A Humrahi blood donation camp in Siliguri, a volunteer attending to a donor beneath the camp banner

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Siliguri, West Bengal · Health

Not a hospital visit. A house call.

Across Siliguri and West Bengal, Humrahi Foundation runs free health camps and blood donation drives, taking basic medical care to people who would otherwise lose a day's wage travelling and queueing to see a doctor. The same branch, and largely the same volunteers, is what goes out when a river breaks — Assam, Nepal and now Bihar.

FreeNo cost to attend, ever
OngoingCamps & blood drives, year-round
SiliguriTaken into the community
What it means

What a Humrahi health camp looks like

A camp is a checkup, an eye test and a blood pressure reading, sometimes with a blood donation drive alongside it, set up inside the neighbourhood itself rather than in a clinic across town. For a family losing a day's wage to travel and queue, that is usually the difference between getting seen and putting it off again.

It is free, every time, for everyone who shows up. It also doesn't stand on its own: a warm meal from our food distribution programme opens the door, a health camp keeps a family earning, and an adopted school keeps a child in class. They are three ways into the same house.

A doctor examining a patient at a free Humrahi medical checkup camp
A free checkup camp: an early conversation with a doctor, offered without condition.
A donor giving blood with a nurse attending at a Humrahi blood donation camp
Neighbours giving for neighbours: a Humrahi blood donation camp in Siliguri.
How it started

Grown out of the same 2020 instinct

Health camps weren't part of any original plan, either. Humrahi Foundation began in 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown, when founder Lalan Mahato started driving food to families who'd lost their daily wage. What followed was response rather than strategy: free health camps, blood donation camps, school adoptions, cleanup drives, flood-relief collections, each one an answer to a need we saw in front of us. Once you're standing in a neighbourhood you've committed to, you start noticing what else is missing, and healthcare access was one of the first gaps too obvious to ignore.

Today Humrahi Foundation is a government-recognised, registered NGO holding 12A, 80G, CSR-1, NGO Darpan and FSSAI registrations, a long way from a single van in a lockdown, though the instinct behind it hasn't changed. You can read the fuller story on the about page.

“Preventive care, taken to the doorstep, because dignity shouldn't require a journey.”
The work, up close

What a camp brings with it

Camps, taken to you

Free checkup camps set up inside underserved neighbourhoods, so nobody has to travel across Siliguri to be seen.

Prevention as dignity

An early conversation with a doctor, offered without conditions and without anyone having to ask for it as a favour.

Blood donation drives

Regular drives across Siliguri, where the blood people give stays close to the people who will need it.

No cost, ever

Whether it's a checkup camp or a blood drive, nothing is charged and no one who shows up is turned away.

Flood relief · 2026

Three floods, one season

Health camps are what this branch does in an ordinary month. Since August 2026 it has mostly been doing flood relief. Each response was found on the way back from the last one, and each has its own page with its own figures, sources, and an honest account of what we did not do.

  1. Assam · August300+ familiesreached with relief kits, alongside Nine Story Foundation
  2. Nepal · from 31 August2 crossingsover the border with relief, then out to three holding camps with KarmaYog
  3. Bihar · September500+ peoplegiven the first relief Bakia Sukhay had seen in about ten days
Assam, August 2026: the night relief-kit distribution with Nine Story Foundation in Mautgaon, Sivasagar
Volunteers clearing plastic waste from a flood-hit roadside in Sivasagar
Roadside cleanup
Filled waste sacks stacked in a collection trailer after the roadside cleanup, Sivasagar
Bagged for recycling
▶ Video: the breach
01Complete

The plastic a flood leaves behind

Mautgaon, Sivasagar · 15–17 August 2026

Seven volunteers went in with the Nine Story Foundation and helped run a night distribution of relief kits to more than 300 families. Nine Story knew which households had been missed, so the kits went first to people with disabilities and to families who had received nothing yet.

Then we stayed for the waste. Relief arrives wrapped in plastic, and families had been living on packaged water for weeks. With Midway Journey, the Guwahati waste-management collective, we cleared the flood-hit roadsides of Sivasagar, and hundreds of kilos of plastic went to recycling vendors instead of back into the river.

Our cleanup was part of a district-wide drive under the Assam Pollution Control Board that recovered more than 1,200 kg in total. That total belongs to the whole drive and several organisations. It is not a Humrahi figure.

Read the Assam field report →
Nepal, September 2026: relief handed over at a holding camp, Humrahi and KarmaYog volunteers with families
Nepal, September 2026: an evening distribution at a holding camp
Evening distribution
Nepal, September 2026: tents at a holding camp in the hills
A holding camp
▶ Video: arriving
02Phase two next

Over the border, twice

Trishuli, Nuwakot and Badravati · from 31 August 2026

We heard about the Bhotekoshi flash flood on the way back from Assam and started collecting relief in Siliguri that week. The full load never cleared customs, so we carried what one person may legally take across as personal goods, about ₹25,000, and made that crossing twice.

In Nepal we partnered with KarmaYog Foundation. They secured supplies through DHL and found the holding camps relief was not reaching; we arranged the vehicle and ran the logistics on the ground. Together we distributed at Trishuli, Nuwakot and Badravati on the Rasuwa border. Rasuwa itself was beyond what the roads would allow.

We publish no families-reached count; the register is KarmaYog's, not ours. Phase two, building family profiles detailed enough to help someone hire them, has not started yet.

The Nepal field report and appeal →
Bihar, September 2026: the Humrahi relief boat crossing floodwater over a submerged village on the way to Bakia Sukhay
Siliguri, September 2026: a volunteer packing relief kits for the Bihar trip
Packing in Siliguri
Bihar, September 2026: the Humrahi Relief Vehicle
The Relief Vehicle
▶ Video: the crossing
03Need remains

The first relief in ten days

Bakia Sukhay · September 2026

Back from Nepal, we heard Bihar was getting nothing like the relief Assam and Nepal had. We took the goods that could not cross the Nepal border, added what we bought ourselves, and went straight to Bakia Sukhay. Getting there meant a boat over the next village, which the Ganga had swallowed whole.

Nobody had brought relief there for about ten days; we were the first. We carried enough for more than 500 people in a village the mukhiya puts at around 7,000. It was nowhere near enough, and people snatched what they could. That is not chaos. It is what happens where relief has always fallen short: people learn there may not be enough for everyone.

No partner organisation; we worked alongside the local government. This round used leftover Nepal goods and Humrahi's own resources. No Bihar appeal donation has been spent yet.

The Bihar field report and appeal →

Where someone was already on the ground we stood beside them, and where nobody was, we went anyway. Siliguri sits within a day’s drive of all three, which is the only reason a foundation this size can reach them at all.

Also starting from this branch: a library at Hasir Thikana, a free school in Hatiyadanga, Siliguri, with Support Wings. Nothing is built yet; books, money and volunteers are being asked for.

Join the library project →
Where we work

Rooted in Siliguri, standing beside its institutions

Our base is Parameshwar Niwas, Gudiya Jote, Matigara, on the edge of Siliguri in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, and that's where our health camps and blood donation drives run, regularly rather than as one-off events. We don't do this alone: blood banks, Lions and Rotary chapters, local schools and the district administration across Siliguri have stood alongside us, lending expertise, venues and volunteers. The biggest of these so far was a Mega Blood Donation Camp on Sevoke Road for our 4th Foundation Day, with free eye and health checkups alongside it, covered by Mumbai Ka Swabhiman and on regional television. It is the same approach behind every Humrahi programme: find whoever is already doing the work in a neighbourhood and stand next to them. See more of our work across Siliguri.

A donor resting after giving blood at a Humrahi camp Volunteers registering blood donors outdoors The venue of a Humrahi blood donation camp A free health checkup camp in a Siliguri community

From the ground in Siliguri. See many more moments in our media & photo gallery.

Get involved

How you can help the next camp happen

A health camp runs on the same two things as everything else we do, hands and funds.

  • Volunteer at a camp or blood drive. You don't need medical training, only the time to turn up. Start at get involved on our homepage.
  • Give what funds the next camp. A one-time or monthly gift covers supplies, testing kits and drive logistics. Donations are eligible for 50% tax exemption under Section 80G.
  • Spread the word. Tell someone in Siliguri who needs a checkup, or someone outside it who wants to help fund one. Most of our volunteers first heard about Humrahi from a friend.
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