Ramakrishna Mission in Narainpur, Chhattisgarh -- Sanjeev Nayyar

January 12 is Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. During recent Bastar Yatra visited the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama Narainpur, a Naxal affected area. Sharing pics that speak for themselves.

Established in 1985 the Mission runs a residential school for 1,000 children, a Coaching school for 1,900 children, an Agriculture Training cum Demonstration Farm, an ITI centre and a hospital/mobile health unit amongst others. In Abhujhmarh (described as ‘tangled knot of hills’) it runs five free residential schools. I visited one such school at Kundla (206 children) where a Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre is also run with UNICEF. They run 181 Anganwadis and Mini-Anganwadies covering more than 5,000 children below six years of age for 200 villages in Abujhmarh.

To see pictures - http://www.esamskriti.com/photo-detail/Ramakrishna-Mission-Ashrama-Narainpur.aspx

sanjeev nayyar
esamskriti@suryaconsulting.net
January 12, 2013