PERFORMANCES DONE
Social Touch And Reform
Sri Subhasish Mazumder (Father, a widower) & Daughter (Miss Subhra Mazumder, a 19 yrs old College-going Girl)
Responding to their unblemished as good as intense pray, a meagre help of ₹7300/- (in two spells) was handed over to the Father of the Daughter; — specially to get the Girl’s Emergent Medical (Clinical) Treatment & to get her very important study materials e.g., books etc.
Furthermore, Good Contacts have properly been given to them so that the Girl’s present Study ‘Food & Nutrition’ (Hons.) at graduate-level (in Sister Nibedita Govt. Genl. Degree College for Girls, Kolkata-700027) does not get any harassment anywhere.
On 20th January2024 at Kanyadoba Village (Jhargram) WB, 100 ‘double-bed size’ Blankets (Exclusively Factory-Fresh) were Lively Donated to 100 highly ill-starred males & females of that locality through an organized programme framed by a Club ‘Marshall Gaonta’.
Visited on the day 7th January2024, a Residential Free-Shelter for Elderly Women ‘DEB ABAS’ situated at Pioneer Park Barasat, North 24-Pgs, — on being invited by the Mangalam Foundation, Kolkata – 6; and a marginal Monetary Help (euqal to a FullDay Fooding Liability of all 25 Heads) was given there.
A Three(3) days’ Study-Tour from Dec.01 to 03 of 2023, was performed by this NGO’s “Haawa Bodal” wing taking the supports of some Social Workers of that Soil and it gathered some knowledge on Socio-Econo-Cultural lives of People of Towns & Villages of Jhargram (WB). Learnt also about i) Santal & Tribal Movement against British-raj, ii) Eco-Tourism Culture practised at Jhargram, iii) Patience of village-People there to protect the nature i.e., Jungles, Rivers, Fountains, Falls & Hills. The Study-Tour covered the Towns & Villages e.g., Jungle-Mahal proper (Jhargram), Bandarvula, Jitusol (Salboni), Chilkigarh-Jamboni, Lodhasuli, Belpahari, Banspahari, Kankrajhore, Amlasole, Aguibil, Gadrasini, Ghagra etcetera.
Tribal Interpretation Centre Jhargram & Bandarvula Eco Tourism.
Chilkigarh Rajbari Complex.
Amlasole.
Amlasole.
Kankrajhore
Kankrajhore
Amlasole.
Kankrajhore
Khandarani Lake & Laljal Cave (Belpahari-Banspahari)
Khandarani Lake & Laljal Cave (Belpahari-Banspahari)
Jhargram Rajbari WB Tourism Campus
On 15thSept2023 we were at Beurgram Village (Chandrakona-I Sub-division, Paschim Medinipur Dist. WB) to Donate 128 packets of mostly new Garments usable in all-seasons such as Sarees, Salwar & Kurtis, Kids’ Wears, Men’s Shirts & Pants, and some winter-wears too eg., Shawl, Coat-Pants, Safari-Suits to the poor people of different age-groups (Children to Senior Citizens) of that Village and it smoothly functioned as some Local Youths and School Teachers gave their whole-hearted Volunteering for its Success.
On 5th March 2023, Team ‘Social Touch And Reform’ with Guest-Volunteer cum Donor Smt. Lopamudra Dutta Choudhury (Vice Chairperson of North Dum Dum Municipality) distributed readymade nicely usable Garments of different types to 102 poor people of the Sahebdanga-Adivasipara Community located in Kankalitala Village Panchayat of Bolpur, Birbhum.
Members of ‘Social Touch And Reform’ along with Guest-Volunteer cum Donor Smt. Lopamudra Dutta Choudhury (Vice Chairperson of North Dum Dum Municipality), on 5th March 2023, visited a non-formal school ‘Praaner Aaram Ashram’ situated beside Kankalitala, Satipith Temple, Bolpur-Santiniketan and shared some sweet moments with the Ashram’s Teachers, Management and its 70(+) kids-students. Cakes, Chocolates and other Snacks were distributed to all the students of the Ashram.
Dwellers monetarily poorest in the domain of this Patharghata-AdivasiPara under Kankalitala Village Panchayat, Bolpur-Santiniketan getting smiles on receiving the Garments on 18thSept.2022 from NGO “Social Touch And Reform”.
163 were the beneficiaries assembled in this NGO’s Garments Distribution Programme, held at Patharghata-Adivasipara (under Kankalitala Village Panchayat Bolpur) on 18 Sept. 2022.
2 Short-LIVEs of the Patharghata-Adivasipara Programme
Excerpts are a few of long-moments dtd. 21stAug.2022 spent with destitute Girl-children spark joys through their faces and movements. Some sort of societal support can help them reach a good-height in our common community.
Donated a small token (cash) for temple construction (Hanuman Mandir) at Ranchi, Jharkhand
More than 325 victim-villagers got our RELIEF-Service that contained Mosquito-Nets, Hand-Sanitizers, Variety types Sarees, Ladies’ Kurtis, Nighties, Kids’ Wears, Males’ Shirts & Pants etc.
Whole-day drizzling (of rain) was there; but couldn’t sharply interrupt our RELIEF-work.
Vice-Chairperson cum Member of the Board of Administrator of North Dum Dum Municipality, Smt. Lopamudra Dutta Choudhury accompanied and assisted this whole-day RELIEF Distribution Programme.
Mrs. Lopamudra Dutta Choudhury, Vice-Chairperson of North Dum Dum Municipality (Kol-51) assisting us in distributing Mosquito-Nets and other various types of Garments among the distressed people in Sundarban, WB.
Flood-affected Crowd of the Land awaiting our Relief-Distributon.
Some habitants of a river-bank of Sundarban (WB) explaining their horrible situation arises after each cyclone like Aila, Amphan, Yaas etc. to STaR's Relief-team.
Vice-Chairperson of North Dum Dum Municipality, Smt. Dutta Choudhury, along with the relief team of Social Touch And Reform, distributing relief items to the affected villagers of a coastal area of Sundarban.
“Haawa Bodal” wing of Social Touch And Reform was for a 3-days Study-Tour (25 -27 Dec’18) to Bolpur-Santiniketan. During stay in a Resort, its Participants journeyed in a “Travellers’ Bus”. Visited the World-famous PoushMela, Visva Bharati Univ’s pattern of teaching & learning Education, Khoai Haat, Sonajhuri, KANKALItala Temple, Baaul-Songs, Santali Folk-dance and what-not. Experience (seeing & learning) recharged all of them splendidly.
A 2-days’ ‘Study Tour’ for Sundarban done on 11th-12th August’18. Interaction with local villagers there on Socio-Economy and Culture helped the study much. It is Recreational cum Educational ‘Haawa Bodal’ part (helps to study People’s Socio-Economy, Culture and Environment of a particular place) of Tanpura Project (Senior Citizens’ Shelter & Social Touristry). Sharing below some moments of Sundarban.
29th January 2017 flooded a good weather for our mind-colouring PICNIC that has taken place factually in a covered Garden-House at Duttapukur-24 pgs(N) and virtually will remain in our inner heart-place.
In December 2016, this Organization liaised with Susrut Eye Foundation, HB Block, Salt Lake, Kolkata – 700106 and was able to give a cataract operation service to a very agaed poor lady of Purbachal (East Udayrajpur) Madhyamgram, 24 Pgs. (N), PIN: 700129.
3 sisters belonging to a poor family of a slum of Durgapur (Burdwan District) have indivually secured excellant result in HS-2016 under West Bengal Board of HIgher Education despite their daily hard works as maids in others’ houses astonishing civic society. Social Touch and Reform in August 2016, handed over a check of Rs.3000/- to them as a token mark of honour to their hard perseverance.
On 19th November’ 2015 (the auspicious ‘Mahasatami’ of Jaghadhatri Puja), this Organisation has donated sweaters, shawls, sarees, dhutis, shirts etc. to 35 people, who are beggers / distressed persons of KANKALITALA, SATI Temple (Bolpur) through the hands of operation head, doctors and non-medical staffs of Glocal Hospital (Bolpur) and through the hands of local youths of Kankalitala area. Main sponser for garments distribution here is Sri Goutam Bagui of Narayantala (East), Baguiati, Kolkata – 159.
Secretary 2015-16 (Smt. Lakshmi Gupta) of the Organisation offering sweets to the beggers sitting on road in rows in front of main gate of Kankalitala, Sati Temple.
Founder of the Organisation consults with his team members and guest-volunteers (Medical and Non-Medical stuffs of Glocal Hospital, Bolpur) in regard to donating the garments to the beggers / distressed persons.
Secretary of Social Touch And Reform with her two volunteers (at left and right sides) - are found sharing moments vibrantly with the local Santal dancers of Bolpur.
Children’s Day in India are observed every year on 14th Nov. colourfully. Still cases of school-dropouts, mal-nutrition, clotheslessness, lack in parental-care in the children’s lives in India are fathomless. Seeds of our future society lie barely on carelessness. Social Touch And Reform sincerely has run a-day programme on the Children’s Day (14-11-2014) and donated there Garments to 135 Kids / Teen-agers and Sarees to 30 Women; and by this token-action it tries to send a message to the local people and to the local Govt. that emphasizing more care upon their children would re-create India more smiling.
A fortnight-long display (Bengali version) informing local people about the Programme prior to holding.
Former Indian Football Team Captain Bhaskar Ganguly hands-over Garments to Kids from the Prog.-dais of Social Touch And Reform on the Children's Day’14.
Founder of Social Touch And Reform on the Stage with microphone in hand.
Literateur Partha Sarathi Chattopadhyay distributes Clothes to an aged poor from the Program-dais of Social Touch And Reform on the Children's Day,14th Nov’14.
A teen-ager receives garments from the North Dum Dum Municipal Councilor Ward No.1 on the Children's Day,14-11-2014 from the Function-dais programmed by Social Touch And Reform.
A senior citizen Smt. Smritikana Bhowmick (left-corner fig.) well-wishes the “Clothes Donation Program” organised by Social Touch And Reform on the Children's Day,14-11-2014.
It was the sacred morning of Maha-Panchami of Durgapuja festival 2012. We arranged a progamme at Birati (Bankra), Kol-51 taking the assistance of a local Club ‘Bankra Bisharpara United Club’ through which we were able to see the joyous faces of 146 very poor people after they each received “Anna O Bastra” (Rice and Clothes) from the dais of the Programme. Local Municipal Ward councilor and a Professor of Jadavpur University were our special guests amongst others there.
Such one-day donation programme of a voluntary Social-Work Organization cannot eradicate the poverty of the society; it can only motivate the social people to come forward and join in such voluntary work to create more such programmes. And if it happens everywhere, movement for eradicating poverty may be worthily meaningful.
Some ready Rice-Packs (right-front) and some Clothes-Packs (left-back) on Programme-Platform await distribution.
President (2012), Social Touch And Reform, speaks to audience while Local Municipal Ward Councilor, Smt. Lopamudra Dutta Choudhury, alongside Local Minority Cell Chief, Mr. Abdul Azim (Swapan-da), found sitting on stage.
Secretary (2012), Social Touch And Reform, on her distribution-action of “Rice and Clothes” programme.
A moment of gathering of “Rice and Clothes Donation” programme, 2012, organized by Social Touch And Reform.
On behalf of Social Touch And Reform, Local Municipal Ward Councilor in her good action in "Rice And Clothes Donation Programme, 2012".
Social Touch And Reform has programmed at Kolkata GPO Veranda on 22nd September, 2011 for donating Clothes to 150 very-poor people. Within the Periphery of BBD Bag , Kolkata, there are bulk no. of Persons who earn only through Begging. Still good many Govt. and Non-Govt. Offices are there which do not have any sympathy or supportive thought for those very Poor People living around their Good-Graded Offices. This darkness in Caring-attitude towards unprivileged people claims Social-Work Education for those high-profile Office-Unions, Associations and Administrations. Aiming to spread this Social-Work Culture, Social Touch And Reform had chosen the Venue ‘Kolkata GPO Veranda’ for donating the Clothes. Some views of the Programme are shown below :
Programme-Banner on Art-Paper says for itself.
Asstt. Secretary of Social Touch And Reform donating new Garments to a Child-Beggar.
Asstt. Secretary of Social Touch And Reform with the President (busy showing his left-side appearance), and the Vice-President (turning face from her sitting mode) are segregating Clothes for different Groups of Unprivileged Persons.
Treasurer of Social Touch And Reform (sitting and showing her left face-part) collecting the Tockens distributed earlier to the Beggars.
Volunteers are managing the queue of the would be beneficiaries in the Clothes Donation Programme done at Kolkata GPO Veranda on 22nd September, 2011.
We believe that Learning is fathomless. Besides formal and theoretical knowledge, people has the urge to see the Unseen to know the Unknown. Here Tourism has an immense value that supports the people to make themselves more enriched Culturally, Geographically, Socially and Literally. Our Social-Worker Friends are working at many places. Tourists will get good support if they intimate us so. By our own initiative also, we are trying to arrange Tour for Bakkahli, Basanti, Krishnanagar, Mayapur, Sagar (Gangasagar), Santiniketan, and Tarakeswar from Kolkata and this venture believed will be a path of earning for some people for their social living too.