PROBINI FOUNDATION
The Probini Foundation
80-56 251st Street. Bellerose
NY 11426; proobini@hotmail.com
718-343-0189
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
Our Newsletters
The Purposes of the Probini Foundation
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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.
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In the New York
metropolitan area, to create social, cultural and educational bridges with new
immigrants, new citizens and native-born U.S. citizens.
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In the New York-New
Jersey-Connecticut area, to provide social services needed to mainstream
immigrant and the needy population.
Limitations on grants
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No grant may be given
for individual life-style improvement,
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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.
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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.
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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.
PROBINI PROJECTS
https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2008/12/educating-poor-and-orphaned-in.html
Also check https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2016/02/bangladesh-river-of-humanity-celebrated.html.
Assam Buddhist Vihar Orphanage, Dibrugarh,
India – Probini is
providing teachers’ salary.
Bagerhat-Khulna, Bangladesh- AndharManik Girls’ High School: Probini has
built a girls’ dormitory.
Opening Celebration in 2008 with Donor’s
Tablet
Bankura, India—Probini provides teachers’ salary at
Purokonda Ashram school for the poor and scholarship to students.
Barisal Poor Student Scholarship at Ramakrishna
Mission, Bangladesh.
Calcutta Sishu Kalyan Parishad [Children’s Welfare]
Orphanage, Inc., India – Probini gives
scholarships to girls.
Dhaka Girls Orphange Society, 1908, Bangladesh – Probini is providing scores of
scholarships to girls for school education.
Dinajpur Harijan Palli Sri RamaKrishna School(Free School at the Sweeper’s Colony)Bangladesh– Probini provides salaries for teachers.
Dhowa Danga Santhali Tribal Village School,
Bardhamaan, India—providing teachers at
school.
Doihari Sahid Smriti (Martyr’s Memorial) Girl’s High School, Swarupkathi, Bangladesh: Probini
has rebuilt the cyclone-destroyed school and dorm, and
created a memorial for 135 Hindus murdered by Pakistan Army and Bengali
Islamists in 1971 independence struggle.
https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2018/04/martyrs-memorial-girls-high-school.html
Probini Building Under Construction After
Cyclone Destruction
Martyr’s Memorial Tablet
Gandhi Ashram Trust, Noakhali, Bangladesh – Probini is providing scholarships for
school children.
Mrs. Patowary with Children Educated by
Probini
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..
Classroom Building (Prior to Probini’s Help)
(New Building)
Probini-built Dorm Room
Classroom Building (Prior to Probini’s Help)
Jagatpur Ashram Orphanage (1898), Chittagong,
Bangladesh – supporting
boys’ & girls’ education.
Madaripur Pranab Ashram, Bangladesh – Probini is providing salaries for
teachers and has built a boys’ dormitory.
https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2019/01/maadaripur-ashram-boys-hostel-turning.html
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
Building Opening Ceremony; 2001
Handing Over Probini Documents
Probini’s Effort Saved the 300-Year Old Temple
Builders’ Tablet
Nandigram, Medinipur, India— Probini is providing teachers at
Kasturba Gandhi Memorial School.
Nayagram, Paschim Medinipur, India— Probini has provided books for the poor
tribal school and library. Probini’s building project has been temporarily
halted for local reason.
https://empireslastcasualty.blogspot.com/2013/02/probini-supported-karasole-west-bengal.html
Netrokona Manab Kalyan Kami [Improvement of Mankind] Orphanage, Bangladesh – Probini is providing
student scholarships, has created agricultural projects for self-sufficiency in
food and has built a girls’ dormitory.
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
Edifices Built by Local Villagers in Honor of
Probini Helpers (not Funded by Probini):
Marble Plaque Built by Residents in S G
Dastidar’s Honor in Uzirpur Village
Dr. Shefali Sengupta Dastidar Matri Chhaya
Neer [Home for the (Needy) Mothers], Bangladesh
Mahatma(Great Soul) Dr. Sabyasachi Ghosh Dastidar
Sanskrit College Building,Martyr Surjyo Sen Orphanage in Malikanda, Bangladesh
Probini Accomplishments:
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Built school and
residence for teachers and school at Mahilara ashram, Barisal, Bangladesh
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Built school at
SriRamKathi, Pirojpur, Bangladesh
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Built Madaripur ashram
boys’ dormitory, Bangladesh
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Built a girls’ dorm at
Andharmanik Girls’ High School, Bagerhat, Bangladesh
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Built a student
dormitory at Twichang, Mizoram State, India
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Built a dorm at
Martyrs’ Memorial Girls’ High School, Doihari, Bangladesh
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Built a boy’s dorm and
technical school at Malikanda asram, Uzirpur, Baangladesh
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Built a dorm at
Tuthamandra Sarajubala Girls’ High School, Gopalganj, Bangladesh
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Built a girls’ dorm at
Netrokona orphanage, Bangladesh
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Constructing a proposed
student dormitory in Medinipur, West Benngal, India
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Paying scores of
teachers’ salary
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Providing teachers for
hundreds of students
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Complete
food-tuition-clothing scholarships for over dozens and dozens of orphans and
poor students
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Supplied hundreds of
clothing and books
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Close to 10 million
taka/rupee in fixed deposit in Bangladesh and India for teacher salary and
resident student scholarship
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Built capital assets
of over Tk/Rs 20 to 30 million
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S. Tax-exempt status
Indirect benefits of Probini Work
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Saving of 300-yr Old
Mahilara Mott in Bangladesh, now included in a UNESCO book; visited by top
foreign diplomats in Bangladesh
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Saving of Gandhi
Ashram of Bangladesh from illegal extremist confiscation; afterwards made a
National Museum by Bangladesh Government
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Saving of memorials of
martyred Gandhian pacifists killed by extremists
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Reemergence with a
50-year since 1947 India/Bengal partition of a 500-year old annual New Year
Baisakh festival in Barisal District, Bangladesh
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Saving a 500-year old
Sri Bishnu/Vishnu Mandir in Bangladesh
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Hiring of the first
oppressed-caste Bauri graduate in Durgapur, India
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Shelter for Hindu
girls abused by Islamist extremists during 2001 pogrom
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Learning from
extremely poor and oppressed individuals organizing themselves
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Giving hope to people
like widowed Mrs. Patowary by providing free education for her childrenwho
ended up in college
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S. Consul General in
Calcutta visited India orphanage at our request
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Hundreds of boys and
girls who could have perished are now productive members of society
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Gandhi Ashram in
Bangladesh is now a National Museum
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Encourage pluralism,
tolerance, and secularism