Navjeevan Educational and Social Welfare Society Digha (NESWSD) (2010 – )

In the year 2011, the Province Assembly offered priority to have Assumption own social centers. Under the able leadership of our Provincial, Sr. Rekha Chennattu and with the permission of the whole Province the Social center is began in Patna. The appalling condition of the poor people of Patna very specially Digha and the surrounding areas is a matter of great concern which encouraged the sisters to start a social center named, ‘Navjeevan Educational and Social Welfare Society, Digha’(NESWSD). It is a secular, non-political and non-profit NGO established and formally registered in 2013 under the Societies Registration Act XXI, 1860. The office is based at Fair Field colony, Digha Ghat. NESWSD began its activities in 2010. It is the brain and hard work of Sr. Veena and the community of Patna.

Sr. Veena with her competence in social work and proficient in network dreamed for a just world for the poorest of the poor and began this centre. The major areas of the ministry are education, empowerment of women, community health, working with the differently abled, legal aid, gender equality and migrant workers. The core values are dignity of person’s values of justice and communion, integrity of creation, peace, love and partnership. They commit themselves to organize, empower, promote and preserve the dignity and rights of the marginalized communities and take an active part in their empowerment and the development of that society. For the last ten years ‘Navjeevan Educational and Social Welfare Society, Digha’ has been involved in community building of the rural and semi-urban marginalized communities with a special focus on education empowerment and of women/girls through mutual learning, participatory action and advocacy. NESWSD has developed key insights regarding a range of issues associated with the lives of children, adolescent/youth and women of the underprivileged communities. These insights facilitate the organization to develop effective strategies for addressing the challenges associated with marginalized community development with a special focus on children, adolescents and women centered issues. The Organization collaborates with other like-minded organizations and network at various levels on education, health, disaster management and community building. Their networks have played an important role in influencing and strengthening their programs. All the sisters especially Sr. Veena, Sr.Alphy, deserve appreciation for their commitment to the poor and those in peripheries.  The service the social centres provides for the poor are indeed gives hope for brighter future and promising expansion for them towards a better world