About Us

Mahatma Gandhi’s last man philosophy remains been the guiding theme of SATHEE (Society for Advancement in Tribes, Health, Education, and Environment) since its inception. For the last 24 years, SATHEE has been focusing on those fractions of the community, which have been surviving amidst isolation, oppression, and exploitation along with acute poverty-stricken conditions long time.

The initiation of this organization was from the executed major research project entitled “Ecological Survey of Paharia Community in Santhal Pargana” in the years 1988-91 at that time it was the part of Bihar, but it got its formal shape on 11^th April 1996 with the conviction of societal transformation through long-term and empowering initiatives.

During the execution of the above research project, the team had successfully explored various existing problems of primitive and so-called degenerating Paharia Tribe of the Rajmahal Hills and lower genetic areas of Santhal Pargana along with the other tribal community residing in and around the Rajmahal hill range of Santhal Parganas.

People’s participatory process protection and restoration of people’s aspirations and revitalization of local/indigenous technology in value-added version along with beliefs in community capacities are the key operating principles of team members of SATHEE. Team also believes in transparency, joint responsibility, honesty, and foresightedness through which greater tasks can be made easier. Besides the above, the basic thoughts of the team is to motivate people to initiate a sustainable development process leading towards a better standard of life and prosperity as to transmit from one generation to another. Empowerment of deprived and unjust society with the help of above principles, values, thoughts, SATHEE has been performing with a clear perspective of the benefits of the oppressed, poverty-stricken, disadvantaged sector of society especially the vulnerable sector of referral community in which women and children have been given priority.