Action Card - January 2025
Focus on Disability
International Day for People with disabilities in Kolkata
Anthony Das writes about the work of Trinita in Kolkata
We work to bring positive change amongst poor and marginalised children and adolescent girls.
We aim to bring a smile of contentment to the faces of poor children and their guardians. The children
include child labourers, and rag pickers. Currently we include more than 1200 children in our community
centres in the slum areas. We also provide residential care to 175 boys nd girls.
It has been very encouraging for us to see the changes in the children we have worked with. Some have
moved on from school to college. They have all developed new skills and enhanced their personal and
working lives.
We have also been able to ease the lives of mothers and guardians when their children have been in either
day or residential centres.
Over the years we have encountered many children with many different disabilities. Their hard lives
are terrible to see.
We have recently managed to open the SARLA DAY CENTRE for children with special needs. This is
at our Coochbehar operational areas and from our Trinity Boys’ cottage.
The work of Trinita is just one example of work for people with disabilities. It is an encouragement for disabled
people everywhere.
Possible Actions
Find out where there are people with disabilities near to where you live and ask what you and your church can
do to help.