On the 16^th March 2023, FTBK Charitable Trust arranged an awareness on Child Marriage, all FTBK Staffs & children joined this program. The greatest highlight was the feedback from the children on the value of this awareness for their lives both now in the future!

Every year on the 8th March we celebrate International Women's Day to remember the valuable place that women hold in every facet of our society!

NR Motors Mahindra kindly visited our Community Project and distributed snacks to 55 children and encouraged them to focus on their studies and pursue their dreams for the future. We value their interest and support in our work.

On the 25.02. 2023 our team ran a program for the occasion of International Mother Language Day in association with the Rangamala Memorial Development Initiative.  The 55 children in the community participated in recitations of poems and stories and a drawing competition. In addition to the prizes that were given to the best participants, every child received a food packets to take home with them.

FTBK runs this Literacy Program for Women in the Community to help to support them to be able to read and write in Bengali. This skill empowers them to care for themselves and their families in a greater way. Spending time together with other women in the Community is a unique opportunity to bond together and support each other.  There are 106 Women Enrolled in this program. This program is supported by the Rotary Club of Behala.

Our Free to be Kids’ team runs 2 kids clubs in Kolkata. In each club the kids learn to make various kind of art and craft, spend time together in a fun environment with their peers, while learning good behaviour and manners. This is the place where the kids love to come for drawing, singing, dancing, playing and lot of other activities.

Our Team works to support School Admission and Attendance of the children that are attending our Education & Nutrition Program. In this month we are pleased to say that a 13 year old boy was admitted into class 7 with the help of our team. After falling out of school, because of a shift back and forth from the family's village home, our team helped his grandparents by talking to the school Headmistress, collecting admission forms and helping them to fill them out and also paying for his admission fees so his schooling could start immediately. The family and this young boy are happy that he can now pursue his formal education as well as receive free tuition and a nutritious meal from our team.

We continue our Education & Nutrition Program to children living in 6 different slum communities in the Salt Lake Area. This month the children had classes focussed on simple addition and subtraction of fractional numbers, Country Capitals and their States, and also their capitals. The children above 7 years also focussed on paragraph writing and the younger children's learning was focussed on the alphabet, numbers and their spelling. 1009 Meals were given to the 150 Children that attended this program.

FTBK Girl’s Home children & children from our Community Projects, visited the International Book Fair at Salt Lake on the 11th February 2023. The children enjoyed the day and had the opportunity to purchase new books that would like to read. The children particularly were interested in visiting the different countries book stalls and learning a little of their culture. This outing was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Behala.

On 6^th February 2023, FTBK Charitable Trust celebrated our 13^th Foundation Day at our FTBK campus, the children performed a small program and our Management Team presented a slideshow of our achievements over these years. At the conclusion all the staff & children ate a special dinner & enjoyed the evening together!