Our programs are designed to preserve dignity and strengthen capacity in those we serve. We help people realize their inner wealth. We also build a sense of community.

  • Compassion

    Our compassion has to be active. We are part of the whole. What wealth, what light and joy and well-being we have in life, we are meant to share.

    - Bodhi

  • Charity vs Self-help

    Traditional charity traps the receiver by creating dependency. It diminishes the receiver’s sense of capacity to improve his or her own life. Self-help is essential to preserving dignity and strengthening the capacity of the poor.

    - Bodhi

  • Compassion

    Compassion brings its most powerful blessings to the heart in which it is born. Being compassionate toward another, you are first and foremost being generous and kind to yourself. Compassion’s sweet energies first wash through your own heart, filling your mind, renewing and magnifying the life of your spirit. It is only then they flow out to the other person and ultimately into the world.

    - Bodhi

Projects

About Us
Special Services
Special Services

Environmental initiatives, human empowerment and feeding the poor.

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Community Health Programs
Community Health Programs

One mobile medical van rotates through Kolkata’s slums and street corners, treating an average of 200+ patients a day. There are close to 18 outdoor slum clinics, catering to thousands of economically deprived patients who would otherwise receive no medical care. We care for 180,000 patients annually for free.

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Self-Help Groups and Microcredit
Self-Help Groups and Microcredit

Our economic Self-Help Groups (SHGs) are fully democratic and participatory. Programs are designed to preserve dignity and strengthen capacity in those we serve. We reinforce the realization of their inner wealth, their capacity to harness the powers of their own being, and to triumph over their circumstances, while building a sense of community.

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Urban & Rural Education
Urban & Rural Education

LDLM is committed to bring the light of education to underprivileged sections of society, thus enriching their lives and strengthening their moral values. Its literacy and value-based education instills the joy of learning in the children it serves.

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Without expecting anything in the external world, we share love, transcending all barriers within and around us. There is no other way to heal negativity, greed, and violence.

- Bodhi