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The SSS was launched in July 2005 with the aim of providing quality education to the children of the Mushar community. Poverty alleviation programs housing, nutrition, education and skill development are mostly on paper in Bihar and there is little impact of state intervention particularly among the poorest of the poor. The much trumpeted Serva Shiksha Abhiyan the universal education programme of the government has not really delivered. It may promote literacy among the underprivileged in the rural areas but will not make them employable either in industry or the government except as low grade employees. Deprived of both capital and skills Mushars have remained in a cycle of poverty and one way, perhaps the only way, to break this vicious cycle is to provide the children of this unfortunate community high quality education coupled with vocational training.
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In order to achieve the above objective the SSS has established a fully free English medium residential school called the Shoshit Samadhan Kendra. The school provides for not only education, boarding and lodging but also clothes, books, medical support etc. It may surprise many to know that as many as 10% of the children admitted to the school had first stages of leprosy. Detected on time they have been fully cured. The school was inaugurated by His Excellency Mr. R. S. Gavai, Governor of Bihar on 16 July, 2007.
Hopefully children passing out from this institution with a high-school degree shall be able to compete with the best. If this facility is made available to Mushar children not in hundreds but in thousands in a decade or two it will change the profile of this community.
Make us worthy O’ Lord, to serve those people throughout the world,
... who live and die in poverty and hunger.”
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