Gargi Gupta


Gargi Gupta is the founder and secretary of Voice Of World, a multi-unit non-profit organization for visually impaired and differently-abled and orphaned children in Eastern India, headquartered in Kolkata, India.

Life

Gupta was born in West Bengal. She finished her schooling at Kolkata and joined the Indian Railways. The city's street children were her first introduction to the conditions of the poor after the death of her parents.
presenting the Nari Shakti Puruskar to Gupta
Gupta started her work with six children in her father's rented house in North Kolkata. In 2018 the number of inmates was 300. It is the only privately run facility of its kind. Voice of World started its South Kolkata Centre in 1998 in another house of Prabir Gupta. Residential Kindergarten School, Braille Press and the library is located there.
In recognition of her services, Indian President Ramnath Kovind awarded Gupta with the Nari Shakti award on 8 March 2018.

The charity

Voice Of World's inmates are orphan or from under-privileged families. Along with their free education they experience various sports including mountaineering and trekking. In 2018 she introduced coastal trek for specially abled inmates. After completion of education of inmates, she and her NGO take care of rehabilitation of inmates specially visually challenged girls.

Major works