Project Brief: The Parivaar Residential School and Resource Centre for underprivileged children aims at the empowerment of underprivileged children from segments such as orphans, children of commercial sex workers, and street children.
Project Type: Residential School (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)

Secondary Focus: children of migrant workers

Area: Tribal
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Boston

Status: CLOSED - ENDED
Project Steward: Vishweshwara Herle
Co-Steward: Melli Annamalai
Project Partner(s): Contact information unavailable
Project Address: Parivaar Ashram
Village : Barkalikapur, P.O. Bakhrahat,
Bakhrahat Road
West Bengal
Tel: (033) 2498 0226
Stewarding Chapter: Boston

The Parivaar Residential School and Resource Centre for underprivileged children aims at the empowerment of underprivileged children from segments such as orphans, children of commercial sex workers, and street children. Initiated by students and professors at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, the project provides a stable basis for the lives of these children, thus enabling them to reap the benefits of a long-term formal education and ease their integration into the social mainstream. The leader of the project is Mr.Vinayak Lohani


Asha Zurich funded 10 children for the year 2004-05. The total budget was CHF 4000.00. Since Parivaar did not have an FCRA, the money was transferred in two installments via Asha Kashi. Mr. Vinayak received the first installment (CHF 2000.00), but did not show interest in collecting the second installment from Asha Kashi.

Hence after about an year of waiting (no contacts/mails), we decided to stop further funding and to use the rest of CHF 2000.00 lying in Asha Kashi to fund some other projects.

So the total money transfered was only CHF 2000.00

CHF=swiss francs