Christmas is, as we all know, an occasion to spread joy in the world and with this aim our team visited ‘Rays’, a home for special children on 25^th December. There our volunteers became Santas for the little kids, distributed gifts among them and played games with the little children. 

A few days before Diwali, a group of young student volunteers of Parvaah assembled at Adchini, New Delhi and encouraged people living in the area to donate clothes, board games and books so that the collected items could be distributed among the needy.  The response was overwhelming and our volunteers then went on to distribute the amassed items among the underprivileged children living in the neighborhood.

On 1^st November , a team of Parvaah volunteers visited schools, colleges and offices in Jaipur and urged people to take a pledge not to burst crackers in the upcoming Diwali and help in saving the environment. Our young volunteers distributed pledge forms which were duly signed by one and all.

Parvaah has built a technical center within the premises of Jayshree Periwal International School so that the drivers, bhaiyas and baijees working at the school can learn basic computer skills which are indispensable for one and all. Our devoted and highly enthusiastic student volunteers have made a roster plan for the whole year and in accordance with this plan 5 kids have been continuously volunteering twice a week to impart basic computer lessons to the people working at JPIS. As a result of the efforts put in by our children, the JPIS employees have become skilled in basic data entry tasks and have also created their facebook accounts.  Kudos to our volunteers.

On 24^th July, Team Parvaah participated at the Ankur Mela with tremendous enthusiasm and the Parvaah stall at the exhibition was a grand success. All our items, including block-printed bags made out of waste recycled paper, Gota Jewelry, cloth bags, cotton scarfs, Baked cookies and many others were sold and we also received orders from visitors in bulk.

A portion of the money earned from the sale of the items was used in financially empowering the women workers employed by Parvaah to make them and the remaining amount was utilized in purchasing raw materials and increasing the number of products.

With the aim of making clean and fresh water available to the underprivileged students studying in government schools in Jaipur, we donated two water coolers to two government-run schools located in Khatwara village, in Sanganer area near Mahapura, Jaipur , one to each of them.

To do whatever we could for the police personnel providing security in Mahapura, Jaipur, we donated a water dispenser to the Police Station, SEZ Thana in the area.

We have teamed up with Ishan Malhotra, a student of Jayshree Periwal International School, Jaipur and are doing our bit to empower the farmers in the villages of Rajasthan. Ishan has created PLUTO, a simple device that enables a farmer to switch on/off his water pump from any corner of the world. On 10^th June, we distributed over 400 Pluto devices among the farmers of Mahapura village in Rajasthan and also installed them in their fields. With Pluto boxes, now it has become considerably easier for the farmers in Mahapura to water their fields. 

Due to erratic electricity supply in Mahapura village, farmers have to visit their farms at unusual hours and multiple times in a day and also during the night for the purpose of switching on their motor pumps and irrigating their fields. Pluto devices have been proved to be immensely useful for the farmers in Mahapura as they have made it possible for the farming community to turn on or turn off the motor pumps  installed in their fields through a landline or a simple 2G phone, without using any 3G/4G network. Therefore, with Pluto devices, it has been possible for the farmers to switch on their motor pumps without leaving their homes at odd hours and save the hours that they earlier used in walking to their fields.  By using Pluto, the farmers have gained the ultimate benefit of not having to worry about watering their crops any more.  

On 15^th May, our enthusiastic and energetic student volunteers started an anti-plastic campaign by handing over hundreds of eco-friendly cloth bags to the residents and vendors of Parvaah-adopted markets and colonies in Delhi and Jaipur  so that the harmful plastic bags could be substituted with the cloth bags. The distribution of cloth bags continued till World Environment Day on 5^th June and with people in both the cities participating in the drive wholeheartedly, it became a huge success.

A majority of people living in India, especially the underprivileged, lacks access to clean and safe water which is indispensable for a healthier today and tomorrow. Therefore, with the aim of making clean and safe water available for the needy, Parvaah recently launched a “Swachh Jal, Swasth Kal” drive in Delhi and as a part of this campaign, an event was organized by Team Parvaah at Bakshi Park, Malviya Nagar on 19th Feb in which free water filters were distributed among the underprivileged. At the event, Parvaah had handed over a total of 400 water filters to 400 underprivileged families. The residents of  Malviya Nagar locality as well as people from other corners of Delhi and the families who were there to receive the water filters were present in huge numbers at the event and made it a grand success. Besides, Somnath Bharti ji, MLA , Malviya Nagar, was the chief guest at the occasion.

On 29th January, Parvaah had organized an event at Vijay Mandal Park, Sarvodaya Enclave, New Delhi in which one of its volunteers Anjali Bhutani had explained and demonstrated the functioning of a cheap and effective water filter created by her in front of the people who were present there. However, at the same event, as a part of Parvaah`s campaign aimed at making clean and safe water available for all, 25 water filters were distributed among the underprivileged. Somnath Bharti ji, MLA , Malviya Nagar, was also present at the event.

On 20th January, student volunteers of Parvaah had participated in the JPIS carnival held in Jaipur and the Parvaah stall at the event proved to be a grand success. Visitors thronged our stall in huge numbers and bought an array of items, including School Notebooks, Diaries, Money Envelopes, Designer Cotton Dupattas, Trendy Sling Bags and many others in bulk. A part of the money earned from the sale of these items was used in buying raw materials for creating new products and the remaining amount was spent in empowering our campaigns.