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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