Jaydeep Chakraborty

Background

About Jaydeep Chakraborty

Calcutta Rescue provides free healthcare and education to tens of thousands of people living on the streets and in the slums of Kolkata. It has decades of experience delivering high quality, cost-effective care for the poorest of the poor, where and when they need it. In 2009 the charity was named joint best medium sized NGO in India and last year it received a Guidestar Platinum Award for outstanding transparency and public accountability. Calcutta Rescue specialises in plugging holes in services provided by the government and other organisations, such as the most difficult to treat cases of TB and HIV, long term care for people affected by leprosy (Hansens Disease), a busy mother and babies unit as well as supporting people with diabetes, heart conditions and a wide range of learning disabilities. It does this primarily at three make-shift clinics and with two mobile clinic which take medical care deep into the slums with the highest level of need. It also runs two schools preparing slum children to enter formal schools and then supporting throughout their education.