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Workers Development Union
Shramik Abhivrudhi Sangh
AbbreviationSAS
Location
Region served
North Karnataka & Kolhapur
Also called
Jana Jagran (Awake)
Director
Joseph Chenakala [1]
AffiliationsGoa Province of Jesuits
Catholic church
Staff42
WebsiteSAS

Workers Development Union (Shramik Abhivrudhi Sangh), founded in 1996, is the social action wing of the Goa Jesuits, with activities concentrated in Belgaum and other districts of north Karnataka and in the Kolhapur district of Maharashtra. It has assisted the peoples of the region to work together and to fashion and market products from locally-produced materials.

Projects

In 1996 SAS helped local women produce and market bags and other handicrafts made of jute and cotton fibre. In 2005 SAS teamed with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and helped Kuruba women in the Belgaum district in Karnataka to make and market wool products from sheep on the Deccan Plateau.[2] SAS has "organized shepherds and processors to produce high-value handicrafts from ... coarse, brown wool ... (through) community organizing, product design and entrepreneurial marketing ... (to) reduce poverty" also halt the decline of a threatened breed.[2]

SAS also works among shepherds, striving to build harmonious communities of diverse peoples, religions, languages, and cultures, while helping them to satisfy their basic human needs.[3][4] The Union has a shepherd training program in sheep care, modern medicines, and modern breeding practices, carried on in the largely pastoral northern districts of Karnataka.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ "Shepherds seek compensation". The Hindu. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Marketing wool from an endangered sheep breed in the Deccan Plateau of India" (PDF). Gopi Krishna, PR Sheshagiri Rao, and Kamal Kishore. Food and Agriculture Organization. pp. 17–28. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Shramik | About Us". www.shramik.in. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  4. ^ "Empowerment of traditional shepherds". Retrieved March 8, 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ "The Hindu : Karnataka / Belgaum News : Workshop on coarse wool begins today". www.thehindu.com. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  6. ^ "A big, overseas market for coarse wool is waiting to be tapped". Vijaykumar Patil. The Hindu. 20 December 2005. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
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