# Workers Development Union

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| 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](/source/Belgaum), [Karnataka](/source/Karnataka), [India](/source/India)

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| region_served       = North [Karnataka](/source/Karnataka) & [Kolhapur](/source/Kolhapur_district)
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| leader_name2        = ''Jana Jagran'' (Awake)
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| 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](/source/Jesuit)s<br /> [Catholic church](/source/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](/source/Goa) [Jesuits](/source/Jesuits), with activities concentrated in [Belgaum](/source/Belgaum) and other districts of north [Karnataka](/source/Karnataka) and in the [Kolhapur district](/source/Kolhapur_district) of [Maharashtra](/source/Maharashtra).<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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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:Organizations with year of establishment missing

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