Our Causes

OUR CAUSES

Bekind Boys' Home

Bekind Boys’ Home (BBH) opened on 16th January 2012, and provided a welcome home to 20 vulnerable and underprivileged boys. Some of them had been orphaned and abandoned, made destitute and living at risk in the streets and slums of Kolkata. Since then the Home has expanded and, as of 2018, is a sanctuary and haven for 25 boys.

These children live full time in Bekind Boys' Home. The boys each have their own bed, attend local schools, have a live-in house father and mother, residential caregivers, a cook, and the services of a councillor, as many of the boys come from traumatic backgrounds. It is our hope that this setting will be as close as possible to that of a "normal" family home environment.

Since its foundation, Bekind Boys' Home has supported over 64 boys, and currently requires an operating budget of approximately €75,000 per year.


Help us continue to operate this vital project by Donating today, and see what you can do to help.


The education support costs for 2023/2024 for the Bekind Boys' Home were generously part sponsored through a grant from The Community  Foundation for Ireland and the Deloitte People's Impact Fund.

Support our work and help make a difference

    • We want to open a Bekind Girls' Home

    As Bekind Ireland continues to grow, we are keen to do what we can to protect "the girl child" by opening a Bekind Girls' Home. We can only do this through the generosity of people like you. Will you help us make this dream a reality?

    Other charities we work with

     Don Bosco Ashalayam

    Don Bosco Ashalayam is an Indian NGO, working with the street children in Calcutta, irrespective of race, religion or gender. Don Bosco caters for the academic and the more practically-minded students and equips them with the skills necessary to earn a sustainable living. Bekindis currently funding part of Don Bosco Ashalayam's Higher Education Programme.

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    The Hope Foundation

    The Hope Foundation was set up in 1999 by two Irish ladies from Cork, Jenny Browne and Maureen Forrest. Hope runs several homes which care for abandoned boys and girls in Calcutta. Hope also funds schools and coaching centres, clinics, creches, HIV/Aids programmes, vocational training and a Hospital. Bekind and Hope set up the Bekind Boys' Home together in January 2012. Bekind also supports and sponsors several children through The Hope Foundation.

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    Sanchar

    Sanchar is an outreach group empowering those with disabilities to learn and become self-sufficient and deal with deafness, blindness etc. Many of the children learn to read braille as well as Bengali and English. Bekind is sponsoring several children through Sanchar.


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