Welcome to Juana Foundation

VRIDDHI – Unleash Your Inner Power

Juana Foundation initiated an awareness program under the name ‘VRIDDHI – Unleash Your Inner Power’ where ‘VRIDDHI’ means ‘PROGRESS’ and altogether it means ‘to know about your inner power and grow with its help’. With the help of this program, Juana Foundation aims to reach out to people regularly from different sections of the society and help them understand their rights and becoming more sensitized towards certain areas, measuring that outreach accurately, and motivating them to take action.

The organization will ensure that the message is delivered to the audience, and it has a broad reach So, that a large number of people can be benefited.

Vision

Awareness plays an important part in developing community support for changes in the Informal Justice Sector and making the community more aware of the importance of certain issues.

Mission

Through interactive sessions with the community, we aim at creating a more emphatic and tolerant environment and helping the people to help themselves.

Child Rights

Major concern that is increasing more and more in India and to fight child sexual abuse, we all must take responsibility in our various ways to fight the threat. The country is experiencing numerous incidences of violations against children. Most of the cases are committed by the people known to them. In some incidents children are committers and sometimes they are abused by the people of their surroundings. So, the children need to know their rights. The main objective of the awareness session was teaching children to understand the special provisions of legislation and helping them to stand up for their safety is important.

Menstrual Hygiene

Menstrual Hygiene is important for the empowerment and welfare of women and girls around the world. It is so much more than just getting access to sanitary pads and clean toilets, although these too play an important role. Our goal is to tackle difficult experiences during menstruation, including inadequate facilities and materials, menstrual pain, fear of disclosure, and inadequate knowledge about the menstrual cycle.

In India, only 1 in every 2 girls know about menstruation before their first period and only 1 out of 2 girls, mothers are the most important source of information about menstruation, followed by friends.

Sanitation and Hygiene

Sanitation and Hygiene for Institutional and household-level sanitation is a priority for all. This awareness program will target basic hygiene and sanitation behaviors at the household and community levels, including proper disposal of human waste, hand-washing practices, safe storage of water at the household level at institutional and household levels through this program. 

Climate Change & Sustainable Action

Education is an important component of the global response to climate change. It helps individuals understand and address the effect of global warming, increases “climate literacy” amongst youth, encourages changes in their approaches and behavior, and helps them adapt to climate change related trends. Education and awareness-raising enable informed decision-making, play an important role in increasing adaptation and mitigation capacities of communities, and empower women and men to adopt sustainable lifestyles.

Internet Safety

Internet safety or Cyber safety is trying to be safe on the internet and is the act of maximizing a user’s awareness of personal safety and security risks to private information property associated with using the internet, and the self-protection from computer crime

As the number of internet users continues to grow worldwide, government and organizations have expressed concerns about the safety of children and teenagers using the internet.

Drug Abuse

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is the use of drug in amounts or by method which are harmful to the individuals or others. It is a form of substance related disorder. In some cases, criminal and anti-social behavior occurs when the person is under the influence of drugs, and long-term personality changes in individuals may also occur. In addition to possible physical, social and psychological harm, the use of some drugs may lead to criminal penalties. Although, these vary widely depending on local jurisdiction.

Gender & Sexuality

Gender and sexuality identity-based cultures are sub-cultures and communities composed of people who have shared experiences, background, or interest due to common sexual or gender identities. Not all person of various gender and sexual orientation identify with a particular subculture. Reason includes geographical distance, unawareness of subculture’s existence, fear of social stigma, or personal preference to remain unidentified with sexuality or gender based subcultures.