The Shanty TrustThe Shanty Trust is U.K registered Charitable Trust (Registration No. 1188154) raising funds to support the work of partner organisation TILJALA SHED which works with rag pickers and the ultra-poor in Kolkata, India. Our mission is to relieve poverty by empowering women through vocational and livelihood programmes and protecting children from early marriage and child labour through educational support.
The Shanty Trust is raising funds for emergency food and medicine for Kolkata’s most vulnerable. The pandemic continues to cause great hardship: besides the virus itself poverty, unemployment and hunger continue. Day labourers with no work; rag pickers and beggars who can’t go out onto the streets; street vendors who cannot trade.
This campaign will get your donations out to Kolkata fast.
I am in regular touch with Parveen our programme co-ordinator and who has taken a special interest in this cohort of young people. This is
This is Fahem. Yesterday his mother was crushed to death by a truck. This week Fahem and 19 other young people from our Topsia Evening
It has been an especially difficult year for India’s most vulnerable communities. But with the support of our wonderful donors and with Tiljala SHED’s hard
Saika is 17 years old and lives in a a shelter beside the open sewers of Topsia in Kolkata. She lives with her father, who
I don’t really know how to report this. Disaster has struck. Again. I have, for better or worse, tied myself to the fate of
This is Bhola. He is 16 years old and lives in the Topsia canalside squatters, a row of shacks built on a spit of land
