Parivaar

Many of Paivaar's friends and well-wishers have been enquiring about how we came to start and focus on this project too which is in a different geogaphical location from Parivaar Ashram and has a work-domain quite different from that in which Parivaar had been working till now. Parivaar's theme is service (i.e. labour of love), it may have started... in the way it did, but it has all the possibilities to undertake a range of services. For children our efforts are for of a long-term nature spanning over many years. Its a transformative process where we are arming them with tools by which they can take care of their own future. But for many sections of people those benefitted through the present Foodstock Distribution Scheme, it is a case of instant suffering amelioration. We are trying to do something for them 'here and now' as many of them cannot go through a transformative process like children and youth so that they can take care of their own future. They do not have any such future. We should not see things only from development economics point of view (many put forth this viewpoint - that these old decrepit people do not have any productive future so why to invest efforts / resources on them. We do not think human beings should be reduced (and interpreted and valued) only in terms of what productive possibilities they offer, i.e. merely as 'economic animals'. This in our opinion is a sad devaluation of the glory and dignity of human beings. That way each constructive work, even work on children has only one goal to reduce sufferings for them in future (may be through education, may be through employment or other means). Each sphere of human activity - economics, politics, science has the central aim of reducing the sufferings of human beings. The message of service to such in tremendous suffering runs much deeper. Parivaar's core is Seva-vratis who need to always be charged with the ideal of service, 'labour of love'. The service rendered to such people will have a great cleansing on our all our Seva-vratis. ...Read More