Editorial Report
✒ Editorial…
Sukher Chador is a non-profit voluntary organization that began its journey nine years ago, in 2016, on the day of Ashtami, by offering Anjali to an elderly woman at a railway platform. Since then, Sukher Chador has grown primarily through its countless Facebook friends. With honesty and dedication, humanitarian work is carried out almost daily in various parts of West Bengal. Registered in 2018 and granted 80G status in 2020, the organization has now expanded beyond West Bengal and India, reaching across the border into Bangladesh as well.
Sukher Chador’s humanitarian activities are mainly categorized into three projects:
- Shiksha Jyoti (Education Light)
- Arogya Jyoti (Health Light)
- Aastha Jyoti (Faith Light)
In addition to providing food, clothing, healthcare, and shelter assistance, our primary goal is to ensure education for neglected and underprivileged children in society. Many of our projects are continuous, benefiting economically weak individuals regardless of caste, creed, or religion. Our policy is to carefully plan every initiative, ensure its long-term benefits, execute it efficiently, and evaluate the outcomes.
The biggest asset of Sukher Chador is its selfless 200 members, along with the unwavering trust of its friends and well-wishers in the organization’s work.
Our mission is simple—“Stay well, and help others stay well.”
That’s why our tagline is:
“Bhalo Theko, Bhalo Rekho.”
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Most of our members are active on Facebook, so it is mandatory for us to document every activity there. Facebook serves as our Notice Board. Below is a summary of our year-round activities to keep all our friends informed.
🔴 ☂ Aastha Jyoti Project ☂
🙍♀ Project Lead: Mitali Sengupta
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Emergency Assistance: Providing urgent aid such as ration, rent, and electricity bill payments.
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Sukher Gram (Self-Reliant Village Project):
- Tailoring Training Centers: Operating two centers in Tarakeswar and Jhargram to empower financially weak women.
- Support for the Differently-Abled: Providing tricycles and essential items to help them become self-reliant.
- Support for the Visually Impaired: Supplying blind individuals with products, walking canes, and bags.
- “Sukher Sugandha” Initiative: Encouraging visually impaired individuals to make incense sticks, marketing them, and handing over the profits to them.
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Sachetana Project:
- Providing sanitary napkins every month to 150 underprivileged girls from orphanages, tribal schools, and street children’s schools.
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Financial Aid:
- Providing monthly financial assistance of ₹1,000–₹3,000 to four elderly mothers, one visually impaired brother, and two children suffering from rare diseases.
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Sukher Parinay (Marriage Assistance Project):
- Supporting the marriages of four financially weak girls each year.
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Orphanages & Old Age Homes:
- Providing foam mattresses for comfort.
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Festive & Seasonal Aid:
- Offering assistance to distressed villagers and mothers before Durga Puja and during winter every year.
🔴 📚 Shiksha Jyoti Project (Education Light) 📚
🙍♀ Project Lead: Polakkhi Dutta
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Uttaran Project (Long-Term Educational Support):
- Providing ₹1,000 to ₹3,000 per month for 2–4 years to 13 students pursuing Medical (5), Polytechnic (3), Nursing (2), and Paramedical (1) studies.
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Adhyayan Project:
- One-time educational support of up to ₹10,000 for school fees, books, notebooks, and bags.
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Abhyuday Project (Scholarship for Meritorious Students):
- One-time ₹5,000 merit scholarships for 20 financially weak secondary & higher secondary students:
🟠 15 general students
🟠 5 specially-abled students
- One-time ₹5,000 merit scholarships for 20 financially weak secondary & higher secondary students:
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Kishalay Project:
- Providing ₹500 per month for private tuition to 30 extremely underprivileged students from Class 1 to Class 8:
🟢 25 general students
🟢 3 children of visually impaired parents
🟢 2 specially-abled children
- Providing ₹500 per month for private tuition to 30 extremely underprivileged students from Class 1 to Class 8:
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Sukher Pathshala (Sukher Chador School):
- Operating a school in Dakdahi village, Jhargram, to educate 50 Munda tribal children, offering daily education, tiffin, and additional support.
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Sukher Sangeetalaya (Sukher Music Academy):
- Providing free music education every Sunday at 11:30 AM to visually impaired hawkers and financially weak children at the Sukher Chador office.
🔴 🩺 Arogya Jyoti Project (Health Light) 🩺
🧔 Project Lead: Gautam Banerjee
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Emergency Medical Assistance:
- One-time medical aid of up to ₹15,000 for illnesses excluding major conditions like cancer, liver transplants, and brain tumors.
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Niramay Project (Elderly Care):
- Monthly ₹1,000 medicine allowance for four elderly individuals.
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Medical Equipment Distribution:
- Providing new & used wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, tricycles, air beds, Fowler beds, etc. to those in need.
💡 Organizational Information
👩🎨 Membership Team Lead: Sudeshna Ghoshal
🖋 Survey Committee Lead: Manish Sarkar
🖥 Promotion Team Lead: Asit Banerjee
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Important Notes:
📌 All donations to Sukher Chador are accepted only through the organization’s official account, not personal accounts. A receipt is mandatory for every donation and qualifies for 80G tax exemption.
📌 Annual audits by a Chartered Accountant firm are mandatory.
📌 A face-to-face survey is required before any assistance is provided.
📌 The final decision on all assistance requests rests with the Executive Committee.
We humbly request our friends to support the underprivileged before requesting assistance on their behalf. If possible, stand by them personally or extend your support through Sukher Chador in your own capacity.
🔴 Head Office:
Sukher Chador,
Snigdha Neer, 259, Ashwini Dutta Road,
New Barrackpore, Kolkata – 700131
📞 Contact: 8336000996 / 7603089584
✨ Stay well, and help others stay well.
👣 Jajabar (Wanderer) 👣
(Editor & Founder)