Educate >500 children: Red Light District, Kolkata

In the last few weeks of April 2021, India has witnessed a huge spike in the number of Covid-19 positive cases with more than 300,000 people getting infected daily. As a country India is still on a recovery mode from the mammoth setback that was faced due to the Covid-19 outbreak last year, and the deadlier double or triple mutant Covid-19 variant hit them again like never before (Wave 2), making them grapple for oxygen which is now at scarce in the country and is taking lives of people even with the mildest of infection

In Bengal Local trains have stopped. Road and metro transport have been halved. Fish and vegetable market to be opened for 3 hours in the morning and in the evening.

When the pandemic caused schools to shut down, our project team members and the community volunteers tried to make ends meet so that children could stay in touch with their education. Even though it was difficult for the under-privileged children to gain access to digital education, our team ensured that at least the students of higher secondary and secondary schools remained in regular touch with them. Not only that, but the younger students were also not ignored – they equally participated in the online classes that took place for them. The post pandemic period is said to witness a sharp increase in the number of school dropouts, child marriage and child trafficking. The main reason that our team ensured that children remained in touch with their books throughout the lockdown is that the children of Rambagan have already been exposed to innumerable vulnerabilities and the lockdown period served as a favourable period to pull them back into the depths of susceptibilities.