To our development partners and well wishers.....
Kulpi Astha, after its registration under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, has passed around fourteen years in the service to poor and underprivileged village people in its quarter. Without any pomp and ostentation it serves them to mitigate their drudgeries and miseries to attain a quality life.
Its work is mainly directed to benefit needy children, youth, women and elderly persons irrespective of caste, community and religion.
Our organization emphasizes on technical education and training to enable youth and women to find out suitable work and to earn their bread.
It has also taken initiative to provide improved training to the persons involved in traditional crafts like solapith, zari work and jute craft. It has distributed identify cards to 506 artisans of both genders involved in solapith, supported by Ministry of Textiles, Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Government of India.
A positive step has been taken up by Kulpi Astha, as a catalyst, to organize rural women form low income-group families into Self-help groups. They have developed their leadership in organizing the group activities efficiently.
I am happy to share our annual report of 2015-2016 with you all. The programmes and the performances of Kulpi Astha are furnished in the following pages.
Before concluding I extend my thanks and deep gratitude to those benevolent individuals and development agencies, both Govt. and Non-Govt., whose co-operation and support have enabled us to keep our drive on-going.
Last but not least, I feel pride for all our members, staff and volunteers who work as a team to the service of needy people. I convey my heart-felt thanks to all of them.
(Ashis Kumar Pramanik)
Secretary