A bright-eyed child from a humble farming family, once destined for endless days in the sun-soaked fields, now mastering English and dreaming of innovation. That’s the magic we’re creating at Manthano Modern School your passion and our hard work are educating farmers’ children, one transformed life at a time. You might wonder: Why English-medium education for rural children? It’s a question we hear often from visitors. The answer lies in the frustrations of village youth. Trapped in tradition, they toil endlessly in fields under scorching sun or pouring rain, just like their parents, grandparents, and ancestors before them. Their young minds crave exploration but fear the unknown, with no clear path to a brighter future. That’s why we founded Manthano Modern School: to empower the next generation with hope, skills, and vision. Educated, these children won’t remain frustrated; they’ll revolutionise their villages into smart, thriving communities. Imagine them shifting from traditional farming to integrated methods that boost food production and wealth. They’ll harness innovative technologies and the AI revolution to agriculture, ending waste of water, energy, and soil while ditching harmful chemicals for sustainable profit. Today, though, we face hurdles in securing our building sanction and fire certificate for affiliation with an education board. Some officers hesitate without bribes, slowing our progress through negligence. As we persist with local authorities, we cherish your prayers and support. Let’s make their dreams a reality. End the youth’s struggle, rural children deserve better Education. Together, empower them to build dream villages with good roads, quality schools, healthcare, businesses, and jobs. Your continued partnership fuels this mission.
Save the Date for our 2nd Annual Mark Karla Memorial Golf Tournament Friday, September 25, 2020 8:30 AM -2:30 PM CommonGround Golf Course, Aurora, Colorado Sign-up to reserve your spot to play in the 2nd Annual Mark Karla Memorial Golf Tournament - "FORE" FLūME. Unable to attend in person or not-a-golfer, see sponsorship, volunteer, and donation opportunities on the website. All proceeds will again go to benefit Kolkata City Mission's educational efforts in India. Thank you for helping to make this event a great success. https://www.flumefoundation.org/golf-tournamentMark Karla devoted much of his life to caring for the under-served. During the last years of his life, he partnered with FLūME and passionately worked for the under-served in Northeast India. There, Mark helped to build a school, now educating ~250 children and he was working to bring sustainable dentistry to the people of this community. This golf tournament, now bearing Mark's name, was in the planning phases when he was tragically killed in a motor vehicle accident in 2019.https://www.flumefoundation.org/
The Academic year for 2019-2020 has officially started. All of our students were provided with Texts books, Notebooks, Pencil boxes and brand new school bags. The team has worked very hard to ensure that everything was in order to deliver these items to the 168 children in our school. The community is really happy and excited for the new academic year! Sponsor a child today and help us eliminate poverty through education. This school is completely run by the generous sponsorship of our friends without whom it would have been impossible to run a school in a remote village such as this.
Amazing things are happening with KCM. The village school project is in the midst of building a second floor in order to accommodate more students. KCM currently educates 136 students. We are up to 2 buses to transport these students from their homes to the school (see photo below). In Kolkata, KCM is working to build the first well in one of the informal communities (slums) with which we partner. KCM is empowering women in all of the communities thru vocational training and small groups. All of this is in thanks to your generous donations. Thanks in advance for your continued and additional support, Ryan and Amy Paterson The FLūME Foundation
Dear Kolkata City Mission child sponsor, Thank you for your ongoing, faithful support of Kolkata City Mission (KCM) and of its work to provide education for the children in and around Kolkata, India. We want to update you on a small change in the organizational structure leading to how your money arrives at KCM effective June 11, 2018. We want to assure you that 100% of your monthly, child sponsorship donations will continue to be wired directly to KCM and the child/children that you sponsor. Wire fees and other costs will be covered by the FLUME foundation or donations specifically designated for these purposes. We are excited to announce The FLUME foundation (The Foundation for Lasting, United Movements and Endeavors). The FLUME foundation is a newly registered, USA based, non-profit (501c3 status). The scope of the FLUME foundation is to support the organizational structure and the fundraising efforts of KCM with a specific focus towards the child sponsorship program and more generally, the World Health Organization's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) https://unstats-undesa.opendata.arcgis.com. Any receipts for donation will continued to be labeled Kolkata City Mission, but the bank details will be listed as: "the FLUME foundation”. All gifts continue to be fully tax-deductible. For more information please contact us at: info@flumefoundation.org or visit our website at: http://www.flumefoundation.org Thank you for your giving. Sincerely, Ryan Paterson, MD; DTM&H And Amy Paterson
Hello and Happy Spring! As you may remember from our most recent newsletter update, we have a student sponsorship program at Manthano Modern School, the school that Kolkata City Mission started in the rural village area outside Kolkata. We started this school as a way to reach a marginalized and impoverished community of people and provide their children with a quality English education with no cost to them. Good education in India costs a lot of money and often weighs heavily on families. In communities like the ones that we serve, education is something that usually cannot be afforded. Lack of education is one of the things fueling the perpetual cycle of generational poverty, but we are passionately moving to change that! We are able to offer free education to these children because of the student sponsorship program. Here are the basics:-An individual or family can choose to sponsor one of our students for $25 a month. This involves going onto our website, choosing a child, setting up an account, and setting up a payment. To make it even easier, you can select automatic monthly payments so you don't have to worry about missing one. All donations are tax deductible. -The child you sponsor will attend classes at our school and receive the things they need for their schooling and health care needs. They will send you a letter or picture twice a year and are able to receive letter communication from you as often as you send it.-Because we believe that the money you generously give should go exactly where you allot it to go, we have very low overhead and administration costs, so almost the entirety of your donation goes directly to support the child you are sponsoring. We aren't just sponsoring academic education, we are supporting the healthy growth and development of these children, pouring into them deeply, and sending them out into the world with confidence and success, putting an end to their family's story of poverty!