Projects

Tea garden hospitals act as the lifeline to the communities in and around the garden.

As projected by National Skill Development Corporation Department of West Bengal, in the phase of 2017 to 2022, 89 lakh youngsters will enter the working age group in the state. In the tea belt of Jalpaiguri district though the literacy rate is 70-80% but lack of higher education facility and low accessibility to vocational education, creates a grim employability scenario for the youth of the region. To infuse economic growth the need of the hour is to establish skill development opportunities for youth of various level of education.

Women constitute more than 50% of a tea estate population in Assam. Women busy working in the estates and house tend to ignore their own health.

As the primary healthcare system of the country suffocates due to lack of basic infrastructure, diagnostic tests for patients remain a distant facility for the PHC’s. 

245 pregnant women cared for and provided with nutritional supplement across 4 tea garden communities

Little dietary neglect leading to vitamin deficiencies in the prime stage of a woman and child’s life risks their lifelong wellbeing.

An area has been intentionally kept uncultivated, within the garden premises of Diffl oo Tea Estate for the specific purpose of facilitating elephant and other wildlife migration between Kaziranga and Karbi Anglong. Together with Balipara Foundation, a dossier is being prepared of all the plant, animal and bird species found in here.

APPL Foundation is strongly committed to improving the livelihoods of people and at the same time balancing the ecology and believe in the notion on environmental justice- the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.

In partnership with Tata Medical Centre (TMC), Kolkata, cancer screening is conducted at RHRC, Chubwa and the estate hospital in Damdim. Annually, 10 needy cancer patients from within the estate workforce of Amalgamated Plantations are provided with free cancer treatment at TMC. TMC’s housing facility for patients travelling from out of town in search of treatment will also be extended to the plantation patients free of cost.

Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy( IICP) is a specialist resource centre for cerebral palsy working since 1974 for the rights of persons with disability, particularly cerebral palsy. IICP is based in Kolkata but works on a national level in partnership with a close network of NGOs in many districts of West Bengal and 11 other states of India. It has vast international linkages and is working with advocacy groups nationally and internationally for the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.