Central Philosophy of SARA

SARA firmly believes in development initiatives planned and led by the people. SARA therefore, sees its role as a motivator posing alternatives before people, in which they can use their own energy for their own development.

SARA firmly believes that improving the women’s health and status are integral to social and economic development. Although SARA focuses its activities on women and the girl child, it also believes that attitudinal change must take place. This can only happen if an unfragmented holistic approach is adopted. SARA therefore dialogues and interacts with the whole community towards bringing about fundamental attitudinal change.

Mission & Concern

SARA aims at sustainable development of the community through:

• Understanding marginalization and subordination
• Empowerment, especially of women
• Promoting people’s collectives and organization to raise the quality of their life.
• Implementing multidimensional action programs, through people’s participation.

Strategies

SARA strives to organize development initiatives of the community and effectively address the low female literacy rates; lack of awareness about education of girl child; the low health status of women and girls.

Focus Areas

• Empowerment of women and girls through education.
• Women’s health, especially their reproductive health.
• Child development through focusing over child rights.
• Establishing thrift and credit societies and imparting managerial skills to women for income generation.
• Employment, income generation and skill development schemes for the rural people
• Development initiatives planned and led by the people themselves
• Work towards providing basic requirements of water for the community.
• Community sensitization over various developmental policies and schemes for them.

The organization began its work as a Technology Mission project on rainwater harvesting tank programme in Data Ramgarh block but slowly graduated to meet the other felt needs of the community like health, nutrition, sanitation, education, women’s development, income generation efforts etc.