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| location = Navrangpura, [[Ahmedabad]]<br> [[Gujarat]], [[India]]
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| leader_name = Victor Moses<ref>[http://www.livelihoodportal.org/showpage.aspx?contentid=11 NGOs, May 2016 list. Accessed 19 August 2016.]</ref>
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| main_organ = ''Perspective – Drashtikon''
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| affiliations = [[Jesuit]], [[Catholic church|Catholic]]
| budget = US$1,000,000, mostly food aid
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'''St. Xavier's Social Service Society''' (SXSSS), a [[Jesuit]] social work originating at [[St. Xavier's High School Loyola Hall]], [[Ahmedabad]], has since 1976 worked to improve the lot of the people in the slums of Ahmedabad city in the areas of education, health, environment, and community organization. Its efforts have also spread to the countryside and more widely.<ref name=and/>

==History==
St. Xavier's Social Service Society (SXSSS) grew out of a 1960s outreach program of students and faculty at St. Xavier's High School Loyola Hall, Ahmedabad. Over the years three areas have come to the fore: education, organizing people's groups, and people's action to improve the quality of their lives.{{fact|date=February 2019}}

In 1976, Fr. Erviti, founded St. Xavier's Social Service Society (SXSSS) beginning with rehabilitation work in Sankalitnagar. In 1983 it moved on to Mahajan-no-Vando and the Nagori Kabrasthan slum settlements. It also obtained its own premises apart from St. Xavier School. In 1986 Erviti died but other Jesuits carried on the leadership.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sabrang.com/cc/comold/dec00/coverbox2.htm|title=CC December 2000|last=Irfan|website=sabrang.com|access-date=2017-10-24}}</ref> The SXSSS Center for Orientation, Research, and Documentation (CORD) was founded in 1989.{{fact|date=February 2019}}

The [[National Institute of Open Schooling]] (NIOS) is a programme of the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development. In 1990 SXSSS became the first accredited institute in this programme in [[Gujarat]], with English and Hindi as a medium of instruction.<ref>[http://niosgnr.org/archive/about.php NIOS. Accessed 19 August 2016.]</ref> SXSSS also responds to emergency situations – cyclones, floods, droughts, earthquakes,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://reliefweb.int/report/india/gujarat-earthquake-healing-wounds-rapid-need-assessment-report-long-term-intervention|title=Gujarat earthquake: Healing the wounds - Rapid Need Assessment Report & long-term intervention strategy|date=2001-02-25|work=ReliefWeb|access-date=2017-10-24|language=English}}</ref> and communal riots that have ravaged life in Gujarat.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-juhapura-could-soon-be-a-city-within-a-city-1773771|title='Juhapura could soon be a city within a city' {{!}} Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis|date=2012-12-05|work=dna|access-date=2017-10-24|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.insafbulletin.net/archives/260#more-260|title=RAMPAGE BY SANGH PARIVAR – STATEMENT BY ANHAD : INSAF|website=www.insafbulletin.net|access-date=2017-10-24}}</ref>

By 1994 the Society was active in seven major slum pockets, and had increasing manpower and resources. Funds for its food for work program come from several foreign countries.<ref name=and/> Since SXSSS is not run by Hindi or Muslims, it is seen as speaking to racial issues from a neutral perspective. Also, it has Sikhs, Jains, Hindi, and Muslims on its staff.<ref name=and/> In 1995, the organization was named the first recipient of the Anubhai Chimanlal Nagarikta Puraskar for its sustained contribution to the city of Ahmedabad.{{fact|date=February 2019}}

In December 2004, Jamat-e-Islam-e-Hind presented its Human Rights Award to St. Xavier's Social Service Society for unflinching service towards the cause of communal unity and human rights in the year 2002.<ref name=Tongeren>Tongeren 2005.</ref><ref name=Oommen>Oommen 2007.</ref>

In 2008 the Communal Harmony Award was given to an SXSSS children's home monitor (balmitras) Mrs. Niruben Marwadi by the [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|NRI]] Coalition, for saving [[Muslim]] families during the Gujarat Carnage in 2002.<ref name=Tongeren/><ref name=Oommen/>

==Bibliography==
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=Kw0bn63VdqEC&pg=PA122 Anderson, Mary B. (1999). ''Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace – or War'']. London: Lynne Rienner. {{ISBN|1-55587-833-4}}. pp. 122–129.
*[http://cdacollaborative.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/The-Harmony-Project-of-the-St.-Xaviers-Social-Service-Society.pdf Bock, Joseph G (1995). ''The Harmony Project of the St. Xavier's Social Service Society, Ahmedabad, Gujarat India.'' Cambridge MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects.]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=1FytSFIOEhUC&pg=PA186 Gosling, David L. (2001). ''Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia'']. London: Routledge. {{ISBN|978-0415240314}}. pp. 139,186.
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=3ODmMaQkrnYC&pg=PR14 OOmmen, T.K. (2007). ''Post-Godhra Gujarat''. New Delhi: Pearson Longman. Pp. 157-166.]
*[https://www.rienner.com/title/people_building_peace_ii_successful_stories_of_civil_society Tongeren, Paul van, et al (2005). "A Journey Towards Peace" in ''People Building Peace II: Successful Stories of Civil Society''. European Centre for Conflict Prevention.] {{ISBN|978-1-58826-358-2}}

==See also==
* [[List of Jesuit sites]]

==References==
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[[Category:Jesuit development centres]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1976]]
[[Category:Development charities based in India]]
[[Category:Rural development organisations in India]]
[[Category:Community-building organizations]]
[[Category:HIV/AIDS organizations]]

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