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AID Delhi's interaction with Parichay started in May 2004 and since then involvement has increased and Parichay has seen many successful events.

Krishna and Somendra go to Parichay to teach children and youth respectively. In addition to that Sambit is actively involved in marketting initiatives for the products made by the children as a part of their vocational training exercises.

An important difference after AID Delhi's involvement has been a clearer focus on sustainability of the initiative. While efforts were already being made to generate funds, but the situation was never very comfortable. AID Delhi's involvement resulted in additional volunteers for the center. Work got distributed and things started moving faster. Stalls are now organized more regularly and classes for youth have started. The benefits have prompted the women to volunteer for forming a self-help group where they want to take up activities.

And ask a volunteer who goes to Parichay and you will be see a twinkle in his eyes, a smile on the lips and excitement in the voice. The children are so loving and the people so respectful that going there for just a few hours a week is very fulfilling.

Click here to see some photographs of children at Parichay and the fun that we all have together.

Highlights

Krishna will be going twice a week on his weekend to teach children English and Mathematics. Sometimes he also take drawing and board games. Later in July/August one more volunteer Somendra have joined him and on weekends he used to teach the youth group who work in weekdays.
Sambit will be helping in marketing the products made by the children. It involves in approaching shops, schools and companies to organize the exhibhition of the products in their buildings. Later more volunteers helped him in this process.

The first stall was kept at IIT Delhi. Then we kept at BITS, Pilani. We also helped in putting stalls in companies. (STMicroelectronics and HCL). There was good response for the stalls and it helped Parichay to be financially self-sufficient.
Somendra and Anirban raised funds for providing bags for the children of Parichay. In October the bags were distributed.
Also volunteers help Parichay by raising funds for supporting children and getting old clothes from friends and relatives.
On 19th December, Parichay organised a trip for their children in Delhi. One-fourth of the cost was supported by AID.
On 26th January, Parichay started self help group(SHG) for the Mahila Mandal of the community. Ladies started making Masalas, which the AID volunteers are presently marketing.
On 26th January, Parichay celebrated Republic Day. AID volunteers participated in the event.
In the month of February Parichay released its Newsletter which is currently available on the AIDwebsite.
In the month of April AID along with enthusiastic doctors(Dr. Amita Govil and Dr. Arvind Govil) organised a health check up camp at Parichay. Almost all the kids underwent medical checks, fortunately none of them were found with any serious ailment. Medicines were provided as per the prescriptions of the doctors.