World Literacy Day This year, Anavi organised a special programme on World Literacy Day, which is held on 8th November with the underprivileged children of Nabaneer Non formal Teaching School. The children took part in recitation, songs and dance. The programme held for an hour and they were given snacks. They produced their talents very […]

Multiple Events October is a time of festivities. But this year the festivities came a little early for the twenty seven odd kids at Topsia Creche. This is a small creche cum school for young kids who’s both parents work to make ends meet. Considering that these kids are from slums and their parents work […]

Visit to Apon Ghar On 17 th of August ’12, five members of Anavi (Bernie Mendonca, Abira Roychowdhury, Sangita Saha, Sangita Mukherjee, and Meeta Chakrabarty) went to Apon Ghar the old-age home in Thakurpukur. Now the number of inmates are 15. We gave them 2 Kg Horlics and 5 Lts mustard oil for this month. […]

Visit to Topsia Creche Today our members visited the Topsia creche for small children. Following members visited the creche. Bernie Mendonca, Moushumi Acharya, Sangita Mukherjee, Meeta Chakrabarty, Aloka Biswas, and Sharmila Kar. The children were very happy to see us . They greeted us with “Namaste Aunty”. 23 children were present today. Their age group […]

Visit to Nabaneer School We the members of Anavi went to Nabaneer school on 31st July, We went there around 4 PM as advised by their headmistress Sumita’di. We had a discussion with the teachers on ways to improve the method of teaching. The students of this non formal school comes from extremely socially and […]

ANAVI – 3rd Anniversary On the afternoon of 16 June we went to the Chetla Nabanir nonformal school. Sharmila de took great pain and decorated the school premises with flowers and rongoli. Mr. Pradhan lighted the diya and cut the red ribbon and we entered the school. Mirande sung an opening song and it was […]

Visit to Tiljala Care Center For Poor Children This Day Care Centre cum Nursery School comes under the banner of the Women’s Co-ordination Council of West Bengal. There were 15 children from the age group of 2 yrs to 6 years present. The 2 teachers as well as the Members of the Co-Ordination Council were […]

Visit to Apon Ghar Our visit to Apon Ghar on the 28th March 2012 was as always a touching and beautiful experience. The inmates total 17 – were all awaiting us and had big smiles when we met each one of them in their rooms – most of them stay in their beds only – […]

Visit to Apon Ghar Apon Ghar is registered under AIWC (All India Womens Conference), P57,Ranganathpur Colony, Near Bagalomukhi Mandir, Opp. 3A Bus Stand, Thakurpukur,Behala. The inmates pay Rs.800/- per month for their stay in rooms having at least 5 beds and 3 single rooms for Rs.1000/- per head. Most of the inmates are paying for […]