Jan Sahas

Jan Sahas means ‘People’s Courage’. We are, more than a 20 years old, community-centric organization working intensively in villages across India. We work with the most excluded social groups on safe migration and workers’ protection; and prevention of sexual violence against women and children. Our Vision: Dignity and Equality for all. Our Mission: Jan Sahas aims at ending violence against women and children, and ensuring safe migration and worker protection for the most excluded social groups. Our Values: We embody five key values in our work as well as our interactions with people, internal and external alike: Equity: We aim to break hierarchies in society and within our organization through inclusive approaches. We pay special attention to the needs of the excluded to enable an equitable future. Dignity: We recognize the agency and value of each individual. People we serve are some of the most excluded; however, we also recognize them for their hard work and leadership in the struggle against violence and inequity. We espouse respect even when dealing with conflicts. Transformative Leadership: Jan Sahas means ‘people’s courage’. Through our work, we aim to cultivate this courage, and transform the people we work with and those we work with to become changemakers and leaders. Co-Creation: We intensively engage with and draw participation from communities and survivors we work with, as well as our team members from the field staff to advisors. This enables us to innovate, strengthen our strategies, and build capacity for change. Integrity: We bear accountability to the community, survivors, and our partners. We share our results, challenges, successes and failures alike. This enables us to introspect and learn from our experience as well as from others.