This project provides emergency food and medicine for the marginalised ultra-poor families in Kolkata's squatter communities. Living in makeshift shelters beside open sewers and railway tracks, many s
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Projects by Tiljala Society for Human and Educational Development
Children in Kolkata's poorest communities are at risk of dropping out of school, child labour and child marriage. School drop-outs are left illiterate and unable to lift themselves out of poverty. Ti
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This project will help 500 of Kolkata's most vulnerable families to lift themselves out of poverty and provide a better future for their children. Tiljala Shed will provide seed funding, advice, voca
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This project empowers girls from very poor families to avoid early marriage and a life of extreme poverty, illiteracy, childbearing, abuse and drudgery. A sponsored girl remains in school and goes on
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