AVi Supports three of NBJK's Projects

Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra (NBJK) offers training and fundraising support to over 300 small grassroots groups in a community action network across Bihar and Jharkhand.

AVI is also funding NBJK activists to mobilise people to tackle corruption and improve access to government programmes.

NBJK believes that primary education is not enough to ensure a better future for girls, so AVI has agreed to provide funding to enable more girls to complete secondary education by paying for books, uniforms and school fees.  More details on this project here.

	Photos: Simon Williams

NBJK’s four founders were inspired by the Gandhian socialist leader Jay Prakash Narayan to work to improve the lives of the rural poor.  They started working in Bihar’s Hazaribag District in 1971 with farmers who had received land from the Gandhian Bhoodan land reform movement. Over 35 years on, NBJK works in 6 districts with 350 staff.  It has a network of grassroots groups and activists in 40 districts across Bihar and Jharkhand, making it the largest NGO in those states.  NBJK’s mission is ‘to educate, organise and empower the rural poor to promote development as a liberating force for achieving social justice, economic growth and self-reliance.

NBJK works in four main areas:
Social and Economic Development
Advocacy and Governance
Health and Sanitation
Education

For further information is available from NBJK's own website.

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