Category: News
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Sakina needs help
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Sakina’s future hangs in the balance. I first met her in Kolkata in May 2022. Tiljala SHED staff brought her to my attention at a meeting of all the evening class students at the Mir Meher Ali Lane centre in Tangra. What […]
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India’s latest surge – News from Kolkata
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We have all watched India’s second COVID wave crash across the continent, exposing the terrible chasm between rich and poor, the deficiencies of the health system there and the wonderful power of human beings to reach out and help one another when […]
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A brief update on the Topsia Evening Class Education project in Kolkata
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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 what she tells me: Our centres are open and the vulnerable children from our communities are coming […]
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Fahim
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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 Class are due to receive smartphones to enable them to continue their education online. Fahem is 17 […]
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Thank you for all your support through 2020
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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 work, we have been able to provide huge amounts of food relief, educational support and disaster relief. […]
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Saika’s Story
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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 is a street vendor selling puffed rice and gram; her mother, a homemaker; a sister and brother. […]
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Disaster has Struck. Again
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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 a handful of destitute communities in central Kolkata. For five years I have been raising funds to […]
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Bhola’s Story
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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 in the middle of an open sewer in central Kolkata. There are two fresh water taps for […]
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Taking Emergency Relief to the Sundarbans
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DONATE HERE Cyclone Amphan Relief Campaign for Global Giving August 2020 On 27th July 2020 Global Giving awarded Tiljala SHED USD3750 for relief for those caught up in Cyclone Amphan. These funds were donated by private individuals through Facebook as a response […]