Bengal Allen Medical Institute, Calcutta (India) and Allen College Of Homoeopathy, Essex (England) are pleased to be associated with the Kamala Benerjee Memorial Fund, which is a charity supporting the poorer people of Calcutta by providing free homoeopathic treatment in the slums and free milk to orphans and slum dwelling children, since 1986.

The mobile van has been operating since 1992. All these projects are entirely supported by donations.

Currently approximately 250 people benefit from the services each week. Please see the photographs of the project below.

The mobile homoeopathic clinic is the realisation of a vision shared by homoeopaths Carol Boyce and Linda Shannon on a visit to Calcutta in 1986. Being overwhelmed by the poor living conditions and deprivation, they decided to do something practical to assist the people of the slums. As a result they raised funds to regularly provide milk for the children and organised fund raising events and standing orders to buy a van, which now provides a regular free homoeopathic clinic to various regions in Calcutta.

Dr. Subrata Kumar Banerjea is the Director of the Charity with his brother Joy who runs the project on site. Our project co-ordinator, Janet Robinson, writes:

" We visited the site in South Calcutta where the van goes each Thursday. It was pouring with rain but this was no deterrent to the bare footed slum dwellers who either queued for milk at the rare of the van or at the side for homoeopathic prescriptions. Patients with all kinds of problems came for treatment, and because it was the rainy season, acute diarrhoea, tonsillitis and asthma were common. Many of the chronic conditions presenting were due to 'wet weather aggravates' so there were plenty of patients with rheumatic symptoms and on this day a fair proportion of women's ailments such as dysmenorrhea and vague abdominal pains. There were many new patients and follow-ups which was encouraging. About forty patients were seen in this session and about thirty children given milk."

Calcutta Milk Project : Slum children waiting to receive milk ( as milk
is the only ' complete food ' they consume in the whole day).