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Annual Report 2015 Your help makes a difference 1 1 LittleBigHelp provided more than LittleBigHelp ensured 88,000 meals daily education for to the children at our projects 348 children In 2015... LittleBigHelp started 2 new projects: LittleBigHelp Vocational Training ensured a health check for and Beautician Training 531 children 2 3 Table of Content Message from the Founder 6-7 Message from the Programme Manager 8-9 Who We Are and What We Do 10-11 Boys’ Home 12-15 Girls’ Home 16-19 Open Shelter 20-23 Learning Centre for Tribal Children 24-27 Vocational Training 28-29 Shalimar Pre and Primary School 30-33 Centre for Special Education 34-37 Adult Learning Centre 38-39 Annual Charity Gala at Copenhagen Marriott Hotel 40-41 Charity Dinner at Hotel Scandic Aarhus City 42-43 Donors and Corporate Partners at 44-47 the Events in Copenhagen and Aarhus A Big Thank You to 48-49 All Donors and Corporate Partners in 2015 Foundations and Network Collaborations 50 Financial Summary 51-54 Contact Us 55 4 5 Message from the Founder 2015 and all that it has brought It is deeply touching to see the The evening of LittleBigHelp’s sixth has been working hard and with with it gives good reason to be women’s self-esteem rise as consecutive annual Charity Gala admirable devotion to ensure grateful. LittleBigHelp has yet their eyes are opened to new remains especially memorable. development and quality across again expanded and opened 2 new possibilities and a hope for a A magical evening hosted so all our projects. The knowledge, projects focusing on empowering brighter future begins to grow beautifully by our new corporate cultural understanding and women socially and financially, within them. We expect that this partner Marriott Copenhagen passion of our local employees to fight the gender inequality new strategic focus will result in Hotel, and which raised DKK have been essential for and discrimination that too many not only women being lifted out of 1.1 million for our projects. I am LittleBigHelp’s achievements and women in India still experience. poverty but entire families. likewise grateful to our corporate I am so grateful for each of their partner, Hotel Scandic Aarhus contributions. Women in India earn 56 % of We are deeply thankful for the City who hosted our second what their male colleagues earn opportunity to support more than Charity Dinner in Aarhus where a As an organisation we enter for performing the same work 500 children and women everyday generous amount of DKK 543,000 2016 with great excitement and and only 26 % of women have through our projects. In 2015 we was raised. dreams of continuing to make an account at a formal financial created 70 jobs, supporting the tremendous differences in the lives institution compared to 44 % livelihood of many families. It was a touching moment of of vulnerable children and women of men1. Evidence shows that recognition when, LittleBigHelp as we empower them with the investing in women benefits entire This is only possible thanks to was chosen as Ladies Circle knowledge, skills and confidence societies. In 2015 we therefore the generous support from our International Service Project to make their own decisions in life. opened a Vocational Training corporate partners, donors, 15/17, meaning that Ladies centre and a Beautician Training members and private individuals. Circles around the world will centre for women. Not only be fundraising for LittleBigHelp With love and gratitude are the women taught income A special thank you to everyone Girls' Home and the knowledge of Lisbeth Johansen generating skills but also about who has supported LittleBigHelp LittleBigHelp will spread. Thank their rights, entitlements, financial either financially or with their you to the Board of Directors and management and marketing. expertise and guidance. to the LittleBigHelp team who 6 1 http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2014/economies/#economy=IND 7 Message from the Programme Manager 2015 has been another milestone is an important aspect in the from these projects. Several wishers that has helped to make year for LittleBigHelp with sustainability of the projects. international visitors have visited LittleBigHelp grow effectively strong performances across our projects throughout the year, and made it possible to provide all dimensions. The persistent Thanks to new strategies at our getting a clear insight into the quality services to the children performance by all team members Open Shelter project, our support initiatives of LittleBigHelp. and women. I look forward and support from external has now extended to address to your continued support agencies and individuals has made school dropout and child labour One musician from Denmark, for LittleBigHelp’s future this possible. issues more effectively for slum Kris Herman, even came to India interventions. children. The aim is to empower to record a song together with It is a great privilege for the children to break the cycle of the children from our Girls’ and LittleBigHelp team to work poverty through education and Boys’ Home, leaving them with an Warm greetings from for marginalised children and work towards preventing that unforgettable experience. Debasish Guha women and to be a catalyst they become permanent street for positive change in their children. In 2015, LittleBigHelp has On behalf of the organisation lives. Along with effective added increased focus on women’s and its management team, I implementation of all projects skill development initiatives to want to thank all the donors the team has also been working address issues associated with for their generous support and to establish strong relationships gender inequality and more than commitment to the organisation. with local stakeholders, which 30 women have directly benefitted It is the support of all well 8 9 Vision: We cannot help everybody - but we can Who We Are and What We Do help some. And we do it! LittleBigHelp works to create and registered as an NGO in Kolkata that we Mission: management of better opportunities for vulnerable Denmark in 2010 by Founder design, manage We change your little help LittleBigHelp in children and women in West Lisbeth Johansen, who gave and monitor. into a big help for both Denmark Bengal, India - each and every up her career as International people in need. and India. day. We work to secure basic Sales Director to pursue her Working with child rights such as education and dream of creating an NGO in complete honesty and Debasish Guha protection, along with women’s India. In 2012, LittleBigHelp transparency is essential manages the projects empowerment through skill was registered in India and is in all our work. We work to and the team of 70 local team development. operating as LittleBigHelp India keep administration costs at members in India on a daily Trust. In late 2013 we entered a minimum and thus rely on basis with the assistance of local We cannot help everybody, but into a partnership with a very voluntary help and assistance Project Managers. Programme our belief is that everybody can established and recognised local from friends, family and our Assistant Rebekka Madsen and help some – and we do it! Each NGO outside of Kolkata working network who all wish to help Fundraising and Events Manager day in 2015, we helped more with children with special needs. us make a difference for the Rikke Schrøder work between than 500 vulnerable children and vulnerable children and women. Denmark and India. women to a better every-day life This is our local implementing and brighter future by working partner NGO. LittleBigHelp raises Throughout 2015, Founder towards empowering them to funds predominantly in Denmark, Lisbeth Johansen and make their own choices in life. and increasingly in India, which Programme Manager Debasish LittleBigHelp was established are spent on our projects in Guha have ensured the overall 10 11 Boys’ Home In January 2014 we opened a them. We talk to them about their long-term home for up to 45 street dreams, aspirations and potential connected or other vulnerable and guide them on their path Story to Share from Boys’ Home 2015 boys. In our Home, the boys can towards reaching them. start a new life away from the The first 5 years of Anik’s (not quickly adjusted to the routines of street with care, comfort, nutrition, his real name) life were far from Boys’ Home, making friends with education - and a place to call secure as he lived at one of the other boys and building close 'home' until they reach 18 years The boys in Boys’ Home Kolkata’s largest train stations relationships with the caretakers. of age. We enrol them in a local are lovely and above all basically wandering the busy With the support of the team he school to secure them education happy. The brightness streets and station alone as his quickly developed good hygienic and we structure their everyday life parents would be away looking for habits, which were quite unfamiliar at the home with sports, drawing, in their eyes and their work. His mother and stepfather’s to him after growing up in the meditation, games, recreational lovely smile touches unreliable income made even slum. He now feels safe in Boys’ activities and fun holidays. We our hearts every time purchasing food immensely Home referring to it as ’my home’ want the boys to experience a difficult not to mention clothes, and ’my friends’ when talking childhood with all the love and we look at them. I’m shelter and medical needs. about the other boys in the Home. care that they need, as any child touched to see how well His favourite activities are to make has the right to.

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