In the year 2003, 165 children from marginalized families started a new chapter in life, huddled together on a small roof-top in a school in Rajendranagar,Bengaluru. Today:
We also bear the costs of our children's further education as well, either in the form of formal college education or vocational training. While we are concentrating on the overall development of the children, we also work closely with their families to ensure a safe and sustainable environment back home as well. We conduct vocational and skills enrichment workshops to ensure basic hygiene, alcohol de-addiction camps, basic health check-ups, financial planning, counselling for distressed families.
Parikrma focuses on the real meaning of education and development. Through advocacy and proven case studies, we influence systems, policies and processes of education at both the regional, national and global level. Our way of scaling is to share our model and expertise with government school teachers through our Education Transformation Centre.
Parikrma Humanity Foundation has been awarded the Derozio Award for excellence in special education and social commitment. Parikrma also received the Governor’s award for exemplary social work in January 2007. The organisation is now a chapter included in Cornell University and IIMB. We received the CNBC Digitalizing India Award 2016 for the category of Digital Innovation in Driving Social Impact and the CSR Awards for being one of the 50 Most Impactful Social Innovators in 2016.
Our graduates are leading change. A software engineer with Cisco Systems, an assistant chef at Hilton, a dialysis therapist in Manipal Hospital, a dentist, an activist and avid blogger, a football coach, an actress - a student pursuing law at the prestigious National Law School, biotechnology at MS Ramaiah... the list grows longer and diverse with each passing year.
