If you would like to support us, please contact your local support group or Calcutta Rescue India if there is no support group in your country.

There are different ways to help us:

Giving funds Giving donations in kind Buying our handicrafts and postcards Sponsor one or more children from our schools on an annual basis Sponsor one of our projects (vocational training centers, schools, clinics, sewing) Becoming a volunteer Generate awareness of our work

Giving funds

Cost per month

Leprosy Treatment

• Total cost per adult per month including benefits/unit running costs Rs 204
• Total cost per child per month including benefits/unit running costs Rs 187

Burns (dressings)

• Severe: Rs 9284
• Moderate: Rs 3342
• Minor: Rs 890-1000 (varies considerably)

Formal School Children

• Cost per formal school child per month Rs 292

TB treatment

• Cost of medicine per adult per month: Rs 321
• Cost of medicine per child per month: Rs 195

Diabetic treatment

• Cost of medicine per diabetic patient per month: Rs 145
• Cost of medicine per diabetic insulin dependent patient per month: Rs 290

Cardiac Surgery

• Average cost of a valve replacement including post-operative medicines:
• Rs 90-100,000

Breakdown: Cost of valve: Rs 50,000
Cost of disposables: Rs 25-50,000

• Average cost of valve or cardiac septal repair: Rs 30,000
• Cardiac medicine (per month): Rs 129
• Pacemaker implant Rs 40-50,000

Special Care/Supplementary Feeding for those suffering from Malnutrition

Cost of medicine and benefits per SCSF child per month: Rs 104
(NB: These figures do not include the cost of possible TB treatment)

Epileptic treatment

Cost of medicines per patient per month: Rs 85

Asthmatic treatment

Cost of medicines per patient per month: Rs 50

Thallassemia treatment

Expenses incurred by CR per year per patient:

• Major cases: Rs 9,000
• Minor cases Rs 2,500

Multi Drug Resistant TB treatment

Cost per patient per month: Rs 2227

For local contribution, our account is:

Volunteers

We have opportunities for a limited number of volunteers to work with us in Calcutta. Calcutta Rescue India employs 150 local staff, including doctors and health workers. However, other qualified health professionals are not so easy to find in West Bengal. Most nurses, pharmacists, and physiotherapists can easily find work in the comfortable surroundings of a private hospital, and so we find great difficulty convincing them to work in the basic conditions of a Calcutta Rescue clinic. We therefore look to our support groups to find us volunteers to fill these positions.

Volunteering is a rewarding and challenging experience. If you would like to offer your skills, and think you have the required qualifications, please contact your local support group, or Calcutta Rescue India if there is no support group in your country. Our Support groups also need volunteers to help with raising funds and awareness at home. Please get in touch if you can spare some time and energy to help them support the projects in India.

We rely on your help, encouragement and support.
As long as it continues, we can continue to move towards a brighter and more equitable future.