Emergency Relief Support

Seva Kendra Calcutta (SKC) along with its partnering organisations conducted a Relief Material Distribution Camp for the flood victimized families of North 24 parganas, West Bengal, in the month of August and September 2015.

A deep depression was formed as an aftermath of Cyclone Komen that battered large parts of South Bengal resulting flood situation in West Bengal and has turned grim as many areas are still inaccessible, disconnected and submerged in flood water.

CRS, CARITAS and SKC made rapid needs assessments of two Gram Panchayats namely, Tepul Mirjapur and Saguna under the jurisdiction of Swarupnagar onAugust 8 and 9, 2015 respectively with the following objectives:

 To understand the extent and type of damage;
 Determining the immediate needs of flood-affected families
 To assess the government’s response needs,

SKC distributed 5 kgs of Rice, 1 kg of Dal, 1 kg Bleaching powder, 2 kgs Lime and 1 piece of mosquito net to each family. Also, 859 pieces of tarpaulins were distributed to families whose houses were fully damaged.

SKC office and field staffs along with PRI and influential person visited house to house for

observation of the situation of the victimized families and distributed the coupon to the needy families to avoid chaos during the relief material distribution.

The Flood Relief and Distribution Committee had a meeting with the PRI members for the selection of beneficiaries as per the criteria and established a good rapport with various Government Departments and NGOs for peaceful distribution of relief materials. There were 10 Civic Police under the supervision of Charghat Police Phari was deployed at each distribution places.

SKC director, Caritas representative, Sub inspector Charghat Phari and SKC staff in a discussion.

Stock of food materials.

People gathered outside the distribution counter.

Queue at the distribution centre.

Queue at the distribution centre.

Volunteer explaining the process of using bleaching and lime.

Distribution of the relief materials in process.

A volunteer is serving an old man to receive materials.

Job Oriented Programme at SKC

Seva Kendra Calcutta (SKC) in collaboration with Smile Foundation, Ericsson Global and Microsoft Corporation inaugurated a Job Oriented Learning Programme on August 24, 2015 at SKC under the Smile Twin e-Learning Programme (STeP).

STeP is a national level initiative of SMILE Foundation - an effort towards creating a pool of independent youth living with dignity from the underprivileged section through skill enhancement in tandem with market requirements. 

Under this national programme SMILE Foundation sets up STeP centres in partnership with NGOs called the "Implementing Partners". SKC is one of the implementing partners having a STeP centre in its premises.

The project aims at preparing urban underprivileged (adolescent youths) with skills in

-English Proficiency, 

-Basic Computer Education and

-Soft Skills, for enhancing their prospects of employment in fast expanding sectors like retail outlets, hospitality and BPOs sectors. 

It is a four months training period, with the first batch starting from August 24, 2015.

The second batch from December 26, 2015, and

The third Batch from April 24, 2016.

For admissions in the second batch, please contact at SKC office.