Welcome to KMCO Trust

KUDY MAHANTY CHIRENS' OPPORTUNITIES Trust (KMCO), a city based charitable trust was founded in memory of Kudy Mahanty, daughter of Rupa and Niroop Mahanty.

The Trust was formed in the year 2000, where Mrs. Rupa Mahanty is the Chairperson, Mr. Niroop Mahanty is the President and Mr. V Umesh Naidu is the Honorary Secretary of the Trust. Other trustees of the KMCO Trust's are Mr. Kenneth D’Cruz, Mrs. Anjale Kayship, Mr. Shubhankar Bhowmik and Mr. Arvind Choudhary.

The Trustees main motto is to serve the cause of needy and underprivileged children. Its objectives are therefore to help, develop and encourage the poor and underprivileged children belonging to weaker sections of the society by undertaking appropriate and adequate projects for their education, medical treatment, participation in sports, etc. KMCO believes that every child is ordained to have fun, therefore the Trust would regularly undertake activities to ensure that these children also have an opportunity to enjoy the pleasures of childhood.

OUR PARTNERS:

TSRDS: Tata Social & Rural Development Services

FPAI: Family Planning Association of India, Singhbhum Project

Sharda Kalyan Bhandar

How we fund KMCO

Kudy's parents, Rupa and Niroop Mahanty started the trust with their personal funds. This forms the corpus of the trust.

Kudy's mother, Rupa Mahanty is a Reiki Grandmaster, and active in empowering people through Reiki. Since her work in Reiki is a Social Service she does not personally accept fees; rather she encourages her students to put the Reiki fees due from them directly into KMCO. This way by transferring her potential Reiki earnings to charity, the KMCO Trust continues to grow. For details please visit www.hesalreiki.com.

Hearing the noble work being done by the trust, several on time and regular donors contribute to the trust.

KMCO's Donors

Following names are some of the many who say "We share for our own satisfaction."

Mrs. K Bhabani
Mr. Pradeep Bhatia
Mr. Shubhankar Bhowmik
Mrs. Debjani Biswas
Mr. Arvind Choudhary
Mrs. Indira Kaczynska
Mr. Aroop Mahanty
Mrs. Reba Mukherjee
Mrs. Taila Muller
Mr. Pradeep Srivastava
Mr. Adil Vesuvela

Photo Gallery

Please click here or on the photo to see the full photo gallery.

Latest news & Press

Xmas cheer for rural kids at zoo - December 20, 2011

Not every child gets to celebrate Christmas. But this year, some underprivileged ones got angels in disguise to give them a good time.

A Jamshedpur-based charitable trust, Kudy Mahanty Chiren’s Opportunities, hosted an annual Christmas party for 70 children from Uday Creche at the Tata Steel Zoological Park on Tuesday.

Niroop Mahanty, a corporate executive and his management consultant wife Rupa, had founded this trust in 2000 in the memory of their daughter Kudy who had died in a tragic fire accident in March 1989.

“Chiren” was Kudy’s delightful way of pronouncing “children”.

more >>>

KMCO hands over classrooms to rural school - March 07, 2009

Kudy Mahanty Chiren's Opportunities (KMCO), a city based charitable trust, handed over a block of classrooms to a school in Patamda run by the Jharkhand Education Foundation (JEF), on Friday. The new school block will have 14 rooms for students of standard one to eight, for the 550 students of JEF School, who come from the surrounding areas of the Patamda town.

Trustees of KMCO, Rupa and Niroop Mahanty, PK Dotivala, Umesh Naidu and Anjali Kashyip graced the function. Satish Pillai, Chief, corporate sustainability services, Tata Steel, Sanjay, Head, urban services and Shilpasree Nag of Corporate Affairs and Communication, Tata Steel were also present on the occasion.

more >>>

KMCO installs hand pump - June 21, 2004

Trustees of Kudy Mahanty Chiren's Opportunities donated a hand pump to the school children of Gorgram village under Potka block on Monday. Niroop & Rupa Mahanty, parents of Kudy Mahanty donated this pump. This hand pump was installed with the help of TSRDS. KMCO will install a hand pump in the villages of the state every year on this day, birthday of Kudy. Rupa Mahanty said that KMCO will undertake many welfare activities for children of remote villages by initiating scholarships, organizing health camps, reimbursement of medical expenses to the needy and also organize outings for rural school children.

Other trustees, MP Dotiwala, Anjale Kayship, Umesh Naidu were also present on the occasion.

KMCO offers fun to lesser mortals - June 22, 2003

Kudy Mahanty Chiren's Opportunities (KMCO) a city based charitable trust inaugurated its activities by organizing its first outing, at the Jubilees Amusement Park, for the children of Cheshire Home & Shishu Niketan orphanage, here toady. Altogether 70 children from the Cheshire Home and Shishu Niketan were taken inside the park for outing.

The function began with chips and soft drinks served at the central cafeteria to the cheerful music of Mr Adinarayan. Thereafter the groups of children were taken through all the rides in the park. The atmosphere was such that the employee of the park also owned the slogan "Put a smile on each child's face" and got personally involved in ensuring that the children had a great time. The carnival like atmosphere infected all present on the occasion.

KMCO donates hand pump to school - June 22, 2003

Speaking as the Chief Guest at a simple function to hand over the pump on the school premises, Niroop Mahanty said the Trust would install such hand pumps in the surrounding villages of Jamshedpur annually for the next 10 years. Rupa Mahanty, chairperson, KMCO, also spoke on the occasion. Ms Shakti Sharma, Head - TSRDS, Tata Steel, P K Dotivala, Ms Anjale Kayship trustees of KMCO, Barha Majhi, headmaster of the school, local villagers & school children were present at the function.

KMCO organizes health camp for rural children - March 31, 2003

Kudy Mahanty Chirens' Opportunities along with Family Planning Association of India, Singhbhum Project conducted health camps in three villages of Jharkhand, Harisundarpur, Murgagattu and Salampather.

It was inaugurated by Rupa Mahanty, chairperson, KMCO on March 27 in the presence of Sudha Sagar, chairperson, FPAI and other trustees of KMCO.

Addressing on the occasion she said that it was the first of many activities that would be sponsored by KMCO, through FPAI for the benefit of under privileged children in Jharkand. This health camp would cover medical check ups for 150 to 200 primary school children including the providing of medicines. In the near future KMCO has committed to sponsor a football tournament, zoo visit and other such activities for village children. It would help to "put a smile on every child's face" the motto of KMCO trust.

Chairperson mentioned that she was delighted with the proposal from FPAI, Singhbhum Project and KMCO committee were glad to be able to offer opportunities for less privileged children and adolescent girls in nearby villages.