About Us

Youth Unity For Voluntary Action

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Our Story

YUVA started in 1994 as a meeting place for young women and men in Makdampur, Jamshedpur. They met to talk about their studies, careers and the problems they saw around them. Soon they were running a small library and taking up local causes. On National Youth Day, 12 January 1996, seven of them formed a trust and named it Youth Unity for Voluntary Action, or YUVA. The trust was registered in 1997. The Yuva Library, started in 1996, still runs today in Haludbani, with more than 1,200 books and 120 active readers. Over 30 years, YUVA grew from basic education into work on health and nutrition, child marriage, gender-based violence, rights and entitlements, livelihoods and local governance. We work in three districts of the Kolhan region: East Singhbhum (Potka and Jamshedpur blocks), West Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan (Gamharia and Saraikela blocks). Most of the people we work with are Adivasi, Dalit and rural families, including the Sabar community, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION

  • To enhance capacity and cooperation among the individuals and community-based organizations for ensuring the rights and entitlements
  • To eradicate all sorts of discrimination, exploitation, abuse, and violence against women, children, adolescents, and youth;
  • To enhance the state of health and nutrition, in all relevant parameters;
  • To enhance the reach and quality of basic education
  • To create equal and fair livelihood opportunities
  • To generate community awareness and ensure community participation in all developmental initiatives.
  • To undertake action research, documentation and dissemination for learning, planning and community knowledge purposes.

VALUE AND PRINCIPLES OF THE ORGANIZATION

YUVA, as a social development organization believes in a set of standards that guides its social development activities, managerial practices, and interactions. These core value and principles are as following

  • Committed Services Its primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems
  • Social Justice It challenges all sorts of social injustice
  • Human Dignity It respects the inherent dignity and worth of all individuals
  • Human Relationships It recognizes the utmost importance of human relationships
  • Integrity It behaves in a trustworthy manner
  • Competence It always tries to enhance the competence and develop professional expertise
  • Transparency It always maintain transparency in its conduct