Pilkhana · Watkins Lane
So a working parent has somewhere safe to leave their child.
A crèche, monthly rations, and direct help in moments of crisis — family welfare has always meant whatever a family needs most.
A crèche, monthly rations, and direct help in moments of crisis — family welfare has always meant whatever a family needs most.
For children of daily-wage parents who have nowhere else to leave them during working hours.
Babies and toddlers are looked after from morning until late afternoon, fed nutritious meals including fruit, milk and biscuits, and introduced to early learning — alphabets, numerals, and the basics of cognitive development. The full Baby Care Unit, once known as the "Ricket Home", had to scale back significantly during the 2023–24 funding crisis, reopening as a limited crèche in January 2024. Our project workers visit families directly to encourage regular attendance.
Around 76 children's families receive a monthly ration of rice, atta, pulses, sugar, oil, milk, biscuits, soya, salt, tea, washing powder, soap and sanitary supplies. Our Project Coordinator also runs periodic sessions with parents on social behaviour, addiction, and parenting.
A smaller, occasional project: helping the most impoverished families construct or repair a one-storey home from plinth to roof.
We've completed homes in Bishorpara, North 24 Parganas and Bamangachi, Howrah. We've also provided emergency medical help, walking sticks and wheelchairs to physically disabled members of the community when the need has arisen.
Rations, childcare, and emergency support are some of the most direct help we offer — and some of the easiest to fund.