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1. The
Mushars and other totally deprived lower caste landless labourers
live much below the poverty line. With meagre income they live a
sub-standard life. Generations have lived in deprivation mostly
as landless labourers. Some graphics in the Website gives an idea
of the level of deprivation. They live in huts made of mud walls
and dried palm leafs or straw-thatched roofs. They are even denied
access to potable water.
The SSS will take-up projects to provide better housing and potable water to these families - the most deprived among the deprived. The SSS will undertake to convert the mud houses into reasonable rooms with brick walls and brick flooring. Replace the palm leaf or straw-thatched roofs with asbestos or corrugated tin sheets. Also build for the community low cost latrines and install what is called an open tube-well with hand pumps for water. Normally 15 to 18 such families live in a cluster in the villages or semi-urban areas. The SSS intends to take up one such project as a pilot project from the interest accruing out of funds of the corpus. We are confident that this will lead to further generation of funds not only from individual donors but also from institutional donors to finance more such projects. a Project
2. What
better way than helping the deprived to acquire the skills to improve
his/her prospects in life. The effect is not just on that person,
but the generations to follow. A small, but significant, effort
towards this social engineering could be made by sponsoring or supporting
reasonably good quality education for the children of the deprived.
The project would be meant for the children of really low-income
group parents who can at best afford to send their children to municipal
schools in urban areas or village
 schools.
The standard of education in such schools particularly in Bihar
are woeful. The SSS would identify and select children in the age
group of 8 to 10 and those who have aptitude for studying and have
supportive parents could be put in reasonably good private schools
where they can get better education, learn English and get equipped
to grab the opportunities in life. These children could be put in
reasonably good private schools in Patna so that they have proper
environment for studies, but are yet not far away from their parents
and and the environment they are familiar with. The children who
finish their schooling with distinction could be encouraged to take
up higher studies. Others could be given vocational training in
areas such as carpentry, auto-mechanics, computers, electricians
course, plumbing etc. Accomplished in these fields, they can hope
to get good employment in India or abroad, particularly in the Middle-East.
India’s burgeoning economy will have plenty to offer.As the SSS goes along and gains experience and acquires greater patronage as well as resources, it will be more than willing to fine-tune these projects as well as launch new ones for the benefit of the ‘Shoshit Samaj’ or the most exploited. |
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