Help Save Our Second Home | Milaap
Help Save Our Second Home
  • Riddhi

    Created by

    Riddhi Society
  • Sa

    This fundraiser will benefit

    Students and teachers

    from Kolkata, West Bengal

Tax benefits for INR donations will be issued by Riddhi Society for Remedial & Integrated Education

For twenty-two years, Riddhi has been an undeterred provider of educational training for children with special needs in Kolkata, India. Our primary objective has always been to give each student personal care (5:1, student to teacher ratio) and make them as self-reliant as possible so that they are equipped to face the many challenges of the outside world. With time, our students have found a family, a sense of community among their peers, the staff, and the teachers in the school. Together, they have picked up skills such as singing, dancing, stitching, painting, baking, cooking, weaving, etc many of which can be translated into a skilled career.

The school was previously funded by a notable organization, Hans Foundation, up until the year 2019. Upon expiry of the aforementioned tie-up, the school had made arrangements for further funding, all of which fell through as the pandemic came upon and jolted our day-to-day lives. We had enough resources to continue for a few months - for the first three months, we were able to pay the teachers and staff full salaries to continue with their job. After that, however, we had to cut down on the salaries to be able to afford to carry forward. Despite this, our teachers and staff did not leave our employment. They too sincerely believed in our cause - to nurture children who're otherwise neglected or invisible in the eyes of society, irrespective of how bad the pandemic got to us.

 The donation we are hoping to raise through Milaap will cover the salaries of the thirty-seven total staff and teachers of the school in the coming months, the rent of the school building so that the students who have grown to associate the building as their second home won't have to lose it, and hopefully, cover the cost of online studies for twenty students whose family are undergoing financial constraints due to the pandemic. The donation will also provide us the time needed to make a more permanent arrangement of funding for the school, which we otherwise would have to shut down.

Riddhi has stayed true to its mission for twenty-two years by giving the students a voice with personal care and assistance. It is a small, yet extremely supportive community of its own. Our priority now is that, just like our students, we must become self-reliant too, so that we can create an environment where our students and teachers don't have to worry about the school staying functional while furthering their education. With your help, we can achieve this goal and make sure that these children have a bright future, just like everybody else.

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Instagram: https://instagram.com/riddhikolkata?utm_medium=copy_link
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Riddhi-104753575125916

Email us at riddhispecialedu@gmail.com for any queries, collaborations, or if you would like to talk to us about our cause. We are always welcoming of it all. 

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