Social Awareness Society for Youths (SASY) is a non-profit, non-governmental human rights organization is focusing on 6 thematic areas which include Access to Justice, Strengthening Local Government, Child Rights Initiatives, Dalit women leadership, Livelihood Promotions & Social Inclusion in Disaster Responses. SASY was founded by a group of Dalit activists in the year 1983 and it is registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act 27 of 1975.

History of SASY:

Social Awareness Society for Youths (SASY) had addressed more than 774 human rights violation cases by engaging Dalit human rights monitoring, legal interventions, special court monitoring and moving across to provide the support system to the survivors of caste atrocities to access the redressal institutions. By the continuous engagements of SASY more than 245 perpetrators were arrested and convicted in SC/ST cases.  SASY has become a model by using the provision of rule 4 (5) of SC/ST PoA Act in gaining 29 Special Public Prosecutors in 72 major human rights violation cases. SASY is effectively addressing the series issues of police torture against the Dalits mainly the Kuravan communities. It has rescued more than 40 survivors of police torture from illegal detention, illegal arrest in the last 2 years.

SASY had played a vital role since 2004 Tsunami to Gaja Cyclone 2018 in providing rescue, relief and rehabilitative measures to the socially excluded families and thereby effectively engaging at different level to ensure the social inclusion with the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS). It had effectively addressed the social exclusion to more than 8372 Dalit and Adivasis families in Coastal areas of Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Pudukottai, Chennai and Tiruvarur District and more than 742 permanent houses were built for them. As part of rebuilding their life, SASY offered many livelihood promotional programmes, economic  empowerment and ensuring human rights through promotion of women and men self-help-group by organizing them into federations by improving their economic status.

VISION:

Ensuring Dignity and Human Rights for Every Dalit and Adivasi.

MISSION:

Building Alliance for Ensuring Dignity and Human Rights of Dalits & Adivasis in India.

Thematic Areas: (Diagram):