The children are given free education and special tuition along with uniforms, shoes, socks, stationery, textbooks, rain coats, woolen garments, mid-day meals, and special gifts during festive occasions such as the Pujas, Christmas, Id, and other important occasions. In addition, the children are given regular medical checkups and treatments. After class 7, the children are placed in outside schools and then in colleges and vocational training centers, and are monitored right through. BWC believes in maintaining family-bonds, thus the schools are not residential. They don't want the children to be tempted into distancing themselves from their family and acquaintances of the slum. It is hoped that an awareness of their origins will instill in the children a desire to improve the lot of their family and neighborhood.
Currently there are approximately 300 children in the three BWC schools and about 475 in other schools, colleges and vocational training centers. Among the BWC alumni, are several in medical, nursing and engineering schools. One alumnus is a ground engineer for Damania airways. Another is making a name as an up and coming artist and has just finished his M.A. at Rabindra Bharati University. Many of the alumni run their own shops or services such as refrigeration workshop, electronics repair shops, beauty salons etc.
Besides education, the BWC also provides health care for bustee people and their children through five health clinics in various bustees. Around 30,000 slum dwellers are treated through these clinics annually. Social workers also work closely with the children's families. In addition, BWC conducts an Adult Literacy Program to educate the parents of the children and others in the bustee.
