What we have portrayed below, therefore, is the philanthrophic/charitable activities conducted by this center as submitted in their annual report to the Ramakrishna Mission Headquarters.

As should be obvious, all philanthrophic/charitable activities of Ramakrishna Mission are supported through contributions from kind hearted folks and/or institutions.

This home, which was started in 1943 in Calcutta and shifted to Rahara in 1944, is primarily a residential educational institution for orphans and poor boys, though a good number of day-scholars attend its various schools and colleges. It conducts the following:

• An orphanage with 585 boys, where general education and training in crafts are provided,
• A pre-basic (nursery) school with 60 children,
• Five units of junior basic school with 1073 students
• A junior high school with 481 students
• A postgraduate basic training college (residential) with 109 trainees,
• A high school with 778 boys
• A degree college (with a higher secondary section) offering honors and pass courses in science subjects having 1758 students,
• A junior technical school and a higher secondary vocational institute with a total of 118 students
• Vocation training in electrical works, carpentry, tailoring, bakery, etc.,
• A well equipped district library with about 48000 books and 36 periodicals and newspapers with a mobile unit and an audio-visual unit
• A rural librarianship training centre (residential) with 21 trainees,
• A junior basic training institute (residential) with 33 trainees,
• A hostel for the high school boys with 138 inmates,
• A free allopathic out-patient dispensary treating about 12700 cases annually, as well as a 52-bed hospital for the boys, and
• Birthday celebrations of Sri Ramakrishna, the Holy Mother and Swami Vivekananda and festivals of Durga Puja and Kali Puja.