Activities 2021-22: Women Welfare

Both the Ramakrishna Mission and the Ramakrishna Math have round-the-year programmes for the welfare of women, the most important of which are mentioned below:

1. Care for pregnant and lactating women through the maternity departments of our hospitals in Kolkata (Seva Pratishthan), Vrindaban, Thiruvananthapuram and also through some of our other hospitals and clinics.
2. Old Age Homes for women in Varanasi and Kolkata (Barisha).
3. Educational services to girls:
   1. A large educational complex, exclusively for girls, run by Ramakrishna Mission Sarada Vidyalaya, Chennai, offering education to girls from primary to higher secondary level.
   2. Higher secondary schools for girls run by Chennai Math and Chengalpattu centres.
   3. High schools for girls run by Jamshedpur and Sarisha centres.
   4. Apart from the above, there are co-educational schools of different grades under our centres in Aalo, Bhubaneswar, Chennai (Mission Ashrama), Coimbatore (Mission), Jayrambati, Kalady, and so on. Besides, a Sanskrit co-educational school is functioning at Kalady.
4. Nurses’ Training Institutes attached to our hospitals in Itanagar, Kolkata (Seva Pratishthan), Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram and Vrindaban.
5. Women’s empowerment programmes by forming self-help groups, imparting vocational training and other such activities undertaken by a number of Math and Mission centres.