Community Outreach

India has introduced numerous welfare schemes aimed at providing economic opportunities and social benefits to the members of various indigenous tribal communities. These schemes encompass education, healthcare, livelihood, land rights, and cultural preservation.

Though life for the members of the Indigenous communities has improved over the past few decades, the average tribal continues to live in poverty and ignorance, the victim of superstitious beliefs and unhealthy practices.

Through education, at a more formal level, and various grassroots engagements with unorganized rural groups, the Purvanchal Pragati Samaj has been focusing on trying to enhance the quality of life of the indigenous tribal communities and to help them find hope and meaning in their lives.

The Purvanchal Pragati Samaj has been working for a transformation in the living standards of the tribal communities in India.

Among their most notable efforts are initiatives in the non-traditional sector, which include:

1. Self-Help groups: Empowering the local communities to address the problems they face, especially those experienced by the women.

2. Training for Income Generating: The programs include mushroom cultivation, fishery, swine breeding, traditional weaving, bee keeping,

   and various other cottage jobs.

3. Rear a Pig and Educate a Child: This highly successful initiative has enabled many students from socioeconomically disadvantaged families to receive a quality education.

4. The Women's Weaving Cooperative has been another successful initiative in helping families raise funds to meet their ordinary expenses.

Institutional Engagements

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