The ‘Divine Fellowship’ is predominantly a ‘Justice Seeking, Not-For-Profit Society’, founded on the principle of ‘Love Thy Neighbors as Thyself’, dedicated to serve those who can never achieve by themselves, showing light to the sightless and restoring strength to the persons with multiple disabilities … beginning with the visually impaired children and youth to house and educate those who’re either not wanted by their families due to superstition, poverty or have no safe place for which they’re often being trafficked for exploitations in many forms. The D. F. Society was registered in 1986 and has been serving in three states in India namely West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar.
The ultimate goals of Divine Fellowship are to ensure them a ‘Second Chance in Life’ and turning them from ‘Vulnerable into useful Vessels’ as channels of blessings to others; and to ‘Alleviate the Factors causing Disabilities and limiting them from Thriving’. The initiatives include ending exploitations, reducing individual vulnerabilities and empowering with tools and life-skills, enabling them to collectively and meaningfully contribute to the overall development of the communities they come from.

Hi, I’m Jabesh Dutt, an incident that moved my heart at Dehradun, UP, while helping three visually impaired youth to cross the road. Their words of thankfulness in-spite of the critical life as they’ve expressed, and that enabled me to re-dedicate my life for such persons, and that’s how the ‘Divine Fellowship’ as a Mission to the young persons with multiple disabilities particularly visually challenged, was born. The missions are to rescue, shelter, educate and rehabilitate them back into their communities while impregnating them with intellectual and moral values with a right-based approach... enabling them to live a life with dignity unlike all other citizens.
Towards these goals, in 1988 we started a Co-educational Junior School named ‘D. F. Academy’ mainly for the visually impaired young persons without any discrimination regardless of race, gender, religion or caste. Ever since we’ve been striving to prepare them with all-round life skills enabling them competent enough to get integrated and resettled in life, being able to fetch their daily bread with dignity, and develop a positive attitude towards them and the communities they live in, thus turning them as useful vessels rather than living at the mercies of others! And finally, I humbly submit that most of the Alumnae of D. F. Academy are well placed in multiple sectors and living a fulfilling life…and that’s our greatest joy in serving them!

Our greatest joy of serving the most exploited and underserved persons affected by multiple challenges especially the visually impaired children and youth is by ensuring them a new life with fullness and dignity … transforming them from ‘Vulnerability to Usefulness’, and I consider them none other than my own grand-children, and that defines the core of Divine Fellowship.
Over the years, the humble journey with the most humiliated ones has made ‘Divine Fellowship an Institute of Excellence’ as it continues to serve them in-spite of several natural calamities and pandemic. The presentation of Certificate with a Memento on December 05, 2021 as ‘COVID WARRIOR AWARD 2021’ by the British Deputy High Commission in India and Skal International, Kolkata, apart from other national communities, are just one of such proofs.
Yes, there’re times when there’s no fig, olive, dews or sheep on the field, yet I would encourage all my dear Staff and Colleagues to press on and never up till we reach the goals. Friends, if you would like to experience the immortal joy in your mortal life… then please join us.

- Mr. Tusar K. Singh (Chairman – DF Board)

‘Divine Fellowship Academy of Excellence’ is a fully functional Institute on her 5 acres of own land and presently houses 174 visually impaired children and youth in two furnished hostels (boys & girls). Spacious dining hall, class rooms, vocational training, library, large community centre with a chapel, specially designed recreational park with a spacious playground, small dairy with an orchard etc, all that bring fresh life into campus. Trained service providers for girls and boys, qualified teachers, counsellors and visiting experts (SMEs), 24 hours of security with water and electricity etc, ensure a healthy academic life on campus… READ MORE

Hello friends, I’m Dr. Arup Karali, once I was blind, now I can see, once I was lying on a death bed but now I’m alive, and I know the person who has touched and healed me and the reason for I am alive today … is only to glorify Him through the services to the persons experience like me. And let me quote of mine, “the hardship in life either makes a person better to live or bitter to leave”... and that’s how I keep moving for the betterment.

My Lord loves everyone so much so that He gave His life for all, regardless of who we’re, our religio-cultural or ethnic backgrounds are. For indeed ‘if we’ve everything on earth but without love, we’re nothing but a sounding gong!’ Nevertheless, ‘to whom the more is given, the more he/she will be answerable…’ and now, it’s for us to make the right choice!
Friends, would you join me and experience the joy in loving the unloved, caring for uncared, serving the underserved and despised by the world…?

- Dr. Arup Karali - Director - Program

The Divine Fellowship as Justice Seeking Society, led by passionate citizens based on the principle of ‘loving our neighbors as we love ourselves’, and that defines our mission:
Primary missions of ‘Divine Fellowship’ are:

• ‘Reaching-out to the Disabled Persons in their Communities’;
• ‘Preventing Disabilities’ through early intervention at pregnancy;
• Ensuring ‘Equal Social Justice for the persons with Disabilities’
• ‘Rehabilitating them in their Communities as skilled persons’, beginning with visually impaired children, altogether ensuring them the ‘Second Chance in Life’ by following a system called ‘adoption-prevention-education-rehabilitation’ and above all with love and personal care.

In reality, we work closely with leaders of community-based institutes, govt representatives, civil society and social movement support groups etc, providing them the right tools and skills to reform religio-cultural norms that govern and discriminate people with disabilities. Train and empower the people living with disabilities, poverty and exclusion along with their families, enabling them to lift themselves from inter-generational poverty and injustices, making them capable enough to partake in their democratic rights even in electoral decision-making process and contribute to the overall development of the communities they come from.

Towards ‘Prevention of Exploitations and Complete Rehabilitation’:
For the affected children and youth with multiple disabilities particularly visually impaired from under-privileged communities through nutrition, education and vocational training;
To alleviate misgivings that says disability is a curse from god(s) by reforming socio-cultural and religious norms and institutions that govern communities and discriminate disables especially sightless, while working with leaders of community-based institutes;

To prevent disabilities through family intervention by educating & empowering families at individual levels following ‘Adoption-Nutrition-Education-Mentoring’ from pregnancy onwards and in collaboration with Public Health and Early Childhood Development Agencies (ICDS)…;
  To promote equal civil rights such as voting and even in electoral representation for the people affected by multiple disabilities, and ensure safety and protection from exploitation of children, youth, women with disabilities as they’re often hired for begging or as bonded labour etc;
 To alleviate poverty and strengthening families through income generation activities including vocational training and micro-finance;
  To undertake emergency relief services during natural disasters and pandemic (Covid) in the communities, more specifically in which the persons with disabilities come from;