Projects managed by AGSSBK provide for women empowerment. Capacity building programmes aim at fostering communal harmony in 8 villages of Sattore and Kasba Gram Panchayat of Birbhum District of West Bengal. Educational projects help local people to understand and spread their own cultural heritage.
It is located in the region of Bolpur where Rabindranath Tagore set up the University of Santiniketan. At nearby Sriniketan, India’s first Nobel laureate made pathbreaking efforts to revive the region’s rural economy by gaining recognition for India’s traditional crafts and setting up health care centres.
Source: information about AGSSBK and photographs © Sanyasi Lohar, Secretary 2012
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