The human cost of Covid-19 became very clear to staff at Calcutta Rescue in July when they lost a much-loved colleague to the virus. Uttara, who was a helper at Tala Park School, started feeling unwell on July 14. She isolated at home for a number of days but her condition worsened. Uttara was admitted […]
Keeping staff safe – Uttara and other staff, Dr Jack’s benevolent fund Read More »
It took six long months to build this small room where patients can have their dressings changed in private and in a hygenic setting. Building started back in January but came to a complete halt on March 25 when the nationwide lockdown was announced. The wound-dressing room was finally completed in June and has
Nimtala clinic’s new wound-dressing room is finally finished! Read More »
Badal was one of Calcutta Rescue’s ‘lost patients’ – people with serious medical conditions who the medical team lost touch with during India’s protracted Covid lockdown. Now Badal, who is 70 and has nasty ulcers on his feet, is back getting treatment at Nimtala Clinic and is helping track down other ‘lost patients’ Badal has
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Twenty Calcutta Rescue students were given new smartphones on Monday 17 August- allowing them to interact with their teachers online and access a wealth of internet learning materials. Many of the 650 youngsters being educated by the charity don’t have access to smartphones which has left them at a severe disadvantage since schools across India
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Dear Friends of Calcutta Rescue, The situation here in Kolkata has altered dramatically since my last email so I thought it was high time to update you on what our organisation has been doing. Prior to the easing of lockdown, we put a lot of effort into refining our procedures for how we were going
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“Mental health issues are as normal as physical health issues. At some point in our life all of us face problems related to mental health. Be kind to yourself & be kind to the world.” – Suchandra Chatterjee (Calcutta Rescue social worker and counsellor, MA in Clinical Psychology Calcutta University, Diploma in Psychiatric Counselling from
Mental Health Matters! Read More »
It is with deep sorrow that Calcutta Rescue shares the news that one of its UK supporters, Kavi Varsani, has died of the coronavirus. Kavi, who lived in London, was just 22 years old when he passed away in hospital last Monday, April 27. Kavi, whose father Dhiraj helped found the charity’s British Indian Group,
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Dear friends of Calcutta Rescue, I am Ananya Chatterjee, the administrator of Calcutta Rescue education centres updating you with the current happenings that is going on at CR’s No 10 and Tala Park education centres. I am writing this on the day 50 of nationwide lock-down in India which seems to get extended more. All
Teachers pioneer new ways to nurture CR schoolchildren during the lockdown Read More »
Living with his 78-year-old mother hasn’t stopped Shibu Mukherjee from playing a key role since the coronavirus lockdown began, bringing medicine and food to needy patients in high-risk areas. “Our patients are so vulnerable and poor, I am compelled to go and provide them the medicines. Where will they go if we can’t help?” says
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Most of the Nimtala Clinic patients live on the street, so keeping in touch with them is a challenge at the best of times – let alone during the Covid-19 lockdown. Asif Ahamed, the clinic supervisor, has taken on this demanding role. The fact that It takes him more than 3 hours for him to
From a distance of 100 km, Asif reaches out to Nimtala patients Read More »
