Initiated in 2006 by one young university student to create safer spaces for youth from different cross sections of excluded communities, Prantakatha works to enhance leadership potentials among youth across gender, sexuality, class, and caste.
Prantakatha FCRA Reg. No : 147121086
ADOR:
This initiative provides food, medicine, and clothing support to abandoned windows who are aged and used to surviving through begging. It aims at rehabilitating excluded old women to the mainstream of life through love, compassion, and kindness.
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SAYAN / South Asian Young Queer Activist Network:
It is a networking, learning, and solutions exchange platform across LGBTQIA+ youth across South Asian countries. These counties, which are all past colonies of the British, share many legal and social similarities around challenges and opportunities faced by LGBTQIA + community.
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UTTORON:
This initiative is targeted around homeless young women and children to enable them towards their needed health support and livelihood support. Currently 15 families with 36 women and 62 children under Hastings Flyover, Kolkata are supported.
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MELTING POT:
It is one year-long intersectional youth leadership support journey that facilitates the idea of active citizenship among youth. The programme includes regular youth meets on different topics to enhance understanding around diversity, inclusion, and equality. Internship opportunities with different grassroots organisations across India to help youngsters understand real life issues. Towards the end of the year-long journey, meting potters are encouraged to develop their own social enterprises / start ups.
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ANTOR:
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It is free of cost healthcare support service to transgender youth. With Transgender Protection of Rights law in place, this initiative helps Transgender youth to get access to mainstream health care support services.
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TRANS MARK:
It is entrepreneurship development for Transgenders . It includes 360° support to Transgender youth towards livelihood. From training to seed grant to mentoring to curated pop-up markets as point of sales. This initiative works with a two pronged approach - one, enabling entrepreneurship spirit among Transgender youth.
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Snapshot of Journey :
1. 2006 : Founded.
2. 2008 : Championing girl and child trafficking prevention with youth group, law enforcement, media.
3. 2010 : Championing girl and child trafficking prevention with youth group, law enforcement, media.
4. 2012 : Awarded with International Visitor Leadership Program by Govt of United States of America, Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
5. 2012 : Awarded with Changeloom's Learning and Leadership Journey, one year long premier youth leadership support programme by Delhi based National Org, Pravah.
6. 2014 : Founder of Prantakatha became a board member of ComMutiny the Youth Collective , CYC, a Delhi based non-profit aggregator of youth work across India launch of Krittika Fellowship supported by Kutchina Foundation for social issue startups across India to promote social among young women. In 2014, the total number of fellows stood at 25 spread from Dimapur in the northeast to Jaipur in the west part of India.
7. 2016 : Prantakatha became Challengeloom hub for West Bengal.
8. 2018 : Prantakatha in association with CYC ran the Sambidhan Live in West Bengal, Constitution Literacy Programme. It is also the year when Prantakatha with technical support from the U.S. Consulate General Kolkata, started South Asian Network for youth from LGBTQIA+ community. Later, it became SAYAN/South Asia Young Queer Activists Network.
9. 2020 : Inauguration of Antor - free of cost OPD for general care in association with Peerless Hospital, ATHB supported by U.S. Consulate General Kolkata. First Indo Bangladesh conference on the issue of Young LGBTQIA, hosted in Kolkata. Begining of Pandemic and different covid care initiatives by Prantakatha.
10. 2022 : Four Country Summit of SAYAN held at Kathmandu, Nepal, supported by Asia Foundation. SAYAN s Bangaldesh Lead Hochemin Islam got awarded with IVLP. First ever intervention on the issue of Child Rights of LGBTQIA + adolescents by West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights in association with Prantakatha. Survey of need assessment for them across 5 south Bengal districts are conducted. Recommendations along with the survey report have been submitted to Govt of WB for actions.
11. 2024 : Trans Mark , collective of Transgender Entrepreneurs is founded with 150 Transgender youth. They have been supported with entrepreneurship training and seed funding supported by City Bank and IIT Kanpur. First Pop-up Trans Mark is curated on 17th Feb at the lawn of the German Consulate Kolkata. Antor began its first free of cost SRS OPD. A larger study in continuation to the study commissioned by the Child Rights Commission conducted supported by the British Deputy High Commission in Kolkata. Prantakatha got onboard to HSBC as their Non Profit Partner.
