ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19

Creating opportunities, transforming lives J Roos Photography CONTENTS

From our Governing Council 4

From our Chief Executive 6

A small suitcase of huge memories 8

What happened in 2018/19? 10

Healthcare 12

Education 24

Handicrafts 32

Safe drinking water 34

Fundraising 36

Volunteers 38

Financial report 40

Compliance & governance 45

Thank you 46

Our contact details 48

Front cover: These children live in Liluah Bhagar, a bustee in Howrah, west of Kolkata. Their homes are right beside the enormous garbage dump you can see, and their animals scavenge there for food. One of our Street Medicine teams visits Liluah regularly to provide healthcare, including immunisations for children, and education about good hygiene and infectious diseases. We work in collaboration with another charitable organisation that is already providing safe drinking water, sanitation and education services to the community. Both images by Alan Joan Costa

www.calcuttarescue.org 3 James Frost James

FROM OUR

Above: members of our Governing Council in GOVERNING 2019. Left to right: Col Amitava Poddar, Lionel Elloy, Samindra Roy, Wg Cdr Shomir Choudhuri VSM, Soumitra Bose and COUNCIL Dr GM Rahaman

Calcutta Rescue started its journey 40 years back, that we have seen within the less privileged We plan to achieve our mission by: led by our founder, Dr Jack Preger MBE, from his communities we serve, we have adopted this • creating interventions aimed at inclusive growth and street clinics on Middleton Row. During the past new mission: development of communities decades, the charity has evolved, adapted and • expanding our latitude in education, with an increased overcome various challenges that came its way, Calcutta Rescue works to significantly enhance the focus on creating employability through vocational building to become a 150-employee organisation. well-being, learning and living standards of the training and careers counselling poorest communities in and around Kolkata. • building cross-organisational collaborations and As Dr Jack took his much-deserved retirement knowledge-sharing partnerships that will maximise our earlier this year, it’s important that everyone We only work in areas of high need where there is collective efforts at Calcutta Rescue continues to represent the inadequate provision by government, non-profit values that he embodied, every day: integrity, or private organisations. We initiate alliances and To strengthen our governance, we will continue to induct compassion, being resource-conscious, always work collaboratively with others to ensure we professionals from various walks of life. Our Governing learning, collaborating and having that all- deliver quality services to these communities. Council consists of members from the armed forces, important fighting spirit! education, engineering, finance, law and medicine. We also provide specialist healthcare assistance It’s also imperative that we now review the work for impoverished people approaching us from On behalf of the Governing Council, I thank all of our we do and take steps to enrich our programmes, other districts where such services are deficient. stakeholders – our beneficiaries, our employees and striving for a more holistic development of the volunteers, and our donors and partners who have communities we serve. To help us deliver this, we’ve revised our extended unwavering support to us. As we embark organisational structure and added ‘Living on this new mission, we count on you more than ever, So, this spring, following a three-day workshop standards’ as a new third pillar of our work, to help us drive this positive change for the people attended by people from all over the charity, we alongside health and education. Because this is a we serve. launched our new organisational strategy with the core change to our organisation, we have to gain vision of ‘Creating opportunities, transforming approval from the Registrar of Societies, which we’re Soumitra Bose lives’. Keeping in view the socio-economic changes in the process of doing. Honorary Secretary

4 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 5 Alan Joan Costa Alan Joan On 14 January 2019 at around 3.45am Dr Jack walked down the steps from his rooms on the roof of our Number 10 Education Centre and exited the building, probably for the last time.

Thirteen staff were there waiting for him. He was showered with rose petals, hugged and kissed. Many of those gathered bowed to touch his feet – an Indian show of respect for a man who has dedicated 40 years of his life to serving the poorest of the poor. I found myself instinctively doing the same. He was driven to the airport in a convoy of three cars, final goodbyes were made, some photos FROM taken and then he slipped into the airport. Around 80 colleagues had organised to see Dr Jack off at 6.30am and the plan was to give him a guard OUR CHIEF of honour on the road outside Number 10 – the excitement and sadness were palpable in equal Left to right: Subhajit Sana, Assistant Project Officer in charge of Tala Park Education Centre; student Alauddin; student Sangita; Jaydeep Chakraborty, measure. However, very late the night before, flight Chief Executive; student Nilu; Ananya Chatterjee, Schools Administrator EXECUTIVE changes meant that he suddenly needed to take an earlier flight to avoid an uncomfortably long connection at Delhi. And so he disappeared under the cover of darkness without the goodbye we had Pharmacy. The process was long, bureaucratic and so wished to give him. It seemed symbolic of his life riddled with difficulties, so it was a real victory when and his character – to go about his work without the licence was eventually issued in September. fuss, attention or adulation. On the funding front, we finished the year well While there was a lot of sadness, and some tears, after a slow start, raising a total of Rs 8 crores during the period of Dr Jack’s departure, staff (80 million), of which 8% was donated specifically seemed to transition quite quickly back to focusing for the Pathshala project. This highest-ever total, on their work in the following weeks. Calcutta along with judicious spending, meant that we were Rescue is very much conducting business as usual – able to end the year with an operational surplus of there are patients to serve and students to teach – Rs 53 lakhs (5.3 million) – a much improved financial much as Dr Jack would want it, I suppose. But he will position compared to last year’s deficit. always have a place at the heart of this organisation, which is why we’ve bestowed him with the title of However, my most satisfying moment of the year Chairman Emeritus. Also, from 2019 onwards we’ll was the number of Calcutta Rescue’s Class 10 be celebrating Dr Jack’s birthday, 25 July, as students taking and passing their Board exams. Founder’s Day. We had 31 students sitting their exams and 26 passed – our highest-ever number. These included One of the last things that Dr Jack did before football-mad Nilu (featured in our 2017/18 annual leaving Kolkata was to visit our newly purchased report), an orphan who came to us when he was just education centre building, which, for the time being, five years old; day-dreamer Alauddin, the son of a we’re calling the ‘Pathshala project’. (Pathshala is a fisherman, who prefers being on a boat to inside a Sanskrit word used in Bengali and Hindi, meaning classroom; and soulful Sangita, who sings beautiful ‘a place to study’.) The building is a bright, airy and Sufi songs but must collect water for an hour every very spacious 150-year-old former residential home morning for her family, making her late for school that will replace the dark and congested Number every day. 10 centre on the outskirts of the city’s largest red- light area. The property search took us four years, These students are typical examples of the adversity and with the generous support of many around the our beneficiaries endure, yet they are resilient, world and primarily the Paharpur Foundation, we ambitious and determined to make a better life for will spend the coming year renovating the building. themselves. And most of them will – with a helping hand from you and Calcutta Rescue. While not glamorous, one of hardest things we did over the last financial year was to obtain a drug Thank you, licence from the West Bengal government for our Jaydeep Chakraborty

6 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 7 of food and necessities so that he could give all he For many years he was the only person in the could to people whose needs were so much greater whole of West Bengal who was providing free HIV than his own. treatment. And he is widely regarded around the A SMALL world as the grandfather of street medicine. Over the years he has survived prison, official persecution, repeated bouts of illness, death threats Even in his late 80s he remained a formidable and innumerable other obstacles. Obstacles that champion for whatever cause he took up. SUITCASE OF would have sent the average man home at a run. He was cunning and endlessly persistent, waiting But not Dr Jack. and watching for the slightest chink in his opponent’s armour. HUGE MEMORIES Even now, almost blind and beset with the infirmities of old age, his eyes still twinkle and his To his patients, and his loyal staff, many of whom iconoclastic humour remains undimmed. were originally patients from the slums themselves, SEAN DUGGAN HAS BEEN A UK SUPPORT GROUP he is, and will always be, a saint – even a god. MEMBER SINCE HE FIRST VOLUNTEERED IN KOLKATA He has been a fighter of the first order: a fiercely They have seen him showing a compassion IN 1991. IN JANUARY HE WROTE THIS TRIBUTE TO OUR intelligent and driven man with an unshakeable and selflessness for the most wretched and sense of purpose. That purpose was to do downtrodden that defies all logic. RECENTLY RETIRED FOUNDER, DR JACK PREGER MBE. everything in his power to help those most in need. And he has done that. He is truly one of the great unsung heroes of our time. Even his home nation, Britain, has so far failed Somewhere in the highways of the sky tonight is Another long-time Calcutta Rescue supporter He is only retiring now because he has had to finally to recognise how extraordinary he is, though he an Air India flight bound for London Heathrow. said to me tonight that although Dr Jack is only accept that his body is no longer up to the job, was awarded an MBE back in 1993 for his “continued Sitting in the business section is an old man wearing carrying with him a small suitcase, it must be full and because he is confident that his charity’s chief perseverance and incredible selflessness”. He has a rumpled cardigan that has seen better days. of huge memories. executive and management team are willing and also won an Asian Award, and is the only living non- able to continue his mission after his departure. Asian to have been honoured in this way. He is frail and thin, and looks strikingly out of place This is a journey into retirement that Dr Jack surrounded by well-fed salesmen and executives hoped never to have to make. And, frankly, it is They say he has helped half a million people since he He deserves more, but I fear that official recognition working on their laptops. It is his first time flying extraordinary that he is still alive at 88 to make it. arrived in Kolkata in 1979, but no-one really knows. will never come – not that it bothers him much. business class and he is only doing it now, very And before that he cared for tens of thousands Because the people he really cares about live far reluctantly, on health grounds. He spent decades living in close contact with a more, in the most appalling conditions, during his away from palaces and shiny medals, in the slums host of potentially fatal communicable diseases, years working with refugees in Bangladesh. of Kolkata, where his charity are continuing his That man is Dr Jack, flying ‘home’ for the last time. breathing the horribly toxic stuff that passes as air pioneering work with the poorest of the poor. in the slums of Kolkata, and existing on a minimum Benoit Lange Benoit Lange Costa Alan Joan Costa Alan Joan

8 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 9 WHAT HAPPENED IN 2018/19?

September November Our Pharmacy finally received Career Counsellor and March a drug licence from the local Vocational Training Thanks to supporters around government, after a long Manager Tuli Chatterjee the world, as well as possibly application process. Besides joined our education January 2019 the biggest gift we’ve ever ensuring that we store and team. She works with all Forty years after he first opened received, from the Paharpur distribute drugs in a proper our students aged 15 and his medical bag and started Foundation, we hit our August way, this licence will enable We beat five other well-known over to identify what they treating the poorest of the poor on fundraising target for the May 2018 us to import drugs donated schools to win top prize in the ‘A want to do in life, and the pavements of Kolkata, Dr Jack Pathshala project. After just a few weeks of intense to us from overseas. School That Cares’ category at the helps them find a suitable retired. Now aged 88, he wanted to organisation and filming, we job or training placement. In the next 12 months we’ll released ‘the world’s craziest annual Telegraph School Awards for Read more about our return to the UK, but before he left Excellence. Jaydeep was there with Pharmacy on page 20 Dr Jack was given the honour of use this money to renovate dance video’ on our YouTube page. the building, making it a Filmed by volunteer Jake Roos and our Schools Administrator, Ananya unveiling the foundation stone at Chatterjee, to collect the award. our new education centre. bright and fun learning space choreographed by staff member for our Number 10 students. Suchandra Chatterjee, the video features Calcutta Rescue’s staff, At the same ceremony Dr Jack Over four decades he has helped patients and volunteers from all was inducted into The Telegraph more than 500,000 people and projects dancing and celebrating our Education Foundation Hall of Fame, he is widely regarded as the work. The soundtrack song, Living in recognising his contributions to grandfather of street medicine. education in Kolkata. the City, was kindly provided free of Alan Joan Costa charge by British musician Rhys Lewis. Read more about education on page 24 J Roos Photography

March September Our new strategy was born After a long search we in a three-day workshop May finally purchased a building attended by a selection Our International to replace our Number 10 of Governing Council and Meeting took place Education Centre. For now, December Support Group members, in Strasbourg, we’re calling it the Pathshala Staff and students participated in the staff and volunteers from France. Chief project. It’s a former house annual Tata Steel Kolkata Run at the Maidan across the charity. Executive Jaydeep that is just 1km from Number to raise funds for the Pathshala project. Chakraborty spoke 10 but has twice as many Student Chintu Singh completed the 10km Together they recognised about the need for rooms and is much race in 52 minutes and was within the top that in order to help more a clearer definition brighter inside. 200 runners! people escape poverty we have to provide holistic of which groups Read more about fundraising on page 36 and communities support for communities. Calcutta Rescue June Not just medical treatment, With help from the Magma Foundation, should serve first but education, social care, we installed safe, clean drinking water and and foremost. vocational training and six new toilets at Dakshineswar bustee, sanitary facilities. The plan as well as repairing seven existing toilets. that the group created will focus on Calcutta Rescue’s The work we’re doing there is the strengths and guide our blueprint for our Street Medicine teams: work in the wake of Dr Jack’s partnering with other organisations to departure. make sure the community get medical, Read more about our new education and social support, as well strategy on page 4 as clean water and sanitation facilities. We’ve already significantly improved living conditions in this area, and we now know we can do the same in other bustees too. Read more about Street Medicine on page 18

10 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 11 Hazel Mason

HEALTHCARE

n the semi-urban district of Muzaffarpur in Historically we have provided quality healthcare Bihar, an adjoining state of West Bengal, more for the poor, irrespective of what ailment they Ithan 100 children died in June 2019 due to have. Increasingly we are now facilitating treatment acute encephalitis syndrome. Doctors struggled through the improving urban primary healthcare to pinpoint the causes, but all the victims were centres and government hospitals instead, poor. A recent World Health Organization report especially for regular illnesses such as the common said that the child nutrition and healthcare levels cold and cough, and influenza. And we are focusing 1,023 in Muzaffarpur are considerably worse than in any our own efforts on where there are gaps in the children were immunised at our African country. government system. This includes working on permanent and mobile clinics the serious problems of cardiovascular and this year, protecting them against On a general level the quality of healthcare in West respiratory diseases, child malnutrition, diseases such as tuberculosis, Bengal and Kolkata is better than in Bihar. However, and immunisation. hepatitis B and tetanus there are pockets where we operate that suggest some of our communities are equally vulnerable. The Muzaffarpur incident is a tragic tale of poverty Nearly 48% of children under the age of five in and an inadequate healthcare system – precisely Muzaffarpur are stunted (short for their height) the hole that we are trying to plug. and 17.5% are wasted (too thin for their height) – a glaring sign of chronic undernutrition. In Liluah Bhagar, a bustee just outside Kolkata that our Street “I feel strongly that it’s our duty at Medicine team visits, the figures are worse: Calcutta Rescue to keep providing 63% and 20% respectively. medical treatment for patients from outside of Kolkata and West Bengal, who don’t have access to the care and medication they need. I meet people who have travelled many hours to get to our clinics. Sometimes they sleep overnight Number of individual patients seen by each clinic/team at the government hospital so they can be there when we open in the morning. Change from 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2017/18 to 2018/19 “Last year we had a patient who came all Tala Park Clinic 2,063 2,025 1,968 -2.8% the way from Jharkhand [a neighbouring state]. If it’s possible, we visit the Chitpur Clinic 162 154 150 -2.6% patient’s home to check they meet our HIV clinic 370 484 496 2.5% criteria. If they live a long way away then we try to make sure they are committed DOTs Clinic 122 148 148 0.0% to attending our clinic and finishing their Nimtala Clinic 2,729 2,570 4,006 55.9% full course of treatment. If patients are very needy, we have a special transport Street Medicine team 1 7,865 6,087 5,252 -13.7% allowance to help them pay for travel to our clinics.” Street Medicine team 2 (started 2017) 0 5,570 4,386 -21.3% Arobindo Sarkar Disability Department 140 144 153 6.3% Assistant Project Officer in charge of Tala Park, Chitpur and DOTs clinics Total 13,451 17,182 16,559 -3.6%

12 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 13 Alan Joan Costa Alan Joan TALA PARK CLINIC NIMTALA CLINIC on-board, the team have Brian Thomas managed to see an average of almost 350 patients a month.

Good nutrition is of paramount Opened in 2015, our clinic at Nimtala is a lifeline for a desperately importance for the HIV-positive impoverished, vulnerable community who live in makeshift housing alongside patients who attend our HIV the train tracks and the river. Our team mainly provide wound care, but also clinic at Tala Park. In addition to treat common medical problems and refer patients to government or other providing them with food benefit hospitals where necessary. bags, we have historically given cash for perishable items, such There is a physiotherapy service, and health education is given on topics such as fruit and vegetables. In the as tuberculosis, leprosy and hygiene. A dedicated ambulance allows emergency first quarter of 2018/19 we took patients to be transferred safely and hygienically. the decision to stop some of the cash handouts and instead put more high nutrition items in the bags. This was mainly because A new 500-litre water tank was doctors weren’t convinced the In the last year Nimtala has installed on the roof of the clinic money was being used for the seen a 56% increase in patient at the end of 2018, meaning that intended purpose. The change numbers, largely due to its fresh, clean water is available More than 18,271 appointments Our physiotherapists have been has contributed to a 7% decrease growing reputation as a specialist on tap all day. This makes life were carried out at Tala Park busier than ever before. In in expenditure for the HIV clinic. wound care centre. easier for staff in so many ways, this year. This is an 18% decrease spring 2018 German volunteer We will continue to monitor our from cleaning the clinic and from last year, primarily due to physiotherapist Alexandra patients to make sure this isn’t Members of the public, local instruments each evening, to the improvement of government Heinrich rejoined the team having a negative impact on police and other authorities washing patients’ wounds. healthcare services. Patients and organised for the German their well-being. are routinely bringing patients can now get a wider range of Support Group to sponsor a to the clinic. To cope with this There is also a new ambulance cardiac and diabetic medicines new electric physiotherapy bed In February 2019 volunteer extra demand for our services, specifically for Nimtala, donated from government hospitals, and for the clinic. The bed has made paediatrician Dr Violette Raoult we recruited a second full-time by the Avina Foundation in dialysis treatment has become an enormous difference for the carried out an audit of our special doctor over the winter and Switzerland. In a poor area like free of charge. Our strategy is team, as it is fully adjustable to diet programme, designed to we’re making plans to extend Nimtala, many people don’t have always to provide services that each therapist’s height. It’s also help children from our education the building. the money to get themselves to patients can’t get elsewhere, now physically easier for the centres whom we’ve identified and from hospital, or even to so we’re happy that state therapists to reach all sides of the as being underweight. She Staff and volunteers have worked and from our clinic, so the care is improving for certain patient and use a wider range of discovered that we needed to be together to come up with ambulance will be an enormous health problems. techniques. Shyantani Saha joined more thorough and systematic in renovation ideas for the clinic. help for both emergency and in September as a new full-time our follow-ups with children, to More indoor waiting space is non-emergency trips. physiotherapist, and, with her ensure they are making progress. needed, but the priority is a more hygienic wound dressing area. There have been improvements Fellow volunteer Dr Kim The current area isn’t well on the medical front as well as Tran-Dinh worked on a number protected from the weather, or with the clinic’s infrastructure. of medical audits, including those the dust and noise of the road The wound dressing team have for diabetes, pneumonology and and train tracks. We’ve submitted received extra training from As the largest of our four fixed clinics, Tala Park offers the hypertension. She made a lot of an application to the local volunteers and, despite having widest range of treatments. We see patients with specific recommendations, particularly on authority to build a second floor more patients than ever, they diseases and conditions, such as cancers, thalassaemia and how staff use the spirometer, an on the clinic and we’re hoping have made a conscious effort to neurological disorders, and we run a regular HIV clinic providing instrument to test a patient’s lung this will be formally approved focus on quality over quantity. medication, nutritional support, education and counselling. function. As a result, the clinic’s soon, so that we can start work In the last quarter of this financial medical protocols were reviewed later in 2019. The new upstairs year they treated an average of 12 The team carry out everyday services too, such as and updated. room will house an office, where physiotherapy, speech therapy, mother and child care, all the records can be stored. patients per day, but there are no disability support and health education sessions. Patients This will create more space targets to meet – dressing each arrive at Tala Park from all over West Bengal, many travelling downstairs for a small, enclosed wound to the best of their ability hundreds of kilometres. wound dressing room and a is their aim. bigger waiting area.

14 Annual report 2018/19 15 Brian Thomas DOTS J Roos Photography CLINIC

It’s been an intensely challenging year for the team at the DOTs Clinic, but amazingly they have managed to continue their daily work.

At the start of 2019, the government issued new guidelines for the treatment of tuberculosis. Whereas in the past medication was provided to our clinic and then administered to the patient, it is now being given directly to the patient’s family. This means that new patient enrolment at the clinic has decreased, but there are still lots India has the highest number of cases of tuberculosis in of existing patients relying on our the world, and the disease is particularly prevalent in West support. DOTs Supervisor, Babita Bengal. In 1999 we were selected to work as a partner in Chakraborty, will be speaking the government’s new tuberculosis control programme, to patients over the next six which involves our trained health workers administering CHITPUR CLINIC months, to see if these changes and supervising patients taking their medication. mean we need to adapt the way we run the clinic. Our DOTs clinic has been open since then and continues to offer this service to tuberculosis patients from within our allocated ward of the city. We’ve also joined the It may be our smallest clinic, their condition, and therefore There has also been a major government’s DOTs Plus Program, helping patients We opened Chitpur but Chitpur’s services are still have no way to earn money. infrastructure challenge, with with Multiple (MDR) and Extreme (XDR) Drug specifically to help patients of the utmost importance. Special benefit bags, made up no running water available in Resistant Tuberculosis. coping with the long- Leprosy continues to be an of grains, oil and sugar, were also the clinic since June 2018. Staff term effects of leprosy, extremely stigmatised disease given to 64 patients who were have been forced to walk for 20 also known as Hansen’s and the location of our clinic, particularly in need. minutes to collect water from on an industrial road alongside disease. Most of the a government tap in the road, provide nutritional supplements the river, illustrates just how far Last summer GKB Optical people we see no longer taking up precious time. Many to patients who have a very have active (infectious) outside of residential areas we attended the clinic to run a litres of water are needed for low BMI (body mass index). leprosy, but have been had to go to be able to treat free eye check-up for patients. staff and patients to drink and to During the calendar year 2017 During the calendar left with deformities and these patients. Events like the Around 75 people attended wash their hands properly, as well the team’s success rate of curing year 2017 the team’s unhealed wounds. one the Chitpur team run on and 39 of those needed new as to wash equipment and clean patients of tuberculosis was 84% success rate of World Leprosy Day each year spectacles, which GKB provided the clinic. The problem is due to – just shy of the government’s curing patients of As part of the clinic we also help to reinforce a sense of free of charge. The Chitpur a broken pipe, which would cost recommended target of 85%. tuberculosis was run a footwear workshop community for the patients, most team also arranged for several around Rs 17,000 to repair. Our And 80% of those patients producing and maintaining of whom know each other well amputee patients to receive management team have spoken gained weight, on average custom-made shoes for from meeting at the clinic. artificial legs from a Kolkata- to local authority departments 6kg, to improve their BMI. It patients. Leprosy often based non-governmental and the Deputy Mayor of Kolkata takes around nine months of causes nerve damage in The clinic team support 134 organisation that specialises in urging them to help, but to date monitoring for the team to be the feet, leading to ulcers leprosy patients in any way they prosthetics, Mahavir Seva Sadan. we’ve had no reply. able to confirm that treatment and infections, so tailored, can, and this financial year they cushioned foot protection has been successful, so we will 84% paid house rent for around 10 Across the year the footwear can mean the difference Good nutrition is a major factor know the 2018 success rate later patients and helped 2 to repair workshop created 32 new pairs of between being able to in how quickly a patient recovers this year. their homes. Many of these custom-made shoes for patients, walk or not. from tuberculosis. The DOTs team people can’t work, because of and 38 pairs were repaired.

16 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 17 James Frost STREET MEDICINE

Six days a week our Street children. The bag’s items are Medicine teams are out in 19 carefully chosen to provide the different bustees around Kolkata, nutrition the children need most. working to ensure communities have access to medical treatment, We also joined forces with Don education, social support, safe Bosco India, an organisation drinking water and toilets. This dedicated to helping young really is the perfect example of people, who are providing our new holistic approach to Liluah residents with education helping vulnerable people services, safe drinking water and escape poverty. 32,000 people sanitation. Working alongside a have access to healthcare partner that has already gained The approach was pioneered through our Street Medicine the community’s trust has made in Dakshineswar bustee in 2017. mobile clinics this project much easier for us. The living conditions there were We’ll let you know the results of squalid and significant investment the project later in 2019 when in infrastructure was needed. services – ones they can’t get the team have collected enough In June 2018 we installed clean elsewhere, from the government data to evaluate the children’s drinking water and new toilets. or other organisations. improvement. If this approach is Through advocacy, our team successful, we hope to replicate it were instrumental in the local Similarly, we withdrew our support in other similar areas. government’s decision to start in six bustees that we realised were providing educational services not getting much benefit from our there too: a new preschool services. In general, these areas opened in January 2019. were centrally located and had Although Dr Jack started good access to government health Calcutta Rescue through There was a 17% fall in the facilities, and few patients there practising on the city’s number of patients attending had chronic healthcare needs. By streets 40 years ago, our our Street Medicine programme concentrating our resources in mobile Street Medicine this financial year. The decrease fewer areas we can deliver better programme only began in reflects changes we’ve made quality of care in places where our 2006. We target communities we’ve identified as being following our 2017 audit, which help is desperately needed. told us that approximately 25% in serious need of medical and social support. Places of the patients seen either did In December we began a pilot where unemployment, not require a doctor’s medical project focused on improving malnourishment, addiction input or would have been better the health of stunted and and abuse are part of served by being redirected malnourished children in Liluah everyday life. to a government healthcare Bhagar, a bustee in Howrah, just provider. A re-audit carried out west of Kolkata. The project was Our two teams provide in 2018 showed a big reduction several months in the making, immediate primary medical in the teams’ provision of general under the guidance of volunteer treatment from our mobile care (patients making one-off paediatricians and doctors. After clinics, and refer patients appointments for short-term assessing the population, we to our permanent clinics or illnesses, such as coughs, colds, discovered that 63% of children government hospitals and aches and skin infections) and a had stunted growth and 27% were services where needed. They four-fold increase in vaccinations malnourished. To tackle this the also offer immunisations and long-term care for chronic team have combined medical for children and health conditions. This is a great care and health education with education workshops on indicator that patients are now regularly giving food benefit bags good hygiene and nutrition. coming to our teams for the ‘right’ to malnourished and stunted

18 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 19 PHARMACY EMPOWERING SURVIVORS Our Pharmacist, Santanu Roy Chowdhury, made it a priority in OF GENDER-BASED Our Pharmacy provides medicine and medical supplies to 2019 for the Pharmacy and the all of our permanent clinics and Street Medicine mobile pharmacy tables in the clinics to clinics. The team work closely with the pharmacy assistants VIOLENCE work more effectively together. based in each of our projects. Ideally the team want to have the data to be able to predict what Pharmacy staff and volunteers research and source the medicines are needed and order best medication for our patients that also represents appropriately. This will keep the the best value for our budget. We often receive referred patients who need expensive, long-term drugs for life- level of stock as low as possible, threatening diseases because government hospitals can’t to avoid wastage and save space. afford these or don’t have enough stock of them. A computer system that would connect the Pharmacy and the clinics is being explored, and, depending on cost, this could be introduced during 2020. There has been a lot of activity around computerisation in the In September we were granted a Pharmacy this year, as well as drug licence by the Government improving processes. Volunteers of West Bengal. This certifies produced guidelines on that we can store and distribute antibiotics, asthma, hypertension medicine to our patients. Both and diabetes, as well as auditing management and Pharmacy the medicines used at each clinic staff have been working on this Our partnership with Swayam is to our Schools Social Worker and part of a gender-sensitisation and the general use of antibiotics. application for months, so it was going from strength to strength Counsellor, Suchandra Chatterjee. programme. Trained teams Already the new diabetes a great relief to get it approved. after 18 months. Swayam are a perform skits, songs and dances guidelines have halved the Kolkata-based non-governmental Suchandra has been carrying to help our patients understand amount spent on diabetic The team have put increased organisation committed to out counselling sessions twice specific gender-based issues, medicines. And the new effort into securing donations of ending discrimination and a week with survivors, and she such as child marriage, violence antibiotic guidelines have 500 the medicines we use most, and violence against women and girls. meets several new patients a and inequality. positively influenced doctors’ different drugs are bought and have received more donations month. Two of these ladies are choice of medicines, which stored by our Pharmacy for from Indian companies than With their help we’ve developed receiving training to work at our In the longer term, we’re hoping means we’re doing a better use at our clinics ever before. a gender-based violence Handicrafts project, which is a to use our Street Medicine job of preventing antimicrobial prevention programme. This great working example of our programme to collaborate resistance – a major threat to involved training our frontline new holistic approach to getting with Swayam on going out into public health in India. staff to be more aware of the people out of poverty. impoverished communities signs of gender-based violence to raise awareness. This will By assessing their tender rate Irene Markert and to know how to provide care Staff at our other clinics and from include running workshops, process, the team managed to for survivors. our Street Medicine teams have conducting surveys to get more purchase some medicines directly also been trained to look for data about the prevalence of from the manufacturer or their We started a pilot project at Tala signs of gender-based violence, gender-based violence, and main distributor, which is much Park Clinic in November 2018 to and will follow a standardised creating targeted campaigns to more cost effective and avoids interview women attending our process when referring patients. tackle violence. Suchandra is problems that happen in longer health education sessions about Suchandra is running monthly also working on introducing supply chains. The last audit their experiences of gender- sessions for both male and the topic to our education report shows that the Pharmacy based violence. This provided female patients at each clinic centre students. have also improved the efficiency us with good quantitative data to raise more awareness of with which they supply medicine about how common the issue is the problem. Our overall aim is to do to the clinics. Last year the rate within our patient population. everything possible to empower of ‘uninterrupted supply’ – when The project is now continuing Swayam’s mobile awareness survivors we meet in our clinics medicines are available and we permanently and any women van comes to Tala Park once and education centres, so that have access to buy them – was who need support are referred a week with a caseworker, as they can live a violence-free life. 47%, but this year it’s above 67%.

20 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 21 CASESTUDY 23 www.calcuttarescue.org government hospital, just to be be to just hospital, government to her as referring well as safe, for the orthopaedic department Calcutta Rescue A back pain. her the to her will take ambulance have she doesn’t that hospital so transport. for pay to found has now Raja Thankfully the in working employment, new Howrah. at electricals market become tight, making it hard to to making it hard tight, become need areas These them. move back encouraged be gradually to through normal state their to and movement, stretching regular become don’t they sure make to deformed. permanently job first and Swarna’s Shyantani of range Swarna’s improve to is can and then they movement, strength. building her on work wall- installing are staff Nimtala house in Swarna’s rails mounted pull to these she can use that so a standing position to up herself and walk to the washroom them, rather holding on to legs Because her than crawling. weight her supported haven’t to it painful so long, she finds for her also given have we stand, so use indoors. to frame walking a Looking ahead Looking pain and injuries, her Despite and positive remains Swarna practising herself by hard works her. gives Shyantani the exercises get to plan team Nimtala The opinion on her a specialist’s the from neurofibromatosis the at department neurology Our doctors also talked to Swarna Swarna to talked also doctors Our neurofibromatosis, her about had she’s a condition which is causes 13. It of the age since tumours non-cancerous skin, her over all (neurofibromas) these aren’t the moment but at pain. or problems any causing her help Extra were and Raja Although Swarna Nimtala help, accept to reluctant and them clothing gave staff such as nutritional supplements, help Swarna to wheat pulses and their paid also We weight. gain a member or costs, travel tricycle at visit Swarna would team our of wounds. her dress to home condition When Swarna’s sit to able was and she improved so wheelchair a her gave we up, and to bring her could Raja that of free the clinic himself, from took ambulances our of One cost. plastic the hospital’s to Swarna department outpatients surgery check on specialists could that so progress. her moving Getting to Swarna for a struggle It’s she lives the room from move and she washroom, the in to hands and on her crawls usually healed are wounds knees. Her weak muscles are but her now, and she has pain inactivity from of side and back. One in her Shyantani physiotherapists, our has with Swarna), left (pictured home. at Swarna treating been working started first they When hand right Swarna’s together, – curled bad state very in a was extremely was It a claw. like over the skin had a scaly and dirty fingers Swarna’s appearance. together, almost joined were using her wasn’t because she on. crawl to hand, except her of the severity to Due scar of a lot has Swarna wounds, skin and muscles of The tissue. arm and left leg have right her In January this year 60-year-old 60-year-old year this January In a 10-wheeled by hit was Swarna while she behind truck from She the road. down walked about anything remember doesn’t in up waking except the accident she where hospital, a government local police. by taken had been mostly injuries, had severe Swarna left leg, and hand and right her to in was She needed plastic surgery. a month. hospital for discharged, was she After needed dressings wound Swarna’s but day, every be changed to the transport afford she couldn’t the hospital. back to get to costs been married, never has Swarna 30-year-old so depends on her whom she lives Raja, nephew, our near Ahiritola, with in Clinic. Nimtala lost his recently had Raja in an extremely was job and He financially. difficult situation local councillor their approached they who recommended help, for Calcutta Rescue. contact Pain and infection Pain first and Raja When Swarna the end of at Nimtala at arrived had dressings Swarna’s February, weeks. two in been changed not was and herself move couldn’t She the clinic on a tricycle to brought malnourished appeared cart. She though pain, in severe was and a bad smell was There stoic. wound leg her from coming infested severely was and it with maggots. our the beginning of was This full to back Swarna get to journey daily Nimtala attended health. She cleaned and wounds her have to antibiotics take and to dressed, had that the infection treat to was carried she first At developed. and laid Raja the clinic by into able wasn’t the bench, as she on the maggots Gradually sit up. to wounds and her disappeared heal. to began

2018/19 Annual report

22 WITH A SMILE A WITH STRENGTH STRENGTH HER HER REBUILDING REBUILDING All images by J Roos Photography

“In the classroom our teachers are expected to give 100%, which is only possible when they know exactly what they are going to do in each class. We decided to make it mandatory for teachers to prepare a basic lesson plan in EDUCATION advance. We’ve also asked them to stop correcting work in class, so that they can focus their attention solely on teaching and monitoring students. Now each he Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) teacher gets allocated planning time and for 2018 was released at the beginning of two correction periods per day. These Tthis year by Pratham, a non-governmental ideas are not revolutionary, but we’re organisation dedicated to improving the quality introducing them for the first time in our of education in India. The study has become the education centres. standard for understanding how much children are actually learning in Indian schools. It is one of the “Another change is that we are using biggest surveys globally and includes data from creative writing, language games, and more than half a million students. newspaper and storybook reading to help the students improve their listening and The report shows the prevalence of a serious reading skills. We’ve also made parent- learning deficit and a dearth of basic reading and teacher meetings more structured and arithmetic skills among a large proportion of Indian regular so that they are an integral part of children. Here are some of the findings. student development.” Ananya Chatterjee Just 15% of children in Class 2 (8 years old) can Schools Administrator in charge read a Class 2 text. of Number 10 and Tala Park Even by the time they are in Class 8 (14 years old), education centres one in four children still cannot read a Class 2 text. More than half of all Class 8 children are unable to do basic division.

That is why at Calcutta Rescue we are so focused on the basics – numeracy and literacy – and ensuring our children have a sure footing at the start of their academic lives. If children read well, they can learn history and geography. If they are good at maths, they will be better at science and computer programming.

Of course, academic success is directly correlated to children having fun and having a safe and comfortable place to learn. Our programme includes learning through playing and using audio-visual techniques, as well as traditional teaching methods. 657 children studied, played and grew healthier at our education centres this academic year

24 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 25 Investigating problems We started offering evening Costa Alan Joan with attendance classes as an alternative to TALA PARK AND In summer 2018 the education mornings and increased our team noticed that Class 10 overall attendance to above students, due to take their exams NUMBER 10 the following year, had very poor attendance levels – below 50% EDUCATION CENTRES for Number 10. This was a big concern and we decided to tackle 70% it as quickly as possible. Over Number of Class Number of Number of Class Number of the next few months our senior into the timetable at all levels. Academic year 10 students taking students who 12 students taking students who management team, education In these sessions students exams passed exams passed centre management team, area will be given extra support to 2011/12 6 6 5 5 helpers and teachers were all bring them up to the necessary involved in talking to students standard. Every May our teachers 2012/13 10 9 7 7 about the importance of regular will run standardised national 2013/14 5 5 6 6 attendance. Parents were also tests created by the ASER Centre consulted and given advice about to determine the comprehension 2014/15 7 5 6 6 motivating their children. level of each student. This 2015/16 7 6 4 2 will help teachers identify We were really pleased to achievement gaps among our 2016/17 7 5 4 3 see how positively students students, which they can then responded to the discussions. We 2017/18 11 8 9 9 work on improving. also learnt something ourselves 2018/19 31 26 3 3 – many of our students find it In early 2019 Suchandra difficult to get to our centres in Chatterjee took on the the morning because they have permanent role of Schools to help their family with chores, Social Worker and Counsellor. Exam results are by no means the the difference in our budgets, One of the things the team particularly collecting water, Suchandra was already running only sign of a good education, it was a fantastic achievement. are most excited about in the which can take up to an hour mental health awareness but this year’s statistics were In a further boost, Dr Jack was architect’s renovation plans is the each day. So, we started offering workshops and counselling with a great success story for the inducted into The Telegraph ‘makerspace’. It will be a place evening classes as an alternative some of our senior students. efforts of our staff and students. Education Foundation Hall of for students of all ages to learn to mornings. By the end of the She is now working with students Compared to the previous Fame for his contributions to about and explore technology, year, overall attendance had of all ages on different topics, academic year, we had almost education in Kolkata. and develop technical skills increased to above 70%. such as dealing with problems three times more Class 10 that they can use in the future. at home and the physical and students entered for their final Moving home at last The younger ones can play and In the classroom emotional changes that happen school exams, and the pass rate Not long after the awards, our experiment with technical Lego, From the next academic during puberty. (84%) was higher. This dramatic four-year dream to find a new to understand the principles of year (2019/20) the team have increase isn’t down to any one site for Number 10 Education physics and engineering. While incorporated remedial classes Continued over the page change the education team Centre was finally realised. We older students try computer- have made – improving the purchased a former house, not aided design, 3D printing and service we provide is a long-term far from Number 10, but in a computer programming, learning endeavour. Just like our students, much safer area. It has a lot different programming languages. we’re continuously learning and more space, including an open we believe these figures are an courtyard with a mango tree Schools Administrator Ananya Our two centres aim to support children living in the bustees and on the streets to get a good education. We provide a stimulating learning environment, and we give children the materials, indication of how well we’re and several terraces on the roof. Chatterjee is really excited at the such as uniforms and books, and the encouragement to attend school that they may not get doing that. Some renovation is needed, but prospect of moving the students from their family. our individual and corporate in: “Along with my team of Our education staff were supporters quickly stepped up teachers, I dreamt of a learning Our carefully crafted preschool education creates a solid foundation. After this we send all incredibly proud to win top and met our fundraising target environment where we can our children to good formal government schools from the age of six. We give them complete prize in the ‘A School That Cares’ within six months. Until we complement students’ efforts to financial support, from school fees to pens, throughout their academic life. category at the annual Telegraph officially name the new centre, bring about a qualitative change School Awards for Excellence in we’re calling it the Pathshala in their lives. I strongly believe Our teachers ensure that students truly understand concepts in maths, are able to master September. Five other schools project. We’ll start the building that after renovation, the new their own language (Bengali or Hindi) and are competent in English. In the time they spend were nominated, and four of work as soon as possible and building will draw students like a at our centres, students can do their homework, join computer lessons and take part in these were leading fee-paying we plan to be able to open the magnet, and allow them to focus extracurricular activities, such as art, craft, dance, drama and sport. institutions, so bearing in mind centre in 2020. on their life goals.”

26 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 27 Brian Thomas adults from similar backgrounds Manoj is 20. He lives in Dilerjung who are now pursuing successful bustee in North Kolkata with careers in computer science and SIDE BY his mum and his brother, his civil engineering. brother’s wife and their SIDE two-year-old son. Our new Vocational Training Manager, Tuli Chatterjee, started From the age of four, Manoj work in November. She runs has been coming to our Tala twice-weekly career counselling Park Education Centre with his sessions for students in Classes best friend, Raju. They’re always 8 to 12 at both of our centres. together and find it hard to Parents and guardians are also concentrate when one of them involved in decisions about their is absent! children’s futures. Tuli speaks directly to them about what When they finished going to vocational training placements government school, they took she can arrange, so that they can part in a vocational training help to motivate their children. course in wall painting. The CASE STUDY She has organised workplace visits, course was suggested and as well as talks from successful arranged by teachers at Tala Park, professionals on pharmaceutical and run by a well-known paint Continued from previous page medicine, medicinal plant growing manufacturer. The boys learnt and entrepreneurship. Five how to create designs and use Outside the classroom students who had to drop out of colour effectively. One of our Class 11 students school for different reasons have at Tala Park, Priya Patra, was completed an Assistant Beautician Manoj is keen to help his mother crowned State Kickboxing course organised by Tuli and are pay the household bills, because Champion in December, having all now working in the industry. when he was 12 his father died. already won a silver medal Since then it’s been up to Manoj “When I was a student, I had at the National Kickboxing and his brother to support the no teacher to guide me in Behind-the scenes Championships in Dehradun whole family. my higher studies and for my changes earlier in the year. We’ve been Our education team thoroughly future, because my family could paying for Priya to attend a prepared themselves for That’s why Manoj and Raju have not afford this. I completed renowned boarding school since government changes in the non- just started working together my graduation with the help she was four years old. She formal schools evaluation system as freelance wall painters. They of guide books, so I felt many loves kickboxing and dreams of at the end of 2018. This affected have advance orders from house- difficulties during my education. becoming a famous athlete when the assessments we carry out in owners, but the work is not that she’s older, whilst also having a the second and third terms of the regular yet. Although Manoj is “Now I am glad to be a teacher prestigious job so she can support year. There is now a grading system managing to earn some money, helping the students of her family. To encourage Priya to instead of numerical marking, and it’s not enough. Calcutta Rescue, whose family work hard towards her goal, we students who cannot pass their backgrounds are similar to mine. pay for extra tuition support and assessments will need to repeat Cricket helps to supplement his It’s a very happy moment for me special kickboxing coaching. the same class level. wages a little. He gets paid to when hundreds of students look play for clubs in matches all over up to me, and if they have any Terra Indica, a trust helping A new management information West Bengal. difficulties they come to me for teenagers from disadvantaged system for our education centres is the solution. backgrounds to transition to being tested and will be ready for With the help of Calcutta Rescue, adulthood and find work, ran a the next academic year. Project- Manoj plans to do another more “I am a teacher. I am their two-day residential workshop managed by Rumia Mukherjee specialised training course, guardian and their guide. So it’s for us in September. We sent from our main office, the system on design and different paint my responsibility and my aim to 20 of our most energetic and is a secure online database finishes, as well as a contractor help them become successful challenging students, who find it that holds student information training course that explains how and responsible citizens.” difficult to focus on their studies. including contact details, marks, to manage your finances. Subhajit Sana They took part in different hands- attendance and medical history. Teacher and Assistant Project on activities, including carpentry, It will automate data entry, saving His dream is that he and Raju Officer in charge of Tala Park welding, baking and bicycle time for administration and can make a success of their new Education Centre repair, as well as games and management staff, and will make it business, and we’re doing all we exercise in between. Students Manoj (sitting) and much easier to analyse data. best friend Raju can to help him on his way. also got to hear from other young

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OVERCOMING THE ODDS

Lucky, 16, is one of our best much as they can, but only after children walk or play outside of treatment, which involved she failed. We’ll be supporting recovering at home. But they are students. She works hard, and is their schoolwork. Suman insists after dark, as she worries that going to our specialist DOTs Lakshmi to retake her exams, and a very close group, so they came always smiling and full of energy. that “school comes first”. She something will happen to them. Clinic every day for medication. then, if she passes, we’ll help her to visit him and shared their This year the teachers at our regularly meets the teachers One of our helpers accompanied join a vocational training course schoolwork so that Shankar could Number 10 Education Centre to check how her children are To pass the time during the Lakhsmi, 17, at first, so that to fulfil her dream of becoming keep up with lessons. nominated her for a Rotary getting on with their studies. long evenings, Lucky and her Suman didn’t have to miss work. a beautician. Club of Calcutta scholarship, to siblings play board games, like Space to dance recognise her dedication. Lucky A cramped, unsafe Chinese Chequers. They dance While she was ill, Lakshmi was Much-needed support When Lucky finishes school and was incredibly surprised and home together too – Suman was a unable to go to school. That In the same summer Shankar, is old enough to start making delighted to receive Rs 10,000, The family live in a small brick very good dancer at school meant she missed out on the 12, developed problems with his choices about her life, she wants which will cover the cost of the house in Nimtala that has just and loves performing routines healthy meals we provide, just at appendix, causing him intense to eventually become the CEO rest of her education. two rooms. It is very cramped with her children. Lucky and the time when she needed them pain. Our Nimtala Clinic staff of a big bank. She really enjoys and they all find this hard to Lakshmi have represented our most. So we arranged for a helper supported Suman and Shankar maths and using computers. It’s money that she wouldn’t cope with. There is a communal Number 10 centre in many dance to deliver breakfast and lunch through the process of getting She hopes this job would give otherwise have: Lucky’s family washroom nearby, which is competitions and won awards. to Lakshmi each day, as well as his appendix removed. One of her enough money to move her are very poor. Her mother, shared between 15 families. a monthly pack of high nutrition our helpers went to hospital whole family to a new area that’s Suman, leaves home early each Fighting illness items, including pulses, soyabean with them and the clinic team safe and has more space for them morning to work in a factory But the biggest problem is that As if their living situation wasn’t chunks and suji (semolina). provided nutritional supplements to live and play and dance. and returns at 8.30pm, to start the area is not safe. There are lots enough to contend with, the last afterwards to help Shankar heal on the household chores. Lucky of people with drug and alcohol few years have been particularly In July the same year Lakshmi had as quickly as possible. Until then she’ll continue to work and her two younger brothers, problems walking around, who difficult for the family. In January recovered enough to return to hard at school, attending evening Shankar and Om, and older sister, sometimes try to come inside 2018 Lakshmi was diagnosed with school. She took her final exams Shankar really missed his study sessions at Number 10 and Lakshmi, help their mother as the house. Suman won’t let her tuberculosis. She had six months in spring 2019, but unfortunately schoolfriends while he was keeping a smile on her face.

Left to right: Lucky, Shankar and Lakshmi

30 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 31 J Roos Photography HANDICRAFTS

ollowing a year of reflection and An old wood cutting machine was replaced this reorganisation, the Handicrafts project year and two sewing machines have recently been Fis making good progress on improving donated. One of these was a brand new Usha sales in India. interlocking machine from long-time supporter Roxane Porsack. Roxane is passionate about our During 2017/18 several big changes were introduced Handicrafts project and regularly visits Kolkata to to get the business into better shape. New work with the makers and develop new products. Manager Arunava Ghosh-Roy arrived and reduced She takes these back to her home in Lubeck, the product range by more than half to focus on Germany, and sells them at local markets and just the best-selling and more innovative items, through her online shop, specialising in sustainable, such as recycled silk jute bags and notebooks ethically produced items. Maker Husna Banu made from water hyacinth paper. was trained by Roxane on how to use the sewing machine, ready for a new range of summer dresses. Under Arunava’s guidance, sales in India are 80% higher than last year, and 26% above the target he Looking ahead, Arunava and his team have created set for his team. Since joining he has added more a strategy for the next financial year focusing than 16 outlets in and around Kolkata to the list on finding new trainee makers and improving of those who sell our handicrafts, including the productivity in accordance with the makers’ Oberoi Hotel. individual monthly production plans. There will be a new, designed e-catalogue to attract more clients, The well-being of makers is extremely important especially in the domestic market, and a review to us, and we know that many of them deal with Maker Mohamed Jiauddin Ansari painting fridge magnets. of product pricing, to make sure we’re in line with difficult personal circumstances, from bad health other fair-trade retailers. to problems at home. During summer 2018 the project’s management team offered the makers one-to-one counselling sessions. They also organised several motivational therapy classes, focusing on maintaining a good work/life balance and improving communication and teamwork. Yoga, physiotherapy and eye health check-ups have been on offer, and several part-time makers have been recruited from our education centres to “I have worked here for 16 years as a help cover the workload when our long-term staff seamstress and hand-embroiderer. I love need to take a break. All of these measures have making all the products and any kind of helped to re-energise the team and we’ve already tailoring. Roxane has visited our project noticed a difference in overall productivity in the twice since 2017 to train me and others to months that followed. use the sewing machine to make ladies’ clothes.

Even in Calcutta Rescue’s earliest street clinic days we “The new machine makes my work a lot realised that underprivileged people desperately need help easier because it can do an interlocking to acquire vocational skills, which is how this project began. stitch. An interlock sews over the edge of one or two pieces of cloth for edging, Working at our Handicrafts project offers a fair wage and hemming or seaming. It also cuts the tuition in embroidery, printing and product design. A job edges of the cloth as they are fed there as a ‘maker’ is a lifeline for those who, for a variety of through, which helps me create finished reasons, may find it difficult to get work, such as widowed seams quickly and easily.” women, domestic abuse survivors, school drop-outs and Husna Banu patients whom we’ve treated for leprosy. Maker at the Handicrafts project Roxane (left) during a visit in early 2019 Husna at work

32 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 33 alking to villagers in Malda where we’ve installed filter taps and convincing them “When I visited Malda in March, I met Swyma Tof the importance of using those taps has (pictured below). She is widowed and is looked SAFE always been the biggest challenge of this project. after by her son and his young family. There is now a filter tap in her village but Swyma has Over the years we’ve worked hard to raise been drinking unfiltered water for many years. awareness of the risks of arsenic contamination. She has classic signs of arsenic poisoning DRINKING The job is far from done, but some of the – you can see the marks on her face, which communities now have a greater knowledge are uncomfortable and itchy. Swyma is also not only about arsenic, but also good hygiene, worried about what other health problems she WATER common disease prevention and proper might have in future, because of arsenic. handwashing techniques. “I feel frustrated and helpless knowing that This year we saw an opportunity to expand the she has had to drink unfiltered water for so work we do in Malda and gain more time and trust long and now suffers the consequences. with the communities. There are many broken Most of the villagers are more worried about government water filters in the area, even some iron in their drinking water, as they can see that are very new, which frustrates community their containers have iron deposition, leaders. Our senior management team made two whereas arsenic is colourless. visits to Malda in the last half of the financial year. This included a meeting with the government “I’m glad Swyma’s grandchildren won’t have agency who have responsibility for the filters, and these health problems. They have easy access we talked to them about working in partnership. to clean, safe water, thanks to our staff While they haven’t ruled this out, we need to and supporters.” prove to them that we have the expertise to take on this kind of project. Dr Alakananda Ghosh, Deputy CEO (Medical)

So, in collaboration with the government-elected village headman, we were able to resurrect one of the broken filters, which had been idle for three Swyma (right) and her years. Our aim is to show the villagers and the daughter-in-law government that we are willing and able to run these filters, for a fee, in the hope that we can extend this service across a much wider area.

West Bengal has the highest number of arsenic-contaminated areas in India, more than double any other state. Since 2003 we’ve installed filter taps in 12 villages in Malda district, 300km north of Kolkata.

These taps provide families with clean, safe water so that

Assistant Project future generations aren’t slowly poisoned by arsenic, which Officer Debu Prasad can cause diseases all over the body, as well as intestinal and Chakraborty speaks to the community at neurological problems. Mominpur about their filter tap

34 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 35 FUNDRAISING

he challenge in Indian philanthropy is In the face of all of this, Calcutta Rescue received Our online crowd-funding platform, Small Change, evident from the 40% decline in foreign donations of Rs 799 lakhs (79.9 million) during have been helping us raise awareness of our Tcontributions to Indian causes during 2018/19 – a 43% jump from the previous year organisation, both with corporate supporters and the 2018/19 financial year. This can mainly be (Rs 560 lakhs, 56 million). Part of this funding went 120 individuals. Heritage River Journeys got in touch of our schoolchildren attributed to the government crackdown on non- towards the Pathshala project. This is our single with us through Small Change and have funded had their education governmental organisations (NGOs) violating the biggest project: the purchase and renovation of the boarding costs of some of our students over sponsored by Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 2010. Nearly a building in Hatibagan, so we can relocate our the last two years. A wonderful couple, Pauline Sony India 15,000 NGOs have had their overseas fundraising Number 10 Education Centre. The purchase was and Meghdut, initiated a unique campaign on the licences revoked since 2015/16, amid tighter completed in August 2018 (Rs 161 lakhs, 16.1 million) site, getting their friends and family to contribute controls being placed on the renewal of licences, through accumulations in the Building Fund created to Calcutta Rescue in lieu of gifts towards their allowed areas of spend and the validation of bank in earlier years. A renovation budget has been drawn During the year, we received Rs 640 lakhs (64 million) wedding engagement. accounts receiving foreign funds. up and we are delighted to have commitment from from them towards the day-to-day running of the the Paharpur Foundation of up to Rs 100 lakhs organisation (35% more than the previous year). Our key challenge remains that the Indian corporate The decline has been partly offset by corporate (10 million). The foundation is the charitable arm of The groups also spend a lot of time and effort sector prefer to fund infrastructure costs, whereas social responsibility (CSR) commitments, Paharpur Cooling Towers Ltd, a very well-respected promoting our cause with trusts and foundations in the vast majority of our expenses are ongoing individual funding and increased government and socially conscious Kolkata-based company. their own countries. operational costs. We’re in regular contact with our spending on social projects. However, India needs In addition, our Support Groups from the UK, corporate sector donors, and through project visits significant improvement in the social sector, with Switzerland and Germany have transferred In December 2018 we put together a Calcutta Rescue and discussion, a few have understood this problem its ranking on global development indicators the equivalent of Rs 53 lakhs (5.3 million) towards team to participate in the annual Tata Steel Kolkata and found a way to help us – such as Sony, Heritage remaining low and static. In 2018 India ranked the project. Run, in aid of the Pathshala project. Forty students, River Journeys and Webel. We hope more will 130th in the Human Development Index and 112th along with staff and Governing Council members, follow suit. in the Sustainable Development Goals Index*, Our Support Groups around the world continue to took part, raising Rs 7.1 lakhs (0.7 million) – the third well below China and Brazil. provide a financial backbone for the work we do. highest total raised by a charity at the event. *Source: India Philanthropy Report 2019, Bain & Co.

Over the last five years, after the introduction of

Brian Thomas CSR legislation, our domestic funding has been steadily increasing as we forge new partnerships The Street Medicine team in with corporate foundations. From less than 4% action, funded by Webel domestic funding in 2014/15, we have increased this to 11.5% (Rs 92 lakhs, 9.2 million) of the total funding “Our introduction to Calcutta Rescue we received in 2018/19. This includes contributions happened in September 2016. We visited towards the Pathshala project and for other specific their Tala Park Education Centre and infrastructural improvements, as well as donations in Clinic, and found that the organisation kind and event sponsorships. was doing commendable work for our city.

Some key domestic initiatives funded this year: “Our wish was to donate money for Sony India sponsored the education costs of physical assets, so in December 2018 we 120 children. met Chief Executive Jaydeep Chakraborty Webel met our annual expenses for three of the and visited the newly purchased areas our Street Medicine teams visit. education centre building. We were Exide Industries continued to support the impressed with Jaydeep’s zeal, vision and renovation of our Tala Park Clinic. sincerity. We were certain these qualities Magma Foundation contributed to new and would percolate through Calcutta Rescue improved sanitary and drinking water facilities at and help the organisation continue the Dakshineswar bustee. great work it has been doing for society Hindustan Unilever provided free Lifebuoy soaps over the past few decades.” for our patients and students. Varun Swarup Switz Foods bore the total cost for the advanced Paharpur Foundation treatment of a serious cancer patient.

36 www.calcuttarescue.org 37 VOLUNTEERS ALEXANDRA HEINRICH, PHYSIOTHERAPIST AND CLINICAL VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR

have been involved with Calcutta Rescue and is adjusting well to life in India and that we work the German Support Group since 2003, and first together to achieve the best results for Calcutta volunteered in Kolkata for several months in 2006. Rescue and the people we serve. I am in close contact I Left to right: Volunteers Christian (sitting right), physiotherapist Alexandra and nurse Daniel at work That time had such a life-changing impact on me with the volunteer recruiters in the Support Groups that I have visited Kolkata and the charity regularly throughout the application process, and I then since then. help find the most suitable position or project for Another volunteer I am very proud of is German each volunteer. social worker Christian Pahrmann (pictured above In early 2018 I realised that I could use my left). I interviewed Christian in summer 2018 and expertise once again to help develop the existing Each morning I go to the clinics to work with the immediately recognised his potential to assist physiotherapy service, which has so much more physiotherapy team to carry out treatments and Calcutta Rescue. He volunteered with us from to offer patients. I arrived in April, and with the training, including home visits for some patients. In the January for six months and did a great job of support of my Indian colleagues I began developing afternoons I speak to volunteers, catch up on emails creating a social work system in our education more holistic treatments, training staff, increasing and help coordinate management issues. Over time centres, where so many students need support the number of patients treated and improving the I have learnt even more about what it takes to run a outside the classroom. As a result we will try to equipment used by the team. charity and I am very grateful for that opportunity. always have a volunteer social worker in position to continue Christian’s work. From July 2018 I additionally took on the task of This past winter we have had a fantastically talented coordinating all the volunteers – a team drawn and committed team of volunteers, setting high I was happy that several recent volunteers attended from many different professions and countries. standards for the organisation. I have been working 37 the 2019 International Meeting in Amsterdam in Having known the organisation for so long, I felt to improve the induction process and foster greater volunteers worked across our projects in May. It showed how much they valued their time very confident about my ability to support the integration between the Western volunteers and Kolkata during 2018/19 volunteering in Kolkata and that they wanted to volunteers and liaise with all the different partners: the Indian staff. We also started to ask all our staff continue supporting the charity. A wonderful sign the management team, the project staff and the what volunteer roles and support would best serve They came from Austria, Canada, France, that my work as the Clinical Volunteer Coordinator Support Groups. their teams. This will not only create more team spirit Germany, India, Switzerland and the UK, has contributed to that positive experience and between the two groups, but also ensure we can and brought expertise and experience in helped make them a success for Calcutta Rescue. Besides helping to resolve any problems the meet the needs of each project and help our Indian communications, education, fundraising, volunteers encounter, I try to ensure everyone staff fulfil their potential too. handicrafts, medicine, pharmacology, photography, physiotherapy, research and social work.

“We need volunteers – people Volunteer doctor Alan at Nimtala who can give us their time and Clinic with wound Between August 2018 and April 2019 I was able properly check what we’re doing dresser Rehana to coordinate a continuous series of volunteers and tell us what we can learn. specifically to support the wound dressing team That’s how we improve. in Nimtala Clinic. There were several nurses and a young and very dedicated doctor from Switzerland “With the volunteers there’s a called Alan Costa (pictured left). lot of teamwork. We don’t think of them as volunteers, they are Alan brought along his experience in vascular members of our team. It’s our surgery and worked closely with the wound dressers, great pleasure and we are really who treat high numbers of chronic wounds. Alan’s extremely fortunate to have had impact was magnificent and he definitely drove up some of the volunteers who have the clinic’s standards. His work was built upon by a come here.” UK nurse volunteer, Daniel, who ran a new holistic Debu Prasad Chakraborty wound care course for staff across all clinics. Assistant Project Officer in charge of Nimtala Clinic and the Street Medicine teams

38 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 39 FINANCIAL BUILDING FUND A Building Fund was set up in 2014/15 in order to purchase a building to house our education programme. Over the last few years we have received specific donations to REPORT the fund from our Support Groups, and the balance as on 1/4/18 stood at Rs 166 lakhs (16.6 million). This accumulated fund was used to buy a property, known as the Pathshala project, in August 2018. To ensure statutory compliance and reporting to donor agencies, the Annual Accounts have been prepared in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the relevant accounting standards. A summary of the same is presented below. Specific reports are prepared as per the requirements of the donors and funding agencies. Summary of Building Fund as on 31/3/19 All items of income and expenditure have been accounted for on an accrual basis. Rs Summarised income and expenditure statement Opening balance as on 1/4/18 1,66,38,209 Add 2018/19 2017/18 Donations received during the year Rs % of total Rs % of total Foreign 41,49,446 INCOME Local 12,72,240 Donations (excluding donations towards Subtotal 54,21,686 capital projects) Add: Bank interest earned during the year 4,39,340 Local 75,89,813 10 72,91,870 12 Grand total 2,24,99,235 Local – in kind 3,11,040 2,72,160 Less International 6,58,20,055 85 4,84,75,389 80 Cost of purchase of property at 20 Iswar Mill Lane, Kolkata 700006 1,60,00,000 Grants 3,14,408 1 Stamp duty & registration costs 12,79,934 Earned/Self-generated income Legal expenses on purchase of property 30,850 Sale of handicrafts/handloom 12,60,755 2 7,85,093 1 Architects’ fees (payment on account until 31/3/19) 3,10,000 Interest 25,31,666 3 35,15,782 6 Total expenses (capital work in progress) 1,76,20,784 Profit on sale of asset 38,443 3,988 Unspent balance in Building Fund as on 31/3/19 48,78,451 Other income 24,557 62,796 TOTAL INCOME 7,75,76,329 100 6,07,21,486 100

Investments Actual 31/3/19 Rs Actual 31/3/18 Rs EXPENDITURE Fixed deposits with banks & 8% Government Bonds 3,96,75,942 4,75,44,512 Programme 6,46,27,290 89 5,87,81,231 90 Fundraising 1,21,346 1,27,461 Management & administration 75,21,709 11 61,14,691 10 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 7,22,70,345 100 6,50,23,383 100 SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) 53,05,984 -43,01,897

40 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 41 PROGRAMME-WISE EXPENDITURE Unspent balances as on 31/3/19

2018/19 2017/18 Rs Rs % of total Rs % of total Boarding school 2,66,980 Health (clinics, HIV clinic) 3,57,29,801 49 3,22,78,052 50 Breast cancer project 1,36,588 DOTs 10,37,736 1 8,69,044 1 Computer training 10,000 Street Medicine, arsenic filtration project 93,63,911 13 84,59,028 13 Depreciation fund 86,87,615 and disability Education programme 18,53,010 Education 1,35,43,806 19 1,23,01,540 19 Families relocation 31,88,362 Weaving project (discontinued in 2017/18) 8,29,415 1 Infrastructure cost for Handicraft project 9,00,094 Handicrafts project 24,14,190 3 19,35,139 3 Library 42,582 Fundraising, management & administration 76,43,055 11 62,42,152 10 Medical project 7,21,111 Main store and Pharmacy 25,37,846 4 21,09,013 3 Mother & child health 31,780 TOTAL 7,22,70,345 100 6,50,23,383 100 Pneumonology 1,39,227 Renovation Fund 1,08,403 Street Medicine II (Avina) 6,76,376 Vocational training 2,25,693 Summarised balance sheet Total 1,69,87,821

Unspent balances in the above projects are earmarked and carried forward to the next financial year – 2019/20. 31/3/2019 31/3/2018 Rs Rs ASSETS Fixed assets 3,03,44,709 1,18,70,871 “Fundraisers like me are the link between the teams doing amazing work on the Investments 3,96,75,942 4,75,44,512 ground, and agencies and individuals wishing to support the projects financially. My work requires passion, and a mix of precise knowledge and background Inventory 18,45,534 20,42,513 information, integrity, tactfulness and having the right timing. Sundry debtors 43,125 49,294 Cash & bank balances 87,04,049 54,94,535 “Sometimes we are approached by potential donors who have heard about Dr Jack’s achievements and want to support the work of Calcutta Rescue. And some people Loans & advances 19,29,475 20,94,644 find us online. Former volunteers are some of our best ambassadors and fundraisers, Other assets and deposits 13,61,681 17,76,400 as they can talk first-hand about the projects and the challenges in Kolkata.

Total 8,39,04,515 7,08,72,769 “I consult with the team in Kolkata on what projects need support, but I also talk to potential donors about what is realistic and how they can help projects effectively LIABILITIES and sustainably. General Fund 5,59,41,559 3,13,10,534 “I enjoy finding new donors and introducing our projects by sharing stories. Building Fund 48,78,451 1,66,38,209 I have developed a natural and genuine passion for convincing people to support the relevant and much-needed work of Calcutta Rescue. I am already very excited for Specific Fund 1,69,87,821 1,74,25,777 many more years to come.” Current liabilities & provisions 60,96,684 54,98,249 Isabelle Hug President, Stiftung Calcutta Rescue (Swiss Support Group) Total 8,39,04,515 7,08,72,769

42 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 43 KEY FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS COMPLIANCE &

This year’s total income of Rs 776 lakhs Management and administration costs have GOVERNANCE (77.6 million) is Calcutta Rescue’s highest ever – stayed at around 10–11%. However, overall costs an increase of 28% on 2017/18. have gone up by 22% in the current year, primarily due to extending medical reimbursement for staff Identity Details of our bankers Governance Local donations for operations stand at not covered by the Employees’ State Insurance Calcutta Rescue is registered Standard Chartered Bank Calcutta Rescue’s Governing Council Rs 76 lakhs (7.6 million), compared to Rs 73 lakhs Act and the one-off cost of introducing a as a society under West Bengal SP No. 0103, Floor No. 01 has supervisory and regulatory (7.3 million) in 2017/18 – an increase of 4%. Long-Service Award for staff completing 25 years Societies Registration The Unitech Chambers responsibility for all Calcutta Including donations in kind and those towards of service. Act 1961 (registration number 1865 Rajdanga Main Road Rescue’s activities. It approves new capital expenditure, total local donations are S/67495/91-92 on 4th April 1991). Kolkata 700107 and existing programmes, budgets, Rs 92 lakhs (9.2 million), representing 11.5% of Overall general and specific funds jumped to Registered with the Registrar of Swift Code: SCBLINBB annual activity reports and audited our overall total donations received this year. Rs 728 lakhs (72.8 million), compared to Societies, West Bengal. IFSC Code: SCBL0036003 financial statements, and ensures Rs 487 lakhs (48.7 million) in 2017/18. This was the organisation complies with laws The financial year ended with a surplus of due to the transfer from the Building Fund after Calcutta Rescue is registered State Bank of India and regulations. Rs 53 lakhs (5.3 million), compared to a deficit of the acquisition of the new property, and the under Section 12A of the Income 54 Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road Rs 43 lakhs (4.3 million) in 2017/18. This is primarily operating surplus of the year mentioned above. Tax Act 1961 (registration number Kolkata 700016 The Governing Council meets at due to the timing difference of the remittance DIT(E)/S-78,8E/73/94-95 on IFSC Code: SBIN0001792 least four times a year. Minutes of from a Support Group, which led to the deficit in 29.02.1996). MICR Code: 700002032 the meetings are documented and the previous year. circulated to all Governing Council Calcutta Rescue is exempted Axis Bank Ltd members and Support Groups. Health programme costs have gone up by 11% under Section 80G of the Income 150 Lenin Sarani and education programme costs by 10%. Main Tax Act 1961 (registration number Kolkata 700013 Dr Jack Preger MBE – Chairman store and Pharmacy costs have increased by DIT(E)/2370, 8E/73/94-95 on IFSC Code: UTIB0002261 Emeritus (retired as Chairman in 20% due to painting and repair of the main store 06.01.2011). MICR Code: 700211097 January 2019) and Pharmacy; damaged stocks due to a power Branch code: 2261 failure; and the re-appointment of a Pharmacist Calcutta Rescue is registered Governing Council as required by the local government’s Drug under Section 6(1) (a) of the Details of our auditors members Control department. Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Statutory auditors: With their role (if applicable), job/ Act 1976 (registration number M/s Bhattacharyya Roychaudhuri profession and length of service on 147120588). and Associates the Governing Council Chartered Accountants 1. Gautam Chakravartti – Honorary Calcutta Rescue’s Pharmacy: 36 Strand Road Chairman, Bar at Law (new role, Drug Licence Numbers WB/KOL/ First Floor, Room No 13 OTHER MATTERS former member) NBO/R/81364 and WB/KOL/ Kolkata 700001 2. Soumitra Bose – Honorary BIO/R/81364 under Directorate Secretary, Chartered Accountant of Drug Control West Bengal and Internal auditors: A drug licence for storage and distribution of M/s Bhattacharya, Roychaudhuri & Associates, (3 years) The Drugs and Cosmetics Rule KGRS & Co medicines at the Pharmacy was issued to us by Chartered Accountants, continued as our 3. Wg Cdr Shomir Choudhuri VSM 1945. Chartered Accountants the Directorate of Drug Control, West Bengal, statutory auditors for the financial year 2018/19. – Honorary Treasurer, retired Chatterjee International Centre in August 2018. New tenders for medicine Our internal auditors KGRS & Co, Chartered Indian Airforce pilot/IT (10 years) Memorandum and Articles of 14th floor, Room No 13A procurement were floated in February 2018 and Accountants, undertook quarterly reviews during 4. Dr GM Rahaman, medicine and Association and Rules available 33A JL Nehru Road are effective up to March 2020, with a provision the year and, where required, we have initiated health care (4 years) on request. Kolkata 700071 for suppliers to submit revised rates once every corrective actions. 5. Shukla Rebeiro, education six months, in case of any revision of retail prices. (8 years) 6. Col Amitava Poddar, retired Our Order for Cancellation of Registration of Indian Army officer (3 years) Goods and Service Tax identification number 7. Lionel Elloy, electrical engineering (GSTIN) wef 13.01.18 was received on 30/4/19. Our (3 years) Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act certificate 8. Samindra Roy, Business was issued on 1/11/16 and is valid for five years. Consultant (new)

44 Annual report 2018/19 www.calcuttarescue.org 45 THANK YOU SUPPORT GROUPS We’re especially grateful for the time and effort put in by our international Support Group members, Thank you to all our supporters, in India and around the world. You are making the work who have been our most consistent and loyal supporters over the decades. you’ve read about in this report possible, and together we’re transforming lives. All year round they are running events and campaigns to raise money for our work, and recruiting volunteers with the expertise and experience to come to Kolkata and help us improve what we do.

Prem Kumar Ahooja Patricia Jones Sanjay Shaw Subhash Chander Arora Saket Kandoi Vijay Vishnu Shrotriya Wg Cdr Vinod Kumar Bakshi Sumita Kandoi Gitanjli Singh Air Cmde Adhip Banerjee SC Pradip Chandra Kar Harcharan Singh Calcutta Rescue Calcutta Rescue Calcutta Rescue Calcutta Rescue Calcutta Rescue Calcutta Rescue Anjana Banerjee Hamida Khatoon Sonali Roychowdhury Singh France Fund UK Germany Ireland the Netherlands Norway Mridul Banerjee Tatineni Prem Kumar Capt David Subaiya Somsubhra Barori Pauline Laravoire Dr Lekha Subaiya Chevallier Marty Bernsdette Julie Basu Mallick Paul Subaiya Niladri Bhattacharya Lalith Mallick and Bhagabati Dr Sukanya Tapan Bhattacharya Mallick Anup Thakur Swapan Kumar Bhowmik Siddhartha Majumder Joseph Thomas Calcutta Rescue Calcutta Rescue Calcutta Rescue Fondation Stiftung Calcutta Mr Biddu Tapas Majumdar Jose Varghese Canada Provence USA Calcutta Espoir Rescue Helen Bilton Jonathon Anthony Mason BJ Vaz Soumak and Aanchal Bose Air Marshal Michael Mcmahon Ravi Indra Singh Verdi Camelia PVSMAVSM VM Riya Chakrabarti K B Menon Tathagata Chakrabarty Kingshuk Mitra Kalipada Chakraborty Bappa Mukherjee Satyaki Chakraborty Meghnath Mukherjee Sougata Chakraborty Partha S Mukherjee Swarup Chakraborty Priyanka Mukherjee ORGANISATIONS/ Constance Chatterjee Rajasri Mukherjee Dilip Chandra Chatterjee R K Nahata Suchandra Chatterjee Cmd Ravi Ramakrishnan Nair “In the 10 years since I joined CORPORATE DONORS Debasis Chaudhuri Ms Nand the Governing Council, the Shomik Choudhuri Anirban Pal interaction between us and the Wg Cdr Shomir Choudhuri VSM Debasish Palit Support Groups has grown. The Sujoy Choudhuri Dr Pramila Pandey financial support of the groups Meghdut Roy Chowdhury Minoo Noshirwan Panthaki is vital for operations, and their Nupur Chowdhury Jateen Patel Johnathan James Lucas Clarke Megha Podder input and their volunteers help Jyotsna Codati Dr Jack Preger MBE us improve our services. Arun Kumar Das Sangeeta Rai Joyita Das Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar “Dr Jack was such an inspiration Bhaswati Dasgupta Panchapagesan Ramani on the ground here in Kolkata, Wg Cdr Ritu Raj Jain Dass Wg Cdr Kolapur Kishore Rao Monica Datta Mana Ray so we need to make sure the Amitabha DebRoy Dr Roshni groups and volunteers still feel The Telegraph Gautam Dutta Debraj Roy motivated by our cause. Education Foundation Farheen Fatima Samindra Roy In future I hope new groups will Wg Cdr Martin Fernandes Sanjay Roy be started in other countries. Sashi Sekhar Ghosal Sarbani Roy However, I’ve always felt that Air Force Association Hindustan Unilever Secure Giving-Kolkata Devakalpa Ghose Line Ruffieux West Bengal Branch India Cares Foundation Shree Narsingh Enterprise Anindya Ghosh Suman Sammader we should be able to increase our domestic funding to 50% Alpha Malts Pvt Ltd Unit – CS Indian Schools Alumni Friends Small Change Sanghamitra Ghosh Ritwika Sanyal Avina Stiftung Inner Wheel Club Sony India Private Limited Haridas Meghji Gori Sudesh Sawant of our income, so that’s still my Calcutta Foundation JRG Fincorp Limited Supertron Foundation Ranendra Goswami Dany Schroer objective and I’m convinced Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd Kinderhilfe Uitikon Switz Foods Pvt Ltd Sudip Halder Amitava Sen it’s possible.” Exide Industries Ltd Magma Foundation The Telegraph Education Anisha Heble Prajna Sen Wg Cdr Shomir Choudhuri VSM Fondation Coromandel Nahoum & Sons Pvt Ltd Foundation Maura Hurley Ruby Sen Honorary Treasurer, Garg Foundation Paharpur Foundation Time and Talent Club Ramchandra Jaiswal Deb Jani Sengupta Randstad India Pvt Ltd Governing Council Global Giving Foundation UNIVBRANDS Roshan Jaiswal Harish Kumar Sharma VSM Heritage River Journeys Rolls Pack Pvt Ltd Webel Margriet Jassen Amit Kumar Shaw Private Limited Sanofi India Limited

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