About
Organization
Who We Are
Established in 2006, Santi Trust was formed with the intention to do deeply impactful and sustainable social work. Situated in Santiniketan, near Bolpur in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, it is a NGO where individuals involved with Social work their whole lives work together with young minds to bring wisdom and enthusiasm together to transform lives of villagers in surrounding villages for better.
Teaching Social work throughout her life, Smt. Sukla Deb Kanango longed to go work for the society not via students of social work but directly. She also noticed how professionalism at times created limitations in the work and she longed to go beyond them to bring real impact. With a desire to explore social work while combining the spirit of both commitment and willingness to go for something for the sake of fulfilling the commitment even if it went beyond the principles of the profession, the idea of Santi Trust bloomed in her mind.
She shared the idea to likeminded people who might like to join hands to bring it to life. Fortunately, the idea was welcomed with open arms by professionals from not only from the field of Social work, but also medicine, education and finance. Many among them rendered purely voluntary services. With efforts and resources put together, the trust got registered under the Indian Trust Act, 1982 and since then has been working diligently braving all odds.
Our Mission
- To strengthen ethical and moral values in youngsters and enable them to contribute to well- being of the society.
- To bring clean drinking water to the villagers of the arsenic affected region.
- To empower tribal women through literacy campaigns, education and awareness programs
- To educate tribal women about health, hygiene and sanitation, make them aware and clear taboos around menstrual health.
- To educate young children through non-conventional methods and make them able citizens of the future.
- To sensitize young children about family, extended family, community and the society at large.
- Inculcate values of co-operation, environment and biodiversity amongst children.
- To create awareness about personal and public hygiene.
- To develop the listening and reproducing skill of the students.
- To sensitize the parents, teachers and the school administration about the importance of value education for healthy social life.
- To sensitize parents and teachers to have intensive engagement with the children by giving quality time.
- To promote sustainable lifestyle by educating about sustainable attitude.
- To help develop language skill and ability to communicate with each other.
Our Vision
A future where the villagers of Birbhum get access to education, clean drinking water, health and sanitation and are empowered to create a life of well being for them.
How we work?
We as a team of professional social workers use various methods and approaches to ensure effective implementation some of which are ‘Right Based Approach’, ‘Systems theory’, ‘Ecological Perspective’ etc. For example, Right to Education is a basic human right but often due to various reasons children are denied of the right. Our work with primary education is not only to provide value based education but also to ensure increased involvement of the students so that drop out cases can be avoided. Similarly the other theories and perspectives are also used to provide scientific and theoretical support to our work.
Contact Details:
Email Id: santitrust2006@gmail.com
Contact No: 7586935528
Our Trustees
1. Smt.Sujata Parekh
Member of the Spastics Society of Eastern India (Presently Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy)
and Consultant in the Field of Disability
Kolkata
2. Sri. Dilip Kumar Das, I.R.S
Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (Retd)
Formerly Dy. Secretary, Union Public Service Commission.
3. Smt. Geeta Banerjee
Consultant in the field of HIV/AIDS,
Formerly technical support consultant of Family Planning
Association of India, Kolkata Branch
Fields of work, Population
Education and Family Life Education
4. Dr.(Ms.) Neerja Chand
Superintendent, TegBahadur Hospital, Kolkata
Visiting physian- Taj Bengal (Hotel),
Member, Rehabilitation Centre for Children (RCFC)
Kolkata
5. Smt. Sanghamitra Deb
Teacher, Formerly Mothers International School, New Delhi
6. Smt. Sukla Deb Kanango (Chair Person)
Professor of Social Work, Visva-Bharati (Retired)
7. Sk. Alaul Hoque Mondal (Treasurer)
Assistant Registrar, Visva-Bharati (Retired)
Freelancing as Consultant to Social Service Organizations
Mobile No.-9434096822
8. Ms. Madhura Chakraborty (Secretary)
Email: chandnichakraborty@yahoo.co.in
Mobile no.-8389869206
