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Samaritan Help Mission is an NGO based in the Tikiapara slums of Howrah District in West Bengal, India. It started operating in 1999 and since then has grown to garner support of several local and even foreign patrons in addition to the local people. The area has traditionally been a drug peddling den and anti socials abound the area. It is estimated that around 2000 are present in this area. Despite resistance from these groups SHM has been consistently working towards its goals and successfully prevented a good number of women and children from falling prey to anti social activities. Its activities mainly include educating children and women to make them self dependent.
Our MissionUpliftment of underprivileged children and women, belonging mainly to the minority community, who have been corrupted by unscrupulous practices prevalent in the society and exploited by the drug mafia. This is in the form of basic education as well as vocational training.
It all starts with a spark …Feb 8,1999. A socially conscious family sits in their house when a child comes running to them, crying. The notorious drug lord, who wants to force his mother into joining the drug peddling business, is beating the child’s mother. A man rises to the occasion, deals with the situation firmly and reports to the police. The upliftment drive has had its first victim. He counsels the child and teaches him. In due course the child gets more children from the slums and with the help of his family and friends, Shri Mamoon Akhtar starts an NGO under the banner of Samaritan Help Mission.
Is this kind of work really relevant?Yes, because there is a desperate need for it. The organization’s activities are based in the Tikiapara community in the Howrah district. This region has been conventionally the hub of all drug peddling and trafficking activities and has a very orthodox & rigid culture.
The present day SHM... SHM today has reached a stage where it provides various kinds of rehabilitation services to children of drug- abused parents and those in the trafficking racket. Thus it safeguards the present and future of these innocent children and gives them a direction in life. Today its activities include imparting education through a formal school up to fourth standard, non formal education and vocational programmes for working girls, dropouts, adult working women, conducting awareness programmes and conducting free eye operation camps. The increasing success of these ventures has led SHM to grow infrastructurally, financially as well as broadening its scope of activities, wherein it plans to start a full fledged school.
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