The mission of the organisation is to look after destitute orphan children, poor school going children, and isolated elderly persons and to empower women by upgrading their socio-economic status.

A few local school teachers took the initiative to set up a platform where they could render help to poor and needy people in distress; thus Bani Mandir was established in 1945 August.

69-year-old Somendra Nath Mandal graduated from Calcutta University and has working for the poor since 1965. He became General Secretary in 1973. Almost all the developmental work done by Bani Mandir is in remote villages of West Bengal and through his efforts. He believes that service to the poor and helpless is the service to the nation.

Bani Mandir focuses on developing the potential of women and girls to drive long lasting equitable changes. They emphasize on promoting quality healthcare, inclusive education, gender equitable and sustainable livelihood opportunities, disaster relief and preparedness.

Their efforts are focused on fighting against underlying causes of poverty and ensuring a life of dignity for all women and girls from marginalized and vulnerable communities, especially among Dalits and Adivasis. Bani Mandir also works with the elderly by providing them nutritional support because they are largely ignored by their families.

In 2016, NGO was awarded the Award of project ASTITVA by the Helpage India Significant achievement in the services to the elderly persons.

No of rural youth helped for one year/six months computer training programme - 19

No of secondary students who received books - 942

No. of poor students who received tutorial support - 236

No of children below 5 years supported in 4 Creches -100

No. of elders who got free eye check up - 1136

No. of poor people assisted through Ambulance service - 215

No. of elders provided with Spectacle - 225

No. of children getting sponsorship for health, education, nutrition and family assistance - 1046

No of adolescent girls covered in 1 day health education & counselling - 140

No of poor elderly people covered in medical clinic - 851

No of orphan/needy children who received food & health care support - 1046

No. of elders helped for cataract operation and free spectacles - 123

No of pregnant woman who are supported with nutrition and health checkups - 24

No. of able elders who joined in elders ESHGs and benefited with Saving & Credit scheme - 791

No. of Women empowered through 378 SHGs - 4536

No of poor villagers who received a cycle rickshaw for a livelihood - 11

No of aged persons who are receiving monthly supply of grocery & medical care - 333

Bringing smiles is the mission of Mission Smile. The organization led by the team of dynamic trustees facilitates free life-changing surgeries for patients suffering from cleft deformities.

In a country like India, there are 1 million cleft deformity patients that have never received any form of treatment. With over 45,000 medical examination and over 35000 surgeries in 16 years, Mission Smile takes a step towards helping the situation. Mission Smile has 10 outreach centers and 1 comprehensive cleft care center. A team of 40 full-time staff and five consultants work tirelessly to serve the patients.

The backbone of Mission Smile is great professionals like Dr. Rashmi Taneja Delhi and Col. Shivaji Samaddar (Retd.). Due to their great efforts Govt. of Assam honored the Guwahati Comprehensive Cleft Care Centre with the “Social Impact Award” for their Innovative Social Services.

Situated in Dehradun, Raphael was founded by renowned humanists, Lord Leonard Cheshire, and his wife Baroness Sue Ryder in April 1959. In the more than 50 years of its existence, Raphael has offered its services in varied areas for the relief of suffering.

They have worked with people suffering from Leprosy, Tuberculosis, and Intellectual impairment, touching more than 22,000 lives in the process. Leprosy cured patients and intellectually challenged residents are also encouraged to work in their Rehabilitative Workshop, for which they are remunerated accordingly. Apart from running a school and shelter home for their students, they also have a Community based rehabilitation project, as part of which they work with children in government schools.

Once the students in their residential home grow up, they are encouraged to live in a home environment under the supervision of a house parent, while they attend classes at the day center. This helps prepare them for independent living in the community.

Rural Health Care Foundation (RHCF) is a non profit organisation based out of Kolkata. It offers primary healthcare to the underprivileged community through a chain of 15 primary health centres located in remote rural regions of West Bengal and the urban slums of Kolkata.

Against a nominal amount of Rs. 60 ($0.89) a patient receives consultation, treatment and free medicines for a week. A project started by two brothers, has now transformed to an initiative serving millions of patients per year and generating employment for many.

The organization was set up following the prolonged suffering of one of its founders with cancer, since an early age. This exposed to him and his brother, the lack of quality health care facilities in India, particularly so for the rural poor. The brothers got together with like-minded people and established RHCF which provides low cost, quality health care in rural areas based on a model that is scalable, sustainable and replicable.

Anant and Arun Nevatia wound up their booming construction business and started this initiative for the poor. He realised there is no end to money making and he decided to give back to society. Taking this vision forward the brothers started this initiative to provide health care to the poor.

RHCF centres run six days a week throughout the year. They have treated over 15 lakh patients in their 15 primary health care centres.

Sabuj Sangha is committed to improving the lives of people who are less fortunate in West Bengal, India, through participation and empowerment. Community engagement is an essential aspect of all their health and nutrition activities.

Their healthcare staff holds regular health camps throughout villages in the Sundarbans to spread information about the importance of a nutritional diet and sanitation practices. Their staff also works to link communities with service providers so that patients can access mandated Government services and schemes.

Their Safe Motherhood in the Sundarbans program aims at reducing maternal and child mortality through increased antenatal and postnatal care. Pregnant women are facilitated to register their pregnancy at Government sub-centers and encouraged to undertake institutional delivery through various Government schemes. They also conduct a range of health camps in the community; ensuring quality professional healthcare is available. The camps include gynaecology, optometry and pediatric services.

Sevashram initiated destitute/orphan residential girls' home with 25 rural poor girls. It was then sanctioned by the Social Welfare Department of both Central & State Government. At present, more than 150 children are being nurtured and cared with the facilities of food, education, medical treatment, recreation, cultural program and child sponsorship program. Self Help Groups, health, education, awareness camps, and socio-cultural programs are implemented by the organisation in South Parganas of West Bengal.

The vision of Tomorrow's Foundation is to improve the quality of life of the deprived children, empowering them with education and skills with a view to help them realize their self-worth, so that they can grow into self-respecting and independent individual

Arup Ghosh was an intern at Nirmal Hriday, the destitute home of Mother Teresa. He began teaching the destitute children who came to have snacks. From this initiative, the Tomorrow's Foundation emerged.

Tomorrow Foundation aims to help children affected by political violence improve their self-confidence and allow them to establish themselves as dignified citizens of this world. Regular local, national and international exposure programmes are conducted so that the children are able to aspire for a better future and becomes role models in their own communities.

The foundation works with children and women from the slums of Kolkata. They work towards mainstreaming children and providing remedial education. They work with women in improving the standard of life by creating skilled tailors through Swabalamban Project, conducting club meeting, parents meeting & mothers meeting for the formation of SHG groups to make them self-reliant.

A few like minded people willing to contribute their time, resources and emotion to the weaker section of the society, have managed to form an organization named Towards Future.

Supriya Roy Chowdhury, the Founder and current head of the organisation, with some like minded friends decided to do something good for the society and formed Towards Future in 2008. Before Towards Future's registration Supriya worked in different NGOs for 13 years and has noticed that poor children are not receiving quality education. So the team of Towards Future decided to begin with child education which started with eight children at Kalyani center.

Later on corporate houses like Wipro Cares, Acclaris Business Solutions Pvt Ltd and some generous donors came forward to assist Towards Future which makes the job of the team smooth and easy. During her working period with other organizations, Supriya gathered experience in the field of child education, so she felt like contributing to this sector. Supriya also worked in the field of women rights issues, so later on Supriya introduced a project on women rights in Towards Future.

The aims of Towards Future are:

- Offering opportunities for basic education

- Access to primary and vocational education

- Reduce infant mortality

- Improve health & Hygiene

- Promote sustainable economic development

- Promoting women empowerment

- Conserve and protect ecology and environment

Number of children enrolled in remedial class program and continued till end of academic year - 34

Number of children enrolled in primary school program and continued till end of academic year - 140

Number of children receive support throughout the year - 5

Number of children enrolled in preschool program and continued till end of academic year - 98

Number of beneficiaries participate in our different women empowerment activities throughout the year - 200

Number of children enrolled in non-formal learning program and continued till end of academic year - 251

Turnstone Global is a not for profit social enterprise working with relentless effort for the overall improvement of human lives, irrespective of age, gender, religious beliefs, cast, ethnic origin, birth place or disability status.

The organisation started in 1952, for the betterment of the lives of the visually challenged. Turnstone Global is headed by Dr. Kanchan Gaba, a 100% visually impaired lady, who fought against all odds to obtain her PhD in International Law and established herself as a lecturer of Calcutta University. Today, apart from being a lecturer, she is a social activist.

They work for the betterment of lives of the disabled, in particular, the visually impaired; to provide education, training with a view to rehabilitate them and improve their livelihood. A major focus area of the organisation is early intervention and prevention of blindness.

The scale of operations of Turnstone Global spans across eleven states, West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Mizoram, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi, with more than two hundred gram Panchayats.

They have touched the lives of more than one million in the past decade. At any given point of time eleven thousand beneficiaries are under their care. Several hundreds of them reside permanently with them.

The organisation undertakes programmes and plans its activities based on field level in-depth analysis of the demography and socioeconomic condition of the project area. Their endeavour is to involve community based organisations directly in their project areas where they cater to project planning, phase to phase implementation, monitoring and constant evaluation.

Turnstone Global has been creating impact with a force of 250 staff, more than 500 volunteers and networking partners working in 11 states, 24 cities and 200 Gram Panchayats in India, with its headquarter in Kolkata, through over 62 programs and community-based services.