127 Noor Md Munshi Lane
Howrah, West Bengal
033-26381901
Contact: Mamoon Akhtar ( Chief Functionary )
Mobile Number: 9836777600
E-mail: mamoon@samaritanhelpmission.org
Website: www.samaritanhelpmission.org
Activities:
Women/Gender,Children,Education,Training,Micro Finance,Sponsorship/Adoption,Health/Nutrition,Livelihood,SHG/IGP,Slums,Welfare
Samaritan Help Mission (SHM) is a Voluntary, not for profit organization based in Tikipara slum of Howrah (West Bengal) in India. Tikiapara has a predominant Muslim population accounting for almost 80% of the total population. SHM was established in 1991 and is committed to work for the emancipation and empowerment of poor children of the area who previously have been involved in various nefarious activities and local women who lack opportunities to join the main stream of life through education and vocational training. MISSION To prevent the exploitation of poor slum children, especially girls, by providing them opportunities for quality education – right from Pre-Nursery to high school as well as vocational training. To also provide them access to higher education and health facilities so that they develop into healthy, hardworking, broadminded, intelligent, compassionate citizens who rise above the narrow considerations of caste, creed, community, religion, region or language and help build a strong nation. OUR OBJECTIVES SHM’s avowed objective is to empower the underprivileged and disadvantaged members of the society through awareness and education training and generating employment opportunities for the deprived women and girls. SHM also strives to provide better health care to the local population and motivate the mostly Muslim women through awareness of family planning. BRIEF HISTORY It was the passionate appeal of a child in the year 1991, wanting to go to the school that prompted the founder of this project Mamoon Akhtar to start teaching 5-6 children in his own house. As the residents of the area became aware of this “school”, more and more children started coming and there was no place to seat them. Mamoon constructed a room on his own small plot of land (600 sq.ft.) and the one room SHM School was born with 25 young eager children flocking to it. Mamoon rose to the occasion and went from door to door to raise Rs.28, 000 p.a. (in addition to their own contribution of Rs.10, 000). From that it has grown to the following.
