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Calcutta Rescue distributes smartphones to the students
With the lockdown due to COVID-19 in Kolkata, normal learning process for Calcutta Rescue’s 650 students came to a halt.

CR trains community women for health education
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our street medicine ambulances are not able to go to all the slum areas and provide the servicesthat we used to provide

Global Walk-a-Thon to Raise Money to Fight Covid-19 in Kolkata
More than 130 walkers from around the globe – from Australia, India, South Africa, Germany, Switzerland, France, Netherland, Belgium, UK, USA and Canada – took part in a grand Walk-a-thon on July 25

Dutch Calcutta Rescue Supporters Honored with Knighthood
Lilian Teunissen and Henk Loos, who had been dedicated supporters of Calcutta Rescue for over 25 years, were honored with knights of the Order of Oranje Nassau by the King of the Netherlands on May 16, 2020

In Standardized Tests, CR Students Perform Way Better Than National Average
Our students in grades 1 to 5 not only showed significant improvements from last year’s results, they also performed significantly better than the national average

Tackling Gender Based Violence with Swayam
Calcutta Rescue held holdsworkshops in 20 slums, in co-operation with the leading Gender Based

Subho, from slum kid to school headmaster – an inspirational role model
Subho (which means ‘good’) was born in a in a 10ftx10ft hut

Our New School, next to the ancestral home of Prof. Satyen Bose
Calcutta Rescue has purchased a two-story building next to the ancestral home of world-renowned

Nilu’s Dream of Following Neymar
Nilu cannot remember his mother. They lived under the Howrah Bridge. His father, unable to support him,

Rukshana’s battle with TB
Rukshana is a young mother who contracted tuberculosis when her son was less than

Teaching youngsters IT skills
Soumitra Bose, Secretary of Calcutta Rescue, who had experience of introducing IT

The Second Mobile Clinic Ready to serve 8,500 patients a year
If the patients cannot come to the clinic, the clinic will come to the patients