Prakash Institute empowers marginalized young Indian men and women by teaching them marketable trades and life skills so they can build self-reliant, spiritually vibrant, transformed lives. The Institute equips young Indian men with vocational skills and life skills so they can earn a living, be healthy, live faithfully, and be leaders in their homes and communities. The Ruth Girls Institute prepares young women with vocational and life skills so they can live healthy, self-sustaining, godly lives.

Loren and Sylvia Eckhardt are the executive directors