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Barefoot Teachers Training Programme

The principal concept of the Barefoot Teachers Training programme is that ‘People only need feet to walk, shoes are a luxury’. Given the millions of ...

Brick Field School Project

Empowering Futures, Transforming Lives: KMWSC's Journey in Educating and Nurturing Migrant Children in brickfields of West Bengal In the 2023-24 session of the Brickfield School Project, ...

Cafe & Bakery

The Café & Bakery Unit is an innovative initiative by Kolkata Mary Ward Social Centre (KMWSC), designed to empower the youth from marginalised communities by ...

Capacity Building of Teachers and Students

This is a unique programme of KMWSC in partnership with John Scottus Senior School – Ireland. The project contributes in enhancing rural education in West ...

Child Rights Project

Caritas India has been implementing Programme: United for Child Protection – Protecting and Reclaiming Childhood in West Bengal in collaboration with 8 partners in West ...

Childline

Unfortunately in our country in times of crisis many children have no one to turn to for advice, support or assistance. Our involvement with Childline ...

Climate Action & Biodiversity Project

Location: Bipradaspur, Manmathanagar, and Chandipur of Gosaba block in Sundarban Direct Beneficiaries: 350 | Indirect Beneficiaries: 1,400 Nestled within the delta of the Ganga, Brahmaputra, and Meghna ...

Community based Intervention initiative on Anti Human Trafficking (Diamond Harbour)

Community based intervention initiative on Anti Human Trafficking (Diamond Harbour) was implemented in 10 Gram Panchayet at Diamond Harbour 1 Block in South 24 Parganas ...

Education and protection to vulnerable urban children

KMWSC have identified two areas which host vulnerable and high risk children working in different professions. Jyotinagar Colony has many children working in hazardous conditions in ...

Empowerment and Leadership for Survivors Program (ELS)

Over the years working successfully with the Anti Human Trafficking project, we identified the need to have a victim centric approach. Thus in 2021, two ...

Fisherfolk Project

After the project ended in Odisha, KMWSC continued with the concept, and has implemented the programme now in Contai, East Medinipur District, where we have ...

FOOD ATM

KMWSC with its long lineage with the Loreto stands for the poor and underprivileged, we stand at the threshold of continuing this history through the ...

Hidden Domestic Child Labour (HDCL)

KMWSC started replicating the Multipurpose Activity Centres (MAC) from previous project’s learning into new slum areas of Kolkata. A need based survey was conducted in ...

Hidden Domestic Child Labour(HDCL)

Hidden Domestic Child Labour Project under Kolkata Municipal Corporation works for the education of the deprived children who are employed for domestic work as ...

I.D.E.N.T.I.T.Y.

From April 2023, KMWSC launched a new project named I.D.E.N.T.T.T.Y, which is an acronym for INVOLVEMENT DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT OF IN NEED INDIVIDUALS THROUGH YOU. ...

Kolkata Slum Project

In the heart of Kolkata's slums, children are often burdened with responsibilities far beyond their years. They are encouraged to participate in various income-generating activities ...

Lodha Community Project

Lodha Community Project (Gangasagar Island) is being run in Sagar Block in South 24 Parganas to bring a change in the lives of children of ...

Lotus Child – Community and Adult Education Programme

With the desire to bridge the gap between poverty and education, Kolkata Mary Ward Social Centre has been implementing a community and adult education programme ...

Lotus Child Project – Dulki village in Sundarban

Welcome to the Lotus Child Project in Dukli village, situated in the heart of Sundarbans. Our keen observation and surveys revealed a concerning pattern – ...

MIST – Empowerment of Mothers in the Sex Trade at Sonagachi

Kolkata Mary Ward Social Centre has been implementing a project at Sonagachi since 2016 catering to the changing needs of the sex workers and their ...

NARI SHAKTI: Empowering Women, Building Resilient Communities in the Sundarbans

Nari Shakti is a transformative initiative launched in January 2025 in the remote villages of Manmathanagar, Chandipur, Shambhunagar, and Bipradaspur under the Gosaba block of ...

NAYA DISHA: Empowering Survivors for Social Acceptance and a Dignified Life

Launched in February 2025, Naya Disha is an impactful initiative based in the Hingalganj block of North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal. The project is ...

Organic Sack Farming

Empowering Brickfield Communities through Organic Sack Farming Welcome to the Organic Sack Farming Project, an initiative that embodies the spirit of empowerment and sustainability in the ...

Pandemic and Disaster Management

In 2020, because of the pandemic situation and the nationwide lockdown, several families, especially the daily wage earners, lost their livelihood. Sustenance became a major issue ...

Red Light Area Project

Education programme for the vulnerable children of Sonagachhi- a red light area in Kolkata. Commercial Sex worker’s children suffer severely both in their educational development ...

SCAR – Sensitization of Communities and Adolescents at Risk : To combat Human Trafficking and Child Abuse

The Project SCAR - Sensitization of Communities and Adolescents at Risk, is being implemented at India-Bangladesh border in 10 villages under 3 Gram Panchayats. (GP). ...

Sensitization on Anti Human Trafficking

Sensitization on Anti - Human Trafficking Project (Canning) had run in Canning- I Block of South 24 Pargana district to prevent trafficking of children, girls and women ...

Skill Development Programme

Keeping in mind the adolescents and youth of the communities which are deprived educationally and financially we find it of great importance to run vocational ...

Sohochori

Welcome to the Sohochori project, a beacon of hope in the heart of Kolkata's red-light districts. Our mission is to empower and uplift the adolescent ...

Solar Enlighten and Community Empowerment Project

Solar Enlighten and Community Empowerment Project (SECEP) is a completely new dimension of intervention by KMWSC at Manmathnagar village . Manmathnagar is an island, situated in ...

Supporting the Rights of Marginalised Children, Women and People with Disabilities in the disadvantaged district of South 24 Parganas in West Bengal (Human rights Project)

Since 2018, the KMWSC team is working in Diamond Harbour to combat Human Trafficking and Child Abuse through Sensitization of Communities and Adolescents at Risk. ...

Tribal Community Development and Empowerment Project

Place: Gangasagar Island, under Gangasagar Gram Panchayat Sagar Block , P.S. Sagar Comprising of 350 Santhali and fisher man families (about 1150 population) reside in Gangasagar Gram ...

Value Education and Human Rights

According to the ethos of Loreto, as educators we have to stand firm against the current of consumerism, materialistic society and greed which prevents many ...