About Organization:
Prabhat Sakri is operating in Madhubani District of Bihar situated 167 km away from Patna. The Jesuit Social Action Centre known as PRABHAT is right at the NH 57 (Muzaffarpur-Purnea- Golden Quadrilateral). Jesuit apostolate in Madhubani District started in Sept. 1998. In the beginning for about a year Fr. Sudeep Chacko, S.J. with his team stayed in a rented house at Kotwali Chowk, Madhubani town. During this period he established contacts with many villages, especially Saday (Musahar) tolas (hamlets) in the Pandaul Block of Madhubani district. Since then PRABHAT has been working mainly in four blocks of Madhubani district: Rahika (Madhubani), Pandaul, Raj Nagar and Jhanjharpur committed to the cause of participating in the ongoing life struggle of one of the most oppressed sections of the hierarchical caste ridden society namely the Sadays and Manjhis who are collectively known as Musahars. However, in the past eighteen years of involvement with people we observed a gradual growth in self-awareness and self-assertiveness among the people. In the year 2008 Prabhat moved to Sakri and continued its work for the Musahar community.
Vision
Rooted in the Charism of the Society of Jesus and as followers of Jesus carrying the cross, we the Jesuits of Prabhat in partnership with our collaborators commit ourselves for the empowerment of the Saday-Manjhi community of Mithilanchel.
Mission
To realize the vision, we as a team engage ourselves to protect and promote human dignity, equality and freedom through diverse empowering actions like community mobilization and creative education initiatives leading to developing a new consciousness of self-identity and social responsibility in Saday-Manjhi community.
THEMATIC INTERVENTIONS
ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR AS ON MARCH 2022
No. of Supplementary Education Centers
15
No. of children in Supplementary Education Centers
643
No. of Child Resource Centers
5
No. of children in Child Resource Centers
265
Members in Mata Samiti
523
SUCCESS STORY
I am Fr. Babu Jagadeepan, My journey with the Musahar community at Prabhat Sakri helped me to understand the social situation and the lives of Musahar people in Madhubani district. Since its inception (1998), Prabhat has played a vital role in the life journey of Musahars community in Madhubani District. Last two decades Prabhat has been closely accompanying this community in their different sphere of lives. Our integrated effort has brought dynamic changes in the lives of Manjhi-Saday communities. Prabhat’s efforts is mainly on “Education of the poor children, liberation of bounded child laborers through education and life skill training, women empowerment through different engagements, providing awareness on health and hygiene and responding to the emergency need of the people in hardship time”.