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The Dalit (Outcastes) and Scheduled Castes Communities in Bodhgaya District are among India's most backward and deprived population groups. The Anand Society aims at supporting these people in their own development, ensuring their future strength to fully claim their basic human rights.

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To this aim, Anand gathers funds to help finance a chain of educational and health care projects. In this, Anand is supported by the Belgian training & consultancy organisations Dunya, India Business Support, Beyond Borders (bvba Francis Laleman) and Maror.

The Anand Society, a Belgian registered charitable trust founded by Francis Laleman and Jerry Meuris, partners with the local organisation Jeevan Deep, led by the able hands of Kailash Prasad, from his home in the village New Taridih, just outside Bodhgaya. Currently, the project extends of ten villages. In all of these, schools according to the philosophy of non-formal education have been established, together with basic anemities, health care, and other social projects such as women’s groups and self-providing home industries.

Without these efforts, the Dalits in the Bodhgaya District would be utterly helpless, and condemned to either remain enslaved by landlord farmers, imprisoned in a currency-less economy, and deprived of the basic rights of education and self-improvement, or go off and join the masses of homeless beggars in the surrounding big conurbations such as Gaya, Patna and Calcutta.

Anand and Jeevan Deep have been working with the Dalits and Scheduled Castes Communities in the Bodhgaya District since the late eighties, now providing basic anemities and education to a third generation of Bihari children.

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