Turnstone Global is a not for profit social enterprise working with relentless effort for overall improvement of human lives irrespective of age, gender, religious beliefs, cast, ethnic origin, birth place or disability status.
Being a truly National Organisation, the philosophy of comprehensive empowerment helps us to scale our activities in social, economic, physical and mental development of a human being. Our scale of operation in eleven states (West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Mizoram, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi) with more than two hundred gram Panchayats have touched the lives of more than one million in last decades. At any given point of time eleven thousand beneficiaries are in our role. Several hundreds of them residing permanently with us.
In 1990 few likeminded people came together to establish an organization under the name of National Association for the Blind West Bengal Branch to support the visually challenged people in their Education, Livelihood Generation and Social and Economic Empowerment. Establishment of Braille Libraries, Braille Press, Audio Recording Studio were some of the major activities of the organization. Though initially organization did not achieve sufficient progress in the field of upliftment of the visually challenged since 2004.
From 2005 under the able leadership of Dr. Kanchan Gaba the organization slowly started gaining momentum.
As the organization was registered with Department of Technical Education under Government of West Bengal, in 2012 a notice had been served to the organization to change its name. As per Name and Emblem Act no private organization delivering government certification in the field of mainstream education or Technical Education cannot use words like national, India or Hindustan as prefix to their name.
Receiving the notice the organization has decided to change its name from National Association for the Blind West Bengal State Branch to Turnstone Global. Then the members also decided to widen the horizon of organization’s activities manifold, be it’s geographical area or the target beneficiaries.
Thus from a 10 square feet rented accommodation presently the organization operates in 11 states, 24 cities and 200 gram Panchayat. From handful beneficiaries of visually challenged persons presently the organization serve to more than a lakh beneficiaries in a year and thousands of them are getting benefited regularly by various means like getting dry ration kit, cooked protein food, flexible learning, health initiatives, skill development or livelihood generation training etc.
To make a world free from poverty and injustice where every human being irrespective of their age, sex, cast, creed, religion, birth place, disability enjoys the right to life with dignity and to empower the marginalized section of the society by enhancing their knowledge, skills, capacities, access to opportunities, services and their participation in life’s decision.
Facilitating the holistic empowerment and development of the disadvantaged section of our society and help them to achieve their highest potential and prepare them to face challenges in life with high confidence.
Transparency is one of Turnstone Global’s core value and something we use to help build resilient relationships with all our stakeholders. Within the organization, we held this value in terms of sound auditing practices and ensuring the partners [individuals/corporate] we work with, have full access to any information they seek or any project area they wish to visit.
GuideStar India is India’s leading provider of NGO information, an initiative of Civil Society Information Services India. Turnstone Global received a Transparency Key from GuideStar India Certification, which means that we have been evaluated by the organization and found to be transparent and accountable.
We feel proud to be evaluated and accredited by GIVE INDIA, most trusted accreditation agency of India. After doing thorough due diligence and field visit Give India has certified us on the basis of our accountability, transparency and commitment.
https://www.giveindia.org/nonprofit/turnstone-global
We strive to ensure stringent measures are in place, to meet the highest standards of transparency, as we believe internal control is the key to good governance.
In order to ensure the effectiveness of the internal controls, the organisation has appointed Chartered Accountant firms of repute, as Branch Auditors. The Branch Auditors submit the audited reports of their respective branches to the management periodically. These reports are then reviewed by the Audit Committee.
The Audit Committee is a sub-committee of the Board of Trustees that was formed to ensure the effectiveness of the internal control environment.
We strive to ensure stringent measures are in place, to meet the highest standards of transparency, as we believe internal control is the key to good governance.
In order to ensure the effectiveness of the internal controls, the organisation has appointed Chartered Accountant firms of repute, as Branch Auditors. The Branch Auditors submit the audited reports of their respective branches to the management periodically. These reports are then reviewed by the Audit Committee.
The Audit Committee is a sub-committee of the Board of Trustees that was formed to ensure the effectiveness of the internal control environment.
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