Turnstone Global

Hunger alleviation and Relief Work: One of the major activities of Turnstone Global is to feed the hungry in the normal circumstances. Feeding the hungry during the disasters are the key activities of the Turnstone Global. Under this umbrella we run the following programs: 1. Feed a Hungry Child: Under this program we feed 322 children between 0-14 years every month by providing dry ration kit once in a month and cooked protein food thrice a week. 2. Feed the Homeless: We feed the homeless mentally ill person on the road of Kolkata. 3. Feed the differently abled : We provide dry ration kit to 178 persons with disability in every month. 4. In 2020 we have distributed ration kit worth Rs.1420/ to 2000 elderly every month for 6 months to avoid hunger among the elderly due to strict lockdown on Corona Pandemic . 5. During the cyclone Amphan we distributed cooked food to 1800 Aamphan affected persons fornearly two months. 6. During the recent flood of Yaas Cyclone 2021, we have distributed 2 square meals to 1000 Yaas affected persons in Sunderban of 24 Pargana for two months. 7. In 2021, we feed cooked food to 1800 poor person who had lost their job due to Covid -19 Pandemic for three months. Education: Enriched with decades of experience to work for the wholesome development of society, Turnstone Global has a dedicated wing for EDUCATION. We, at Turnstone Global believe that no society can be developed from its core without proper education. Society has many deviations and turning points to have proper and quality education. At various points, sections, strata we have various options and points to deliver education to the mass. Followings are the working lines of us- 1. Remedial Coaching centres at Basanti Colony, Sodhpur ,Kharda, Kolkata & Belabahal, Purulia in West Bengal forslum children and rural students respectively. 2. Formal middle school at Satghoria, Malda for the marginalized below poverty line students’ up to age group 10. 3. Formal middle school at Belabahal, Purulia for the marginalized below poverty line students’ up to age group 10. 4. Residential training on Competitive examination and extra-curricular classes at Matigara, Siliguri in West Bengal. 5. NGO Management classes to train the future generation targeted to the +2 passed out students from district level in both residential and non- residential format. 6. Scholarships, books, stationaries for the students who are poor but meritorious to pursue their higher education. A special division to assist the specially enabled students with readers andwriters along with the scholarships are being offered. Presently in this program 256 students are being enrolled. 7. Providing large print books of all subjects (according to syllabus of Ministry of School Education) to the Government Schools to assist the low vision students across West Bengal with the active participation of Sarva Shiksha Mission, West Bengal. Also ensuring the mechanism of Sarva Shiksha Mission for the students to attend the schools in active manner through proper psychological counselling and to support the students in special need to arrange the devices of hearing impaired and visually challenged. At the same time, providing the legal and administrative guidelines to gain the social support system to the students of special need. 8. Production and distribution of Braille and audio books in Kolkata for the visually challenged students. 9. Establishment of Braille press in Agartala, Tripura. 10. Development and testing of standardized assistive devices and development of new software for the ease of persons with disability. 11. Free hostel facility at Siliguri for blind students pursuing higher education. 12. Turnstone Global creates digital literacy under National Digital Literacy Mission in Mizoram. 13. Physically Challenged corner at Birchandra State Library, Agartala. 14. Braille Audio Digital Library at Calcutta University. Health: Turnstone Global is an up keeping name in the health industry with a vision of changing lives of the people who are suffering from different ailments. As a part of our overall program the organization has always been concerned about the health issues of rural and urban population with the approach of preventive, prompt and curative health care. In spite of state approach to meet the basic aspects of health care a large number of population remained unaware about their health concerns and poor delivery of health services compelled them to remain beyond the reach of proper healthneeds. Poor living condition, hazardous working environment, rampant use of pesticides, food habits, unhealthy lifestyle, increasing cost of treatment, all are contributing towards ill health which in turn affecting the economic status of the family by incurring a great loss of productive manpower. As a result the population get entangled in a vicious circle from which it becomes very difficult to come out. Considering the overall scenario Turnstone Global is engaged in extending services among this population facilitating them in having a positive health seeking behavior by understanding their basic health needs and helping them to live a healthy functional life. Following are the interventions made by the organization: 1. Eradication of preventable Blindness. 2. Provide treatment facilities to the underprivileged for diseases like AIDS, Renal Failure, etc. 3. Under the umbrella of Turnstone Global we started the project (Touching the Life) that is Health for All. 4. We feed vitamin A oil and Albendazole to all children below five years. 5. We treat the hearing impaired person and give them hearing aids. 6. We do eye screening camps and operate them with best available technology. 7. We run subsidized rate hospital at Chowhatta, Birbhum, West Bengal. 8. We do awareness on infectious diseases such as HIV and Dengue. 9. We do general and orthopedic camps. 10. Care of the aged and elderly. 11. Corporate Camps- We conduct corporate camps to assess their basic health such as label ofdiabetes, blood pressure, BMI etc. apart from general health we also do eye camps, physiotherapy camp etc. 12. School Camps-To assess the label of basic health throughout the year we organize camps in schools. We are happy to share even we have located different problems such as poor vision, stammering, learning difficulty etc. in most renowned schools of the city. This early intervention certainly save them from their suffering in their life. 13. Child Health: Motivating parents for ensuring full immunization from govt. institution, preparation of low cost nutritious food, deworming at regular interval, make provision of vitamin supplements, periodical health check up with growth monitoring, early detection of disability etc. 14. Adolescent Health: Facilitating supplementary iron pills from ICDS centre, encouraging in maintaining hygiene during menstrual cycle, understanding physical and psychological changes in teenage, develop protection skill from abuses including sexual abuse, effects of early marriage on health and unwanted pregnancy, imparting education on safe sex practices etc. 15. Maternal Health: Awareness on contraceptive methods, right child bearing age, birth spacing, exclusive breast feeding, facilitating the availability and accessibility of contraceptive materials, ensuring institutional delivery including pre and post-natal care. 16. Geriatric Care: Our organization is extending 24x7 health care services to the senior citizens who are not being able to reach health- care centres due to their age and lack of manpower. Each of the client in need of physical, psychological, social, legal care are getting services of specialized consultants including diagnostic support, physiotherapy, rehabilitation therapy and counselling. Clients are also getting services at their door-step even at the odd hours of the day! 17. Substance Abuse: Awareness camps and campaigns are organized on the ill effects ofsubstance, intervention strategy and rehabilitation. 18. Therapy unit: Turnstone Global has established a unit for rehabilitation psychotherapy for behavior modification, psychological counselling for psychosocial disabilities for children and adults, vision therapy, physiotherapy etc. 19. Internet de-addiction centre: As a pioneering initiative Turnstone Global has set up an Internet de-addiction Centre where clients having internet addiction receives counselling and therapies under the supervision of experienced clinical psychologist and occupational therapist. 20. Pain Management Clinic: In this pain management clinic patients suffering from differentkinds of pain get physiotherapy using modern equipments in a most scientific way. 21. Stroke Management Clinic: In the stroke management clinic patients who are facing different formsof challenges in their daily functional life as an effect of stroke get complete rehabilitation therapy for leading life in a better way. 22. Aids and Appliances: The organization at its outset striving to make the life of people havingphysical challenges more friendly by making provision of Smart canes, Plex Talk, Jaws software, android and apple phone accessibility, White Canes, hearing-aids etc. 23. Blood Donation Camp: With the growing demand of blood transfusion for patients with bloodrelated disease and also for advanced treatment in surgical cases Turnstone Global organize blood donation camps in different parts of the state. People are motivated to come forward and donate blood for saving lives of ailing people. 24. Eye Care on Wheels for the slums to do eye screening camps in slums and rural areas. 25. Mother & Child Care and Exchange Program with NOREC ( Norwegian Government) Skill Development: 22 Skill development centers in affiliation to various agencies such as 1. STVT (Short Term Vocational Training), under West Bengal State Council of Technical Education and the scheme of Utkarsha Bangla of West Bengal Government. 2. Nehru Yava Kendra under Ministry of Skill Development, Govt. of India. a) HSBC skills for Life 3. SVP Philanthropic foundation: On various skills like a. Computer fundamentals, b. Travel & Tourism, c. IT & ITES, d. Beauty & Wellness, e. Retail Management, f. Hospitality Management, g. Bedside Nurse, h. General Duty Assistant: i. Cleanness product making under the name’ Cleanliness -Youth crusader’ j. Various kinds of handicrafts such as paper, jute, water hyacinth, clay etc k. Diary, poultry, Goatary and Duck rearing: So fourth we have trained more than 7000 students in above mentioned sectors including 594 Persons with Disability.. Placements Cell: Till date we have placed more than 3800 students in various big corporates and midlevel companies including 431 Persons with Disability. Sanitation: Being a part of Swachh Bharat Mission Turnstone Global constructed 1800 individual household latrines in Bengal and Punjab with the help Govt. and corporate. Women Empowerment: Empowering women through workshops, seminars, rallies to fight for their rights and social constrains. Self Help Group: So fourth created 26 SHGs for the promotion of their livelihood generation. Promotion of rural artisans: Water Hyacinth products, jute products, Terracotta products. Handmade paper products. Election Awareness: Turnstone Global believes stronger democracy is the base to social and economic development. To achieve this we are closely working with Election Office, North Kolkata since 2019. So forth in last Lok Sabha and Bidhan Sabha Election we have campaigned for youth, women and Persons with disability through door to door campaign, SMSs, and Whataaps messages. Apart from these; to cut urban apathy Turnstone Global along with Election Office , North Kolkata has done awareness quiz Competition in the big apartments of North Kolkata under jurisdiction of Election Office, North Kolkata. Our intervention during Covid 19 Pandemic: a. Free ration kit distribution to 2000 poor elderly for 6 months. b. Free ration kit distribution to our 864 visually challenged beneficiaries c. Free mask, PPE and Health kit distribution to front line worker and masses d. Free distribution of oxygen cylinder and oxygen concentrator: e. Online consultation of doctor f. Vaccine Awareness and enabling vaccine administration g. Cooked food distribution to Migrant laborer, Unemployed and Elderly. h. Counselling, Education and Support to the children whose one of the parents died due to ill effect of covid 19 i. Cash relief to the family who’s one and only bread earner has died due to ill effect of covid 19.

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PWC Foundation
CK Karnani Trust (UK)
Cognizant Foundation
Bharti Foundation

Turnstone Global is a non profit organisation creates customized opportunities in the life of an individual so that he/she gets empowered and can lead dignified life with maximum growth potential thus leading the individual to mainstream development

Ladi Sud -" Being a trustee of Jaswanti Sud Charitable Trust I feel honoured having extending my support to Turnstone Global for the upliftment work for their poor visually challenged beneficiaries."

Dr Milan Sinha, Consultant Chest Physician, CMRI Hospital , Kolkata - 'I being a practitioner of medicine always feel touched when i see the the members and volunteers of Turnstone Global relentlessly work to ease the various issues of our society and I always feel honoured to be their part . Thank you Team Turnstone Global "

Arnab De , Exporter , Kolkata- I being a very busy business man never think that i can be a contributor of my society by helping the underprivileged until i get into touch with Turnstone Global . I really overwhelmed having witness the mind-blowing work done by Turnstone Global across our country throughout the year. My heart felt gratitude

1.Best Braille Press Award - By Dept of WCD and Social Welfare , Govt of West Bengal
2.Bharat Nirman Award

1. Running two consumer assistance bureau in Kolkata under Consumer Affairs Department , Govt of West Bengal