Jan Vikas Samiti

ABOUT JAN VIKAS SAMITI

Jan Vikas Samiti (JVS) is a community development organization based in Varanasi (UP), India, working for poor and marginalized sections of society since more than 25 years. The organization has a solid presence at grassroots with over 850 SHGs, animated by a team of 60 committed professionals, social workers and volunteers, who ensure an effective reach of our programmes to the people with ‘last mile connectivity.

The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh has recognized our service to persons with disabilities and has conferred us with ‘State Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities – 2020’. We have also recently won the ‘ZERO Project Award – 2022’ for our project ‘SAMBHAV’ for Tele rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities.

Vision
We visualize an inclusive humane society based on the values of equity, justice and freedom.

Mission
Empowerment of the marginalized, including women, children and persons with disabilities, through a process of sensitizing and organizing them for socio‐economic upliftment.