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Partnership with Give India

Give foundation has been funding our organization since 2003-04 for caring the destitute aged persons without gender discrimination and the orphan school going children. Till now we have given benefits to 169 aged distressed persons and to 393 poor and orphan children. We have been giving nutrition to food items, clothing, hygiene kits and health check up facility, books and stationery, exposure visit and recreation as benefits suitable to different age group and Give India has been chanalising this fund for the noble cause of humanity.

	As a partner organization we are getting guidance in all respect and covering one after another area and would continue to do so as long as we would get patronization from the benevolent Donors and support of Give India Donors.

Apart from this we also received funds from Give India Donors for public benefit and we have utilized it for building a classroom of a high school and has reconstructed the damaged portion of another High School for the benefit of the students. We have also started a training programme for the poor students in computer and photography after purchasing a computer and digital camera out of excess fund. So, Give India Donors has been supporting us in fulfilling our mission and vision to a great extent.
Give India Donors extended their helping hand for the ongoing project of Bani Mandir through protection of orphan/needy children by Nutrition support and Old age protection of elderly persons through support of Food and Health care. From April to September 2010 there 128 (One hundred an twenty eight) Children and 46 (forty six) of elderly persons were supported. Besides regular support of the above two major programmes they also helped 5 (five) persons with Cycle-Cart for their livelihood support in Income Generation. 2 (two) Batches of 10 students are getting one year Computer Training (Basic, Office, Photoshop and internet) and 5 (five) Groups of 25 children were taken to an excursion at Kolkata-Zoo.

Partnership with Sahay


	Child Sponsorship Programme is run under financial assistance of Sahay, a noble agency of Children International, USA . Children of 2-9 years age group are being selected, who get the benefit of this programme at their 19 years of age. The programme is divided into following catagories : Education Health Family Assistance Nutritition Programme Community Development Value Formation Special Gift Special Care to drop out children
RCH Education for Adolescent girls: SAHAY supported to run several Workshops/Meetings on life skill, reproductive anatomy, pregnancy, HIV/AIDS etc.

Partnership with Helpage India

Since March 2006 as per guidance of Helpage International a compulsory programme on income generation by the sopnsored grannies has been started and for one year 25 grannies have been selected for undertaking the programme out of 104 grannies. Most of those grannies have undertaken traditional trades like paddy processing, paper packet making, preparation of puffed rice grocers shop, vegetable vending, fish vending etc. A few grannies intended to undertake incense stick making. For this purpose training has been arranged at Bani Mandir campus. By the end of 2008 all the grannies would be covered under I.G. Programme. Grannies are doing this with there own fund.
The poor elderly persons from the socio-economic backward communities suffered mainly for proper care even in crisis of food and nutrition at their older age. Helpage International through Helpage India sponsored 104 grand parents for survival under SAGP Project up to March 2010. Afterward extended its activity from service mode to Right based sustainable approach. From April 2010 have extended programme for 392 elderly persons. Community people were encouraged to look after the elderly persons for their social protection. Village Development Committees were empowered on social protection of the elderly persons. They are supporting 98 Destitute and most vulnerable elderly persons to provide regular food to them. They have to look after as animator these 294 working elders to work for themselves through 20 (twenty) Elders Self-Help-Group (ESHG) to make them sustainable along with the help of their decedents and others from the community. All 20 groups are Bank linkage with savings A/C. Three medical checks up Centres and one Physiotherapy Centre and health camp for ophthalmic disorder (IOL) are going on in the year (2010-11) 58 elderly persons got Cataract Operation (IOL) with necessary spectacle from in collaboration with Helpage India and Vivekananda Mission Ashram Netra Niramay Niketan with support of Community Volunteers. Age Demand Action including Right Literacy Campaign, Workshop and Advocacy for establishment of their Rights and Elder's Mela were performed 2011.

Shamdasani Foundation since 2004 help Bani Mandir to support one time 2 (two) grandparents and 2 (two) children every year.

Hospital services in this area are not available and the patients particularly the pregnant mother and the patients in acute cases have to travel at risk a long way to Diamond Harbour Hospital or to Kolkata in any medical college Hospital. In order to obviate this difficulty a suitable Maternity Home cum General Hospital is felt absolutely necessary. In the villages there are no doctors available and quacks help is the only alternative. Birth of the children depends mostly at Home with the support of Local Dai (Untrained Midwife). To make the institutional delivery of the pregnant women and moderns and scientific treatment for common ailment a modern Maternity Home cum General Hospital would be the most useful establishment. Looking for forward to your kind support, Please mail us at banimandir06@rediffmail.com