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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.
Akanksha Foundation: Education 1991 Mumbai: Shaheen Mistri: CHD Group: Global Public Health. Medical Relief in Disasters Nutrition Child Health Road Safety Primary Health Care 2014 Mangalore: Dr Edmond Fernandes. Cynthia Fernandes Social Network for Assistance to People: Human Rights Community Development 2008 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]
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 ...
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]
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.
Lifeline Foundation is an NGO based in Kolkata, India. It provides telephone counselling to mentally distressed individuals. It was founded in 1996 and has been noted for its efforts by the international media. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Nimtala Crematorium is located on Beadon Street, Kolkata, India.The crematorium is also historically known as Nimtala burning ghat, or simply Nimtala ghat. [1] [2] Located on the banks of Hoogly just like the Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi; it is considered to be one of the holiest burning ghats in the country where the soul is said to attain moksha, ie. breaking the cycle of birth and death.