Parinaama works across several verticals: health, water and sanitation, hygiene, nutrition, livelihoods, education, and micro-entrepreneurship. All our programs are designed with complete handover to the communities as the end goal. We work to facilitate and support all the different actors and institutions to ensure the right environment is created for improved outcomes. Parinaama engages with the stakeholder through intense advocacy programs with the government, private, public, and community representatives.
Microenterprise clusters
Parinaama seeks to maximize the social and economic impact through a three-pronged strategy: engaging, enabling, and empowering rural communities. The key drivers of change are social mobilization at the village level for understanding people’s needs, co-creating microenterprises, and capacity-building through the cluster approach. Parinaama works towards channelizing the skills and technical expertise for poverty alleviation. We have conducted microenterprise development programs for cohorts across Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha. The ultimate goal is to steer the women towards building and helping sustain the enterprises over the long term.
Skill Development
At Parinaama, everyone deserves an opportunity to paid work in formal and informal sectors through added skills and knowledge. Parinaama emphasizes enabling the skill development of youth, leadership, financial literacy, and managerial skills. A computer literacy campaign has been initiated for underprivileged youth, especially young women, who are allowed to attain the basics of computer literacy. This has been created on a needs-based and demand-driven agenda to provide expertise in technical skills for youth, enabling them to participate in the competitive job market.
Health, Hygiene & Sanitation
We believe mothers and their children deserve access to primary healthcare and the knowledge to stay healthy. Parinaama believes that maternal and child health can be improved if :
- Primary health and hygiene products are accessible to the communities.
- Community health volunteers are well-trained, able and motivated to deliver appropriate health information.
- Mothers and caregivers understand and practice healthy behaviours.
- There is an enabling environment to support and foster improved health behaviours.
Parinaama Development Foundation intervenes through an intensive interpersonal communications campaign at the village level to address the health and nutrition aspects, particularly concerning preventable deaths. The platforms used to interact with the women include mothers’ groups, youth groups, self-help groups and adolescents. The five-point program offers information on breastfeeding, immunization, supplementary and complementary nutrition, handwashing, and environmental sanitation. The messages have been developed around these areas and envisaged to bring about behaviour change.
WHERE WE WORK
Parinaama works pan India with a particular focus on Eastern India, namely Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Bihar and in southern India, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Our programs have been conducted in more than 200 locations across our satellite offices, anganwadi centres (creche), panchayat bhavans (office of people’s representatives), village squares, people’s homes and other shelters. In Eastern India, the population below the poverty line in Bihar and Jharkhand is almost 50 per cent and 30 per cent in Odisha. The areas are culturally and geographically isolated regions with a vast youth population and massive demand for livelihood opportunities. Women and children suffer from a high prevalence of treatable and preventable diseases, and nutrition is generally poor.
Parinaama offers several advantages. It is a platform that:
- Serves as spaces for communities to hold skill development workshops, education workshops, events, health camps
- Engages a broader community in skill development, health and hygiene programs.
- Invites young people to improve their literacy levels, increase their power to express themselves, and take social action to improve their community.