Development of Underprivileged Rural Girls and Assistance
Project DURGA is a 3-domain intervention program for adolescent dropout children in collaboration with Ariyalur District Administration and other social organizations. Project aims to transform the thematic knowledge and behavioural change in Life Skills, Menstrual Hygiene Management and Hygiene Practices in general. The underprivileged and mostly educationally dropout adolescent children of the district is targeted to benefit from the program and create new doors for better future. Williez's Foundation would scale it to other blocks strategically hence covering the need of entire district and generate impact through a changed mindset, attitude and a conductive navigation tools useful for lifelong.
Why Ariyalur ?
Ariyalur's Human Development report and NFHS has been indicating gaps and need of additional intervention in the areas of increasing schooling years, reducing early pregnancies, improving serial hygiene and management practice, and hygiene behaviours to improve the quality of life as whole. Secondary research and primary findings from the ground call for immediate intervention in skills and knowledge that would serve the foundation for overall improvisation in quality of individual and social life. Thus this aspirational program catering the most of needs through these 3 domains is designed in alignment with National Youth Policy 2014-17 and 2012 draft, Sustainable Development Goals and Emphasis of life Skill in New Education Policy 2020.
