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Patna Jesuit Social ActionHuman Touch... Empowering People... Building Communities


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Iam extremely happy to present this Profile of Patna Jesuit

Social Action. This is the first time our men in Social Action

field thought of gathering the fruits of our work among our people in

Bihar. The Profile of Patna Jesuit Social Action is an excellent work

which crystallizes the work of Patna Jesuits in the field of Social Action.

This gives us the vision, the mission, the history of our involvement in

the field of Social Action, the present status and a road map for the

future.

Inspired by the 32nd

General Congregations revolutionary idea ofthe preferential option for the poor and service of a faith that necessarily

promotes justice, our men ventured into the remote villages of Bihar to

be with the people to learn from them how to serve them. This immersion

into the lives of the people by the pioneers of Social Action in the Province

has set into motion a new wave of enthusiasm among the young Jesuits

to work among our people. Our pioneers had to face the wrath of the

Land Lords of the place, but nothing could prevent them from doing

what is good for our people. We have engaged in adult literacy, non-

formal education, legal literacy etc. to conscientise our people of their

inherent rights and dignity. Using the cheap and effective media of

communication, we have helped them to be aware of the exploitation

they undergo. Our men, with our people fought for the liberation of

bonded labourers and increase of the minimum wages. We have

learned a lot from our people. This new learning forced us to change

our life style and our way of involvement in different ministries. The

option for the poor began to guide all our involvements and our ministries.

We can be proud of the work we have done with our people. As the time

changes, we have to learn to read the signs of our times every day.

The present generation of young Jesuits involved in the Social

Action is well equipped with diverse skills they need to read the signs of

the times and act accordingly. I am really happy to have such a bunch of

young men who are ready to launch into the new frontiers without lookingfor their personal security or comforts for serving our people in Bihar.

Their enthusiasm is contagious and their stamina is unbelievable. With

such an enthusiastic team of Social Activists in collaboration with Jesuits

involved in all other ministries and with the active participation of our

people, I am sure that we will be able to change the face of Bihar. May

God Bless all of us.

Joy Karayampuram.S.J

Provincial of Patna Jesuits

Provincial Residence, St. Xaviers School,

Gandhi Maidan Marg W.

Patna, Bihar 800 001, India

Patna Province of The Society of

Jesus


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The essential dimension of social

action is its well-designed actions

that will have a bearing on the

transformation of social structures

within which the vast majority of our

people come to be poor, powerless,

marginalized and excluded. Direct

contact with the victims of unjust

social structures, direct participation

in their struggle for more egalitarian

and just social structures are the

distinguishing features of Patna

Jesuit Social Action.

Patna Jesuit Social Action 1 Profile

Patna Jesuit Social Action Policy

2010


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ProfilePatna Jesuit Society (PJS) is a

charitable organization, registered

under societys registration act 1860.

PJS has a large network of educational

institutions and social service centers

across different districts of Bihar.

Patna Jesuit Social Action (PJSA) is a

wing of PJS that coordinates the

manifold activities of socio-economic

and political empowerment of the Dalit

communities in Bihar. PJSA is

comprised of 9 social service centres

organized at three zones. Xavier

Institute of Social Research (XISR),

Patna provides much needed

research and documentation

assistance to our grass root centres.

These centres are managed by a

group of diversely and professionally

qualified social scientists, socialworkers, activists and managers

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VisionWe envision an egalitarian and self-reliant

society founded on human values by developing

self-confidence and leadership among the

underprivileged sections of our society

MissionIn solidarity with the struggling masses, we

commit ourselves to accompany and empower,the most excluded sections in society by enabling

them to affirm and uphold their dignity and rights

through a process of sensitization and

organization.

Priority groupsI Peoplewhose basic rights and entitlements

are being denied and unmet; who live under

chronic poverty, oppression and livelihood

insecurity, like Dalits, Tribals, Women,

Unorganized youth & Children

I Victims of natural calamities, disasters etc.



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PJSA undertakes its developmental and

organizational works in the state of Bihar, one of

the most backward states in India. Presently, we

are operating in seven districts, namely, West

Champaran, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Patna,

Rohtas, Gaya, and Aurangabad under three zones

through nine Social Service Centres. Moreover,

Bihar Dalit Vikas Samiti (BDVS), an independent

dalit organisation founded and supported by PJSA

personnel, is working in 11 districts of the state

exclusively for Dalit issues.


SOUTH ZONE CENTRES

REAP, Sasaram-zonal Centre

SVS, Aurangabad

Jeevam Sangam, Gaya

CENTRAL ZONE CENTRES

Manthan, Patna-zonal Centre

Asha Deep, Muzaffarpur

Prabhat, Madhubani

BDVS, Patna

NORTH ZONE CENTRES

READ, Bettiah-zonal Centre

Jan Shiksha Bhawan, Gaunaha

Sewa Sadan, Rathanpurwa

BDVS: AREA

Where we work


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Legal aid,

Capacity

building,

Educational

mainstreaming

of the deprived

sections Social

Exclusion

led Poverty

Grass root

Democracy &

Governance

Women

empowerment and

Sustainablelivelihood

Research

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Advocacy

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Accountabil

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Democracy

SolidaritywiththePoor

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Transparency

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Socio Economic and Political Empowerment

Promotion of Quality Education

Promotion and Protection of Human Rights &

Gender Equity

Expansion of peoples access to entitlements

Strengthening of good local governance

Enhancement of human, social and cultural

capital

Protection of natural resources

Thrust, Strategy and

Values


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Right based perspective:It is our firm conviction that poverty must be viewed

in the larger context of social exclusion and multiple

deprivations. People should have equitable access to

resources and services as well as rights and entitlements.

Participatory:

PJSA strongly believes in community participationin implementation of its programmes. The poor are not

just the passive beneficiaries but they are the active

participants who own up theresponsibility to shape their

own future.

Partnership and networkingPJSA is committed to meaningful and long term

collaboration with local organizations, government

agencies, networks and alliances. Our partnership is

based on equality, transparency, accountability and mutual

trust and respect.


Our approach

Advocacy:Our advocacy efforts spring from our grass root

interventions and not an isolated effort. We do not advocate

on behalf of the poor, but with the poor and led by them.

This is to ensure that advocacy and grass root experience

have perfect correlation and in the process the poor are

capacitated and enabled to fight for their rights and

entitlements.

Who we work withWe undertake interventions, projects that address

the needs and rights of the poorest and the most excluded

social groups with particular focus on women and

children. Therefore, we promote, collaborate and network

with grass root movements and peoples organisations.

We welcome partnership and collaboration with

organisations and agencies sharing a similar vision and

are willing to address the issues of our priority groups.


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Historical overview of

PJSA

GenesisThe genesis and existence of PJSA to be part

of the struggles of the marginalized people

of the area is directly associated with the

option made by the Patna Jesuit Provincein particular and the Jesuits in General way

back in 1970s. It was a decade of

awareness-liberation of the third world,

especially of the oppressed. This attempt

to be part of the poor in their lives and

struggles has come to be known as social

apostolate. Translating our option for the

poor in the Indian Context, we came to

identify the Dalits, the Tribals, women,

children and unorganized sector workers as

the poor. Keeping this in mind, social action

centres as well as social institutions were

founded to address the issues of thesesegments of Indian Population to work for

structural change, structures that bound

the marginalized communities to

exclusion, exploitation.

Bihar of the 1970s was infected with low

level of grass root organization, illiteracy,

discrimination and exploitation of women.

Hence, the founding of various social

service centres was an outgrowth of this

social and historical process. Ambedkars

educateagitate- organize and FrieirianMethodology of conscientisation through

contextualized problem posing and life-

oriented education were the ideological

tools of social change that various centres

of PJSA adopted initially. Thus from the

beginning PJSA worked with the

marginalized landless, Dalits, and Tribals,

with particular emphasis on childrens

education and women empowerment.



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We began our journey of social

transformation with massive adult literacy

programme in collaboration with the central and

the state governments. An important component

of this programme was fighting the issue of

bonded labour by identifying, releasing and

rehabilitating the victims. As an example, one of

our centres, Sevasadan, Rathanpurwa, after 15

years of persistent struggle got released and

rehabilitated over 900 bonded labourers of West

Champaran.

This was followed by involvement in non-

formal education with special focus on girls,

enrolling many thousands of poor or deprived

children to the near-by government schools.

Another major thrust of our involvement has

been the empowerment of women. SHGs have

been used as a platform for social transformation

and economic upliftment. Simultaneously the

centers addressed issues of human rights

violations through legal assistance and legalawareness programmes.

A few of our centers functioned as District

Resource Unit (DRUs) as well. Collaborating with

government agencies, networking with other

likeminded CSOs on the issues that affect the poor

has been the hall mark of our approach.

Journey down the years...



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Today the main focus of our activities

is centered around creating a pool of

human resource among the most

disadvantaged communities, such

as, Musahars, Doms, Dhankads and

Bhuiyas and enlarging peoples

accessibility to entitlements andrights.

Over the years many of our centers

have come to represent the

collective voice of the poor. They have

been looked upon by the poor,

government and other agencies as

centers of integrity, transparency,

commitment and expertise. They

have evolved into well equippedresource and training centers with

sufficient infrastructure facilities.



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A glimpse of our present

involvements

b) CBDP & DRR

Besides this, in the perennially flood affected zones

of Bihar, we have been engaged in community based

disaster preparedness (CBDP) and disaster risk

reduction (DRR).

c) Our centres are engaged in thefollowing interventions as well:

Legal Aid and Human Rights Advocacy

Networking with government agencies and other

NGOs

Rehabilitation of migrant child laborers

Grassroots advocacy

NIOS Residential programme for girl children

Prevention and alternatives of child labour

Mainstreaming stone quarry child labourers to

schools

Promoting good governance

a) Enhancement of human capital &

community mobilization amongmahadalit communities

We have been making a concerted effort in all our

centres towards creating a pool of human resources

among the most disadvantaged communities of Bihar

with specially designed educational interventions and

community mobilisation. Through community specific,

innovative educational models of accelerated learning

developed by our social service centres, we educate

nearly 6000 Bhuiya-Musahar children and organise nearly

13000 women through empowerment action and micro-

financing enterprises. Various activities to enhance health,

hygiene and human capital within these communities are

integral part of this focused intervention.


Our present activities are revolving around the realisation of:

Child Rights... Womens Rights... Human & Dalit Rights...


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Large number of training programmes using

these tools facilitated the emergence of

conscientious leadership at various levels

b) Increase in the enrollment and retention of children

in govt. schools

Through hundreds of non-formal education centers,

PJSA has spread the awareness of education

among the poorest of the poor, especially, girlchildren. Many thousands of children including child

laborers have been enrolled into govt. schools.

c) Networking & Partnering with Govt. schools

We have made honest efforts to motivate and

capacitate the government school teachers of our

operational area to ensure a friendly learning climate

and better education for the children of the socially

excluded groups.

d) Innovative Educational Initiatives for Mahadalits

Our centers have evolved an innovative educational

model to facilitate accelerated learning for children

belonging to the deprived communities. This model

is being successfully implemented in many of our

centers with outstanding results.

Major achievements of

PJSA


Rural Education and Conscientisation

PJSA, through its various social service centers, has

made yeoman contributions in the field of rural education

and conscientisation. Through numerous rural

educational programmes, trainings and non formal

centers, thousands of adults, children and youth were

brought to the light of literacy and education.

a) The massive adult literacy programmes and

awareness creation

The massive adult literacy programmes

implemented in our centers, has contributed not

only to the growth of literate adults in the state, but

also initiated irreversible social transformation in

the following manner:

The idea of justice and rights was introduced in

a highly feudalistic and oppressive society. It had

its impact on wages, bonded labour, women

oppression etc,

A large number of women had been organised

to come out of the clutches of patriarchic and

feudalistic oppression

Various tools for social analysis were used for

analyzing the social relations and existing

unequal power equations in society.


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Research and publication of rural

education materials

a) Teaching-learning material

Many of our centers were District Resource Unit

(DRU) for a decade. We have produced well

researched, contextualized texts books and other

education materials that are meant to promote

critical awareness among the oppressed and invest

in them self-respect and self-confidence. Chirag

vol 1&2-Hindi and Mathematics (Text books till 5 th

Std) are very well appreciated and received by people

and agencies alike. Chirag is the main text bookused by UNICEF, Bihar, and many other NGOs for

non-formal education even today.

b) Awareness songs, street plays and audio/video

productions

Awareness creation and social mobilization has

been the hall mark of all the activities. We have

produced awareness songs, street plays; puppet

shows etc and used them extensively in all our

activities.


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Community mobilization and institutionbuilding

All our centers have made outstanding contributions in

the area of women empowerment, community mobilization,

nurturing leadership and organization among women and men

of the deprived sections of society.

a) Grameen Mahila Vikas Samiti

We have had recognized the role of women as community

builders and social change agents from the very

beginning and incorporated various programmes aimedat their socio-political and economic empowerment. Our

women SHGs were a force to reckon with for the corrupt

officials and exploiters as they took up many issues of

human right violations, gender abuse, rape etc., apart

from achieving greater economic self- reliance. Forming

some of the SHGs into clusters and cooperatives, many

groups have initiated livelihood enhancement through

entrepreneurship activities.

b) Training and capacity building

Another notable contribution has been in the area of

cultivating conscientious and committed social change

agents. Our centers have carved a niche for training and

capacity building of community animators, social activists

and development agents etc. It is a matter of great pride

that PJSA has contributed immensely to the growth and

capacity building of committed CSOs.

Legal Aid & AwarenessWe have had full time lawyers and legal team to provide

legal support, spread legal awareness and have taken up

human rights violations on a consistent basis. With this

women and oppressed groups were able to stand up tofeudalist oppression and mindset.

NetworkingDalit human rights campaign under NCDHR has been

initiated by us in Bihar. PJSA has been part of many networks,

such as ATSEC, Bihar; Bihar Panchayat Nav Nirman Abhiyan,

PUCL etcAlso we are networking under a larger umbrella of

70 likeminded organisations in Bihar named- Bihar Social

Forum.



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The challenges facing us are numerous and

complex. However, we have identified the

severe dearth of human capital among themost disadvantaged sections of society,

such as, Musahars, Doms, Dhankads &

Bhuiyas that hampers their socio-political

empowerment and perpetuate their social

exclusion, as the immediate task that

deserves our complete attention. Hence,

PJSA has identified the need for building

up human resources within these

communities to initiate the process of self

sustained social and economic

empowerment. The following are the

major components of this focused

intervention in all our social service centers

for coming 10 years:

Expanding the Educational Base of the

Focused Communities

Creating a diversified talent pool within

these communities

Developing conscientious women

leaders as community builders and

agents of social transformation

Gathering and preserving the fading

cultural memories, myths etc, for a

renewed identity



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PJS

President

PJSTreasurer

PJSACoordinator

PJSSecretary

Zonal Documentation

Incharge

Zonal Monitoring

Officer

Zonal Accountant

Project Staff Administrative Staff

Office assistant/ Accountant

PJSA

Commission

Zonal Programme

Coordinators

Unit Programme

Coordinators

Social

Research Unit

XISR

PJSA

Administrative Structure



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Contact Details

Contact Address Anto Joseph S.J

Social Action Coordinator

St. Xaviers, Gandhi Maidan Marg,

Patna-800 001, Bihar

Registration No. 195 of 1930 - 31

Phone Number 0612-2219677, 2211487,09471828633

E- Mail [email protected]

[email protected]

Website www.patnajesuits.org

Legal Holder of PATNA JESUIT SOCIEY,

any Project St. Xaviers, Gandhi Maidan Marg,

Patna 800 001, Bihar, India

Bank Name Canara Bank Main Branch,

South Gandhi Maidan, Patna

Account Number 0 3 5 2 1 0 1 0 1 3 4 0 1

Swift Code C N R B I N B B C F D

Finance Officer Johnson Kelakath, S.J



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Details of the Social Service Centers


Important Publications

1. Bihar Subaltern Study series:

a) The Nishad community of Bihar (Hindi)

b) The Nats of Bihar (H)

c) Dalit Folk culture and resistance (H)

d) Tharus: A unique Tribal community (H)

7 REAP Sasaram

(Zonal centre)

New Area, Sasaram,

Rohtas 821 115

Societys

Reg.481/ 91-92

Blocks 6 Panchayats 2

Villages 175

8 Jeevan Sangham

Gaya

Dumuhan, Bodh

Gaya, Gaya 824 234


Villages 55

9 Sampurna Vikas

Samiti Aurangabad

Gayatri Path, Near By pass

Chowk Aurangabad 824 101

Societys

Reg.826 /93-94


Villages 250

10 BDVS Patna Administrative Office

Rukunpura, Bailey

Road, Patna 800 014

Societys

Reg.172/85-86

Districts 11

Blocks 28 Panchayats

Villages/wards 504

11 XISR Research Unit Digha Ghat Patna

800 011

South Zone

4 READ Bettiah

(Zonal centre)

READC/0 K. R High School,

Bettiah, W. Champaran845 438

Societys

Reg.30 / 87-88

Blocks 6 anchayats 30

Villages 120

5 Jan Shiksha

ParishadGaunaha

Rampurva village, Gaunaha (PO)

West Champaran 845 102

Block 1 Panchayats 18

Villages 70

6 SevasadanRathanpurva

Ratanpurva (P0)Via Ramnagar,West Champaran 845 106

Blocks 2 Panchayats 4Villages 180

North Zone

1 Manthan, Khagaul

(Zonal centre)

Catholic ChurchKhagaul (P0)

Patna 801 105

Societys

Reg.462/ 89-90


Villages 95

2 Asha Deep,

Muzaffarpur

Subhash Nagar,

BibigunjBhagwanpur

ChowkMuzaffarpur 842 001

3 Prabhat Madhubani Prabhat Bhawan Purani Bazar,

Sakri, Madhubani 847 239


Village 53

Central Zone

SL. No Name Address Registration Operational Area


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2. Human Rights studies:

a) People, Law and Rights (H)

b) Child human rights in Bihar (H)

c) Dalit Rights in Bihar

d), Women human rights in Bihar (H)

e) Childrens Rights in Bihar (E)

f) Dalit Human Rights and Media (H) etc

3. Primary Education in Bihar (H)

4. Bihar Panchaythi raj campaign (H)

5. Issues of the common man (H)

6. 20 Research articles on issues affecting Bihar, etc

32 1800 1690 8450 17450700 800 300

28 1600 1000 13000 15600600 500 500

24 700 2600 13000 16500250 150 300

1276 1178 2600 125000 128737783 500 2559

47 1765 900 13325 15990900 700 165

35 1020 1800 14100 16920545 225 250

41 1485 7425 8910740 700 45

30 2650 1300 19750 237001300 1200 150

Proposed centre for Human Resource Development

37 589 1227 9080 10896266 223 102

taff Strength

& volunteers

No. of Beneficiaries of the Present Programmes

Rural Educational ProgrammesTotal

Women

Empowerment

Indirect

beneficiaries

Total No. of

Beneficiaries

Boys Girls Youth


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Profile of the Jesuits in

Social Action

Sl. No Name Present Responsibility Educational Qualification Experience in Years

1 Joy Karayampuram President LL.M (National Law School, 10

Bangalore)

2 Dr. Anto Joseph State Coordinator PJSA M.A (Economics) PhD 8

3 Philip Manthra Human Rights, B.A, B.Ed. 30

PUCL State President

4 Dr. Louis Prakash JRS, South Asia Coordinator M.A, PhD 15

5 Dr. Jose Vadassery Director BDVS M.A, PhD 20

6 Dr. Tomy Nishant Head- Research Wing M.A, Sociology, PhD 13

7 Jose Kariakkat Director, Jeevan Sangham, M.S.W 19

Bodhgaya

8 Sudeep Chacko Director, SVS M.S.W 15

9 Martin Poras Research Scholar M.S.W, PhD 5

10 Joseph Sebastian Director, READ PGDM-Rural Management 3

(XIM, Bhubaneshwar)

11 Stephen Raj Administrator, Prabhat M.S.W 5

12 Joseph Srampickal Director, M.S.C Mathematics 30

Jan Shiksha Bhavan,

Gaunaha

13 Sumit Edwin Menezes Asst. Director, M.A, Sociology 18

Jan Shiksha Bhavan, Gaunaha

14 Tony Pendanath Director, Prabhat, M.A, Sociology 20

Madhubani

15 Siji Varghese Director, REAP M.S.W 6

16 Victor Virendra Administrator, Madhubani B.S.W 3

17 Jesuraj Director, M.A, Philosophy 3

Kulandaisamy Asha Deep Muzaffarpur18 Stanislaus Ranjan Barbigha M.S.W 12

Lazarus

19 George Joseph Director, Sevasadan, B.A, PGDC- Manila 4

Ayyankanal Rathanpurva

20 Prashant Pius Ass. Director BDVS B.A, LLB 12

21 Jose K.P Ass. Director BDVS M.A, LLB 10


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Empowerment of the poor through

animation, mobilization and capacity building to

channel their collective power to collective action

to transform the unjust structures is the core of

Patna Jesuit social Action

In broad terms, the focus of our action

aimed at the empowerment of the poor would

include:

1. With focus on children - creating a pool of

well-developed human resources for the

poor through planned, participatory,

collective and innovative educational

programs;

2. With focus on women - enhancing fearless,creative and enlightened leadership;

enhancing social consciousness and

entrepreneurship of women through

animation and mobilization, training and

capacity building, and initiating economic

activities.

3. With focus on community - enhancing the

social capital of the poor through effective

methods of conscientization to make the

village community responsible and capable

of protecting human rights, environment andPanchayath Raj institutions.

4. With focus on our vision of a new social order

- developing a socio-economic ideology and

paradigm; developing analytical tools,

through painstaking and rigorous social

research and collective reflection.

Patna Jesuit Social Action Policy 2010

Way ahead


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