Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Sarisha

Started in 1921, this ashrama has reconstructed Sarisha village, mainly by providing education to villagers.

Activities:

• A boys’ higher secondary school with 1120 students, and a hostel with 161 boys.
• A girls’ madhyamik school with 896 students, and a hostel with 64 girls.
• Four units of junior basic school with a total of 411 boys and 409 girls.
• Two units of primary teachers’ training institute for women with 185 trainees and a hostel with 47 inmates.
• A technical section for women, which trained 20 girls in tailoring and needle work.
• Libraries: A public library with two branches had 26,014 books and 8 periodicals and newspapers, and eight libraries attached to schools had 16,910 books and 14 newspapers and periodicals.
• Medical service for rural people in collaboration with Seva Pratishthan, Kolkata, and a homeopathic dispensary, which treated 5253 cases.
• A unit of Gadadhara Abhyudaya Prakalpa with 100 poor children.
• A community centre for women with 30 trainees.
• Vocational training in food processing, tailoring, fish culture etc to 325 women of self-help groups.
• Welfare work by way of distribution of clothes, blankets, serving milk to poor children, providing educational aids and pecuniary help to the needy, etc.
• Religious activities: Daily worship, celebration of the birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and other religious personalities.