The purpose of the Calcutta Children's Permanent Fund is to establish a permanent endowment of overhead-free funding to organizations providing direct medical and nutritional services to Calcutta's poorest children. The fund is unique in applying the concept of a permanent endowment which can never be depleted, to the problems of street children in Calcutta's slums. The fund takes advantage of modern investment strategies to achieve leverage for the benefit of those children. The fund has flexibility to deploy its income via the most efficient, effective providers operating at any given time.
Joseph Anderson became interested in the children of Calcutta after exploring the city's slums on foot in January 2005. He was struck by the nobility, humanity and optimism of Calcutta's poorest inhabitants. He established the fund the same year.
Joseph is a writer, composer and trial lawyer representing catastrophically injured victims and children with developmental disabilities. For more about his work, see www.josephanderson.com and www.andersonpangia.com.