This NGO in Kolkata has two residential educational institutions – Parivaar Vivekananda Sevashrama for Boys and Parivaar Sarada Teertha for girls. With over 2000 resident children, they are West Bengal’s largest free residential schools for children from underprivileged backgrounds.

This nonprofit has been working with local communities in West Bengal’s Sundarbans for over five decades, bringing a difference in their lives through its interventions in education, health, livelihood, women’s welfare and the environment.

Through one of its education initiatives, Calcutta Rescue supports 650 students living in the slums through two of its education centres in the city. The support is provided from the pre-primary stage until students complete their education and start earning.

Tiljala SHED runs after-school classes every day for 600 children from Kg to Class XII in five community centres in the heart of each of its target areas in Central Kolkata. The children receive remedial academic support, and English and computer lessons.