After seeing first-hand the challenges children face on a day-to-day basis, Puspita Sahu and her family were inspired to make a difference.  In 1993, Puspita Sahu founded Gohaldiha Jati Upajati Blue Bird Women’s Welfare Center, the non-profit organization dedicated to bringing Hope, Education, Love, and Protection to children in the region.  GJUBBWWC has established its current programs in Jhargram, West Bengal with an ultimate vision of carrying out our mission throughout the region.

“These little kids are so lovely, just spend a few moments with them and they will become part of your life . When I wake up and I see them, I feel so satisfied and elated.”……Puspita Sahu , Secretary GJUBBWWC

Mrs Puspita Sahu joined “Nayagram Thana Balika Vidyapith “, a nongovernment girl’s school as Head Master on 16 January 1975. In her initial days in school, she observed abysmal poverty and illiteracy among kids and their parents. Kids attending school were unsatisfying low. Students were in wretched conditions and hungry belly could never feed education to the brain She enlisted all the basic problems in the region as follows:

• Students were in abject poverty and the school drop rate was very high.
• Nayagram area was among the low literacy zones.
• Women attending school was less than 10%.
• Unemployment was at its peak.
• Society was in the grasp of alcohol.

She soon realized that a society can never uplift without empowering women. She tried hard to affiliate the school as a Government girls’ school and she succeeded in 1978 up class 8th. Boosted by her success, she soon realized the need for a girls’ hostel in the area and started her work on that. After a long struggle, finally in 1981 with the help of the government, the first residential school of its kind was opened in Nayagram for 1000 girls. Since then, she has continuously worked for the region for the last 49 years.