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Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Sargachi is located in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. It was founded by Swami Akhandananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna in August, 1897. It is a spiritual and philanthropic centre under Belur Math, the headquarters of Ramakrishna Order. It started with an orphanage and later undertook many ...
The Math and Mission run 748 educational institutions (including 12 colleges, 22 higher secondary schools, 41 secondary schools, 135 schools of other grades, 4 polytechnics, 48 vocational training centres, 118 hostels, 7 orphanages, etc.) with a total student population of more than 2,00,000.
This would leave the Moorghihatta Orphanage without a playground and kitchen. On a visit to St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School, Br. Arsenius Ryan, the provincial of the Brothers, inspected an adjacent partly-cultivated plot of 50 bighas as a possible site for the orphanage. The site was purchased and, with the addition of surrounding plots ...
Two high school seniors have raised almost $50,000 to help support orphans in India. As they prepare to graduate, they want to pass on the torch.
The Central Khalsa Orphanage, also known as the Central Khalsa Yatimkhana, [1] is an orphanage for boys in Amritsar, India, established in 1904 by the Chief Khalsa Diwan.It is located on a plot of land covering five acres and has a secondary school, sports facilities, a home for the blind, a guest house, a library and a gurdwara.
It all began in 1947, when Robert (Bob) Pierce began supporting White Jade, a little girl in an orphanage in China, who was abandoned by her parents. Bob gave the warden, Tena Hoelkedoer, his last five dollars and agreed to send the same amount each month to help care for the girl. In 1950, Bob Pierce started World Vision.
West Bengal, 700030. ... In 1848, the Congregation of Christian Brothers (Missionaries of Ireland) founded the Calcutta Male Orphanage at Murgihatta, Calcutta.
The city may be named after Jalandhara, a Nath Guru who was from here. [citation needed] The city was founded by Devasya Verma as mentioned in the Vedas.Other possibilities include that it was the capital of the kingdom of Lava, son of Rama or that the name derives from the vernacular term Jalandhar, meaning area inside the water, i.e., tract lying between the two rivers Satluj and Beas. [4]