Update

We have been busy the past few months. Several projects are in the pipeline to help empower women and the local people. To also improve the local community and eventually the District as a whole. 

Some of the projects we are planning to implement in the very near future, are cross stitch book marks and cards, composting, school gardens. We are just waiting on funding and the green light to go ahead with some of these. 

Now that the monsoon is ending we will also be able to venture out into the surrounding area and visit villages and the local people there which is where our help is really needed. 

We are also introducing English classes from our office in Gole Mela. This is to ensure we are able to reach out to a larger group of people. To help improve the lives of many more. Who in turn will hopefully help others. 

Well, things seem to be happening, slowly but surely. We are beginning to raise funds through donations and with Ann holding spoken English Classes at Little Angels High School in Udhampur. Through school we are also spreading the message about why Pardisan has been created and what we are doing and hoping to do.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world - Nelson Mandella

We are beginning to form relationships with other school's. Education is the key to all the things we are wanting to achieve. Education and awareness.

Ladies have been knitting hats to sell. This is part of our social enterprise and women's empowerment. Ann is busy searching new idea's and busy teaching herself new crafts so that she in turn can teach others these crafts. So that women in need to earn a bit of money can make items at home for Pardisan to then go ahead and sell. One things Ann has discovered recently is finger knitting and through this has remembered her mum teaching her to french knit. There are many things that can be made from doing these 2 crafts, and they are so simple to master.

Local lady receiving payment for knitting woolen hats

An Introduction to Pardisan

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce Pardisan and the people involved to you.

Pardisan was created in 2012 by Dushyant Bhat, with the aim of primarily empowering the local women in need through social enterprise, via arts and crafts using recycled and natural materials sourced from the local area, as much as possible. Through sourcing from the local area, we will be helping the local economy too.

Other activities that Pardisan will be involved in are the environment, conservation, recycling, rehabilitation of destitute and abused victims, education, training, helping the needy. Although our work will be mainly in the District of Udhampur, anyone in need regardless of where they are will not be ignored.

Pardisan has five Trustees, Dushyant Bhat, Roxy Sharma, Tarun Khajuri and Vishant Baru all local to Udhampur and Ann Hawkins from the UK.  Between us we have various degrees of experience covering a wide area. But the main thing we have is the passion and drive to go out there and help as many people as possible, so that they can help themselves and others around them in return.

Our upcoming plans for the immediate future as follows:

1.                              a.       Spoken English Classes will commence at Little Angels High School, Monday 4^th March. Each                               course will be for 8 weeks at a time at a charge of Rs.2000/- per student.

b.      Corporate training courses available for Spoken English, Communication Skills and Cross-culture. Please contact us for more details.

All fees collected from these activities will be paid directly into Pardisan, so that we can help others who are less fortunate and who need our help.

c.       Recycle drives. Requesting our supports to donate old clothes, fabrics, newspapers, magazines, materials of any kind, so that we can train people to make items that can then be sold to raise funds and for the people making these items can earn a living.

3.       Marketing of Pardisan – We will be issuing a press release very soon to the local media in the area. To inform the local population that we are here, that we require donations, financial and in kind, and to create awareness to people who may need our help, that they have someone here who will help them in whatever way we can.

We are making sure that we, the trustee’s, are being seen, meeting as many people as possible. Including business heads, business owners, government departments, the legal profession, village elders and villagers and towns’ people.

Please let all your family and friends know about us, and forward this newsletter to as many people as possible. If you are not already doing so, then please follow us on Facebook, www.facebook.com/pages/pardisan and on twitter, www.twitter.com/pardisanngo. For further details we can be contacted via email pardisanngo@gmail.com and by phone. Dushyant – 0091 94169 15938, Ann – 0091 96223 24177

Our bank details for any donations are J & K Bank, Main Branch, Udhampur, J & K 182101. Account no: 0028010100003182, IFSC: JAKA0UDMPUR

Thank you for your kind words, support and prayers.

Kind Regards     

                                                                                                      

Dushyant, Ann, Vishant, Roxy and Tarun