About Us (Eamon's Copy) — KRISHNAA FOUNDATION

Enablement and Empowerment

Our mission is to raise funds to provide sustenance for the sex workers in Kalighat and other ostracized and marginalized women and children in Kolkata through food, shelter, health, hygiene & other necessities. In the future, this continuous effort will extend to education, empowerment, self-sufficiency, and rehabilitation.

Our efforts were originally conceived during the devastation caused by the initial onslaught of COVID-19 in India last year. Subsequently, we realized that these women, mothers and children, who are very much neglected in our society, will need our help. The second wave of Covid has hit India and these women have no source of income now or in the foreseeable future. We need to help them by providing them with food, medicine, and other necessities to weather this storm.

About Us

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During the Durga Puja of 2020, we learned that the sex workers and their children in the Kalighat red light district of Kolkata were suffering from massive unemployment, business closures, and hunger.

It was not easy. We started collecting donations from local friends and families, and sending the money to our trustworthy friends in organizations like Kids Centre (a children's school) and New Light (a voluntary group serving the community) in Kolkata, who are our “boots-on-the-ground” in that red-light area. The Kids Centre and New Light members took up the challenge to help the helpless with their daily necessities, through passionate and untiring hard work. Together, we succeeded and saw smiles on the faces of hundreds of weary, starving mothers and children.

History

Our Organization

We are incorporated as a non-profit organization in New Jersey and are a tax-exempt public charity per section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code. We are not a membership organization but welcome all volunteers who wish to work with us.