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General Introduction

Parivaar is a humanitarian organization inspired by the spiritual and humanistic ideals of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, with its chief institutions and projects based in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh.

For last 21 years, Parivaar has worked towards the total care and overall development of children who are highly vulnerable to exploitation, victimization and trafficking, including orphans, street children, abandoned children, and extremely impoverished children from tribal areas. It also conducts many more humanitarian activities for the destitute and uncared, including elderly and shelterless.

In Bengal Parivaar has two residential educational institutions – Parivaar Vivekananda Sevashrama for Boys and Parivaar Sarada Teertha for girls. With over 2100 resident children, these are West Bengal’s largest free residential institutions for children from deprived and destitute backgrounds. Parivaar provides all opportunities for education and overall child development in a loving and caring atmosphere for boys and girls from early age of 5 till their higher education – i.e. university level graduation and / or employability programs

Parivaar’s Residential Institutions are seen as a model institution in the field of caretaking and overall development of vulnerable children. We have been the recipient of the 2011 National Award for Child Welfare from the President of India, the highest recognition by the Government of India.

In the year 2016 Parivaar began to expand to a new geography of Madhya Pradesh purchasing 17 acres of land at village Sandalpur in Dewas District. From 2017 onwards it has set up 800 Seva Kutirs(Nutritional and educational Centers) for children in selected impoverished tribal pockets in 18 districts of Madhya Pradesh and one district of Chhatisgarh, called ‘Sri Ramakrishna Vivekananda Seva Kutir’. They are in districts of Sheopur, Chhindwara, Betul, Dindori, Khandwa, Dewas, Sehore, Anuppur, Mandla, Shivpuri, Sidhi, Ratlam, Harda Vidisha ,Jhabua, Barwani, Alirajpur and Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh, Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi in Chhatisgarh and East Singhbhum in Jharkhand .

At these Kutirs more than 55 thousand children are receiving Strong Supplementary Education and Life-Skills along with nutritional snacks over morning and evening shifts.

We are endeavouring to set up 1000 such centers by March 2025, serving at least 80,000 children in some of the most impoverished tribal pockets.

Two residential educational institutions, modeled on lines of our Bengal institutions, have also been started. The one at Sandalpur village in Dewas district has more than 900 resident children and another campus in Sehore district has more than 200 children. Both these campuses are being scaled up to admit more children in future years. Additionally, Parivaar also runs two hostels in Mandla for around 200 children (both girls and boys).

From the year 2021, several ancillary initiatives have also been started. These are

(a) 93 free 24*7 Ambulance Services in 23 districts of Madhya Pradesh. More than 2.8 Lac cases have been served, a significant number of which were life-saving.

(b) Vision Restoration Programme for poor and vulnerable elderly. Under this more than 5000 eye camps have been organised in 36 districts of MP and one each in UP and Rajasthan. More than 6 Lac persons attended these camps and through this 70 thousand eye surgeries have been conducted for free through help of some prestigious eye hospitals.

(c) 21 Mobile Health Clinics in 8 districts covering 982 villages. More than 14 Lac patients have been served through this.

Mission & Vision

Our mission as well as vision is to bring about transformation in lives of suffering humanity through earnest and rigourous humanitarian work - changing the lives of destitute and vulnerable children and youth, impoverished tribal communities, and poor and vulnerable elderly people - in a spirit of selfless service as emphasised by Swami Vivekananda. The driving motto is Shiv Jnane Jiva Seva (Service of Divine in Man) as taught by Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda.

General Introduction

Parivaar’s Residential Institutions are seen as a model institution in the field of caretaking and overall development of vulnerable children. We have been the recipient of the 2011 National Award for Child Welfare from the President of India, the highest recognition by the Government of India.

Mission & Vision

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