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Established in the year 1989 at Kolkata, Friends of Tribals Society (FTS) is a non – government and voluntary organisation committed towards upliftment of the underprivileged rural and tribal masses in India. It is providing five-fold education namely Functional Literacy, Health Care / Arogya, Development Education / Gramothan, Empowerment, Ethics & Value Education / Sanskar. Our activities have been acknowledged with the prestigious Gandhi Peace Prize 2017 handed over by the former President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind along with the Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at a glittering function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan on 26th February 2019.

FTS is a non-profit organization having its headquarters at Kolkata and it is having 36 Chapters in 35 places. The Organisation is dedicated to the upliftment of tribals. FTS runs One Teacher School (OTS) or Ekal Vidyalaya, which imparts non- formal primary education to children between 4 and 10 years of age. An OTS typically comprises of 25 – 30 children of classes I to III.

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The tribal children, who mostly reside in remote villages, would not be able to access schools in distant towns. On the other hand, opening up schools in rural areas would have lead to different kind of challenges. like getting teachers with the right educational qualifications.

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What We Have Achieved

Our activities have been acknowledged with the prestigious Gandhi Peace Prize 2017 handed over by the President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind along with the Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi as on Oct, 2025

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    37Years
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    37Chapters
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    45352Ekal Vidyalaya
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    1198088Students
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Yazoo Softly Over ★

May you not miss it just because it’s quiet.

— For the late-night listeners, the porch-sitters, and everyone learning to love what moves slowly.

The Yazoo River doesn’t rush. It seeps, it curves, it floods the lowlands quietly. To say something moves “Yazoo softly over” is to describe a force that isn’t aggressive but is absolutely unstoppable. Like grief. Like the end of a long summer. Like the way a song you haven’t heard in ten years suddenly plays in a coffee shop, and for two minutes, you’re twenty years old again.

It might call to mind the Yazoo River, winding slow and muddy through the Mississippi Delta. It might evoke the legendary blues records of Yazoo Records—those scratchy, haunted 78s of Skip James or Son House. Or it might just be the sound of rain drifting across a tin roof, soft and relentless.

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