Parivaar is West Bengal’s largest free residential educational institution for children from highly impoverished backgrounds. As of September’25 it has more than 2100 resident children (more than 1000 in boys’ and girls’ campus each). The children are from age-group of 4 (pre-schooling) till 21 (University level graduation).
How are Children admitted into Parivaar Bengal Institutions?
Generally, children admitted into our institutions are orphans, street and homeless children, children of abandoned mothers, children with critically-ill parents having no other family support, children from other vulnerable backgrounds like from areas where exploitation and victimization, especially of girls is common like red-light areas. We also admit children from highly impoverished tribal areas from several districts of West Bengal and Jharkand, where daily family income is less than Rs. 200.
Parivaar receives a large number of cases involving vulnerable children and also conducts proactive field surveys in vulnerable urban quarters and several tribal areas where we have a strong field presence.
Parivaar has a special team that conducts site inquiries, visits the child’s location, and collects a detailed profile along with relevant facts and information. Based on the severity of the need for admission into a residential institution, the decision to admit a child is made. The important parameters considered during this pre-admission process are:
At the entry level, Parivaar admits children between 5 and 12 years of age, though certain exceptions are made.
The possibility of the admitted child dropping out before the high school (Grade 10) stage should be minimal. In other words, Parivaar admits children with a long-term view in mind and not as a stop-gap arrangement for temporary difficulties.
Generally, along with one child, all his or her siblings are also admitted to Parivaar. We believe it does not make sense to create a bright future for one child while leaving the others behind. Parivaar’s principle is that all siblings should progress together so that their familial bonding remain intact in the future.
