Calcutta Espoir

Facts and figures

250
The number of individuals being trained professionally at one of the Calcutta Rescue training centres.

300
Calcutta Rescue’s schools allowing 300 children from poor backgrounds to get a head start in life and good chances to escape from the spiral of poverty.


5000
The anti-arsenic filters installed in several villages in the Maldah district 300km north of Calcutta provide drinking water to 5,000 inhabitants. Arsenic contamination from the ground water in this region is a real human catastrophe.


20'000
10,000 people are registered with the Out-Reach Programm (mobile team). This consists of regular visits to the slums and rural zones. The same number is registered at our different clinics.


81'000
The number of people checked under the DOTS Programm (fight against tuberculosis), whether it be in the slums and streets of Calcutta (24,000) or in the rural zones around the town (57,000).

100'000
Around 100,000 disadvantaged people see their lives change thanks to Calcutta Rescue, which provides help to people in need and tackles all areas of humanity not just health.