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Society for Animal, Health, Agriculture, Science and Humanity (SAHASH) works to achieve a lasting improvement in the quality of life of the poor. SAHASH is dedicated to the economic, educational, and cultural betterment of society. SAHASH deals in the fields of child protection and education, human rights and humanity, rural development, health care, women empowerment, environmental conservation and agriculture.

Their activities include:

• Education Programs: The focus lies in acquiring basic education for all, eradicating poverty, reducing infant mortality, simmering down population growth, reaching gender equality and ensuring constant development, peace and democracy. The ‘Khel Khel Mai Padhai’ program aims to educate rural children between 2-5 years of age through models, charts, and toys and also develop their intellect and understanding level. SAHASH provides free classes to underprivileged children, in association with OHM Institute, Haryana. People are made aware about the importance of educating the girl child.
• Sports & Cultural Program: On National Youth Day, this program is organised to make youth aware about the importance of sports and cultural activities.
• Health Awareness: This program is held in targeted villages annually, on World Health Day. SAHASH organises awareness camps on the importance of drinking safe water, utilization of toilets and the various diseases that occur if people defecate in the fields; and organises Anti-tobacco programs, Population control programs, Anti-drug campaigns for the rural people.
• Legal Awareness: SAHASH organises camps and distributes booklets with an objective to empower women about their rights under various laws like rights at workplace, equal remuneration, minimum wages, sexual harassment measures, reproductive health rights, etc. The volunteers also make the villagers aware about various Consumers’ Rights.
• Environment Awareness: Villagers are encouraged to use jute bags, replace polythene with paper and wooden bags, use soap, plant more trees, etc.
• Agricultural Development: SAHASH runs a Rural Education on Agricultural Development (READ) program through which the volunteers make farmers aware about their rights and various government policies, insurance, and hybrid seeds that yield high productivity. They also provide training to farmers for self-employment.
• Livelihood: SAHASH organizes free training in tailoring and stitching, handicrafts/handloom, bamboo crafts, and computers to enable poor women to earn a livelihood.