Team Parivaar

Parivaar and the Kolkata Book Fair

381 strong Parivaar contingent visited the world’s largest book fair – the Kolkata Book Fair for 3 days and chose hundreds of books as per their liking. It has been customary at Parivaar to send children to the Book Fair for long years now.   A non-Calcuttan friend had wished to visit Kolkata and I Parivaar and the Kolkata Book Fair

Field-work and Children identificatiom done for admission into Parivaar Residential Schools

Field-work and Children identificatiom done for admission into Parivaar Residential Schools from communities living in almost homeless conditions on sides of railway tracks at Park Circus line in the heart of Kolkata city. More than 40 children have been identified.To someone not familiar with this area of Kolkata it might sound much like Piccadilly Circus Field-work and Children identificatiom done for admission into Parivaar Residential Schools

Milestone of 2500 eye camps reached

We are glad to inform that we achieved the milestone of 2500 eye camps. This has taken less than 20 months (18th June 21 to 30th Jan 2023). The camp locations were spread across some of the poorest pockets in 34 districts in Madhya Pradesh & 1 each in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. As the Milestone of 2500 eye camps reached

Parivaar Bengal Update

A new residential block at our Bengal Girls’ campus (Parivaar Sarada Teertha) has now been operationalised that can accommodate 350 plus girls.

Parivaar team conducted fieldwork among homeless people living under flyovers around the Racecourse in Hastings area.

Parivaar team conducted fieldwork among homeless people living under flyovers around the Racecourse in Hastings area.. 44 children have been enlisted for possible admission in Parivaar Bengal residential institutions. Profoundly ironical that hundreds of homeless people live just beside the Race Course, the archetype of Privilege.This contradistinction brought the opening frames of Mrinal Sen’s Kolkata Parivaar team conducted fieldwork among homeless people living under flyovers around the Racecourse in Hastings area.

Field work on Urban destitutes in Kolkata city

This fortnight our Bengal team is conducting rigorous fieldwork for urban destitute children in Kolkata city. Going around footpaths of Circular Road (patch between NRS and Sealdah), shanties of Canal Road (both west and east), homeless children and families living under flyovers around Race course, shanties around Park Circus railway line, Pottery Road / Anando Field work on Urban destitutes in Kolkata city

First ever 4 Day Annual Athletic Meet

First ever 4 Day Annual Athletic Meet at our newly started Girls’ Residential School in Sehore district in Madhya Pradesh. The girls here are from tribal villages of 7 different districts in MP.

This week at Parivaar Bengal

74 girls and 49 boys from some of the most poverty-stricken areas of Singhbhum region of Jharkhand admitted in Parivaar Residential institutions in Bengal. At Parivaar Residential institutions we have children from pre-schooling till university graduation.To continue serving some of the poorest of our countrymen Parivaar needs your continuous support. To contribute    https://parivaar.org/donate/

137 children (73 boys and 64 girls) admitted into Parivaar free residential schools

137 children (73 boys and 64 girls) admitted into Parivaar free residential schools near Kolkata from some of the most poverty-stricken blocks of Bankua and Purulia districts of West Bengal like Manbazar I, Manbazar II , Bandwan Balarampur from Purulia and Raipur, Raniband, Saltora and Khatra blocks from Bankura district.

9 Day Mega Athletic Meet at Parivaar Bengal

We our 9 Day Mega Annual Athletic Meet at Parivaar Bengal Campus in the last days of the bygone year where almost 1600 children and 250 Sevavratees of Bengal as well as Madhya Pradesh participated in approximately over 200 events which includes Sprints, Cycle Races, Relay Races, Long Jump, High Jump etc. to mention a 9 Day Mega Athletic Meet at Parivaar Bengal