CWF in the News

Since 2011, Civilian Welfare Foundation's work on para-sports, disability rights, LGBTIQ+ inclusion and healthcare in West Bengal has been covered by national and regional media. Below is a selection of online articles, newest first. Links open the original publication.

2025

• Kolkata Hosts Annual "Walk for Paralympics" #Gallery - Social News XYZ, 28 August 2025

2024

• Five Mad Men hosts 'Rock for Paralympics', to support para-athletes from Bengal - The Telegraph India, 1 April 2024

2023

• Improving Lives: Group Legrand India organized a special medical Camp for Transgender & Non-binary Individuals in Kolkata - The Bengal, 12 December 2023
• Multiple Disability Football: The Revival In West Bengal - Indiatimes, 5 April 2023

2021

• Kolkata: Unified theatre for athletes with and without disability - The Times of India, 27 August 2021

2020

• Bengal Para Athletes Showed The Way By Kicking Off The First Queer-Disability Fashion Show In India! - Indiatimes, 5 March 2020
• Bengal Is Going Through A Makeover In Disability Football, And That's Great News! - Indiatimes, 21 January 2020

2019

• Have You Ever Seen A Mixed Football Team? Bengal Just Screened One! - Indiatimes, 4 July 2019
• A bid to break transgender taboo in IT sector - The Times of India, 28 June 2019
• For a first, Kolkata hosts tri-nation T20 wheelchair cricket - eNewsroom, 26 April 2019
• We Are So Obsessed With The IPL That We Don't Even Know That India Are Playing A Wheelchair Cricket Tournament - Indiatimes, 25 April 2019

2018

• Documentary calls for healthcare system to be trans-friendly - The Quint, 9 June 2018

2017

• How transgenders are treated by doctors, a study by this NGO reveals shocking details - InUth, 5 November 2017
• Prominent Durga Pujas in Kolkata inaccessible to disabled: NGO - The Statesman, 25 September 2017
• Over 300 Athletes Walk For Welfare of Para-Athletes - India.com, 28 August 2017

2016

• Lack of media coverage for Rio Paralympics in India draws flak - Deccan Chronicle, 8 September 2016
• Unlike Olympics, no TV coverage for Rio Paralympics in India - The Times of India, 6 September 2016

2014

• Poor access for disabled at Puja pandals - The Hindu, 5 October 2014
• Walk to promote Paralympics in India - Business Standard (IANS), 26 August 2014

2013

• Reclaiming Lost Glory - The Indian Express, 25 August 2013

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