Society for Public Education Cultural Training and Rural Action (SPECTRA)

SPECTRA is a professionally managed committed organization active in community capacity building and issue based networking. The primary focus of SPECTRA is on the problems of the poor in their struggle to obtain a life of justice and dignity. Child Rights, women development and awareness generation, Environment stabilization, food security, sanitation, education, rural industries for income generation, and empowerment of the community for self-governance are the most important components of its mission. Child and women Rights, Gender justice, natural resource management, and livelihood security are their primary areas of concern.

The ultimate goal of Spectra is to effect an improvement in the health of disadvantaged women in rural areas by providing gender sensitive management training to health coordinators while emphasizing self -help and promoting local health tradition to empower women, SPECTRA recognizes that women have been making a valuable contribution to health care, both at the household and community level.