Salt Lake's Ujaan Welfare Society

The Origin Of Ujaan as a Salt Lake NGO … September 13, 2009

Salt Lake's Ujaan Welfare Society

Ujaan, a Bengali word, means ‘going against the tide’.

It is a name of a literary work by famous Bengali novelist Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay. Ujaan is also the name of a play by Sreejansena. The endeavour of Ujaan is to help everyone to overcome the ‘tide’ of difficulties.

As an NGO in  Kolkata’s Salt Lake City, Ujaan is …

Ujaan has started its operation in the year 2009 with the projects of cultural awareness. Ujaan has taken the responsibility of reaching the rich heritage of Indian culture and its tradition to the common people.

The president of Ujaan says,

“To enhance the understanding and strengthen the bond among humanity culture is the best medium.”

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Ujaan has organized several competitions to encourage the children and already given the platform to bring out their hidden talents.

One of the primiary objectives of Ujaan as an NGO in Salt Lake is the welfare of the needy children who may grow up to shine as talented citizens of this country in the near future.

There are more than thirty mentally and physically challenged children who are being encouraged to believe in their inner potentials.

Ujaan has educational section which provides coaching and training to the students. They provide the needy students special care and guidance. Personality development and soft skill trainings are given to those aspirant candidates who can not afford the high price of joining the expensive institutions.

Ujaan operates a special support group as a Kolkata NGO for encouraging house-bound women and homemakers to pursue their dream and establish themselves as confident individuals.

Difficulties

The main difficulty of this  Salt Lake NGO is that they lack the much needed space for so many projects to be worked out. Being a new organization with lot of future ideas they need proper funding and resources.

For mass level and grassroot level work they need to enhance their member strength. But as a new Kolkata NGO what Ujaan is doing is more than enough. It is expected that, in near future with more opportunities and aids coming from different sources, they can fulfill their mission.

As a Kolkata NGO in Salt Lake, Ujaan has started its journey in creating opportunities for the children to shape into talented and educated citizens of India.

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How Ujaan was born into an NGO in Salt Lake City:

Ujaan is a dream child of the seven founding members. The idea of forming such an organization first came to the mind of the treasurer of the organization-Mrs. Shikha Das. Mrs. Shikha Das, who is a Bank employee, had been working for the mentally and physically challenged children for a long time.

Her long twenty five years of experience in working for the street children, orphans and mentally retarded people, made her give serious thought about an NGO which shall be providing a wholesome support to the development of the society in 2008. It took a year to give the idea a promising shape.

In the beginning of 2009, in collaboration with the present secretary Rituparna Das and assistant secretary Susmit Mukherjee, Ujaan got its existence. Ujaan started its operation in a scanty room of a ground floor of a house in Salt Lake. Gradually they have started expanding their projects.

Salt Lake’s Ujaan Welfare Society (Kolkata/Calcutta) is a non-governmental non-profit organization established in 2009. One of the main objectives of this government registered NGO is to improve the life of the underprivileged and backward sections of the society.

Among our different projects, we aim for the promotion of

• Education and culture
• Health and Hygiene awareness
• Cottage industrial development
• Improvement of the lives of the urban slum and street dwellers

The newly found Salt Lake NGO has already been supported by many socially aware personalities.