At Positive Women Network Rajasthan (PWNR), we believe in transforming lives through programs that are holistic, sustainable, and deeply rooted in compassion. Our projects address the multiple challenges faced by abandoned, orphaned, vulnerable, and HIV-affected children, as well as the women and communities around them. Below are our current and past signature projects, each designed to bring dignity, opportunity, protection, and hope.
What it is:
A full-time residential care home in Jaipur for children infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. This safe home provides shelter, medical care (including ART), nutritious food, educational support, psychosocial counseling, life-skills training, and emotional well-being.
Key Features:
Impact:
Children grow in a loving, stigma-free environment; improved health outcomes; increased school completion and better self-esteem.
What it is:
Aashray also runs a care home for children who are orphans, abandoned, or otherwise without safe family care — even if not HIV-affected. These children receive protection, care, and opportunities similar to those in the HIV-home.
Key Features:
Impact:
Safe childhoods; learning, growing, building confidence; reduced risk of child labor, exploitation, or abuse.
What it is:
Ongoing project to provide medical and psychosocial support to HIV-affected children. This includes ART adherence support, periodic health checkups, nutritional supplementation, counseling, emergency health assistance, and linkage with health departments & clinics.
Key Features:
Impact:
Reduced illness and hospitalizations; improved physical health; better mental wellbeing; reduction in stigma; higher quality of life.
What it is:
Programs to ensure that every child under PWNR’s care gets access to quality education and develops skills for self-reliance after teenage years. This includes school linkage, scholarships, uniforms, books, tuition, and for older children, vocational and digital skills training.
Key Features:
Impact:
Higher school retention, better academic performance; youth readiness for higher education or employment.
What it is:
Understanding that children exposed to abandonment, HIV, poverty, or trauma need strong psychosocial care, PWNR runs dedicated counseling & emotional support programs.
Key Features:
Impact:
Improved mental health indicators; children feel safer, more confident; coping skills development; healthier social relationships.
What it is:
Projects beyond the home—aimed at changing perceptions, reducing stigma, and building supportive communities around HIV-affected children and women.
Key Features:
Impact:
Increased community acceptance; reduced discrimination; better access to healthcare, admission in schools, referrals etc.
What it is:
PWNR’s initiatives to empower HIV-positive women and women from vulnerable backgrounds through skill development, self-help groups, entrepreneurship, and financial independence.
Key Features:
Impact:
Women gain confidence, income, independence; families become more stable; stigma decreases as women assert their rights.
What it is:
Ensuring that children and women receive not just enough food, but nutritious food—and with special attention to those with health vulnerabilities like HIV.
Key Features:
Impact:
Stronger immunity; reduced health risks; better growth and physical development; enhanced capacity to thrive.
Each of our projects is designed to support the others. For example, health care without nutrition is incomplete; education without psychosocial support may lead to dropouts; community awareness without concrete action fails to reduce stigma. Together, these projects build an ecosystem of care around the child and around the woman—ensuring that no one is left behind.
Together, we can make these projects more impactful, reach more lives, and change the course for many children and women in need.