Villages in the countryside are several hours' drive from Calcutta hospitals and children often receive medical treatment only when their illnesses are too advanced. In shantytowns, such as the slum of Chitpur, the problem is not the distance, but often the ignorance of the symptoms, the chronic lack of attention to children's health and the substantial non-existence of free public health services for the poor.

For this reason, years ago we started the "Itinerant Clinics" project, which takes the form of a long and intense day every week or every month, during which temporary clinics and a dispensary are set up: the inhabitants of villages and slums can thus access extremely important basic medical care such as general medical examinations, vaccination prophylaxis, drug therapies, vitamin administration, nutritious meals for newborns and future mothers.