What we do
The sole purpose of Niswarth is to extend help to the Disabled and underprivileged population of Tea Estates and its neighboring villages.
We organize various medical and education Camps for the disabled and underprivileged population. Niswarth has covered a population of nearly 13.7 lacs in 273 tea gardens over a period of 14 years extending help in various villages.
We Find & Fund
The sole purpose of extending help to the Disabled and underprivileged population of Tea Estates and its neighboring villages.
We Educate
We run small-scale education camps in various villages for the underprivileged and Specially abled individual children and youth of daily wage workers for a better future.
We Provide Care
We organize various medical and education Camps for an underprivileged and disabled population so they are encouraged to attend school with their friends and family.
We Sponsor
During the Disability camps of Niswarth, a large number of Hearing Impaired (Deaf & Dumb) children and adults were identified who were having great potential to become self-sustained but were completely deprived, We sponsor them.
We Employ
We run organizations where we employ youngsters so they can live their dreams for themselves and their families.
We Strengthen
What we care for
A new future for Exploited children.
Children and youngsters who are exploited in their early days need a helping hand and support for their mental health. We take them out of this zone, sponsor their education, and hope for their beautiful future ahead.
New life for the underprivileged population.
We organize various medical and education Camps for the underprivileged population. The distribution of blankets, raincoats, food packets, and other essential are done every year for the needy population.
Bringing dreams within Specially abled individual.
The Specially abled individual required a surrounding that comforts them to get confident to live the life of their dreams. We help them with everything they’ll need to live their dreams.
Our Programs
Niswarth has covered a population of nearly 13.7 lacs in 273 tea gardens over a period of 14 years extending help in the following areas which, all combined, work out to Total Social benefits of Rs. 2,41,75,650/- (Direct social benefit-Rs.1,51,51,650/- and Indirect social benefit of Rs.90,24,000/-) to persons in various categories as detailed below.
DISABILITY CAMPS
TILL DATE Niswarth has extended above help to 4512 disabled persons which account for approx 10% of the total disabled in the target area. This covered a population of 15 lacs in 221 tea estates and a large no. of neighboring villages arranging Disability cards.
EYE CAMPS
As gardens are located in remote areas, a medical facility is not easily available and a tea garden resident/villager has to travel 50-150 km to get access to proper hospitals including eye checkups/testing/cataract surgery. Niswarth arranged a complete eye check-up Free of Cost including travel to Siliguri.
DENTAL CAMPS
Free dental camps were arranged by Niswarth bringing complete medical facilities, doctors, and equipment to 5 tea gardens free of cost located up to 120 km from Siliguri. However, this could not be extended to more gardens due to a paucity of funds.
A total of 386 persons from 5 Tea Gardens were benefited
Blood Donation Camps
These camps helped the underprivileged section of our society by way of giving blood donation certificates having long-term validity which could be used for giving blood to any person of the family or friends free of cost for medical treatment in the nearby city. It was a matter of great satisfaction that for the first time, tea garden women came forward to give blood in our camps.
Distribution of Blankets, Raincoats, Food packets
Blankets are distributed every year during cold weather and to date Niswarth has done this to the disabled, old, and underprivileged persons of Manabari tea garden ( Population 3500 including neighboring villages) , Bagracote tea garden(12000), Ranicherra Tea Garden(7200) in which 709 beneficiaries received help
Relief Camp during Bihar Floods 2008
Niswarth had set up a camp in Suphal and Raghavpur areas of Bihar in 2008 floods to distribute food, medicine and clothes (old and new) collected locally from friends and employees of tea gardens in this district. These were carried by Niswarth volunteers in one wagon of a special train for Bihar Floods from New Jalpaiguri of North Bengal to Katihar in Bihar and then to relief camps set up in Suphal & Raghavpur area by special buses. Help was sent to the victims of Pratapganj, Sripur, Govindpur and Bhavanipur by boat and was distributed personally by “Niswarth” volunteers.
Sponsoring Deaf & Mute Students, Identifying 6 Acres land for disability home
During the Disability camps of Niswarth, a large number of Hearing Impaired (Deaf & Dumb) children and adults were identified who were having great potential to become self-sustained but were completely deprived. Most of them were used by the family for all kinds of menial jobs including cattle grazing
Feeling the need to educate such children, Niswarth selected, in the year 2008, eight children from eight different tea estates of North Bengal and sponsored them to a residential special school of Salvation Army at Darjeeling and it is a matter of great satisfaction that two of our girl students are now studying in class IX
Vocational training centres
Having spent nearly five decades in Tea Gardens of North Bengal & Assam, we felt a strong need to take care of school dropout children and introduced the concept of Vocational Training Centre in the year 2011 (well before our honorable PM Narendra Modi’s Skill India Mission program started on 15th July 2015) as part of CSR program of M/S Andrew Yule Tea Company Limited and later expanded to other companies. Some of the trainings are –
- 1. Computer Course
- 2. Tailoring
- 3. Beautician
Vocational training centres
We have successfully educated 6835 Students in following courses. It is a matter of great satisfaction that many of our students are suitably employed within India as well as out of the country in Singapore and Dubai. The list of trainings are given bellow.
- 1. Driving Classes
- 2. Mobile Repairing
- 3. Culinary
- 4. Flower Making
- 5. Artificial Jewellery Making
- 6. Spoken English
THE NISWARTH IMPACT
11,268+
unprivileged Trained
6572
Disability aids
1797
Free Of Cost Surgery
7095
Free Medicines Provided
2000
Disability Cards Extended