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SAVE (UK)Registered Scottish Charity: SC022264SAVE India: Registered No. 00124/2009

Top: education for tribal children Bottom: nurses vocational training in Kolkata

SAVE-UK was registered in 1994 by the members of the Indian Diaspora settled in the UK as a non political, non religious, voluntary, charitable organisation with the sole purpose of working amongst the poor, particularly those living below the poverty line, initially in India but ultimately in all the South Asian countries of the SAARC group and in Myanmar.

SAVE works with local grass-root non-political and non-religious charitable organisations for the poor in the above countries to:• IMPROVE Education and health• PROMOTE Mother and child care, Nutrition and Sanitation• ENHANCE Women’s rights and empowerment• DEVELOP Skills for income generation• RAISE Awareness on environmental and social issues

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SAVE UK and SAVE INDIA choose their partner NGOs after undertaking ‘Due Diligence’. This involves looking at the organisation’s legitimacy (Registration) and credibility, their Annual Reports and Audited Annual Accounts, names of their past and current donors and finally meeting all the stakeholders, including the grass root beneficiaries. The projects are designed in collaboration with the local NGOs and beneficiaries. We monitor our funded projects with the help of SAVE India and our appointed monitors. SAVE-UK now has 23 years experience in working with the voluntary sectors in India.

HOW WE CHOOSE OUR PARTNERS

SAVE-INDIA was registered in India in 2009 as an independent fraternal partner with the same aims and objectives as of SAVE UK. At present it raises funds in India for all its projects designed in collaboration with local NGOs and beneficiaries. It monitors both its own projects and those of SAVE-UK. It works as an arching and enabling organisation helping to promote improved governance, transparency, accountability and fundraising of local partner organisations.

WHAT WE DO

EducationAll India Council for Mass Education and Development (AICMED)

AICMED organises workshops and prepares teaching and learning materials for child education, adult education and rural development by using modern techniques.

SAVE-INDIA together with AICMED is in the third year of a project in Gohaliara block of Bakreswar, Birbhum District, West Bengal. It works in three education centres, providing coaching to 105 children from underprivileged background including Asansuli Tribal Centre.

Since its inception 23 years ago, SAVE has funded 26 small projects in 9 states of India. Presently it is working on 17 small projects. These are spread across 5 States in India, these being West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, two projects in Nepal and one in Afghanistan.

WHERE WE WORK

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Education for tribal children

Gyan Niketan: Inter College Women’s Association (ICWA) - Patna

SAVE has been supporting the ICWA to run primary education centres for slum children in Patna, since 2006. Some of the students have now graduated and are working in different parts of India.“We need to do something for the women and girls in Bihar,” protested Dr Sister M. Carol AC way back in 1987, when the murder of two University women by their husbands came to light.

Protest against this incident forced the police to reopen the murder cases, which had been closed earlier claiming that these were suicide cases. After re-investigation justice was delivered.

From this campaign sprang the Inter College Women Association (ICWA) to work for the welfare of women and children living in slums.

ICWA at present is catering to more than 600 children.A major part of the above funding is raised in the UK by friends and family of Sister Carol.

EducationPuspamoyee Basu Vidyalaya - KolkataA small non-formal primary school for 35 street children run by a group of dedicated middle class ladies of Kolkata. SAVE provides funding for the mid-day meal as this is not provided by the government to non-formal schools.

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Baikuntapur Tarun Sangha (BTS) – Sundarbans

BTS Patha Bhavan is a formal school established in 1983 to provide quality education to the poor children of 6 remote villages in Kultali CD Block, South 24 Parganas District, West Bengal. Initially run as a primary school, it has recently received Government recognition to start classes for secondary education. Presently, there are 240 students in 6 classes from Preparatory to Class V. Most of the students are from extremely poor families engaged in farming, fishing and migrant labour. The school has also established a library and a solar powered computer center. SAVE-INDIA sponsors midday meal to all the children of BTS Patha Bhavan school.

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Swa Samriddhi – KolkataThe ever expanding urbanisation of Salt Lake, Rajarhat and areas around Metropolitan Bypass, Kolkata, bring a huge number of domestic helps from the slums and villages in and around these areas. These mothers have to leave behind their small children at home without adequate supervision. Mrs Sabitri Bose, a retired school headmistress has established several crèches under the banner of Swa Samriddhi for these children. After waging a lone war for a decade, she not only maintains

the creches, but has also expanded and now runs a number of nursery schools. Both SAVE UK and SAVE India have been supporting her for more than seven years and recently the Bengali Association of Indiana, USA, has decided to join us by donating new

dresses during the festive season.

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Education - contd.Quality Education Support Trust (QUEST) - MaharashtraQUEST has been working on Quality related issues in the field of Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education and Teacher Education from 2007. Over the past 10 years, work has been initiated in 6 districts of Maharashtra: Thane, Palghar, Nandurbar, Jalna, Junnar and Dhule. The organisation has reached around 20,000 children, through its various programmes, and around 1,000 teachers through workshops and its online forum which is available in the regional language.SAVE UK is supporting the Goshtaranga project, which aims to create a culture of reading and writing by providing an enriching literacy experience particularly to tribal students. By performing stories by trained theatre facilitators and reading aloud the written stories the literary experience is enriched and reading and writing are made more meaningful and enjoyable. The live experience provided does not just enhance the love of language/literature but also has a high cognitive impact.

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BC Hostel for underprivileged girls,Solapur, MaharashtraThis hostel provides much needed shelter, care and education to underprivileged girls. SAVE-UK has provided funds for a sanitation block and general development.

Funding has also been provided for training in sewing and embroidery.

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Ashadeep, Islampur Road, Guwahati

For over eight years SAVE-UK has been supporting Ashadeep, a well known NGO in Assam, in their work on psychosocial rehabilitation of persons with mental illness, and providing assistance to their families. Ashadeep works particularly for those who have become homeless due to mental illness, helping them to reintegrate with their families.

Spastic Society of Tamil Nadu (SPASTN) - ChennaiSPASTN empowers and enables disabled children and adults to reach their full potential through education, training and employment. It offers a wide range of services to parents to improve the overall service. They also promote self-help groups and focuses on promoting a barrier free environment.SAVE UK contributes to the general fund of SPASTN, one of the best known NGO’s in India.

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Tagore Foundation - Kolkata Tagore Foundation school was founded in 2001 by Mrs. Srabani Sengupta with the task of educating children with special needs. It educates children with autism, cerebral palsy and Down’s syndrome, etc, so that they can be

integrated into society. Beginning with only two students, now it has 150 including 25 slow learners, 28 special children and 20 normal children from the poorer section of the society. SAVE-India is the main funder of the Tagour Foundation at present.

Working with Physical & Mental Disabilitiesin West Bengal, Assam & Tamil Nadu

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Pratibondhee Shangha (PBS) - West Bengal

“Empowerment and community based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities through capacity building and income generating activities”

SAVE UK secured £10,000 per year for three years for this income generating project for physically and mentaly challenged adults from the Bairdwatson Trust of Scotland. Pratibondhee Shangha (PBS), is an association of disabled people, established in 1981.

It provided the training in tailoring, bag making, mobile repairing, computer basics, vermi composting and marketing skills. In its final year there were 80 direct beneficiaries, and 130 indirect beneficiaries. 31 participants were interviewed and they showed increased confidence, skills and ability to negotiate, to start their own enterprise and work in groups. They are also now more aware of the various government schemes for mobility appliances, income generation and health facilities.

The income for those trained in mobile repairs varied between 2000 and 5000 Rupees per month. Those trained in computer work averaged between 2500 and 4500, for tailoring the sums are 1500 to 2000 and bag making 1200 to 1500.Such was the success of the last project that BairdWatson Trust has agreed to part fund a further three year project for income generation. SAVE UK decided to provide the rest of the funding needed to ensure the success of the work.

£10 per month from 20 doners will ensure the continuation of such projects.

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Calcutta Social Project (CSP)In 2005 SAVE-UK, established, with financial support from the Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland, a Vocational Training School in Ballygunge, Kolkata in collaboration with CSP. At present it is running a very successful computer training programme for poor students, many of them living in slums.

We have also been supporting CSP’s vocational training programmes in sewing and embroidery for young illiterate mothers living in slums in South Kolkata. So successful has the training been that contracts have been received to supply bed linen to a number of private hospitals in Kolkata.

Since 2000 SAVE has been behind many of the major Projects of CSP, as one of the principal donors.

Vocational Training For Income Generation

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By donating £10 a month by standing order you will enable us to continue these projects and do much more. Donations can also be made by cheque to

SAVE-UK or online in save-uk’s website.

Association for Social Health in India (ASHI), KolkataViolence against women is widespread, particularly related to the dowry system in India. Early marriage, female foeticide, lifelong economic

dependance of women, all are related to dowry system. ASHI has six short-stay homes to give shelter to abused young women who had to leave their homes. SAVE UK has been funding ASHI for almost 20 years supporting 6 to 10 young women each year training them as auxiliary nurses, p h y s i o t h e r a p i s t s , ECG and laboratory technicians, depending

on capabilities, helping them to settle back again in the society. SAVE UK also funds ASHI’s beautician training, sewing and embroidery projects. From this year SAVE India is planning to start a computer training programme in ASHI.

Life Skill Training for villagers - West BengalFrom this year SAVE India has collaborated with the State Government fisheries experts to train self help groups in Pisiculture as livelihood in Birbhum. Save also provides them interest free loans in the first year.SAVE India is collaborating with Society for Rural Industrialization (SRI) and Jeevika Development Society to train villagers in a System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and has set up demonstration plots.

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In January 2014, on one of Save India’s field visits to the villages of Bakreswar a young boy came with his father - his name is Bapan Ghosh, an academically brilliant student of class 9. He is from a family of a daily wage earner, Madhusudan, and his home-maker wife Malati. He has an elder

sister, Tara.

Save India decided to run a student sponsorship program and from this Bapan was provided financial aid for his education. Save India were lucky to have donors who volunteered to support

him. Bapan passed Madhyamik examinations with flying colours and enrolled himself in Higher Secondary in the Tantipara High School, the only institute in the area. He started travelling 23kms twice weekly for chemistry tuitions as the school lacked a chemistry teacher. Our advisors, Prof. Gargi Das and her senior colleague Prof. Subhabrata Ray of Kharagpur IIT started mentoring him, they visited his school several times, enquired about his education and personally prepared him for his examinations. In 2015, Madhusudhan, in spite of living in extreme poverty, sold his cattle, took loans and sent his daughter Tara Ghosh to the National Medical College Kolkata to study nursing. Save India provide her with an interest free education loan for her entire course. Representatives of Save India visited her college several times and found that she is maintaining very high academic standards. Bapan is progressing well and has taken admission in Electrical Engineering in University Institute of Technology, Burdwan.

We need more funding to support many similar cases.£20 per month by standing order to SAVE is adequate to support one

deserving candidate like Bapan.

A success story from SAVE India

Mamoni Das was born in an impoverished family, and lived in the district of 24 Parganas in India’s West Bengal region, not far from the metropolis of Kolkata (Calcutta). She was brought up by her grandmother as her own family was unwilling to spend money on her education because she was a girl - her brother’s education on the other hand was taken care of by her father. Mamoni’s grandmother lived near Kolkata and worked as a cleaner for ‘Calcutta Social Project’ (CSP) based in the city.

Her grandmother asked CSP to take responsibility for Mamoni’s primary school education.

Mamoni finished at primary school, then she pursued her secondary school education, for which ‘Calcutta Social Project’ paid all expenses. Then she successfully underwent vocational training at CSP’s Girls’ Craft Centre. Lastly, she was sponsored to attend a diploma course in sewing and embroidery which she took in her usual stride and completed.

She now has a good job at Dashabhuja Boutique, where she mainly works making orhna (long scarves), as well as embroidering saris. Some of these products are now exported by the organisation she works for. She has become an expert in both machine work and embroidery work and presently she earns around 3500 rupees per month, giving her substantial economic independence and choices about her own future that she might not have otherwise had.

SAVE-UK has been helping to fund Calcutta Social Project’s primary education and vocational training projects for over fifteen years.

How SAVE UK helps change peoples’ lives

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‘Welcome To My Yard’ (WTMY) an NGO established by an Australian couple in Kathmandu, provides practical and vocational training support to more than 300 children and young people, who are homeless or on the verge of being homeless. WTMY works to a holistic model offering intervention to vulnerable children and young people.

Utilising a strong community partnership approach WTMY has been able to offer a diverse range of services and vocational training opportunities within small and growing, not-for-profit business projects. SAVE has identified WTMY as a local partner organisation and has secured funding (£6,000 per year for three years) from the Bairdwatson Trust of Scotland for a small project which will provide a tailoring programme for homeless young women or those who are at risk of homelessness. Both basic and advanced training are provided in Kathmandu by WTMY. The young women enrolled in the courses are supported not only in aquiring vocational skills but also receive continuing emotional support. They will also receive career development until they are settled.

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Earthquake relief - from destruction to construction

SAVE-UK has supported the work of Laxmi Pratisthan, in Kathmandu in the earthquake relief by funding the construction of three houses at a cost of £4500. This adds to the 14 houses funded by the Glasgow Nepalese Association through Laxmi Pratisthan.

Cultural and Empowerment Organization for Afghans (CEOA), Kabul, Afghanistan for Treatment of children with

physical dsabilitiesSAVE UK has part-funded the Rehabilitation Centre for Children (RCFC) in Kolkata to carry out surgical operations on 19 children from war-torn Afghanistan suffering from physical disabilities. The children have been the most vulnerable section of the society due to extremely poor or non existent medical facilities. The above was arranged by CEOA, based in Kabul, Afghanistan.The RCFC was established in 1973 by Ms. Jane Webb, an orthopaedic nurse from England. It has now become a Resource Centre for Eastern India, holding regular rural clinics in W. Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa to select children with deformities (congenital, polio, accidents) for operations and physiotherapy in their charitable hospital, Kolkata. SAVE is planning to support cardiac surgery on a group of Afghan children to be carried out in a private hospital in Kolkata. CEOA is currently negotiating with the hospital.

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Centre for Health and Resource Management (CHARM) Patna, Bihar

The 27th June 2015 saw the launch of SAVE’s Scottish Government funded (£17,000 per year for three years) project being run by the Centre for Health and Resource Management (CHARM). The project is called “Reducing Infant Mortality in slums of Patna through optimal feeding practices”.

The project is implementing ‘behaviour change communication strategy (BCC)’ to encourage mothers and caregivers of children under two years of age to follow optimal Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. The focus is on:1) Early initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth;2) Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months; and3) Timely, adequate and appropriate introduction of complementary feeding at six months of age.The project is being implemented four wards of Patna municipal area with the target of covering 2,000 mothers annually.Key Achievements• Earlyinitiationofbreastfeedinghasshownasubstantial improvement and more than 60% of mothers have initiated breast feeding within mandated first hour of the birth of children .• Exclusivebreastfeedingtilltheageofsixmonthhasbeen improved significantly and now 56% newborns are being exclusively breastfed.• AgespecificComplementaryfeedingisbeingpracticed among 88% of children above six months of age

Bihar is the second poorest state in India with poor health indicators. About 55 percent of Bihar’s children under two years of age are underweight for their

age, compared to the national average of 40 percent.

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SAVE-INDIA sponsors Higher Education for children from poor socio-economic backgrounds. After a thorough background check, physical verification of their surroundings and academic evaluation, the organisation has provided interest free loans with 5 years moratorium to the following students:Sanghamitra Das, pursuing Graduation in Physics at Biswa Bharati University, Shantiniketan. She has completed her first year with distinction. Her father is a weaver.

Tara Ghosh, studying Nursing at National Medical College, Kolkata. She is currently in her third year and ranked 5th in her batch. Her father is a farm worker.

Bilkis Biswas, is a brave muslim girl, who stood firm against an early marriage proposal by her family to continue her career. She is pursuing her graduation with English Honours in Barasat College and aspires to become a civil servant. Her father is physically disabled and her mother does embroidery to earn a living.

Umasankar Mondal, son of a weaver, is a topper in his school. He completed Madhyamik with flying colours, he loves debates and elocution, he enjoys painting and model making. He is in class 11 and aspires to become a mechanical engineer.

Manoj Chakraborti is the son of school teacher, who suffered a stroke and was paralysed 2 months prior to Manoj’s Madhyamik Examinations. He is in class 11 and wants to pursue higher education with Political Science. He doubles as physio therapist at home and takes time off his hectic life to teach in the village school where his father used to teach.

Eminent professors from IIT- Kharagpur, have interacted with some of the students and their teachers, assessed their capabilities and have shown interest in guiding them.

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SUKANYA - Bakreswar, Birbhum, West BengalSAVE India believe that empowerment of women should essentially be self initiated and linked with financial independence. In the Bakreswar region Save India met with women of several villages who were eager to get an opportunity to earn. There was, however, a serious lack of awareness on hygiene. A discussion was held with Dr. Ajay Basu, chairman of the Society for Rural Industrialization (SRI) Ranchi and a visit was then organised to SRI where several training options were considered. In the next 6 months SAVE India held awareness sessions with the village women covering menstrual hygiene as well as methods of creating an enterprise which would address this issue.Following discussions ‘SUKANYA’ was formed, comprising of 10 women, both tribals and non-tribals. In collaboration with SRI, training was provided on setting up production of sanitary napkins. Soft loans were arranged for the group and equipment was ordered and a place was provided in the village resource center for the machinery. In July 2017 the machine was installed and trial process begun.The hope and excitement among the group is tangible. For the first time in their lives, these village women will start working in their own unit. There was a look of disbelief among a few cynics, who never thought this would be possible.The above unit including machine and training cost only IRs 150,000. 10 people donating £15 per month is enough to replicate the project in a wider area.

Santi Tuberculosis Centre,Pailan, W. Bengal

SAVE UK has donated funds to build 20 low cost latrines conforming to UNICEF design, thus helping to reduce water-borne infection amongst children in the villages.SAVE UK started building toilets six years before ‘Swatch Bharat’ movement started by the government of India.

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E N G A G E M E N T W I T H I N T H E U K

As a way of engaging the local communities in the work of SAVE we have made a concerted effort to reach out to organisations working in similar areas in the UK. As part of this activity SAVE has raised funds exclusively in the UK and donates to organisations such as :

* Positive Action in Housing (refugee support) * Kilbryde Hospice * Macmillan Cancer Support * Childrens Hospices Across Scotland

LEGACY GIFT TO SAVE

IT EMPOWERS ‘THE POOREST OF THE POOR’ TO BUILD A BETTER FUTURE

Leaving a legacy gift is one way you can act today to help those most disadvantaged in South Asia. SAVE will ensure your legacy will have a lasting

impact for the years to come. Even a small percentage of your estate could make a huge difference to the work of SAVE and the lives of many.

If you would like more information about how you can include SAVE in your Will please contact Info@save-uk.org

SAVE-UK follows the Institute of Fundraising Code of Practice for the legacy gifts.

Dr Dipankar Datta (Chairperson)(Retired Consultant Physician)

Dr Samaresh Bhattacharya (Vice-Chairperson)(Consultant Physician CINI Kolkata)

Mr Subrata Bose (Managing Trustee)(IT Consultant, Director of Kris Systems)

Mr Himadri Barua (Trustee)(Advocate, High Court)

Ms Debjani Mitra (Trustee)(Consultant Architect)

Mr Shenomoy Bhattacharya (Trustee)(Retired Executive Director, Axix Bank)

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Phone: +91 33 24300260

Email: saveindia00124@gmail.com

Website:www.thesave-india.org

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TRUSTEE DETAILSSAVE UK

Dr Dipankar Datta (Chairperson)(Retired Consultant Physician)

Dr Amit Vikram Datta(Consultant Ophthalmologist, NHS, UK)

Mr Gautam Patra (Treasurer)(Lecturer, Glasgow Kelvin College, Glasgow, UK)

Professor Keshav Dahal (Trustee)(Professor in Artificial Intelligence, University of the West of Scotland)

Dr Milind Ronghe (Trustee)(Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, UK)

Ms Varshali Swadi (Trustee)George Rawlinson (Administrator)

SAVE-UK, 9 Kirkvale Crescent, Newton Mearns, Glasgow G77 5HB

tel: 0141 639 1515

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email: info@save-uk.org

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SAVE-UK, 9 Kirkvale Crescent, Newton Mearns, Glasgow G77 5HB tel: 0141 639 1515 www.save-uk.org; email: info@save-uk.org

Registered Charity No.:SC022264

SAVE-INDIA: Sai Apartment, E-5, 4th Floor, 122 Barada Avenue, Kolkata-700084, INDIA

Phone: +91 33 24300260 Email: saveindia00124@gmail.com www.thesave-india.org

Please support SAVE in its work - donations can be made by cheque payable to South Asia Voluntary Enterprise and return to:

SAVE, 9 Kirkvale Crescent, Newton Mearns, Glasgow, G77 5HB Donations can also be made on-line at https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/save

Here is my donation of: £ towards the work of SAVE.

Regular donations by standing order allow us to plan and sustain projects

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Account Number: _________________ Sort Code: ________________________ Please pay the sum of £____________on the __________________ (Date) of each month/quarter/half year/year (delete as appropriate) until further notice to: South Asia Voluntary Enterprise, Account No: 00872336, Sort Code: 80 06 64Bank of Scotland, East Kilbride Branch, PO Box 1000, BX2 1LB Signed ________________________________

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Phone: +91 33 24300260 Email: saveindia00124@gmail.com www.thesave-india.org

Education for slum children, Kolkata Mother and Child Care, Patna, Bihar

Education for Tribal children, Birbhum