A story of relentless commitment to empowering communities to improve their quality of life.
A highly driven team working together to create purposeful change.
Our work spans across health, education, violence against women and community institution building.
We believe systematic and scientific research is integral to creating change.
Our new ideas and approaches continue to transform lives.
Our work empowers adolescent girls through life skill training, completion of secondary education, and improving their awareness on health and access to services. We work with adolescent girls from Scheduled Castes/Tribes (SC/ST) and devadasi/traditional female sex worker communities. Rigorous research that identify the barriers to education and vulnerabilities in health for girls informs our interventions.
The multi-layered programmes work with a range of stakeholders, such as the community, government, schools, and health service providers. They build leaders from among girls and strengthen their capacities to assert their rights. Families and communities begin to recognise the equal value of girls and participate in their empowerment process. Girls learn to challenge entrenched social norms, demand their equal space in the communities and aspire for a better life.
Project Sabala was launched under the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls by the Ministry of Women and Child, Government of India in 2010. The project aimed to address the mutlidimensional problems of adoelscent girls. Bijapur district in Karnataka was one of the 200 districts chosen from across the country to pilot the scheme. KHPT implemented Sabala in Mudhol, Jamkhandi and Biligi talukas in the district. The project reached adolescent girls, aged 9 to 17 years, from scheduled caste and tribes and devadasi or traditional female sex worker communities primarily focusing on giving them health awareness and life skills. It covered 750 adolescent girls and their families from 2010 to 2012.
We partner with the government to improve outcomes of MNCH programmes.
We empower girls from underserved communities to claim their rights to health and education.
We empower marginalised women to lead a life without violence.
We facilitate public-private collaboration and community engagement for treatment of tuberculosis patients.
We help alleviate under- nutrition through nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions
We improve access to health, education, social protection and welfare services for vulnerable children.
We support at risk communities to reduce their vulnerability to HIV / AIDS and access care and services.
We design and implement integrated care model to address the growing burden of NCDs.