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OUR CHARITIES
Your donations help us support our charities
The charities supported by KIWC reflect our philosophy of being secular and apolitical. These groups are often smaller, lesser known organizations with limited funding. They all focus on assisting women and children within Kolkata.
We currently have 10 charities that we provide annual support to and we have several others we reach out to when we have extra funds or when we run appeals.
Below we give a brief synopsis of each charity and the involvement KIWC has had to date. Should you be interested in learning more, volunteering or if you would like to build your own relationship with one of the charities we support please get in touch with the Charities Team at kolkatakiwc@gmail.com or visit the website of that particular charity.
Amma's Girls Home
St. Paul's School is a non-profit private school. After the end of the normal school day for the fee paying students, St Paul's operates evening classes for slum and street children. For some of these children they also offer scholarships for the main school. The home for 16 orphan girls is called Amma's Girls Home. Run by the matriarch Kimi Aunty, the kids call her amma.
KIWC have supported the school for a number of years and in the past have paid for a toilet to be installed, have replaced fans and classroom benches, provided a water filter and stationary packs. We have helped the school to purchase a desk top computer to allow computer lessons to take place at the school and a new refrigerator. We have purchased a new television for the girls to unwind after a productive day. This year KIWC has given them funds for a new washing machine.
Ankur Kala
This is the neweset charity added to our roster. Ankur Kala provides training in various handicrafts and food products. This gives the women a viable means to economic independence. Each new women trainee goes through an extensive two-year training program, in which they first learn to read and write and progress to a simple course in business managemnet. They are trained in production of food products, handicrafts, catering and paper products. Ankur Kala helps market these products by participating in various exhibitions and through their website
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Basha School
The Basha School offers education in English medium to 60 children from nursery to class 12. The children, whose parents are informally employed and struggle to make ends meet, are selected from the poorest families from the nearby slums. The school has been very successful in offering a brighter future to these children and also in persuading and educating the parents of the importance of an education for their children. The KIWC has supported Basha School in different ways over the years, from providing school bags and shoes to paying for school lunches. We have given them funds for new uniforms, shoes and school bags for all the students. This year we have allocated new shoes and school books.
Destiny Foundation
Destiny Foundation is a non-profit organisation set up in 2007 that works to end human trafficking and slavery. The Foundation comprises of two divisions – Destiny, the charitable wing, and Reflection, the social business wing. Their aim is not simply to save girls from trafficking or sexual exploitation, but to make certain that they are not compelled to go back into the trade due to social and economic pressures.
KIWC has supported Destiny since 2011, we have supported their project in the red light district of Kidhirpur, where they offer education and training to sex workers. Most recently we have
sponsored a project for Sukanya Home which Destiny supports. Sukanya Home is a government home to shelter and feed girls that are orphaned, rescued from trafficking, or living on the streets of Kolkata. This year we funded and helped build a playground for the girls with the help of the students from Amity School of Architecture and Anthill Creations. We are very happy that we could be a part of this project.
Responsible Charity
This is a organization that supports after school programs for kids from the slums, provides family planning, medical assistance and employment for the women from the slums. KIWC has provided funding for the family planning program and this will also cover sanitary napkins for 60 women for the remainder of this year
Santi Nivash
Affiliated with the Oxford Mission, Santi Nivas is a group home for seniors, men and women. This is the oldest charity supported by KIWC. We have provided bed sheets, toiletries and night wear and groceries to the residents.
Shuktara Girls Home
Shuktara Girls Home provides a loving home for girls and young women with disabilities who have been abandoned by their own families. Girls have often spent many years in government facilities or other inappropriate conditions. Many of the girls suffer from cerebral palsy along with other ailments. KIWC supports them by providing funding for two girls to attend REACH school and the girls are making progress in communication. Since 2018, KIWC has provided funding for two of the girls to get physical therapy and the girls are showing progress in mobility as a result. KIWC has provided funding for a much needed repaint job for the ground floor of the home.
St. Elizabeth Girls’ Hostel
St. Elizabeth's hostel is a Bengali medium boarding school for 65 under-privileged and orphaned girls located in the South Kolkata Thakurupukur area. KIWC sponsors 4 girls annually. Sponsorship includes education, food, school uniform and boarding for the year. In previous years KIWC has gifted the hostel with new individual mealwares plates, cups, and kitchen utensils for cooking and serving and stationary packs. This year we have given funds to renovate their kitchen.
KIWC Christmas Appeal
Each year we run an appeal at the Christmas bazaar to give a gift to each of our women and children that come under our list of charities that we support each year. We have given boxes of food provisions, blankets, shawls, sheets and our last appeal was towels with small vanity kits. We decide on the gift based on feedback from the people who run these charities as to what the women and girls actually need.
KIWC outreach to NGOs
We sanction and make one-time donations on a need based request from various smaller NGO's in West Bengal.
In 2023, we supported Swayam an organization that is committed to advancing women’s rights and ending inequality and violence against women and girls.
Swayam facilitates the empowerment of women survivors of violence and enables them to become self-confident, self-sufficient and self-reliant. KIWC partnered with Swayam to create a separate play area for the children that visit Swayam.
Divine Script has been working for the empowerment of women for over a decade and has been instrumental in bringing change to the lives of several thousand marginalized women in the city. KIWC has given a donation for the training of 9 women for a beautification course and training for a back-office job and placement.
Shikshamitra is an open learning and education resource center. They foster hands on professionals to teach foundational literacy and numeracy starting in 2005. In response to the post-pandemic education crisis KIWC supported them monetarily. This sponsorship covers the internship to create competent hands-on professionals who can skillfully teach literacy and numeracy to children ages (8 to 10 years). It covers a stipend for 4 teachers for 4 months.