Good News Children Education Mission is a non-profit ministry in Kolkata, India. Our mission statement is to alleviate human misery and enlighten humanity according to the teachings of Jesus Christ – “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
GNCEM serves more than 3,000 children from the poorest areas of Kolkata. GNCEM currently operates nine schools, one day care, and a seminary. Three sites are specifically for children living among the worst conditions. It is here, at the two mobile schools and the Baby Care Center, that children are bussed in from the slums each morning, bathed, fed nutritional meals, taught, and shown the love of Jesus. Many of these children would be begging in the streets if it were not for GNCEM. Two sites function as boarding schools for orphans or children from single parent homes. GNCEM offers extra curricular activities for students, including lessons in music and martial arts. Every school is staffed by devoted, hardworking individuals who pour the love of Christ into their students consistently.
GNCEM currently sponsors medical camps and nurses work on rotation at the schools. GNCEM is in the process of constructing a hospital and clinic to better serve their community.
GNCEM offers sewing classes for the mothers of students in out schools, giving them valuable skills training. A bakery on one school campus supplies bread to the school children on a daily basis.
The Founders
Subir and Eunok Lee Roy founded Good News Children Education Mission in 1992. This charismatic couple has done amazing work in their city and serves each of their ministries with the love of Christ.
Their incredible faith is evidenced in every project they undertake. Every decision is made in a prayerful state with full confidence that God will provide for the needs of GNCEM.
Eunok, a native of South Korea, felt a burden to help the children she saw living on the streets every day in Kolkata. What started as a small class of just a few children has grown into a thriving ministry that reaches about 2,000 children on a daily basis. GNCEM now runs nine traditional schools, two boarding schools, two mobile schools and a baby care center. The mobile schools and baby care center serve children living in the slums and dumps of the city. Each Sunday, churches meet in each of the nine school locations, ministering to the families of students and others in the neighborhood. Subir pastors the largest church.
In 2012, Eunok received the Mother Teresa award from the municipality of Kolakta for her work in alleviating poverty and reducing child begging in the city. City officials saw a marked decrease in child begging due to the efforts of GNCEM. This award had not been given in over twenty years.