It’s been our dream and vision to have a small science lab at our school where students could get hands-on experience of the experiments they have learned from the books or from their teachers. We are very grateful to the professors and students of the Department of Chemistry from BESC who have been helping us […]
HPL Kolkata support
Daan Utsav, also known as the Joy of Giving Week, is a week-long festival in India that celebrates the spirit of giving, sharing, and compassion. We are grateful to HPL (Haldia Petrochemicals ltd) company Kolkata who dedicated Daan Utsav week to our community and collected new clothes, dry food item, stationaries, books and much more […]
CED visit
After a break of several years, Mrs. Susanne Pechel, the president of the humanitarian foundation CED, who financed the construction of our new school building and supports the schooling of more than 50 of our girls, was able to visit us again. Mrs. Evelyn from CED Allgäu also arrived with her. We received them with […]
POTA volunteers
Again this year, POTA volunteers visited us and spent three wonderful weeks with us. This time it was Katja, Ana, Meta and two Evas. They created with the children, performed simple experiments, sang, danced, cooked and did many things. We are very happy that they decided to become the godmothers of one of our youngest […]
Visitors
We feel happy and honoured when people from all over the world visit us. This time we were visited for the first time by a family from Italy, from Florence. Silvia, a psychology student, conjured up a wonderful atmosphere for our children, so that quite a few tears were shed when it was necessary to […]
Meeting with our Friends and Benefactors
We are very grateful for the opportunity to visit our friends and supporters the CED family in Germany. We gathered together at the presentation in Munich, where we talked about the innovations in our project, as well as the successes and challenges. The president of the CED organization dr. Susanne Pechel also spoke about several […]
Excursion to Shantiniketan
West Bengal is the native state, of the venerable philosopher-educationist-bard Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore curated an educational set up in ‘Shantiniketan’ to challenge the existing education system. Shantiniketan is the place to come across the framework that was conceived. Many artists, craftsmen, linguists, creative intellectuals visited/visit Shantiniketan and left/leave their mark in the architecture, sculpture, artefact […]
Teach for India – Film Ready steady
Teach for India, Kolkata invited us to their very firts Film Festival featuring to films: Ready, Steady and Conference of the Birds. Ready Steady is a high school drama about ten teenagers who come from low-income backgrounds but have managed to get admission to an elite high school in a posh part of Delhi. Our […]
Our 16th year anniversary
This year we are celebrating 16 years of our project therefore we have prepared a special ceremony with a cultural program on this occasion. Our guests of honor were the Ambassador of Slovenia in India, Mrs. Mateja Vodeb Ghosh, First Secretary Mrs. Irma Sinkovec, Honorary Consul Mr. Bagaria and Mr. Anjan Chowdhury from the company […]