Advocacy

ADVOCACY & REACH

First-movers in some of the remotest locations

We work in

Bihar • Jharkhand • Odisha • West Bengal • Andhra Pradesh • Delhi

A few of the places we work

The landscape behind the numbers

These are some of the communities we work in, each with their own geography, their own history, and their own particular distance from the systems that should be serving them.

Jharkhand

The tribal blocks of Bundu

In the Adivasi heartland of Jharkhand, communities face displacement pressures, forest rights disputes, and the erosion of traditional livelihoods. The road to many of the villages we work in becomes impassable after the first monsoon rains. Our Sathis walk when vehicles cannot go.

West Bengal

Tea gardens of Jalpaiguri

The tea garden belt of North Bengal is one of the most geographically and socially isolated landscapes in eastern India. Workers live in near-feudal dependency on the plantation economy without land rights, without formal documentation, and with limited access to government services that stop at the plantation boundary.

Odisha

Agricultural communities of Balangir

Balangir is one of Odisha’s most migration-prone districts seasonal labour movement fractures families, leaving children behind and adolescents making decisions about their futures without guidance. Women who farm without land ownership have no formal economic identity of their own.

Bihar

Rural communities of Bihar

Bihar has the highest proportion of out-of-school children in the country. In the communities we work in, the gap between policy and reality is stark schemes exist on paper, but the households that need them most are the least equipped to navigate the systems that deliver them.

Delhi

Urban settlements, Delhi

In Delhi’s underserved settlements, young people are physically proximate to opportunity but structurally excluded from it. Digital literacy is the dividing line those without it cannot access the job market, the education system, or the government services that could support them.

The Saathi Model

At the heart of Parinaama’s work is the Saathi — a trained community member who lives and works within the very village they serve. Saathis build relationships with families, conduct door-to-door surveys to identify children who need support, convene Jan Sabhas with parents and local leaders, lead school enrollment drives, and run child protection workshops with adolescents and communities. Their sustained presence is what makes lasting change possible.

The reality on the ground

What remote actually means

Remote is not just geography. It is the weight of being promised things and let down. Parinaama works inside the gap between what policy promises and what communities actually receive.

01 Roads that disappear

Villages forty minutes away in January are four hours away in July. Our Sathis walk when vehicles can’t go.

02 Governance on paper only

The Anganwadi centre exists in the records. The school is nominally open. The ASHA worker covers too wide an area.

03 No signal, no power

Equipment brought in by our teams. Internet that works slowly. Electrification incomplete across our geographies.

04 Trust earned slowly

The Sathi who identified a child in 2018 is still in that village in 2026. Present before programmes begin and long after.

Who we work with

Our participants

Over 80% of our direct programme participants are women from Tribal, Dalit, and OBC communities not a target, but a reflection of who has been most consistently left behind.

Jharkhand • Odisha

Adivasi communities

Indigenous tribal households facing land displacement, erosion of forest rights, and structural exclusion from systems never designed for them.

All states

Dalit households

Scheduled Caste families where barriers to education are social as much as financial caste discrimination compounding economic vulnerability.

All states

OBC communities

Technically covered by government schemes consistently underserved in the remote geographies where those schemes have never reliably arrived.

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