Issues Addressed

AN ORGANISATION COMMITTED TO INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT OF THE DISADVANTAGED IN EASTERN UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA

Issues Addressed

Interventions of PGSS are aimed at the most oppressed, disadvantaged and marginalised people in the villages like Dalits, Scheduled Castes and Tribes, and Other Backward Classes who are landless, powerless, and voiceless. PGSS strives for integrated development of men, women, youth and children in the selected target areas. While doing so it addresses a host of issues confronting the target group:

	1.	Panchayati Raj Following the Seventy Third Amendment to the Constitution, panchayats should have become vehicle of development in rural areas. Sadly, that has not happened because panchayat leadership has not changed much and also because of lack of participation of the people that they represent. Strengthening panchayati raj system is high on the agenda of PGSS.
	2.	Gender and Development Women have by and large left out of development and the fruits of development have largely been cornered by men. PGSS lays emphasis on linking women with development.
	3.	Women Empowerment PGSS believes that women need to be empowered to bring them out of their present, which is moribund.
	4.	Community Health Health is a neglected issue in vast rural areas of the country. Poor health is one of the reasons behind backwardness of the area. PGSS is trying to improve health of the target groups.
	5.	Primary Education A developed society can only be created if all its members are literate. Towards this end, PGSS is promoting primary education so no child is left out of schools.
	6.	Economic Empowerment The area in which PGSS works is one of the poorest in Uttar Pradesh. Economic empowerment of the prerequisite of development. In view of this, a number of steps have been taken for economic empowerment of the people.
	7.	Environment and Ecology Human action is degrading environment. For healthy society it is necessary to conserve and develop environment.
	8.	Community Based Rehabilitation of Disabled The disabled are medically examined in collaboration with Fatima Hospital and and given instruments like wheel chairs, calipers, artificial organs, etc.
	9.	Community Based Disaster Preparedness The area in which PGSS operates is disaster prone. Disaster preparedness is one of the ways to cope with these disasters and PGSS is making efforts towards this end.
	10.	Children's Issues Though the children are future of the nation, they are neglected in the area because of a complex web of factors, prominent of which is poverty. PGSS is addressing the children's issues through a number of interventions.
	11.	Empowerment of Marginalised Communities Mushars are one of the most marginalised communities among Scheduled Castes and are aptly called dalits among dalits. Interventions of PGSS are targeted at their social and economic empowerment.