About Us

ORGANISATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Locating the developmental anomaly in structural causes such as control/ownership of and access to resources; economic, political and social structures; ideological factors (habits, beliefs, cultural preferences); and insufficient awareness and knowledge; SSVK stands committed to the effective empowerment of the marginalised people. It lays a strategic focus on the element of local action, treating it as an essential part of the development process involving changes, most important of which is, in the attitude and action of the marginalised who become participants in the process itself. Rural development is viewed as a complex process involving continuous reorientation and adaptation of traditional values , practices and institutions in order to facilitate appropriate interventions/technologies to enhance quality of life and welfare, and the consequent bargaining /negotiating powers, of the disenfranchised and the disempowered.

VISION

The organisation envisions the establishment of an egalitarian society devoid of any kind of discrimination and exploitation based on caste, class, gender, race or religion: a society that would permit the collective flowering of human potential for humane ends.

MISSION

The organisation’s mission is to work for the effective empowerment of the socially, economically and politically marginalised people through their conscientisation, mobilisation and organisation around issues impinging on their development to ensure their equitable participation in the societal mainstream.

STRATEGY

The methodology adopted by the organisation for the attainment of its goal is one of a harmonious blend of the twin approaches of activism/struggle and development. The way to effective empowerment is one hinging on and oriented towards evolving autonomous community based organisations endowed with capabilities required for the actualisation of a spirit of self-determination and self-reliance. Further community based organisations have strategic networking relationships in all the target areas under the banner of Lok Shakti Sangathan, a frontal organisation with an avowed aim to facilitate issue based interventions from time to time. Strategies deployed for mobilisation involve intensive animation inputs at the village level, periodic larger meets on entitlements related issues and mass contact programmes through `Padyatras”. Protest strategies involve petitioning, demonstrations, sit ins and legal redressal.

OBJECTIVES

Within its developmental perspective, the organisation is committed to the following objectives:

1. Facilitate the social and economic development of the deprived sections in rural areas with special emphasis on the dalits, the scheduled tribes, women, minorities and the depressed backward classes
2. Create amidst them an awareness of their physical, social, economic, legal and political environment to induce an attitude of meaningful and constructive action on their part
3. Enable the empowerment of its target population through organizing them as self-defining groups with a strong sense of self-identity and with capacities to act as a pressure group.
4. Promote gender equity
5. Fostering conditions for enhanced access of target group to services and entitlements from the governments
6. Utilise all the project based interventions as an opportunity for affecting policy level choices at the government level
7. Network with all like minded groups committed to the cause of empowerment of the poor through people’s action
8. To ensure human rights of its target group
9. To promote pro-poor governance.
10. To strengthen the disaster coping mechanisms of the targeted communities

PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES

Dr. P. N. Labh conducting training for health volunteers at SSVK training centre, Jhanjharpur

Beneficiaries of Navhatta (Saharsa) carrying their goats provided by SSVK under income generation programme

Beneficiaries of Navhatta (Saharsa) with their goats provided by SSVK under IGP

Health worker of SSVK at village health camp

1. The programmes and activities being run in the intervention villages include:

2. Health Education and promotion of primary health care with an emphasis on reproductive and child health, Water, Sanitation and hygiene.

3. Non Formal Education and Adult Education with a focus on socially relevant education and an equal opportunity of participation for the girl child.

4. Income Generation with emphasis on facilitating control over and access to land and water based productive resources, ensuring just wages, enabling access to the governmental employment generation programmes. Additionally promote complementary income generating initiatives through thrift and credit initiatives

5. Legal Assistance and Education

6. Environmental Awareness and mobilisation on the ecologically sensitive issues of the project area

7. Capacity Building of Organisational Staff

8. Training of social animators and community level leaders

9. Training in Panchayti Raj

10. Rehabilitation of child labour

11. Consciousness raising on relief and rehabilitation related issues coupled with carrying out relief and rehabilitative interventions and running pilots on disaster preparedness.

12. Publication of newsletter and information dissemination through thematic publications on issues of relevance to the development of the marginalized

13. Community Organisation is the key activity in the organisation’s scheme of development. Apart from being the organising and integrating basis of the externally aided concrete constructive interventions in project based villages, the social mobilisation initiatives have extended their outreach to 1399 other villages intensively spread out over Madhubani, Saharsa, Supaul and Darbhanga. All villages have an active community organisation, their functionality highlighted by the existence of a vibrant Gram Kosh (internally generated financial resource pool through community contribution) into which contributions are regularly made. Mobilisational initiative has been launched to extend coverage to 310 villages spread over 14 other districts of Bihar.

Winner of Bal Mela organized by SSVK in Navhatta (Saharsa)

Children performing group song in Bal Mela

Procession organized by SSVK demanding work for every hands

A women collecting water from hand pump drilled by SSVK in Lalapatti village of Darbhanga.
1) Handpump platform and drain constructed by SSVK to install in flood
affected areas of Darbhanga district

HIGHLIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTS

Water, sanitation and hygiene
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Contact us

Samajik Shaikshanik Vikas Kendra (SSVK)
Head Office:
J.P. Gram, Balbhadrapur,
Jhanjharpur (R.S.),District – Madhubani
BIHAR, PIN – 847403 INDIA
Telephone No. + 91 – 6273 – 222242
Mobile: + 91 – 99731 61483

State Co-ordination cum Correspondence Office:

Lok Shakti Bhawan,
Opp:Ajay Nilayan Apartment,
Nageshwar Colony, Boring Road
Patna – 800001
Tele / FAX No. + 91 – 612 – 2522077
Mobile: + 91 – 94310 25801
E-mail : info @ ssvk.org
ssvkindia @ gmail.com
ngossvky86 @ yahoo.com
deepakbharti @ ssvk.org

Website : http://www.ssvk.org

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