At the time of our first visit at Sabor tribal village -- Bonkanali (November 2020), we noticed most of the children do not have sweaters or warm clothes to wear even in the severely winter season of Purulia. Only a few have one or two torn clothes, half pant & no slipper on their feet.
By profession adults are involved in collecting wood from the forest, making brooms, cutting paddy in other people's land, sifting & thrashing paddy, cleaning & collecting of leftovers from the ceremonial house. All families are much bellow than poverty line.
Their daily meals were rice with rice starch at 11 in the morning and only rice with salt at 6 in the evening. Side dish is only available if they could earn on that day. What is meant by food in a decent society, if it is in alliance, then it is good, else they hunt frogs, snakes, monitor lizards & field rats to eat. No drinking water and electricity supply in this village.
'Swapner Pathshala Prangon' (free coaching centre for underprivileged rural children) and 'Khushir Pantra' (like a shopping mall but absolutely free)
In 2015, we started a centre for the underprivileged children in Penchara village of Purulia district. Which is still functional.
The underprivileged children and adolescents who goes to government school, but their education is stopped in the midway due to lack of various educational assistance, or they become dropouts and to prevent child marriage of adolescents (girls), are the reasons to set up this project & to serve them.
First of all, we provide books, copies (excluding grant from government school) and other educational materials to our students.
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This project started on 14th April 2009 with only 6 street children, at Canal East Road, Kolkata. Later, apart from that centre, we worked on street children project in various areas, like Hedua, Canal West Road, Baranagar Station, Tala Park etc. Just after two years, the number of students (street children) in our various center stood at 140. Under this project Swapnaloke provided free education, educational assistance, healthy lifestyle, nutritious food & medical care, daily necessities for their betterment, new clothes, winter wears and also old clothes in good condition for them. We also work for cultural development among them and providing healthy entertainment for our enrolled students of Maa Sarada Pother Alo Prokalpa. From 2009 to 2018, daily free coaching centers with healthy food were conducted at our various Street Children Project centers. But now as the work of our organization is mainly focused at Purulia district, so we have continued this service by handing over the mentioned items every two months to street dwellers and street children in different areas of Kolkata city under Maa Sarada Pother Alo Prokalpa. As a result, more than a thousand street children getting benefitted through this project. See more to see the full report visit report section.
We conduct health camp in under-privileged area & remote villages; where medical check-up, treatment procedures, free medicine, general health & hygiene advices are given.
In a medical camp we divide total number of patients into two groups as acute and chronic patients. The next medical camp in that same area, we used to start our camp with those chronic patients and we try to give full course of medicines to them.
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