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Before Mother Teresa sought permission to use it, the building was an old abandoned Hindu temple to the goddess Kali, [4] the Hindu goddess of time and change. It was founded by St. Mother Teresa on her 42nd birthday in 1952, [5] two years after she established Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata.
The Durbar runs the STD/HIV Intervention Programme (commonly known as the Sonagachi Project) since 1999.The ownership and management of the Sonagachi Project was taken over by DMSC from the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, a central government public health training and research institute based in Kolkata, which had initiated the programme in 1992. [9]
Initially located in Jadunath Bhavan, the former residence of Sir Jadunath Sarkar at 10, Jadunath Sarkar Road (earlier Lake Terrace), Calcutta, the research centre is now located in a new building in Patuli, Calcutta.
Vivek Tirtha (in English: Vivek Pilgrimage) or Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centre for Human Excellence and Social Sciences is an upcoming cultural and education centre dedicated to Swami Vivekananda in New Town, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee laid the foundation stone of Vivek Tirtha on 11 November 2014. It is ...
CINI emerged in part from the work of its founder, Samir Chaudhuri, who began his medical career working in the villages and slums of West Bengal in the 1970s. His professional collaboration with Sister Pauline Prince, an Australian Loreto nun and nutritionist, and Rev Fr J. Henrichs S. J., [4] led to the Child In Need Institute's foundation in 1974.
Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre and Research Institute had organized a month-long awareness programme on Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), with the support of Warwick University Development Education WD (City of London), Nara Medical University (Japan), Dental School (London), and ITTE (Mangalore).
It is located at 105 Vivekananda Road, Kolkata, India. [1] In this house, Swami Vivekananda (then called Narendranath Datta) was born on 12 January 1863. [2] The house remained Vivekananda's home throughout his childhood and early youth. [3] [4] The cultural centre was inaugurated by the President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. [5]
Jeeja has been involved in the social sector for more than two decades. She believes in the rights based approach and dignity of all human beings. She has been a part of the disabled people’s movement and is connected with other disabled rights activists pan India. Her special interest is women with disabilities.