Calcutta Rescue has started a pilot project using the humble earthworm to tackle waste and generate employment. Vermicomposting uses worms to turn things like food waste and bedding materials into…
Calcutta Rescue has just opened a new clinic in the Tangra slum to provide free healthcare to its 7,000 inhabitants. The clinic, which was officially opened on November 15, is named after long-serving former CR…
Life has not been easy recently for Ava's (not her real name), but without the support of Calcutta Rescue, she might have lost her life, not just her leg. The 58-year-old widow…
As the severity of the Covid pandemic has lessened Calcutta Rescue has again has started welcoming volunteers from abroad. Solidar India, a nonprofit organisation from France and a loyal Calcutta…
Our new outreach team has got a rather special new member - Sobhan Mukherjeee - better known in Kolkata as Padman. Sobhan, 26, who became the joint supervisor of the team…
The teachers are now halfway through a two-year teacher training programme, funded by the charity, and for some, it is the first formal teacher training they have had.The idea was the…
"I suffered not once, but twice from TB. At one point I lost all hope", said Mrinmoy.Mrinmoy Hazra was first diagnosed with the disease, responsible for 10% of all deaths…
Calcutta Rescue’s third street medicine team (SM3) hit the road this month with more than a little help from US charity, Indian Schools Alumni and Friends (INSAF ) who funded a bespoke…
20-year-old Mehrin (name changed) had no idea when she went to collect water that morning with her young son that her life was about to change forever. Although he had been…
An article about how Calcutta Rescue helped a street vendor recover from "the brink of death" has attracted some welcome attention for the NGO."Awesome" "amazing work" and "inspirational" were just…