Lipilekha is now proud to sponsor a Mukti Support School at Vishalakkhipur. This will be done using an existing school facility located at Namkhana Block of Budhakhali Gram Panchayat in South 24 Pgs District in the Sunderbans.
Lipilekha will sponsor children in Classes 5-10, who would otherwise be married off or pushed into labor jobs by their families due to financial difficulties. These children will now be given hands-on, intensive help with their school curriculum every day to help them to eventually take the board exams. Along with that, physical health and moral responsibilities education as well as personality development lessons are also given to the students in the Mukti schools.
The support school is now operational and totally sponsored by Lipilekha. It enrolls local students, most of whom are fist generation learners, thereby making a huge impact in the immediate community.
We are immensely thankful to members who have donated and we look forward to the continued support so that we can keep up the good work in supporting the school.
For close to 50 years, My Sisters’ Place has been striving to end domestic violence and human trafficking by providing free, confidential supportive and legal services, education, and outreach throughout Westchester County, NY. We are working to create a world in which people of all genders, backgrounds, abilities, and identities have the basic human right to engage in relationships that embrace respect, equality, and safety. To learn more about My Sisters’ Place visit www.mspny.org.
Foster Teens Employment Network (FTEN) is a non-profit organization that does the unique and much required work of supporting teens that age out of Foster Care and are not adopted at that point. In US alone, over 20,000 kids age out every year and do not have the skills to face the next phase of life. 50% to 70% of them become homeless in the first six months of their aging out. Less than 2% graduate college. Over 70% end up in jails after committing petty crimes just so that they can be warm for the winter and get free meals.
Michael and Joy Goldstein have been working tirelessly to change this picture. The organization strives to secure employment for such children. That entails a plethora of defined and undefined services and challenges since each kid comes with a bag of unique problems. Whether it is helping with resume writing or procuring a driver’s licence or finding them a place to shower and do their laundry and dress up appropriately for an interview—this organization covers every difficult surprise in the lives of the FTEN young adults.
One of their recent endeavors is also to try to sponsor internships for the FTEN when there is an opportunity for the young adult to learn a skill in a workplace that would otherwise hesitate to train and pay them. A great number of FTENs find stability and meaning in their lives with the help of this organization under the leadership of the founder Michael Goldstein.
Food Bank for Westchester is an organization based in Westchester NY whose mission is to lead, engage and educate Westchester County in creating a hunger-free environment. They solicit, acquire, warehouse and distribute food to 227 frontline hunger-relief programs throughout the county that include food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and residential programs, helping to feed some or all of the estimated 200,000 Westchester children, seniors and their families who are hungry or at risk of hunger. They have several noteworthy programs such as Kid’s Cafe, Kid’s Backpack Program, etc. Please visit www.foodbankforwestchester.org for more information.
In addition to donating to these organizations, Lipilekha also engages from time to time in philanthropic activities of our own such as food pantries, clothing drives, toy drives and other activities.
Thanks to the generosity of our community members, Lipilekha Bangla Association donated 53 blankets to aid the Turkey-Syria Earthquake Relief Program run by the Turkish Embassy in New York, on February 17, 2023.
Our Philanthropy Secretary, Smt. Sharmistha Dutta, worked tirelessly to coordinate this effort and went to NY with President Sayantan Das to donate the blankets personally.
hank you all for your kindness
Lipilekha Pathshala students, under the guidance of principal Smt. Paramita Bagchi and some parent volunteers, spent a fruitful morning on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at St Bartholomew’s Church in White Plains distributing food at the soup kitchen.
Current and ex-students of Lipilekha Pathshala, aged 4-17 years gathered together to bag and distribute burritos made by the parent volunteers to the guests at Art’s Kitchen at the church.
Lipilekha Pathshala students have undertaken a coat drive since 2021 under the aegis of Philanthropy Secretary, Smt Sharmistha Dutta . Lipilekha’s first coat drive was immensely successful with 54 winter coats donated to Kid’s Kloset in White Plains and the program has been successfully running each year since then.
Feeding Westchester, volunteering event to support in the annual food box prep activity.For volunteers 10 and up.
To sign up or for more information, please contact us at philanthropy@lipilekha.org or contact our Suranjan Ray
Date : November 2, 2023
Time : 4-6 pm
Lipilekha Bangla Association