SHELTER FOR URBAN HOMELESS FOR MALE AND FEMALE (Ward No. 135)

Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare

Govt. of West Bengal

The Hon'ble Supreme Court of India has passed an order directing all State Governments to set up shelter for the Urban Homeless. At least 100 people shall be covered against one lakh population under one Home. The cities shall be of more than five lakh of populations. The beneficiaries shall be provided with basic amenities viz. mattress, bed roll, blanket, potable drinking water, functional latrines, first aid and primary health facilities,

deaddiction and other possible recreation facilities etc.

Our organisation GRSD has been maintaining the programme objectives are the following:

• To run Shelter for Urban Homeless by providing them necessary institutional and financial support;

• To access them with basic amenities to enable their life with dignity;

• Good monitoring and regular periodical evaluation in running shelter homes;

Our organisation GRSD maintains the norms of taking the homeless people spending their nights at shops, factories, construction sites and offices, having no shelter pulling rickshaws or other hand carts for earning their minimum livelihood, residing at the place of worships like at Masjids, Mandirs, Churchyard, even at the railway stations, pavements or the read sides and otherelse.

We run two Shelter for Homeless for Male at Ward-135 at the premises of 1-97 Rameshwar Road, Kolkata-700024 and another one for Female is at P-229/A, Tikiapara, Kolkata, Kolkata-700024 covering Ward-35 and Ward-40.



Female Shelter Home                      Male Shelter Home