THE VICTIMS OF SUNDARBANS

The Victims of Sundarbans initiative was founded by Dr. Purnendu Roy, a distinguished surgeon and humanitarian based in Kolkata, India. Dr. Roy completed his MBBS and MS in Surgery from JIPMER, Puducherry, and earned his FRCS from England in 1987, training at William Harvey Hospital (Kent), South Cleveland Hospital, and Scarborough General Hospital (Yorkshire). He returned to India in 1991 and built one of Kolkata's most respected surgical practices, performing over 151,600 surgeries across a 28-year career, including extensive charitable work at Anandalok Hospital where he provided free surgical care. Dr. Roy is the Chairman and Managing Director of Genesis Group of Companies, which includes Genesis Hospital, Genesis Institute of Management and Technology, Genesis Eduventure, and the Genesis Educational and Charitable Trust (GECT). GECT is his primary

charitable vehicle, dedicated to the welfare of underprivileged communities in the Sundarbans, with a particular focus on tiger victim families, widowed women, and children who lack access to healthcare, education, sanitation, and sustainable livelihoods. The Sundarbans region, straddling the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers

along the Bay of Bengal, is one of the world's largest and most ecologically fragile mangrove forests. Its communities face extreme poverty, frequent cyclones and flooding, climate-driven displacement, and a unique humanitarian crisis: families of men killed by tigers while fishing orcollecting honey deep in the forest, leaving behind widows and children with no income, no support, and no path forward. Dr. Roy's initiative provides nutritional assistance, healthcare outreach, educational support, skill development, and humanitarian relief to these vulnerable families.