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{{Infobox organization
| name = Workers Development Union <br /> ''Shramik Abhivrudhi Sangh''
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| abbreviation = SAS
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| location = 20. Milkman Street, Camp<br /> [[Belgaum]], [[Karnataka]], [[India]]

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| region_served = North [[Karnataka]] & [[Kolhapur district|Kolhapur]]
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| leader_name2 = ''Jana Jagran'' (Awake)
| leader_title3 = Director
| leader_name3 = Joseph Chenakala <ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/Shepherds-seek-compensation/article16252761.ece | title=Shepherds seek compensation | work=The Hindu | date=8 June 2010 | accessdate=20 September 2018}}</ref>
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| affiliations = Goa Province of [[Jesuit]]s<br /> [[Catholic church]]
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| website = [http://www.shramik.in SAS]
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'''Workers Development Union''' (''Shramik Abhivrudhi Sangh'') also known as '''Jana Jagran''' is the social action wing and a non government organization<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xiqk12Lu9BIC&q=Sangh&pg=20 | title=FAO Animal Production and Health Paper | publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | year=2010 | pages=20| isbn=9789251064535 }}</ref> of the [[Goa]] [[Jesuits]], with activities concentrated in [[Belgaum]] and other districts of north [[Karnataka]] and in the [[Kolhapur district]] of [[Maharashtra]]. SAS works among the masses to transform unjust structures of society and to build harmonious communities of diverse peoples, religions, languages and cultures helping them to satisfy their basic human needs.<ref name=":0">{{cite web | url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1283e/i1283e.pdf | title=Marketing wool from an endangered sheep breed in the Deccan Plateau of India | publisher=[[Food and Agriculture Organization]] | work=Gopi Krishna, PR Sheshagiri Rao, and Kamal Kishore | accessdate=12 September 2018 | pages=17–28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/79/Belgaum_District_Report_Final.pdf;jsessionid=6D0F3B0C94D2EDC75DC4798612FFAB4F?sequence=1 | title=Belgaum District, Karnataka State | publisher=Indiana University | accessdate=2 October 2021}}</ref>

The Union has a shepherd training program in sheep care, modern medicines and modern breeding practices carried on in the largely pastoral northern districts of Karnataka.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/workshop-on-coarse-wool-begins-today/article27537986.ece|website=[[The Hindu]]|title=Karnataka / Belgaum News : Workshop on coarse wool begins today|date=2005-12-19|accessdate=27 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/a-big-overseas-market-for-coarse-wool-is-waiting-to-be-tapped/article27538496.ece | title=A big, overseas market for coarse wool is waiting to be tapped | date=20 December 2005 | work=[[The Hindu]] | accessdate=27 September 2021}}</ref>
In 1996 SAS helped local women produce and market handbags and other handicrafts made of jute and cotton fibre. In 2005 SAS teamed with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and helped Kuruba women in the Belgaum district in Karnataka to make and market wool products from sheep on the Deccan Plateau.<ref name=":0"/>

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[[Category:Jesuit development centres]]
[[Category:Development charities based in India]]
[[Category:Organisations based in Goa]]
[[Category:Rural development in India]]
[[Category:Poverty-related organizations]]
[[Category:Non-profit organisations based in India]]
[[Category:Women's rights in India]]
[[Category:Community-building organizations]]
[[Category:Social welfare charities]]
[[Category:Development studies]]
[[Category:Cultural promotion organizations]]
[[Category:Year of establishment missing]]

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