OAR:
Our Association for Remedy, Kolkata,
Paschim
Banga (West Bengal) State, India:
Providing
Education to the Poor and the Bypassed
Dr.
Sachi G. Dastidar
Probini
Foundation Report; January 25, 2019
OAR: Our association for
Remedy has been educating pavement-dwelling children, children of slums – often
on illegally-occupied land. OAR is providing basic education to dozens of
children living on illegal property at Maajher Haat Station in Kolkata.
Students are mostly from migrant families from neighboring states. Although
basic education is free and compulsory there are always thousands of kids who
fall through the cracks either for lack of registration or for lack of seats in
state-supported schools. The school at Majher Haat Station is called Mukti
(Free) and is taught for a couple of hours by two to three teachers for a
nominal remuneration. On the day when a Probini delegation arrived on the back
of a motorbike the students showed their prowess by reciting several poems and
verses, by drawing a “New Year Card” and receiving gifts of pens and pencils in
a box bought by Mr. Bikas Biswas, the Project Director and dreamer of big
ideas, bought by donation by this writer given on the day of the Probini Meet
on January 6, 2019. OAR is planning to acquite a piece of land in southwest
Kolkata suburb for an orphanage and a school. May God bless OAR!
Should anyone be
interested in learn about OAR one may write to probini@hotmail.com
or check Probini page at Facebook or check https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2008/12/educating-poor-and-orphaned-in.html for
further information.
Open Air Classes
Poetry Lessons
Surrounded by Water Buffalo Shed
Railway Land being Cleared for New Construction
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