Pratigya runs a comprehensive life skill education program for children from underprivileged communities in urban and rural areas. This program cultivates Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) through weekly sessions on various aspects of life skills like interpersonal skills, emotional management, values and beliefs, self-realization, counseling and career guidance etc. It also includes training on gender, health, mental health, reproductive health and financial management etc. They are also trained in sports, team building, community work, leadership and active citizenship. Delivered with the help of professionals, practitioners and community leaders, and with the parents’ involvement, this program fosters active participation, improved academic performance and balanced personal-social lives of children.

Over 7,000 children have been trained through this program so far. Presently, “Life Skills with Sports” programme is being run in 50 government schools covering more than 5,500 children and "Life Skill Training" at 15 communities with about 1300 more children.

Children's cooperatives are self-run and self-managed collectives of children. Three types of children's cooperatives are functional - finance, health and sports. Children manage their own bank, its accounts and member’s passbook. It has democratically elected managers, loan committees and other functionaries. Presently over 1,000 members have a cumulative fund of about Rs 2.5 lakhs. Children's Health cooperative works to aware and educate children as well as the community on various aspects of health mainly – mental health, hygiene, cleanliness, nutrition, various diseases, disease prevention and information on various health services etc. Sports cooperatives strive for physical and mental fitness of its members through facilitating safe and inclusive play space.

Pratigya's "Sports for Parents" initiative engages the parents through sports so as to strengthen the child-parent bond, thus creating a child-friendly environment at home and community. Along with periodical sports activities for parents a special football tournament for mothers has taken a new height in this series. Launched in 2018, the unique "Matri Shakti Football Tournament", exclusively engages mothers in football matches. It aims at breaking the gender-based stereotypes and creating a space for common women in sports, along with inspiring young girls to make sports a part of their daily lives despite all odds. In the last 4 years, this tournament saw a surge in participation from 6 teams (90 women) to 32 (480 women) from tribal, urban slums and rural communities, with an outreach in more than 50 villages and 10 urban slums.