How PRADAN’s Development Apprenticeship Programmes seeks to transform rural lives
PRADAN’s Development Apprenticeship Programme helps college students work at the grassroots level to solve local issues
When Barsha Mishra chose to live with a family in interior Jharkhand, she realised the privileges of her urban life. “The challenges of living frugally and staying away from family and friends was an eye-opener. Detached from the mainstream, I learnt to apply myself to local problems and address contextual issues,” she says.
Today, a confident and aware Barsha works as a team coordinator at Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) to bring in more youngsters for the Development Apprenticeship Programme (DAP) that she undertook 13 years ago, as a Social Science student at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.