Asha for Education

There was no school in the vicinity of the village Badlapur till BJSA started one with Asha's help three years back. With Asha's help the school strength now stands at 40 with grades I, II and III. Asha is also supporting a new initiative of a sewing center as a vocational skills for adolecent girls to help as an income generation. While this effort was only started last year 18 girls have successfully started earning a living through their training.

Bhartiya Jan Seva Ashram (BJSA) is a non-governmental, apolitical, non-profit, volunteer-driven orgnaization that was instituted under the provisions of the Indian Registration Act (21) 1860. In the last nine years, this institution has been involved with poor and underprivileged communities working towards the causes of social change and eradication of poverty in over 90 villages in Jaunpur zila in Uttar Pradesh.
In the last few years BJSA has been actively working in rural areas, with the cooperation of the local people, for the betterment of the standard of life of underprivileged people belonging to poor, backward communities. The efforts of this organization are directed both towards meeting the requirements of the lowest denominator, namely food, shelter, housing, education, security and self-esteem, as well as contributing to intellectual development of the people.
With the above goals in mind, this organization has undertaken programmes, with the support and participation of Dalit youth, elderly people and children, that direct the efforts of these people, inspire them and make them more aware so as to bring about social, economic, political, cultural, ideological and intellectual change and inculcate in them a sense of responsibility, independence, security and self-esteem.

Goals of BJSA are
* To promote unity, encouraging diversity, peace and mutual goodwill among people.
* To engender an environment that encourages education for young girls and boys.
* To popularize science and technology among people. * To serve helpless and underprivileged people and make them self-dependent.
* To participate in national programmes pertaining to social welfare.
* To eliminate social malpractices, orthodox outlooks, superstition, substance abuse, dowry etc.
* To uplift living conditions of the lowest strata of the workforce below the poverty line.
* To make underprivileged people educated, united and more aware.