Nothing is going to stop Babita from caring for her TB patients – not the lockdown, not staff shortages, not police barricades, nor even a shortage of the drugs they need daily to beat this potentially fatal disease. Babita runs Calcutta Rescue’s TB clinic near Belgachia slum, a red zone hotspot of COVID-19 cases, and […]
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Ruksana (not her real name) is not about to let the Covid-19 virus stop her from helping patients in the private hospital where she works. She is a brave, independent woman, proud of her job and being able to support her family and her young daughter.Seeing her now, you would never guess she suffered years
On any other day, the students of Calcutta Rescue education centres would be in their schools, learning, playing and having fun with their friends. But in the lockdown period, they are forced to stay at home. However, students are trying their best to communicate with the teachers regularly either through their own phones or the
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Dear friends of Calcutta Rescue, First I want to say a big thank you for all the supportive messages we have received in the past few weeks. Knowing that you care about us and the work we are doing at this very difficult time is so heartening for me and the whole team. And we
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Calcutta Rescue’s chief executive Jaydeep Chakraborty drove an ambulance for 120km yesterday through the deserted streets of West Bengal on a mercy mission to get drugs to a young woman who has a rare bleeding disorder. The charity is working as hard as it can this week to get food and drugs out to hundreds
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