Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda’s Ancestral House and Cultural Centre, Kolkata

This branch of the Ramakrishna Mission was started at the birthplace and ancestral house of Swami Vivekananda in 2004.

Activities:

• A school of languages with courses in Spoken English, German, French, Spanish and Sanskrit.
• A computer training centre.
• Coaching centres: The children were also given breakfast, books and clothes.
• Two units of Gadadhar Abhuydaya Prakalpa.
• A textbook library for school/college students.
• Youth forums and values education classes.
• A dispensary.
• A museum on the life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda.
• A memorial shrine with two small meditation halls.
  
• Regular religious classes, endowment lectures, seminars, etc.
• Welfare activities: Provided clothes, pecuniary aid and educational assistance to people in rural and urban areas.