About Us

The Historical Perspective
Achieving rights and opportunities for the discriminated brought us to the forefront and as a registered organization Bhatkya Vimukta Jati Shikshan Sanstha (BVJSS). BVJSS started its work in the year 1985 with its basic objective of working for the nomadic communities in India. Powerless people are excluded from popular human rights movements and focused effort is required to protect and promote their human rights. Addressing discrimination in legislation, policies, and society contributes to an environment in which excluded people have more control over their lives. Providing facilities for the people who have lived like outsiders in their own country became the goal of the organization.

BVJSS as an organization has residential and non-residential children studying in the schools for the handicapped and the nomadic communities. Apart from these students it also looks after 100 destitute children for whom it runs the sponsorship program. The organization has strongly felt that to offer a normal and home life a lot of programs as are done in the family should be organized and so with the help of the volunteers and friends of BVJSS, the organization has established a number of programs related to extra-curricular activities like sports, cultural programs and excursions. Our major focus is on the physically and mentally challenged children. Due to poor living conditions the parents are not able to pay more attention and care to the challenged children, the medical and educational facilities too are available only within the city limits and nothing is made available at the village level. Hence the organization has initiated a project in the rural areas of Pune district to look after the challenged children at the village level.

The difficulty in accessing medical and rehabilitation care, education and vocational opportunities is often faced by the rural residents of our country. The lack of mobility further aggravates this difficulty and due to these factors many families refrain from enrolling their children in school. The lack of facilities also leads to lack of rehabilitation of the challenged children and their inability to improve physical functioning. BVJSS also works with the families to help them overcome the social stigma associated with the illnesses and disabilities of their children.

Shivlal Jadhav
Trustee and President

Mission

Life’s every moment is a fulfillment if spent with dedication.
"We believe in spending time with those who are deprived of simple joys of life".

Objectives of BVJSS

• To work for the progress of nomadic communities and inspire a feeling of national integration amongst them.
• To encourage women to come forward to get educated and also ensure technical education for them.
• To ensure and provide facilities for the challenged children having different types of disabilities.
• To undertake programs for the aged and ensure happiness in the evening of their lives.
• To assure benefit of different schemes and scholarships to the children of our schools from various national and international sources.
• To work towards an overall development of the people associated with the organization.
• To advocate for the cause of the nomadic communities, women, aged and the physically and mentally challenged individuals.

Organizational Profile

• Primary and Secondary Residential Schools for the nomadic children
• Residential school for the hearing handicapped
• Residential school for Mentally challenged
• Livelihood
• Girl Child & Women Empowerment
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Sports Program Every Year
• Medical care and Sanitation

School for the Children of Nomadic Communities

The school for the children of nomadic communities provides with basic facilities for the children and ensures medical, sports and other such facilities required by the growing children. The total emphasis is on the factor that a sense of goodness, brotherhood and kindness gets inculcated amongst the children and they develop as good human beings and empowered citizens of our country.

School for the Hearing and Mentally Challenged

The school has over the years developed expertise in the field of hearing disability and tries its utmost in helping the children to overcome their disability, the most significant aspect is the emphasis on the integration of children in the normal schools with the help of the aids and training provided to them in the long run.

The school for the mentally challenged looks after children in a different way as it is a work of special attention to each child to develop his abilities to look after himself/herself, the staff possesses the expertise to do so and a number of visitors to the organization have brought life into the lives of these children.

Today we are catering to 200 children in the school at Wagholi, district Pune, out of which 40 children are hearing challenged. We are also looking after 40 mentally challenged children at Pabal in Shirur block of Pune district. The organization has been making efforts in providing all the basic needs such as accommodation, food, and clothing along with the formal and non-formal education to these children

Health Education & Checkups

In the area where the organization works, there is a great need to develop the resources and educate them regarding the health problems and the aspects of disease prevention and care as they work in the unhealthy and unhygienic conditions of land-mines. A lot of resources and referral services have been developed by the organization like the assurances of services of the health functionaries and medical practitioners from the reputed hospitals in and around Pune city. The health education programs are an ongoing activity of the organization and people have learnt a lot as far as the preventive aspects are concerned.

Apart from the health education programs regular check-up camps are conducted by BVJSS to convince the people regarding the infections they are already suffering from, this activity has created interests amongst the people and has helped achieve success in the health education programs organized by BVJSS.

A Regular Survey of the Handicapped Children

The work with the hearing challenged children has encouraged the organization to get involved in initiating facilities and programs for the different types of challenged populations. BVJSS has regularly been conducting surveys for the knowledge of the existence of these children and proper case histories have been developed which benefit the parents in acquiring benefits from different resources.

National Integration Programs

The organization is involved in conducting programs and rallies for the enhancement of feeling of national integration amongst its children and all the members of the community associated with BVJSS.

Entrepreneurship Development for Women

BVJSS undertakes programs and workshops for the development and enhancement of a sense of entrepreneurship amongst women. A significant number of women become destitute and orphans at a very young age and look forward to support themselves through entrepreneurial activities.

Nursery Education

BVJSS has three nursery schools which look after the young children from the age-group of 3-5 years; the organization also supplies supplementary and nutritious meals to the children and conducts regular health checkups for them.

Employment Guidance amongst the Youth

BVJSS undertakes employment guidance programs for the youth mainly to make them aware regarding several vocational courses, training institutes and professional trainings imparted by various private bodies. The organization also recommends for the youth at various places and ensures that they obtain admissions for the required trainings. A further step involved is tying them up with the local banking institutions for the purpose of personal loans for the establishment of small enterprises. Over the years the organization has developed many such youth entrepreneurs, who are now a part and parcel of the organization.

Advocacy as the Fundamental Activity

The organization has evolved as registered body after the constant involvement and dedication in fighting for the cause of the rights of the nomadic communities, the organization felt that apart from advocating for the cause some kind of infrastructural facilities should be provided to the younger generations especially the children as the children once educated and trained for professions can look forward to a better future and will also be ensured of opportunities, and will be able to combat the existing discriminatory practices.
The organization takes up different issues and advocates for the rights of this particular strata of deprived classes.

Walking Ahead

The organization is walking ahead and plans to spread its wings and ensure a lot of support through its programs for the children, women, elderly and the handicapped.

• • Home for the Destitute women
• • Home for the aged and elderly
• • Better facilities for the children of the organization.
• • Employment generation activities for women
• • Vocational training center for the adolescents

The Support is extended to us by

1. • Department of Social Welfare, Government of Maharashtra
2. • Atur Foundation, Pune
3. • Shri Rushabh Jain Group and others, Pune
4. • Black and Veatch
5. • Johnson and Johnson, India
6. • Cummins Turbo Technologies, India
7. • Sahyadri Industries, India
8. • Round Table in collaboration with N. B. A. School, Amsterdam.

And many other friends of BVJSS from India and other countries of the world.

Women Empowerment

In addition to the catering services to the children in need of Care and Protection, the organization is also striving hard for women empowerment through formation of Self-help Groups since last Seven years.
At present, it has formed and nurtured SHGs in the following categories:
• One SHG of physically challenged women members.
• 6 SHGs of women members from Nomadic Tribes and SC Community.

They have savings to the tune of Rs.339500/-. All the SHGs have established bank linkages and 02 SHGs have secured an amount of Rs.475000 /- in the form of Revolving Fund through which members have commenced their own entrepreneurship activities. Earning for their families have boosted their confidence and they have sought a say in the decision making process. Some members have secured loan for the further education of their dependents.