SAMAJ UNNYAN KENDRA

About Us

About us

Samaj Unnayan Kendra

SAMAJ UNNAYAN KENDRA is a voluntary social service organization for social action and economic development in a holistic integrated way. SUK was established by a group of committed volunteers, for providing assistance and support towards betterment of the disadvantaged people, who are deprived, exploited and lead their life in deplorable condition. The group initiated a Social Service Bureau to help the distressed to regain self-confidence and strength and hence the method adopted was to listen to them, their problems, suffering and to assure them that there was somebody to be with them. This was done through human relation, personal attention and counseling with the downtrodden and deprived people in different remote, backward districts of West Bengal.

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Children Are Back To School

Year long experience of working with these people proved that all disadvantaged groups e.g. women, children, disabled, aged & others irrespective of their castes, creeds, and socio-economic status etc. have the inherent capacity to take responsibility for & make choices about their lives. In fact they are able to articulate & access their rights & emerge as leaders facilitating positive social change. SUK sees itself as a facilitator towards enabling this change. It believes that access to information & knowledge about implication of education, health, nutrition, child protection, livelihood and the available schemes along with changing socio-economic structures curve their life and contribute towards having greater control over their lives.

A culture of silence prevents the women, children and general people from talking about their problems, issues and aspirations as also the violence they are experiencing in their daily life. SUK believes that a collaborative & collective process that connects individuals & the organization with each other enhances learning in a mutually beneficial way. It aims to draw on this synergy to help reach common goals.

The Legal Sanctions: The society started its activities in 1975 and was registered in 1979 under Societies Registration Act, 1961 with the felt need that a more organized and concerted efforts are needed for these people. The society is also registered under The Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India under Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act, 1976. SUK also has the 80G Certificate from Govt. of India. It is empanelled under Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, empanelled as training partner for skill development of Persons with Disability (PwDs) under Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment- Govt of India, Empanelled under Swarojgar Corporation ltd. Govt. of West Bengal, Registered under PWD Act- Govt. of West Bengal.

Our Mission and Vision

Holistic & sustainable development in livelihood, health, nutrition, education and protection of poor & disadvantaged groups through skill building, knowledge sharing and transfer of technical knowhow.

Knowledge Management & Building Knowledge Base On The Gathered Experience

Samaj Unnayan Kendra (SUK) a Civil Society Organization (CSO) has been working on the above mentioned issues since 1975. In every aspect, its strategy is preventive, promotive & curative through involving all stakeholders. through situational analysis with different tools like social mapping, participatory analysis, focus group discussion and use of statistical methods, the organization collects, compiles and analysis’s data, to further the work in the remote, hard to reach, scattered areas belong to Sundarban belt and outskirts in West Bengal, India.

Networking with

National Institute of Public Cooperation & Child Development

Ali Yavar Jung National Institute with Speech & Hearing Disability

National Institute with Locomotor Disabilities, National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities

National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities

National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities

Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped

Future Proposed Area of Activities

Our Partners

Organization Structure

The office bearers are the President, General Secretary, Treasurer and the remaining are members. It enjoys the general power of management, supervision and conducts the overall affairs of the organization.

Project Administrative body of the organization is its mid-level management of which the General Secretary-cum- Director is the Chief Executive under whom there are Programme Coordinators. These functionaries run and administer the whole programme and administration system at different level.

On the Programme side, Programme Coordinator coordinates and handles all the programmes at the field level with the assistance of supervisors who are in charges of various programmes in different thematic domain mentioned above. Under the supervisors, there are Community Level Workers (CLWs), Village Level Animators, Field Facilitator for implementation of field level activities.

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