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I am Advocate Sidhant Ghosh, practicing at the Calcutta High Court and a social activist for over 15 years. My journey has been defined by one conviction: dignity should never be a privilege—it should be a right.
In 2013, I founded the Rescue and Relief Foundation (RRF), which today runs and supports rehabilitation homes across West Bengal. In just the past 18 months, our efforts have rescued over 600 minor girls and led to the arrest of more than 80 traffickers, making RRF one of India’s strongest independent anti-trafficking initiatives.
But my work didn’t stop at rescue—it grew into creating a sustainable future. In 2024, I launched Opportunity Café in Kolkata, India’s first non-profit café run by intellectually disabled young adults, survivors of trafficking, and vulnerable youth from red-light areas. Today, two thriving outlets in Dum Dum and Ballygunge employ 25 intellectually disabled adults and 10 CNCP youth, while training 35 more through the Opportunity Skills Academy. Our cafés are loved not for sympathy but for their quality—with customer ratings of 4.9 on Google, 4.8 on Swiggy, and 4.4 on Zomato.
This January, we are preparing to launch Opportunity Café 3.0, employing 14 more intellectually disabled adults. Every outlet is not just a café—it is a movement that challenges stereotypes and proves that inclusion, courage, and compassion can transform lives.
Running the Tata Steel Kolkata Marathon 2025 is, for me, another way to carry this movement forward. Each step I take is for the children who were abandoned, the survivors who refused to be broken, and the young adults who today serve coffee with pride instead of carrying scars in silence.
✨ My vision is simple yet urgent:
To move society from sympathy to opportunity.
At this marathon, I run not just for myself but for every child who deserves dignity, every survivor who deserves independence, and every person with intellectual disability who deserves a chance.
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When I step onto the streets of Kolkata for the Tata Steel Marathon 2025, I will not be running alone. With me will be the stories of hundreds of children once abandoned, survivors once silenced, and young adults once written off because of disability.
Through the Rescue and Relief Foundation, we have rescued more than 600 minor girls in just 18 months, and through Opportunity Café, we have shown that intellectually disabled youth and survivors of trafficking are not burdens but beacons of strength and dignity.
Every kilometre I run is for them—for the boy who smiles while serving coffee though he cannot speak, for the girl who found a new beginning after the darkness of exploitation, for the parents who now dare to dream of a future for their child with special needs.
I invite you to stand beside us.
👉 Support Opportunity Café 3.0.
👉 Run with us in spirit.
👉 Be part of the movement that turns sympathy into opportunity.
Together, let’s prove once again that Kolkata’s heart is strongest when it beats for inclusion, courage, and hope.
Run with me. Support us. Be the reason someone gets their dignity back.
Rescue and Relief Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring dignity, purpose, and future to India’s most vulnerable — victims of human trafficking, orp...
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