Change Initiatives is a Kolkata-based non-governmental organisation working on 3Es education, environment and empowerment.
We work among women, children and the youth.
Engaged with 250 children to make them better learners, improve nutrion and mental enrichment. …
Coding & Tinkering Labs at government schools for social good and a sound career path …
A massive mangrove plantation drive is underway: Led by the women of Sunderbans …
Nabanna: Women empowerment through livelihood generation in non-traditional areas…
Born and raised in Kolkata as the oldest of two siblings, Bishakha Ghosh learnt Economics from great teachers at Presidency College and Calcutta University. Now she is a teacher at Kalyani University. She is irresistibly drawn to the power of words and the lure of distant places.
Sr Manager, Editorial, ICRA Ltd, Indira Kanjilal is an editor, writer, translator. She works for women and children's education and healthcare. She is working to make a slum school into a Happy School at Panchanantala, Dhakuria. She has also been working on domestic violence and gender discrimination in an individual capacity.
Rupak Goswami is a Fulbright Scholar. Rupak teaches agriculture and rural development at the Integrated Rural Development and Management Faculty Centre of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Kolkata. He is a PhD from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Kalyani.
We organised sessions on menstrual hygiene at our partner schools as part of Change Initiatives's Wellness programme, with more than 100 students of ages 10-12 made aware there was no social stigma to the exercise and it was a normal physiological routine for girls with nothing to hide from others
Around 200 West Bengal women are hard at work in growing their their poultry business: not only that they are building resilience in gender, leadership and climate shocks through a number of workshops under the Social, Technological, Innovation Bundle (STIBs) learning package
