Khaskhamar, Rameswarnagar, Bauria.
Howrah, West Bengal
033-269173
Contact: Rahima Khatun ( Chief Functionary )
Mobile Number: 9830646876
E-mail: nskk1979@gmail.com
Website: www.noskk.in
Activities:
Children
The genesis:
In the year 1978, there was a devastating flood in almost all the part of West Bengal. More or less all the districts of this state were flood affected where as, in Howrah district, it was a severe one. The reason behind was that three of the important rivers i.e. the Ganges, Damodar and Rupnarayan pass along this smallest district of the state. The embankments were washed away by tremendous force of the floodwater causing massive loss of lives and damage of properties. Like any catastrophe, the children and the women were the most debilitated group in this natural calamity also. After this flood, initiatives were taken by a group of young educated women to organize the poor and marginalized women of the district to protect their interest towards a sustainable livelihood. In this endeavour few small and big voluntary organizations extended cooperation to this women organization. Among these, Tajmahal Gram Bikash Kendra, a leading organization of this district, worked in close collaboration with this women group.
In the year 1979 this women group viz. Nari-O-Sishu Kalyan Kendra was registered under West Bengal Societies Registration Act and in 1985 obtained Foreign Contribution Registration from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India.
During last two decades, in the development journey of the Nari-O-Sishu Kalyan Kendra, it has been able to spread out its activities in number of blocks of Howrah district with thousands and thousands of women.
This long endeavour towards fulfilling the mission of NSKK has become possible with co-operation and contribution of many national and international resource sharing agencies, the state and national level government as well as non-government institutions. Role of innumerable individual resource persons is also importantly present there.
The Vision:
The aspiration of Nari-O-Sishu Kalyan Kendra is for self-reliant society based on humane values like cooperation, participation, justice, respect and love where people will participate in a decentralized political process, where the economy will be based on localized production and consumption, the environment will be free from pollution and exploitation, the people will survive with their own indigenous socio-cultural identity. The envisioned society will be free from the forces of patriarchy and will be more peaceful and harmonious.
The Mission:
The Nari-O-Sishu Kalyan Kendra strives to unfold the down trodden marginalized people and to make them self-reliant with particular emphasis on socio-economico-politico-cultually vulnerable groups like women and children towards attaining the envisioned sustainable society.
Objectives:
 To develop human potentiality and critical awareness so that the identified group of people become able to organize themselves towards their empowerment.
 To enhance knowledge and skill of the reference group so that they can plan and act accordingly towards their sustainable development through participatory process.
 To make the women aware regarding health, education, environment and economic action and also to make them capable of carrying their development journey. The Kendra will provide related support services to this end.
 To take necessary measures in order to generate income through micro-credit and allied programmes by developing Self-Help Groups.
