At Dakshini Prayash, nutritious meals are provided to all students attending school and morning coaching to support their physical growth and cognitive development. These meals are well-planned and include a balance of protein, carbohydrates and vitamins. Since last year, this vital initiative has been strengthened through the generous support of Zomato’s Feeding India initiative, helping us ensure that every child receives balanced nourishment every day.

What began with a few passionate runners on our team has grown into a tradition. Since 2015, several students from our school and coaching centre have trained for and participated in city marathons like Pinkathon and TATA Steel Marathon - with a few of them earning podium finishes regularly. Beyond medals and timings, these runs offer something deeper: a sense of belonging. Running alongside thousands from across the city helps our students feel part of a larger community, breaking barriers of background and showing them what’s possible with dedication. Taking inspiration from them, many of our staff members have also taken up running, building a shared culture of fitness, resilience, and joy. 

In the early 2000s, Dakshini Prayash successfully eradicated a scabies outbreak from the Madurdaha community. Since then, ensuring healthy bodies has remained a central part of our mission. Today, we conduct weekly health check-ups, during which children receive multivitamins and deworming medication. Through regular vaccination drives, hygiene sessions, and health awareness camps, we support the students, their families, and the community at large.

With the support of the Inner Wheel Club of Calcutta Mahanagar, we have installed a sanitary napkin vending machine and an incinerator on campus to ensure easy and dignified access to menstrual hygiene for our adolescent girls. We periodically organise awareness workshops in collaboration with partners like Young Indians, creating a safe space to discuss menstrual health openly and break the stigma around periods. 

Physical activity is key to a child's holistic development. We offer structured, after-school sports training in football, table tennis, and self-defence. These sessions build not only physical fitness but also teamwork, confidence, and discipline among our students.

To nurture the emotional and mental wellbeing of our students, we conduct weekly counselling sessions in collaboration with Antara, a renowned psychiatric hospital and rehabilitation centre in Kolkata. These sessions provide children facing learning difficulties, emotional stress, or challenging home environments with a safe, supportive space to express themselves and receive professional guidance.

40 women are being benefited from our self-reliance unit throughout the year, of which 12 of them are regular to our unit and the rest of them are part time or one-off workers. In September 2025, the Self-reliance unit was registered separately as “Dakshini Prayash Sewa Nidhi” that will focus on training the local women and empowering them to become financially independent.

With the help of SVP (Social Venture Partners), Dakshini Prayash got connected with MPocket, and they have been generous in funding the empowerment centre of Dakshini Prayash. This new centre will house the self-reliance unit and a training unit for the women in the community to make them self-sufficient. 

Women in the unit are regularly trained on various skills, like printing, embroidery and candle making so that they acquire various skills and upgrade themselves to be able to make diverse products.   

Introducing Diwali hamper in 2021, was a big milestone for the Self-reliance unit and since then, they the unit members works day and night to fulfil the orders during diwali and we have a huge sale. The women in the unit also remain motivated as their take away home is increased by more than 100% during this time.

Started in 2016, Grow with Love is a Dakshini Prayash initiative to promote plants as gifts. Plants can be gifted on any occasion and it stays with your loved one forever. When you give someone a plant, you give them good health.From indoor air cleaning plants like Sansevieria to beautiful Marigolds, Grow with Love has reached many houses in Calcutta.

Waste Segregation is strictly practised within the school campus, to ensure environmental protection, easier recycling and improved public health.

Tree plantation is done by the students of the school. Additionally, Rain Water Harvesting is also practised by children to increase their knowledge  on water conservation and creating awareness on environmental sustainability.

To promote reusing of clothes and other household essentials, Dakshini Prayash conducts garage sale every year before the Durga Pujas, where the school and the community people get pre-loved materials at a subsidized cost. It helps recycle goods in usable condition, allows people to shop them at low prices, and sets the mood for celebrations as we head into Durga Puja.