Probini Foundation

Dhaka Girls’ Orphanage

Trustees: Chair — Dr. Sachi G Dastidar

Secretary: Mr. Jay Hyman

Treasurer:      Mr. Dilip Chakravorti (Queens, NYC)

Accountant: Mr. Gopal Patel

Members: Dr. Shefali S. Dastidar, Dr. Kusumita P. Pedersen, Mr. Prabangshu Ghoshal

Executive Secretary: Mr. Shuvo G. Dastidar

The Purposes of the Probini Foundation

• Support the education of the needy, especially the orphaned in Assam, West Bengal and Bangladesh in the Indian Subcontinent. This may include self-sufficiency projects, school or dormitory construction, school tuition, and teacher salaries.
• In the New York metropolitan area, to create social, cultural and educational bridges with new immigrants, new citizens and native born U.S. citizens.
• In the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut area, to provide social services needed to mainstream immigrant and the needy population.

Limitations on grants

• No grant may be given for individual life-style improvement,
• All institutional grant applicants must be visited by an Executive Committee or Board of Trustee members, followed by a report to the Committee, before a grant can be approved. Exceptions can be made under very unusual circumstances, with the approval of the Chair of Trustee and the Executive Director.
• Grants and scholarships may not be directed towards a specific individual, except under very unusual circumstances, as approved by a unanimous vote of the Executive Committee.
• Named scholarships, buildings and dormitories may be established provided that the minimum amounts of such donations must merit at least $1,000, or the equivalent of one scholarship, or as determined by the Committee.

Durgapur 12 Separate Schools and Vocational Training Centers– Probini is providing salaries for teachers.

Gopalganj Tutamandra Sarajubala Girls’ School, Bangladesh: Probini has built a girls’ dorm..

Mahilara Ashram School, Barisal, Bangladesh – Probini is providing teachers’ salary and built a school. This is the first building project done by Probini supporters before Probini incorporation.

https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2019/01/mahilara-gour-nodi-barisal-bangladesh.html

Our Association of Remedy, Kolkata (Calcutta), India: Probini provided small grants for education of children living in illegal slums.

https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2019/01/oar-our-association-for-remedy-kolkata.html

Pirojpur SriRamKathi Pranav Shishu BidyaNiketan School, Bangladesh –Probini is providing salaries for teachers and has built a school building.

https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2019/01/sreeramkathi-pirojpur-bangladesh.html

Probini Foundation Meetings:

Probini Foundation meets in New York, U.S.A.; Kolkata, India and in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is open to all. Here are a few of those reports: https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2017/02/probini-foundation-13th-subcontinent.html

https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2016/02/bangladesh-river-of-humanity-celebrated.html

Probini Accomplishments:

• Built school and residence for teachers and school at Mahilara ashram, Barisal, Bangladesh
• Built school at SriRamKathi, Pirojpur, Bangladesh
• Built Madaripur ashram boys’ dormitory, Bangladesh
• Built a girls’ dorm at Andharmanik Girls’ High School, Bagerhat, Bangladesh
• Built a student dormitory at Twichang, Mizoram State, India
• Built a dorm at Martyrs’ Memorial Girls’ High School, Doihari, Bangladesh
• Built a boy’s dorm and technical school at Malikanda asram, Uzirpur, Baangladesh
• Built a dorm at Tuthamandra Sarajubala Girls’ High School, Gopalganj, Bangladesh
• Built a girls’ dorm at Netrokona orphanage, Bangladesh
• Constructing a proposed student dormitory in Medinipur, West Benngal, India
• Paying scores of teachers’ salary
• Providing teachers for hundreds of students
• Complete food-tuition-clothing scholarships for over dozens and dozens of orphans and poor students
• Supplied hundreds of clothing and books
• Close to 10 million taka/rupee in fixed deposit in Bangladesh and India for teacher salary and resident student scholarship
• Built capital assets of over Tk/Rs 20 to 30 million
• S. Tax-exempt status

Indirect benefits of Probini Work

• Saving of 300-yr Old Mahilara Mott in Bangladesh, now included in a UNESCO book; visited by top foreign diplomats in Bangladesh
• Saving of Gandhi Ashram of Bangladesh from illegal extremist confiscation; afterwards made a National Museum by Bangladesh Government
• Saving of memorials of martyred Gandhian pacifists killed by extremists
• Reemergence with a 50-year since 1947 India/Bengal partition of a 500-year old annual New Year Baisakh festival in Barisal District, Bangladesh
• Saving a 500-year old Sri Bishnu/Vishnu Mandir in Bangladesh
• Hiring of the first oppressed-caste Bauri graduate in Durgapur, India
• Shelter for Hindu girls abused by Islamist extremists during 2001 pogrom
• Learning from extremely poor and oppressed individuals organizing themselves
• Giving hope to people like widowed Mrs. Patowary by providing free education for her childrenwho ended up in college
• S. Consul General in Calcutta visited India orphanage at our request
• Hundreds of boys and girls who could have perished are now productive members of society
• Gandhi Ashram in Bangladesh is now a National Museum
• Encourage pluralism, tolerance, and secularism