Adolescents today comprise 22 percent of India’s population. These young, vibrant, and exuberant persons aged 11-20 years, stand at the threshold of adulthood and experience an enormous amount of energy. This phase in the life cycle of human beings is characterized by hormonal changes resulting in rapid physical and biological developments. These are often expressed through psychosocial, behavioral and sexual maturation.

A significant transformation in adolescent’s personality is the search for identity and hence they crave for importance and fantasize being the centre of attraction.  It therefore becomes very important that their energies are channelized towards constructive thinking and actions.

Doosra Dashak has attempted to address this critical age group in a region marked by fragile ecology and low social development indicators. Doosra Dashak process essentially consists of residential camps for adolescent participants which aim at providing integrated basic education and inculcate leadership skills which work for overall personality development.