SinghaBahini
Social Welfare & Relief
When a disaster strikes Bengal, the poorest Hindu families lose everything first and are helped last. We do not accept this. We reach them before the announcements are made, and we stay after the cameras have gone.
Covid-19 Relief
The lockdown took away the daily wage overnight. Hindu families who ate only from what they earned that morning were left with nothing to put on the fire by evening. SinghaBahini cooked and served 13.5 lakh meals to Hindus across Bengal in those months, and carried daily rations into sealed neighbourhoods on foot when no vehicle was permitted to move. During the second wave we sourced oxygen concentrators ourselves and placed them directly in the hands of Sanatani families who could never have afforded them. We did not wait for a government order, and we did not wait for funds to be sanctioned. No Hindu within our reach was left to starve.
Cyclone Amphaan
Amphaan tore the roofs off Hindu homes across the state. Families already ruined by the loss of work were left standing in the open with their children and their few possessions. Our karyakartas entered the affected villages while the water was still standing and distributed heavy tarpaulin sheets, food packets and essential household supplies. A strong tarpaulin over a Hindu family's head before the next rain is worth more than a promise delivered a month later. We were there first, because that is where we are expected to be.
Basic Necessities
We have installed four deep tubewells in villages across West Bengal. Until then, Hindu families in those villages walked long distances for water, or were refused it at the sources nearest their own homes. They now draw clean water on their own land and depend on no one's permission to drink. Throughout the year we hold clothing distribution camps before the pujas, during the festivals and after every natural calamity, and we hand new sarees, dhotis and heavy winter blankets directly to the families who need them. We believe no Hindu should be reduced to begging for cloth to cover himself in his own land.
Tribal Welfare
Relief keeps a family alive through one crisis. It does not change the next one. Our work among Vanavasi Hindu families is built for the long term: skill training, local livelihood opportunities and steady guidance that continues long after the relief trucks have left. We want these families standing on their own strength when the next hard season comes, not waiting in a queue with their hands out. This is also our strongest protection for them. A Vanavasi Hindu who can feed his own family cannot be bought with a bag of rice, and no one will ever again come to his door to trade his Dharma for his hunger.