Ebong Alap
Focuses on critical and gender sensitive issues and citizenship through books and workshops
- Bronze Certified 2023
- 80G
- 12A
About
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Headquarters
Kolkata, West Bengal
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Since
2003
Ebong Alap (Conversations and More), a Kolkata-based non-profit society, was conceived in 2003 by a group of writers, teachers, journalists, researche Read morers and performance artists. It works for a gender-just society that is also sensitive to other forms of inequity. It is primarily a voluntary organization where members volunteer time to work with adolescent and college students, government school teachers and communities of women in rural interiors as well as urban locations. Since 2009, Ebong Alap worked for a decade with women and young people in Bali of the Sunderbans and mentored a community-based group ‘Sunderban Bijoynagar Disha’ that works towards gender equality and against all forms of violence on women. In the last two years, Ebong Alap has been working with adolescent girls of Piyali village near Canning, to empower them with education, knowledge and skills, and prevent them from getting dropped out from school or getting married off early. Since the lockdown in March 2020 in India and after the devastation caused by Cyclone Amphan in south Bengal in May 2020, Ebong Alap has been consistently organising relief primarily for female-headed households and for elderly or single women living alone in some of the worst affected areas. It has also been providing educational support to adolescent students of Piyali and adjoining villages of Canning, close to the Sunderban islands.
Demographies Served
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Programs
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Policy Interventions
StateA colloquium on women's and girls' safety and well-being on West Bengali campuses was arranged by Ebong Alap in May 2013. Participants included women's studies centre directors and college instructors from throughout the state. This was carried out in cooperation with the Women's Studies Research Centre at Calcutta University and the Eastern Regional Office of UGC. The UGC report "SAKSHAM: Measures for Ensuring Safety of Women and Programmes for Gender Sensitization on Campuses," which was released in December 2013, later incorporated the recommendations made during this consultation.
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Critical Citizenship workshops
StateSince 2005, we have been focusing on teachers and students in educational settings other than universities and schools that are sharing knowledge in English through our "Critical Citizen" workshop series. The majority of information is still only available in small areas and among English-speaking people, which is one of the paradoxes of our age of information explosion. The vast majority of individuals who reside in urban, semi-urban, and rural locations cannot access it. We have been disrupting two hierarchies of knowledge distribution through this initiative: the urban-rural divide by venturing outside of Kolkata, and the language barrier by selecting educational institutions where students had difficulty understanding a knowledge system that was dominated by English.
The Critical Citizen views knowledge as a process of conversation and exchange that benefits both parties. It makes an effort to start meaningful conversations, especially with youth.
Leadership Team
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Chandrayee Dey
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Abhijit Ray
Media and Documentation Officer
M&E
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Internal, External Assessors
No
Policies
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Ethics and Transparency Policies
No
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Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy
No
Political & Religious Declarations
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On Affiliation if any
No
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On Deployment Bias if any
No
Registration Details
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PAN Card
AADFE2872P
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Registration ID
SO117522 of 2003-2004
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VO ID / Darpan ID
WB/2017/0179736
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12A
AADFE2872PE20214
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80G
AADFE2872PF20214
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FCRA
Not Available
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CSR Registration Number
Not Available
Location
Other Details
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Type & Sub Type
Non-profit
Society