For last 19 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 1800 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 District Dewas along with a plot of land on banks of Narmada at village Navada. From 2018 onwards it has started 681 Day Boarding (Meals & Education centres) for children in selected impoverished tribal and rural pockets called ‘Sri Ramakrishna Vivekananda Seva Kutir’ in Sheopur, Chhindwara, Betul, Dindori, Khandwa, Dewas, Sehore, Anuppur, Mandla, Shivpuri, Sidhi, Ratlam, Harda Vidisha and Jhabu districts. At these Kutirs more than 60 thousand children are getting nutritious meals (breakfast and dinner) along with Strong Supplementary education and Life-Skills over morning and evening shifts. We are endeavouring to set up 1000 Seva Kutirs by March 2023, serving at least 1,00,000 children in some of the worst hotbeds of malnourishment in the country. Two residential educational institutions, modeled on lines of our Bengal institutions, have also been started. The one at Sandalpur village in Dewas district was started in December 2021 with more than 300 resident children initially, and will be gradually scaled up to a capacity of more than 2000 resident children. Another residential institution in Sehore district was started in July 2022. Parivaar has also started 2 hostels in Mandla for more than 200 children (both girls and boys). Eventually one residential institution in each of the districts of MP where Seva Kutirs are under operation, will be set up. In the year 2021, several ancillary initiatives based on the seva kutir platfrom have also been started. These are (a) 24*7 Ambulance Services (b) Vision Restoration Programme (c) Mobile Health Clinics (d) Mother-Infant Care(Prenatal to First 1000 days) Programme