveries. Home-based growth monitoring was also a new technique that proved to be fruitful. Through meetings organized on a special day, village volunteers like Anganwadi workers and also, ICDS service providers participated.

Victas Anti Tobacco Movement In School

Health is a key focus area of VICTAS. We are on a mission to make a healthy future for India, for which we are working with school children and also, making them aware of the need and practices of healthy living. The Victas Anti Tobacco Movement in School is one such effort to make the school-going adolescents aware of the ill-effects of tobacco and the risk of Cancer and also share with them some useful tobacco quitting tips. 

So, join hands with the Victas Foundation to be a part of such welfare programs.