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Building Lives for the Most Vulnerable in Kolkata
This is to provide basic human needs (food, clothes, sanitation, education material) for children and old people living below the poverty level in Kolkata and surroundings through a Small NGO called Parashmani. The impact on these very poor people are even more severe now with the COVID crisis and the cyclonic storm Amphan which has devastated Southern Bengal leaving people homeless and struggling to live. The objective of this project is to enable people to live.
Help people live in Kolkata – the city that probably has the lowest urban standard of living in the world. Sadly, over 70 percent of the population of Kolkata lives at or below the poverty line. Making them all the more vulnerable to the COVID-19 crisis and climate disasters such as the Cyclone Amphan. In addition to the economic struggles and many deaths due to the virus, many people have now been displaced due to the cyclone, that had Kolkata flooded and left its 14 million people without power.
Through this project I want to provide financial support to Parashmani Welfare Society, a NGO founded by a few retired personnel, including my parents, in India in 2007. I, Shilpi Ghosh, and my two European friends, Sandrine and Nicole, visited India in October 2019 and decided to start a crowdfunding project in order to support the most vulnerable in Kolkata’s society. Now, given the recent events, it is all the more important to provide basic needs and sanitation to homes, Ashrams and schools.
In order to realize our work we need CHF 2’000 (Swiss francs). For many Westerners reading this, it might seem like a small amount. In Kolkata, however, it is a small fortune, as the average earning of a family of five is INR 2600 (approximately CHF 32).
With this being our pilot crowdfunding project, we would like to raise funds for the Parashmani Welfare Society on an annual basis. The goal is to support the same set of homes, schools and shelters that serve the poor in India. If we can sustain this for a number of years, children will be able to get an education, become self-sufficient and hence, capable of helping their society.
Please help us, help the most vulnerable of Kolkata.
Thank you for your time and consideration -
Shilpi Ghosh, Sandrine, Nicole and the Parashmani Welfare Society
In the following you will find further information on the NGO:
Parashmani Welfare Society, 13 Priyanath Ghosh Road, Santoshpur Kolkata 700075
Registered Number: S/IL/48383; Established on: Nov 2007; Number of official members of the Socitey: 20
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