We have permanent projects......

1."Happy Home" Project [It is a Project of free school where we give service like Education, Food, Entertainment programs, Games etc. to the slum and street kids. We have different centers of Happy Home Projects.]

Since we Started our first target is to "Give Smile to All The Needy Children". In this movement Our Target Groups are "Street, slum and destitute Children" in India .We Started welfare activities with the help of our Members, Staffs and Volunteers. We noticed that these section of needy kids are suffering from malnutrition due to unavailability of regular food and dirty / naked body due to unavailability of Shelter and Cloth and always found with lots of diseases because of the unavailability of any Medical support.

 And the root of all problems is the Illiteracy . So we decided to Start this Project named "HAPPY HOME"a non formal free School for these needy kids. We already have three Centers of "Happy Home Project" located in Kolkata (Calcutta) where we are trying to provide food, clothing ,education, Medical Supports,entertainment etc. There are children from Slums and Street. These children will get education till they are 18 years old and get various training in last two years ,to stand on their own feet. We are looking for the long/medium/short term volunteers to work with our children directly where Volunteers can teach these kids in our school, play with them etc. All these children that we have at present are from 4 to 12 years old and they need real love and attachment from our volunteers. In near future we like to make many more other permanent centers of "Happy Home" through out India.Organization needs huge Volunteers' Support to run this Project.

 2. "Street Children Welfare" Project [ It is a project specially for the street kids where we provide services like Education, Food, Cloth, Medical Treatment ,entertainment programs etc. we have different centers of this project.]

Since "SMILE -Society" established it was our one of main Project and the first center of this Project which is going on from Sealdah Station and our work normally start at the early morning from 5:00-7:30 a.m for these needy kids. We choose this station because it is the main station of Kolkata and there are many needy homeless children who live there . Some of the children live there with their families some of them live there alone. These children are unprotected to the harassment by the police and local mafias.

They don't get any medical support because local hospitals do not care about Street People. For our volunteers Sealdah Program starts at 3:40 a.m. when they leave from their accommodation [20 k.m away from Sealdah Station]. At 5:00 a.m. they arrive at the Sealdah Station and start their activities. Within many type of welfare activities washing, Cleaning, food supply, education, medical service ,cloth supply [time to time] etc. are main regular services done by the Organization on this place. After washing these kids ,they get breakfast and then our staffs & Volunteers give them basic education, Medical treatment and shear affection and smile with these kids. In near future we want to make this program every day [Monday-Sunday] but for this we need huge number of regular Volunteer Participation in this Project ,so come and join SMILE and help us to improve our movement & fight against the Poverty ,Hunger, Illiteracy .
This type of permanent programs we also will going to do from many other places in india .

 3." Kids land " Project [ This our one of the near future project where we are planning to provide complete support to the Street kids with free schools, Shelters, medical centers, play ground and yoga centers for the Street kids.]

Now we are heading to make one place for our Street kids' and Volunteers and the name of this Project is "KIDS' LAND", where at least hundred Street Children can be accommodated at night and also can give support to many other street children during day time.In this place we are planning to make Night Shelter with Free School, Play ground, Medical center, Yoga Learning center, Language Learning Center only for the Street Children .From our last more than one year experience in the place Sealdah we noticed that the street children near about 200 staying in or around Sealdah Rail Station. These are the children who are fighting for their life everyday from early morning to late night. Early morning each children from age 3-15 years of age start fighting for their food, cloth and other necessities for their life .

These children usually live on the platform and it's surrounding places with the or without their families. They engaged themselves in different kinds of work like begging, water supplying , Carrying the Passengers' Luggage, working in the fish and vegetable market etc. Many children from the age of 10/12 involve themselves in different kinds of illegal activities like drug, alcohol dealings, Prostitution etc. Local mafia use these children as a carrier for their business and just for few money and food these children involve themselves in these kind of illegal acts .This is the reason why in this world maximum of the criminals are coming from these street children. If we can reduce the number of the street children then only we can reduce the number of criminals from our society. The girls from this place are pushed and forced to do prostitution at the of 8/9/10 years by the mafias, even sometimes these girls are been forced in front of their poor parent but their parent could not do anything out of fear. On the rail station at night also they always been tortured in one side by the local mafias and in the other side by the Police personals so these children find themselves in a complete in secure place and slowly they loose their faith of society .Through this Project we like not only to accommodated Street children but also to give many other supports like food/education/culture/training programs etc .Our target to give them a better life with lots of love and affection so that they also can understand that they are also the part of this society. This will be the first center and in future we like to make many more of this center in other parts of the country.
We need huge funds and international volunteers' supports for this project.

4.Construction Projects:-
In coming days we like to build up 10 community centers with non formal schools and library for the slum people who lives near railway track and around .There are more than 2000 kids and their families living at different slum near sealdah stationand in every 2 k.m distance we like to build up a center .Our target to give non formal education and side by side various training programs to generate their income level in future. We need all of your supports to fulfill our target and now We are currently evaluating and setting up a center for the children of Siliguri who are working everyday under the sun with there families breaking rocks for a pathetic pittance to simply feed themselves. This center will be similar to the ones already in place and nurturing the lives of children, though it will be custom tailored to the specific needs of these kids.

5. Stone Crushing Kids Welfare Project:-
We are currently evaluating and setting up a center for the children of Siliguri who are working everyday under the sun with there families breaking rocks for a pathetic pittance to simply feed themselves. This center will be similar to the ones already in place and nurturing the lives of children, though it will be custom tailored to the specific needs of these kids.

6.Community Development Projects:-

Around the country we have many places where we closely work with the community people and underprivileged kids and trying to stand beside them. We welcome International volunteer Groups to support us.

Few of such project details are as follows…..

• Targeted Sector: Tea estate workers’ kids at the mountain area near of Darjeeling. 
• Number of Kids/ Work place : 200+

There are more than 200 kids who are suffering from illiteracy and malnutrition .Many families have money and facilities to lead a normal life . Young people are getting involved in illegal activities and addicted to alcohol and other drugs.

some times many families have to depend just on the rats

and snakes’ meat to survive . As there are no other

alternatives in front of them to live .we have started non formal schools and community development projects and wish to start vocational training centers with a self income generating Projects for the local community people through our different work camp projects. We welcome any group during May-September time. We are running the social work and education related work camps in this areas. These people are in a very bad condition and SMILE wish to save these people.

• Targeted Sector: Refugees
• Number of Kids: 5000+
• Location : North 24 parganas.

There are huge number of needy families who came fro Bangladesh and bound to live at the both side of the Railway Tracks from Sealdah (Kolkata City)- Bangaon (Bangladesh Border).And these people are living in a very unhygienic areas. Now we are working with them and trying to support them different way through our different work camps.These kids needy our support to live a better life. We welcome teacher groups, medical groups, social worker groups, students groups, Interns Groups to help these poor and needy people.

7.Vocational Training Centers with Self Income Generating Projects:-

• Targeted sector: Needy and Poor kids (14-18 yrs Old) from the Street and Slum areas.

Through these projects we are trying to provide professional trainings to the older kids from the different slums and streets and remote villages. Our target to give them different types of training through our local members and International Volunteers. At the moment we are providing following trainings…..

• Basic Computer
• Basic Spoken English
• Tailoring
• Handicrafts

We are in the way to start different types of other training like Carpentry, Beautician etc.

We are welcoming International kind hearted people to help us. Our kids are now preparing different items like ….Soft toys, Greetings cards, Candles, Paper bags etc. for selling.

If you wish to purchase any item would be very helpful for Our projects. Contact us if you wish to help us. Please look at our kids' made item as follows.....

8.Drama & Music Training Projects:-

• Targeted Sector: Street and Slum Kids around Kolkata

We welcome Groups of International Students/ Retirees/Artists to take part in our projects for these kids. Our target to give these kids a option to learn and express themselves in front of the society. We believe that becoming an Artist they can be mentally peaceful, more focused and positive about their life. It can be also an alternative way of their Income in future.

9.Soccer & Physical Training Project:-

• Targeted Sector: Street and Slum Kids around Kolkata

We welcome Groups of International Students/ Volunteers to take part in our projects for these kids. Through different physical activities we like to make a Powerful and mentally Strong person. This training may help these kids to attract in the games which may become their profession in their life.

 
10. Health Care Project:-

In our different projects we have our mobile medical service activities available . Through this activities we give first aid medical support to the needy communities at different work places. Projects like Street children welfare & Community development etc. are always supported by this type of health care service.We welcome registered physician/nurse groups and students from different medical colleges to take part in our Health care projects. Please contact us for programme details .

11. Food Preparation & Distribution Project:-

We have projects where we prepare & distribute food to many hungry kids from the street & slum .It is a project where we need group of volunteers to take part .Volunteer group will be assisting our local cooks and members . Any international youth or senior groups are most welcome.

12.Hands' of Friends Project:-

It is a project where our Happy Home kids from each centre participate in our street children welfare project as a volunteer with our other volunteers and members.

We have started this project to train our kids to help others who are in need. We also welcome groups of kids from any local or international school with their teacher to take part in this training cum volunteer programme.

More details will be published soon.....
We also have many projects with different Associate Local Groups and Organizations who works under SMILE and receive regular supports from the Organization.

Apart from all these projects we have several Work Camp Programs for the welfare of Street and Slum kids through out the year in different parts of India.

In all the above Volunteer programs & Work Camps our International volunteers have opportunities to work like:-

a. English Teaching
b. Manual Volunteering
c. Nursing
d. Health related programs
e. Helping our local staffs in different welfare projects
f. Construction works
g. Project / field manager
h. Official works like Internet and web
i. Food / Cloth Distribution Work
j. cleaning/basic english/music/painting.