Parivaar ( www.parivaar.org )

Introduction

General Introduction

Parivaar is a humanitarian service organisation, based in 24 Parganas (S), West Bengal, and at present is

chiefly working for total care and overall development of children from categories like orphans, girl

children highly vulnerable to exploitation, victimization, and trafficking, street children, abandoned

children, extremely impoverished children from tribal areas and other such highly vulnerable children at

Parivaar Ashram, Village- Barkalikapur, P.O. Bakhrahat, District 24 Parganas (South), West Bengal.

Starting from scratch and thereafter developed brick by brick, Parivaar Ashram is being continuously

developed and moulded into a unique institution transforming the lives of each of its residential members

(children and adults) and acting as a training ground of highly dedicated life-committed grassroots workers.

As on 15th March ’10 there are 429 resident children at Parivaar.

Parivaar Ashram also acts as a hub for multifarious service activities for scores of the villages in the

vicinity. At the Parivaar Ashram campus is also located Parivaar’s own Formal School ‘Amar Bharat

Vidyapeeth’ in which the resident children of Parivaar study.

Children are admitted at a young age of 4 to 10 into Parivaar Ashram. Each resident child

once admitted into Parivaar will be under the care and custody of Parivaar till higher

education (graduation / post-graduation) and subsequent job placement and settlement

into the future phase of life. Parivaar is and shall continue to be behind each child and

pave his/her way into any future career which he/she is aspiring for and showing promise

of making to, whether it is a stream graduation in humanities, commerce or sciences, or a

professional degree education in engineering/medicine. For example, children showing

aptitude for meritorious professional lines like engineering or medicine or any other such

lines shall be trained and fully supported (just as parents do for their own children) till

completion of that higher education and subsequent placement. Our eldest group of

children (with whom Parivaar started in 2003) is already in Class 10 and despite the

fact that they were late-starters in academic path (trained and initiated straight into

Class 4 in 2004) they are outperforming children from educated households in their

respective schools, and securing top-bracket ranks.

Our Ethos and Inspiration

Parivaar’s mission is inspired by the clarion call of ‘Service of Divine in Man’ in a reverential spiritual

attitude, in a spirit of worship’ given by Swami Vivekananda.

The Beginning

Parivaar was started by Vinayak Lohani (an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta), who, inspired by

spiritual and humanistic ideals of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, decided to devote his entire

life for serving ‘Divine in Man’ as taught by Swami Vivekananda. Immediately after passing out of IIM in

2003, with just 3 children in a small rented building with almost no financial resources, Vinayak started

Parivaar. Till the level of 15 children at Parivaar, he used to take some lectures for students appearing for

Management entrance examinations and through that could meet the expenses. Gradually people began to

be inspired by this dedicated service and started to support the initiative and the number of children at

Parivaar grew. At the end of 2004, Parivaar could purchase its own land to develop its permanent campus

called Parivaar Ashram. Parivaar’s mission and theme began to attract dedicated youth, many of whom

joined Parivaar Ashram as resident workers and began to become bearers of this mission.

Parivaar Ashram : Building of a Unique family

December ‘03 : Admission of 3 children at rented building at Bonogram.

June 30th ‘04: 59 children

Dec 29th ‘04: Purchase of land at Barkalikapur, Bakhrahat in 24 Parganas (South)

Dec 31st ’04: 67 children (all housed at Bonogram Centre)

June 30th ‘05: 110 children

Dec 31st ‘05: 145 children

June 30th ‘06: 200 children

April 15th ‘07: 226 children.

May 15th '07: 250 children.

Oct 15th '07: 280 children.

Oct 15th ’08 : 335 children.

March 15th ’09 : 372 children

Dec 15th ’09 : 402 children

March 15th : 429 children.

Background And Admission Process Of Children Into Parivaar

Background

Generally children admitted into Parivaar are from categories like orphans (both whose parents have

expired), street and pavement dwelling children, children with critically / terminally ill mother and no

father and other family support, children from other crises background like whose father has deserted the

mother and children, vulnerable girl children from prostitution-infested areas who are under the risk of

being sucked into flesh trade unless equipped educationally. A large number of children are from rural

areas and highly impoverished tribal areas as well where starvation and malnutrition was rampant and

where daily income per family is much less than 1$. All these children, diverse though their backgrounds

be, have the common characteristic that they can be armed through education if nurtured in a residential

environment with basic amenities where their whole growth and progress can be gradually executed.

Admission Process

Parivaar Ashram is a Residential and overall life development institution for erstwhile destitute children.

Typically Parivaar receives everyday about 5 to 10 cases of such children everyday by different field

organizations, relatives or neighbors of the child in case, concerned individuals, members of local bodies,

Panchayats etc. After filtering Prima Facie information, cases for site visit and detailed investigation are

short-listed. Parivaar has a special Enquiry team that conducts site enquiries from where the case-request

has come. This team visits the child’s existing location and collects detailed profile, facts and information

of the child, based on interaction with the child’s referring persons / entity and other possible sources. This

site report is then discussed and deliberated upon, and the severity of the need of the child to be admitted

for a long term into Parivaar Ashram is assessed, validated and decision thereof is made. The important

parameters looked into while admitting into Parivaar Ashram are as follows:

1. The child’s age during admission into Parivaar should be between 4 to 10 years, though certain

exceptions are made

2. There should be no possibility of child’s dropout from this long-term stay at Parivaar Ashram until he/

she becomes of age and is able to make decision for himself / herself, grow to his / her potential and

find a place as a socially dutiful, worthy individual.

3. Parivaar acts as the custodian of the child and makes all the decisions in his / her best interests.

4. The child will continue to be under Parivaar’s care, even after their legal age of adulthood (i.e. 18

years), just as in any family parents and the family continues to support their ward financially and

otherwise until the child (who shall be a youth by then) has found a place for himself / herself as

described above.

5. Generally, along with one child all his / her siblings are also admitted into Parivaar, as all of them are

in similar conditions, and it does not make sense to develop bright future for one and leave others to

languish behind. Parivaar’s principle is that all siblings should progress together and have bright

futures so that their familial bonding remains intact in future.

State-wise & District-wise distribution of Children at Parivaar Ashram

State-wise & District-wise distribution of Children at Parivaar Ashram

State District No(s) of childrenWest Bengal 24 Pgs (N) 15

24 Pgs (S) 94Bankura 35Birbhum 1Burdwan 3Howrah 8Kolkata 131Medinipur (E) 17 Medinipur (W) 64Nadia 2

BiharChhapra 3Navada 4

  Nalanda 2Jharkhand Singbhum (E)

 50

Total No. of children 429

Parivaar : A Brief Fact Sheet

429 erstwhile homeless and destitute children have found a new Home,

Family , and Future at Parivaar Ashram since its starting in December ‘03.

All resident children admitted in Parivaar’s own high quality formal School ‘Amar Bharat

Vidyapeeth’ and in those higher Classes are in other good Formal Schools where they have got

through Competitive Entrance Tests. Most of them are performing commendably, matching

shoulder to shoulder with any other children from educated families.

A second Residential Institution campus exclusively for girls is coming up and shall be

operational by July 2010.

More than 400 IIM (Indian Institute of Management) alumni are Parivaar supporters.

Funds collected at zero fund-raising cost (funds raised totally by individuals who have turned into

dedicated volunteers for supporting Parivaar). There is no outgoing fund-raising done through

events or publicity campaigns. In fact there is no Parivaar worker with the role of publicity / fund-

raising.

90% of the total financial support of Parivaar met through financial contributions from

individuals. Parivaar’s support-base is very broadbased and heterogeneous . No single donor

(individual or institutional) accounts for more than 10% of the total inflows of Parivaar.

Many serious academic studies on different organisation-building facets of Parivaar have been

conducted by people in academic fraternity. A few case-studies on Parivaar have been authored,

which are now being used as a part of standard teaching material in many Business and

Management institutes in India and abroad, particularly in the field of Entrepreneurship and

Leadership.

Educational Excellence at Parivaar

Excellence is the Central Theme

Parivaar’s vision of changing lives of our children is built on the theme of positivity, of infinite possibilities

that are stored within each child. In our communication with external world we have never focused on what

the backgrounds of the children were, or never portrayed the miseries in which the children were or would

have continued to be in had they not been in Parivaar. We feel we have achieved nothing of consequence

by merely admitting the child to Parivaar. That was just the beginning. What we do now with our

children is all-important. Thus our articulation is not about ‘salvation from the miserable past’ but the

‘infinite possibilities of the bright future’. We are in the grand work of sculpting lives, lives that will excel

in whatever they do, and bring out the best in whatever they do.

A Brief Outline of Scheme of Education for the resident children at Parivaar.

Typically a child is admitted into Parivaar within the age group of 4 years to 10 years. All these children

without exception have had no exposure to education whatsoever before being admitted into Parivaar. The

youngest admittees (aged 4,5,6) are those who are rightly aged to start their academic life, and are admitted

into most initial classes (Kindergarten / Class 1) since their age is in accordance with the class they are

admitted into. Right from the beginning they are able to progress in their studies without any difficulty as

there is a strong battery of teachers at Parivaar Ashram, who teach these children after their day school.

Also the pace at which at these children are taught is just right for their age and no fast-bridging has to be

done for this category since they do not have an educational backlog vis-a-vis their age.

Children admitted to Parivaar who have age of 8 to 12 (aged 8,9,10,11,12) and still not having any

exposure to education, are first trained for one year through what we call ‘Fast-Learning Bridge Course’ by

our battery of teachers, and then admitted into a grade suitable for their age. For example, at the end of the

bridge course a 9-year-old child would be admitted in Class 4 or at least Class 3.

After-the-School-Tutorship Program

‘After-the-School Tutorship’ is of immense importance and is an essential component of our education

efforts. There are two reasons for this:

1. The first reason flows from central theme of Parivaar that is ‘Excellence’. Parivaar’s vision is that

all the resident children continuously excel from strength to strength and as per their abilities

shape a bright future for themselves in various professional lines. Excellence and not mediocrity is

what we aim for each child in Parivaar. Our vision is that our children continuously excel from

one level to a higher level.

2. Because of the fact that many of the children have been jumped into a higher class through fast

learning bridge course some children initially take time to adapt when admitted into a higher class

in a formal school. But we have invariably seen that because of the focused ‘After-School

Tutorship’ study hours (4 hours daily in addition to the school hours) the performance of each

child in every successive examination improves.

Our team of teachers – both at Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth as well as Tutorship Program work very hard with each child, so that each child can continue to excel and learn to bring out the best from within themselves. Their academic progress is continuously noted by the teachers and other Resident elders of the Residential Institution (responsible for the overall caretaking of the children), and it is ensured that they perform and master that very day whatever is taught in the day school. During the last week in each month, detailed tests are taken for all subjects for all the children both in their School as well as in internally in the ‘After-the-School Tutorship’. This helps in continuous evaluation and correction ensuring improvement.

‘Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth’- Parivaar’s own High Quality Formal School at Parivaar Ashram

premises.

Beginning and Raison d’ etre

Parivaar has started its own Formal Day School ‘Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth’ located at the Parivaar Ashram

premises from 1st May ’07 as a permanent ancillary institution to the Parivaar Ashram Residential

Institution so that for the years and decades to come the resident children at Parivaar can attend this School

and receive quality education.

The reason why we needed to start a School of our own was that it was central and essential to the scaling

up of Parivaar Ashram Residential Institution, i.e. suppose from present level of 429 children, if its capacity

is to be increased to 1000-2000 and more in the next 3 to 5 years to come, then we would have faced a big

challenge of admitting our resident children in outside quality schools as the capacity in those schools is

limited. Those schools are not scaling up in the way as Parivaar Ashram would have scaled up and thus a

major constraint would have come up in course of time. The only way then, would be to get rid of this

external dependency, and have an ancillary institution of our own so that the whole Parivaar Ashram

becomes an integrated institution.

Secondly, the quality control would have fully remained under Parivaar’s control. Since Parivaar’s mission

of developing bright futures for all its resident children is so critically linked with success in the sphere of

education, we wanted to have greater control over it, which would not have been possible to that extent had

it been left to outside schools. Now we can have better linkage and communication between School

teachers and teachers in After-School Tutorship Program. Such coordination plays a very important role in

improving the performance of students. Earlier when the children were attending outside schools there

could not be much regular communication between School teachers and our Parivaar teachers in ‘After-

School Tutorship Program’. But now with the starting of Parivaar’s own School, both programs are under

Parivaar and thus a much better coordination is there. Similarly coordination and thought-exchange

between resident caretakers and teachers really helps both the sides to understand so many aspects of the

children which would have otherwise remain closed to them.

Standard Operating Practices at Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth

At ‘Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth’ (ABV), the quality and standard maintained is high. In the ABV, some

Standard Operating Practices are followed with the following features to ensure high quality :

Teachers who teach at the Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth do not teach in the tutorship program.

This ensures that teachers both in the School as well as tutorship program are kept under the

continuous challenge to perform and that there is no academic compromise.

A Question Paper Approval Committee approves the question papers set up by the respective

course teachers. They check the content of each question paper for parameters like quality,

clarity and course-pervasiveness. The Committee then approves the question paper judging

the whole content on the above parameters. It may also issue modifications in certain

questions if it helps to strengthen it based on the above parameters. The chief purpose of this

exercise is to ensure that no sub-quality question papers are administered during the

Examinations and the overall standard is always maintained at a robust level.

Similarly at the Tutorship Level, monthly internal tests are there.

We have weekly meetings of all the teachers wherein they have to submit a ‘Statement of

Activity’ undertaken during the period. All these statements as well as the highlights of the

meetings are documented and permanently recorded.

The whole content and syllabus covered by any teacher during a week is planned and

submitted in advance to the School Headmistress and is generally completed within that

duration.

Fortinghtly meetings between After-School Teachers and School teachers are also held

regularly. There are also many one-to-one meetings and discussions between a School teacher

teaching a particular subject to a particular students group, and a ‘After-School Tutorship’

teacher teaching the corresponding subject. This has led to much greater coordination.

Fortnightly meetings between School teachers and Residential Caretaking Staff of Parivaar

Ashram are conducted which have many one-to-one meetings between teacher of a particular

students group and caretaking in-charge (Housebrother / Housemother as they are called at

Parivaar Ashram). Since Housebrothers/Housemothers are in role of guardian for the children

at Parivaar this helps them to handle the children better, counsel them in issues which need

such counselimg, and ensure that children are disciplined and focused on their tasks at hand

which helps to ensure overall improved academic performance as well as healthy personality

growth. Teachers also get to know various non-academic behavioural aspects of a particular

child and other relevant information specific to a particular child which otherwise they would

not have come to know. This also helps them to handle the children better in Classroom

environment.

Qualitative & Quantitative targets for Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth for the next 3 years

The Formal School at Parivaar Ashram (Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth) is central and essential for meeting of

Parivaar’s overall objectives of making bright futures for all its resident children through education. Among

the quantitative targets that we have is that Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth (ABV) shall enable scaling up of

Parivaar Ashram Residential institution to a level of 1000 children in the next 3 years. The School itself

shall be first upto Class 10 and then Class 12, so that all the resident children can study at Amar Bharat

Vidyapeeth itself.

At least 90% of all the students should pass in First Division (60% marks) in the examinations at ABV. But

all this is a preparation towards Class 10 examinations (which is the common examination for the whole

state and is evaluated at the state-level) in which Parivaar resident children will start appearing next year

onwards. Our target is that in Class 10 State Board examinations at least 90% students should secure First

Division.

Health, Diet, Hygiene and Medical System

A Brief Outline

The diet at Parivaar has been scientifically planned and set by specialist dieticians, making the diet very

healthy and balanced. Same meals are partaken by all the members of the Ashram (children and Seva-

vratees). The water consumed by all the inmates is purified water as there are water-purifiers in each

residential block.

Two 24-hour Resident Nurses live at the Ashram as residential members of the community thus ensuring

24-hour medical care to everyone. Their task is to administer routine drugs like those for cold, cough, skin

infections, cuts/bruises, stomach ailments etc, do preliminary treatment while keeping the sick under

observation during fever, illness. We have doctors visiting twice a week and inspect the children who face

complaints during that period. A Parivaar Ambulance is stationed 24 hour at the campus and is used to

meet any exigencies. All the members of this community, children as well as Resident Seva-vratees are

covered under Group Insurance, and thus the hospitalization in any hospital is done cashlessly.

Detailed Medical Documentation for each child

Each child at Parivaar has a separate medical file in which all periodic inspections by the doctors are

documented in a standard template and maintained in that child’s file. All prescriptions, hospitalization

documents, ailment histories, allergies / susceptibilities are also documented and appended in this file.

Thus, a continuous health and medical history of each is being continuously developed and recorded. As a

result, any new doctor can be consulted and just by going through the respective Health File he gets the

exact snapshot of the health status and health history of the child.

Parivaar’s recent initiatives in Tribal Areas and admission of children from highly impoverished tribal

areas

A Brief Outline of the Outreach

Parivaar Ashram being the hub of training of Seva-vratees, is also the base for many other projects serving

the rural areas in 24 Parganas district as well as far-off tribal areas in districts of Midnapore (West),

Bankura, and Purulia in West Bengal and Singhbhum (East) in Jharkhand. These areas are home to some of

the most impoverished tribes of the country. The whole population suffers from malnutrition and

generation after generation, people in this belt live a life totally unlit by the lamp of education and in

thoroughly sub-human conditions.

Two main tribes, Sabar and Birhore, are the main beneficiaries of Parivaar's tribal service programs. 400

such families from highly impoverished tribal areas are enrolled in Parivaar's regular Monthly Foodstock

Scheme wherein 9 tonnes (9000 Kg) of foodstock (Rice and Dal) are ferried and distributed by Parivaar

Seva-vratees through most inaccessible terrains in these areas every month, particularly to old and ailig

persons. 140 children from these tribal areas have also been admitted at Parivaar Ashram Residential

Institution. 150 more children shall be admitted from these areas over the next 2 years.

The three main tribal blocks where we have developed field units are:

1. Belpahari in Midnapore (West) district in West Bengal

2. Singhbhum (East) district in Jharkhand

3. Selected tribal pockets in Bankura and Purula districts in West Bengal

From Singhbhum (East) district in Jharkhand, 40 children (mainly from Sabar and Birhore tribes) have

already been admitted to Parivaar. From Midnapore (West), Purlia and Bankura districts 100 children

(mostly belonging to the Sabar tribe) have been admitted at Parivaar. They are well-settled in academics

now and are performing extremely well.

Initiative in tribal areas of Bankura and Purulia Districts : Tutorship Program for 1600 children (both

boys and girls) in a group of tribal settlements through Yugacharya Vivekananda Seva Samity

Since 2007, Parivaar is extending support to a local group YVSS to conduct tutorship program for

1600 students in the selected tribal villages of Bankura and Purulia districts. Rs 6 Lacs is being spent

on this project annually.

Non-Academic Child Development Activities

A. Sports & Recreation

One important feature of Parivaar is the participation of both teachers and children in all facets of extra-

academic activities. Sports are a regular activity and conducted systematically. During winters, which are

locally the cricket season, regular competitive matches are held between Parivaar team and teams from

local youth clubs from neighboring areas every week. Parivaar has a proper cricket field and pitches

developed by seasoned pitch curators. We also have nets for net practice. Occasionally, night matches

under lights also conducted with the whole 400+ strong Parivaar community cheering up and creating an

electrifying environment with band and music. In Parivaar team, a mix of our teachers and children play.

Keeping in tune with the Parivaar ideal of pursuit of excellence in all spheres, systematic practice and

coaching is also held for improving the performance.

We have a vast football field and systematic coaching in that game is also provided. Parivaar Ashram has a

Volleyball court as well, and on many evenings volleyball is played (again a mix of children and elders). A

separate field for girl children and a play-garden comprising swings, slips, see-saws etc is there which is

relished mostly by girl children and small children.

Mind-Games and Word-Games like Chess and Scrabble are very popular among the children and post-

dinner such games are taken up by many children and elders. Children movies and other inspirational and

educative films are shown on weekends. Cricket is followed devotedly on television.

There are stocks of children’s literature and general reading material at Parivaar Library. Newspapers (both

English and Bengali) come directly to the School and each Residential Block, and children have a regular

newspaper reading habit. Some special children’s news-weeklies and magazines are also subscribed.

Children movies and other inspirational and educative films are shown on weekends. Parivaar has a

collection of 250 good movie DVDs (Bengali, Hindi, English, French, Japanese, Italian, Swedish). There

are also rare videos of great moments in sporting achievements from Cricket, Tennis, Soccer and

Gymnastics which are screened periodically on television.

Every year there is a Parivaar Track & Field Competition which goes for 4 days. This year, in the week of

25th December ‘09 to 2nd January ‘10, we had a 4 day Athletic Meet at Parivaar which had 110 track and

field events.

B. General Knowledge Development and Reading Habits

Television news watching, documentary watching and reading newspapers and periodicals ensures a good

level of general knowledge and wider-world exposure

C. Educational Excursions to outside places

Excursions are frequent and generally to places which provide not just entertainment but also have

educational value. Visits to places like museums, art galleries, exhibitions, libraries, theatre, planetarium

etc. are generally taken up. The places where in past group excursions have taken place are:

 i. Indian Museum Calcutta (the oldest Museum in the country)

ii. The National Library Calcutta (the largest Library in the country)

iii. Botanical Gardens, Sibapore

iv. Zoological gardens, Alipore

v. Nicco Park

vi. Science City

vii. Planetarium

viii. Academy of Fine Arts

ix. Nandan (Theatre Complex)

x. Presidency College, Calcutta University Campus (the oldest institutions in India)

xi. Santinikenatn , Bolpur (Rabindranath Tagore' institution)

xii. Rabindra Sadan ( a Tagore Museum)

xiii. Netaji Bhavan (a Museum dedicated to Netaji Subhaschandra Bose)

xiv. Raj Bhavan (Governor House)

 Outside Excursions have taken place to :

i. North India Excursions to Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur-Sikri, Vrindavan.

ii. Excursion to Digha sea-beach on Bay of Bengal.

D. Festival Celebrations

Celebrations like Holi, Diwali, Christmas, Id-ul-Fitar, Saraswati Puja, birthdays of important national

figures and freedom-fighters are also observed every year along with national festivals like Independence

Day and Republic Day. On all these occasions, talks and discourses are conducted in order to put forth the

deeper meaning behind these occasions, so these occasions can also become medium of character-building

and that festivals do not get reduced merely to fun and play. Talks on historical and inspiring themes

happen frequently for all children as well as elders. Plays and 'song &dance' items are also there.

E. Literary and Cultural Events

Each year Parivaar has a 5 day Cultural Function in which songs, dances, plays, recitations, speeches etc

are there. There are some special competitions like Debating, Poetry-Recitation, Drawing and Paintings. On

national festivals like Independence Day and Republic Day talks, readings and discourses are conducted in

order to put forth the deeper meaning behind these occasions, so that learnings from these occasions can be

tools of character-building and fostering creative imagination and that festivals do not get reduced merely

to fun and play. Talks on historical and inspiring themes happen frequently for all children.

Village Service Activities

i. Education Excellence Program for village students has been taken up for 700

meritorious students from Bakhrahat area in the 10 Km radius of the Parivaar

Ashram. These students are provided books, stionery material etc and ensured that

they do not drop out in their education. This will scale up considerably as a separate

project thus benefiting hundreds of other students from villages. Welfare work of

medical help, emergency pecuniary help, organizing sports events for village youth,

etc. has continued. Hepatitis-B Vaccination Camps have been organized in which

800 persons from villages have taken Hepatitis B vaccination in 3 rounds (each after

a monthly interval). In fact Parivaar is like a guardian to entire neighboring villages

and anyone who is any kind of crises knows that Seva-vratees at Parivaar are always

there to do whatever they can, ever-ready to serve.

ii. Ambulance Service for villages : Parivaar has started 24 hours Ambulance services

for the population in the adjoining rural areas. Since there were no hospitals in the

nearby area, all patients in critical condition have to be taken to hospitals in Kolkata.

General village population used to face enormous hardship in taking the patients to

hospitals in the city at odd hours with no means of public or private transport

available at such times. Now they can avail of Parivaar’s Ambulance services.

iii. Monthly Foodstock Scheme for old and ailing villagers : In our Panchayat area and

adjoining Panchayas, 340 old and ailing persons are under Monthly Foodstock

Scheme, i.e. they receive a stipulated quantity of rice, dal (lentils), oil etc. required

for the month, and medical help (with medicines etc) when required. These persons

are not in a position to fend for themselves, nor do they have any family support. A

large number of them are old widows, and around 75 are old women who in their

youth were victims of flesh trade but now in old age undergo tremendous suffering

as being devoid of family or relatives, they do not have anyone to look after them.

Parivaar’s Support Base

Broadbased Individual Support-Base

Indians (and some foreign nationals too) all over the world have been influenced and inspired by Parivaar’s

work. A large no. of working professionals including IIT and IIM alumni (more than 500 of them) the

world over support Parivaar. Parivaar received more than Rs 3 Cr in the Financial Year ’08-‘09, by

hundreds of its supporters all over the world. Out of this the bulk was from individual donors who inspired

by Parivaar magnanimously extended their support even in the period of global economic slowdown. In the

Financial Year April '08- March '09, Parivaar spent more than Rs 1 Cr on Parivaar Ashram Residential

Institution, Amar Bharat Vidyapeeth, and host of the other initiatives in tribal areas in West Bengal and

Jharkhand. About Rs 1.5 Crore were spent on infrastructure expansion at Parivaar Ashram and land

purchase and ongoing construction for the separate All Girls' Residential Institution that Parivaar is

developing.

Institutional Donors

There have been some important institutional supporters too.

CLSA Ltd ( www.clsa.com ), world's leading Financial Service firm has donated Rs 48 Lacs

towards development of new campus for Girls' Residential Institution in the ongoing FY '08-09

and an additional Rs 12 Lacs was contributed by its employees.

Edelweiss Capital ( www.edelcap.com ), a leading Financial Services company in India, has

donated Rs 45 Lacs over the last 4 FYs.

Citibank has donated Rs 25 Lacs in the current FY.

Letzdream Foundation, a Mumbai-based Charity Trust, has donated Rs 40 Lacs in the last FY.

The Rohatyn Group, a New York-Singapore based Hedge Firm has donated Rs 35 Lacs over four

years as a part of there Corporate Philanthropy Policy over the last 4 FYs.

EMpower, a US based philanthropic agency has made a Grant of Rs 15 Lacs in lat 2 FYs.

Monroe Street Journal of the Michigan University’s Stephen Ross School of Business has donated

Rs 13 Lacs over previous FYs.

Netherlands based ‘Fortis Investments’ has donated Rs 13 Lacs to Parivaar in the last FY.

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. has donated Rs.12.5 Lacs in previous FYs.

British Telecom PLC London has donated Rs 9 Lacs to Parivaar in FY '07-'08.

State Bank of India has donated Rs 5 Lacs in the last FY.

United Bank of India has donated Rs. 5 Lacs in one of the previous FYs.

UCO Bank has donated Rs 5 Lacs in the last FY.

Credit Suisse Asia has donated Rs 4.5 Lacs in the last FY.

Cognizant Technology Solutions has donated Rs 3 Lacs in the last FY.

CESC Ltd. Kolkata has donated Rs 3 Lacs over last 3 FYs.

Remittance Mechanism

All contributions to Parivaar fall under Income Tax exemptions under Section 80(G) of the Income

Tax Act.

Cheques / drafts can be sent in name of 'Parivaar Education Society' to the following address:

Parivaar

Bonogram, Bakhrahat Road,

P.O. Raspunja,

Kolkata-700104

Do mention the phone no on the dispatch.

Ph No: (033) 2495-4118 / 2495-4171

Please do write your complete address on which you wish to receive IT Exemption receipt

Wire Transfer

One may make a wire transfer into our ICICI A/C, details of which are as follows:

A/C Name: Parivaar Education Society ICICI Bank, Chowringhee Branch, Kolkata A/C No: 0187 0100 5081

Please mail us as soon as you have made a remittance through Wire Transfer so that we can mark it against your name in our books. This is extremely crucial for our audit requirements.

Donations by Non-Indians:

Parivaar has a valid FCRA license granted by the Ministry of Home Affairs New Delhi, and thus can accept donations in any currency through non-Indians. These donations necessarily have to be credited into our FCRA a/c, the details of which are given below.

FCRA Registration No: 147110818

The Bank details of the FCRA a/.c are as follows:

Bank Name State Bank of IndiaBranch name IIM Joka Branch KolkataAccount Number 10120247357Name of Account (Cheque to be made in the name of)

Parivaar Education Society

9 digit number ( MICR number) 700002130Current/ savings account SavingsSWIFT Code/ Remittance Instructions SBININBB106IFSC CODE SBIN0006210

Donors who are tax payers in USA

If you are in the USA, send your valued contribution to Parivaar via Foster India Foundation or Arpan Foundation. Parivaar is associated with Foster India Foundation as well as Arpan Foundation, USA. Your contribution to Parivaar is secure and tax deductible if you send money through "Foster India Foundation" or "Arpan Foundation" which are, both, IRC 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization in the USA.

Write check payable to the "Foster India Foundation" or "Arpan Foundation" and write "Parivaar" in the memo. Please send it to :

Gaganjeet Singh

Foster India Foundation 15925 Carmenita Road.Cerritos, CA 90703-2206United States of America E-mail gaganjeet.singh@chugh.com

OR

Anand Karia

Arpan Foundation19401 S. Vermont Av Ste K-105Torrance, CA 90502Phone: 310.707.1151E-mail anand@arpanfoundation.orgwww.arpanfoundation.org

At the time of sending a cheque to Foster India Foundation or Arpan Foundation, please email us at info@parivaar.org so that we can track the donation with them.

Registered Address (Where all postal correspondence should be addressed to)

Parivaar

Bonogram, Bakhrahat Road,

P.O. Raspunja,

Kolkata-700104

Do mention the phone no on the dispatch.

Ph No: (033) 2495-4118 / 2495-4171

For visiting Parivaar and other general enquiries please contact Shri Nimai Saha / Shri Somshankar Dutta 

at the following no.

(91-33) 2495-4118 / 24954171 / 98316-90586 (During IST 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM)

We prefer emails to phone calls for the purposes of general enquiry / first-time enquiry. That enables us to

provide comprehensive documented information to the enquiries which is often not possible on phone call.

Also a record of each enquiry correspondence is thereby maintained.

email: info@parivaar.org

Acknowledgements

Numerous persons from different walks of life have lent some help or the other to our work and mission.

We are grateful to all of them. We feel especially indebted to the efforts of Shri Ramesh Kacholia and

Friends (Mumbai), Shri Rajesh Raman (Singapore), Shri Vikrant Bhargava (Gibraltar), Shri Saurabh Mittal

(USA), Shri Ravindra Chamaria (Kolkata), Mr Chaitanya Kanojia and Mr. Michael Pollack (USA), Shri

PK Iyer (Deccan Chronicle Group), Shri Anirudha Dutta (CLSA Mumbai), Ms. Vidya Shah (Edelweiss

Capital), Shri Chetan Shah (Deutsche Bank Singapore), Mr. David Lyne (Deutsche Bank Singapore), Shri

Sameen Farooqui (Deutsche Bank, Singapore), Shri Vinod Aachi (Standard Chartered Singapore), Shri

Pranav Thakur (JP Morgan, Hong Kong), Mr. Goetz Eggelhoefer (The Rohatyn Group Singapore), Shri

Tarun Mahrotri (JP Morgan Hong Kong), Shri Ashutosh Sinha (Amoeba Capital Singapore), Shri Nilesh

Shah (Prudential ICICI), Shri Lashit Sanghwi (Alchemy, Mumbai), Shri Prashant Jain (HDFC Mutual

Fund), Shri Jagdish Moorjani (Citriustech Mumbai), Shri Rajiv Vij (Singapore), Shri Prashant Gokhale

(Credit Suisse Hong Kong), Shri Ravi Mankude (Meril Lynch, Hong Kong), Ms. Vedika Bhandarkar, Shri

Srinivasan Varadarajan and Shri Pankaj Naik (JP Morgan Mumbai), Shri Utpal Guha (UAE), Shri Rajit

Kadakia (USA), Shri Manish Gupta, Ms. Aloka Majumdar, Ms. Shahin Dastur (Citibank Mumbai), Shri

Venkat Krishnan (Founder-Director, Give Foundation), Ms. Tanya Pinto (Baal Dan USA), Mr. Robert

Rosenbloom (USA), Shri Ramesh Sharma (USA), Shri Ameeya Mehta (USA), Shri Sudhir Doshi (USA).

Parivaar reaches out to its supporters worldwide through our highly dedicated out-station campaigners and

volunteers – foremost among them being Shri Lalit Kumar (Parivaar’s Campaign Coordinator for the

USA), Ms. Sreedevi Menon (Texas, USA), Shri Anand & Parag Karia (Arpan Foundation, USA), Shri

Deepak Ahuja (California, USA), Shri Rahul Ganjiwale, Shri Pushpraj Nadar (UAE), Shri Amit Jain

(Singapore), Ms. Monica Chatterjee (Singapore), Ms. Ramya Nageswaran (Singapore), Shri Rajesh

Manwani (Singapore), Shri Piyush Gupta (Singapore), Shri Rishi Nangalia (Goldman Sachs, New York),

Shri Vikash Jain (Gurgaon), Shri Nandu Patel (California, USA).

Our Kolkata based supporters Shri Harshavardhan Himatsingka and Shri Vivek Mundra (Jet Age Finance),

Shri Ajay Agarwal (East India Securities), M/S R.B. Agarwalla & Co, M/S Bagaria Charitable Trust, Shri

Amal Poddar, Shri GM Kapur, Shri Satyajit Sarkar, Shri Amit Karkun, Shri Atanu Bhattacharya, Shri

Jagadish Kundu.

For their continuous valuable support in various forms we are grateful to Shri Anup Gupta (Kolkata), Prof.

Kalyan Mandal (IIM Calcutta), Prof. Munish Thakur (XLRI Jamshedpur), Shri Himadri Chatterjee, Shri

Mamoon Akhtar (Samaritan Help Mission Howrah), Shri Biswanath Roychoudhary, Shri Debashish Maitra

(Park Site Nursing Home).

Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi (Former Governor, West Bengal), Dr. Ramachandra Guha (Eminent Scholar-

Historian), Shri Sarthak Behuria (Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation), Dr. Mihir Shah (Member, Central

Planning Commission and Founder of Samaj Pragati Sahyog, Dewas MP), Dr. Boria Majumdar (Eminent

Sports Historian), Prof. Sekhar Choudhury (Director IIM Calcutta), Shri Soumen Mitra (Senior IPS Officer,

WB), Prof. Rajesh Chakrabarti (Indian School of Business Hyderabad), Prof. Trilochan Sastry (IIM

Bangalore), Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan (IIM Bangalore), Prof. Swapna Banerjee (IIT Kharagpur).

Grateful thanks is also expressed to Ms. Beth Payne (U.S. Consul-General in India), Smt. Bula Choudhury

Chakrabarty (Padmashri recipient), our local Panchayat and Zila Parishad authorities, and our other village

brethren from Barkalikapur and Patherbedia-Joychandipur Gram Panchayat area, and Police Station

(Bishnupur) for their unstinted cooperation.

Thanks is also expressed to Kolkata based organization Sanlaap for their cooperation at various times.