Vatsalya Parivar Abhiyan
Context : Any institution in India, may be for education or employment, wants the creamy layers (selection is based on the merit and money) to produce best results whereas Vatsalya Gram urges the society to provide an opportunity to serve the abandoned (wastes in the eyes of society) children to produce best citizens for the nation. Pujya Didi Maa Sadhvi Ritambharaji envisaged a society free from anath in the country of Vishwanath keeping the following in mind.
- Psychology has proved that those who are deprived of maternal love in childhood are easily drawn to antisocial activities and lack tenderness and sensitivity that differentiate man from other animals. However, not necessarily this maternal care shall be by the biological mother.
- Pre-marriage birth of a kid is though socially not accepted but is common phenomenon since ancient days in the whole world and more so in the modern days; though it is not the mistake of the kid but the consequences are imposed upon it by throwing it to the dustbins. Is not our social regulation responsible for imposing such a life to the kid?
- Are the abandoned children in the orphanages happy and living a contented life? Whether the women in the Destitute Women Homes are getting what they deserve? Our senior citizens in the Old Age Homes are fine with the systems that the modern society has developed for their parents? One needs to understand the heart bits of all these 3 categories of people living in 3 different systems that we have developed for these unfortunate, abandoned and homeless people.
- Every woman harbors the element of motherhood that can be invoked to shelter some neonate who is not fortunate enough to have a shield of biological parents. How can the concepts of Orphanages, Women's Homes and Old Age Homes have place in a country where human beings are considered as son/daughter of God?
Vatsalya Parivar : Param Pujya Didi Maa SadhviRitambharadevi envisaged to provide a mother’s lap full of love, warmth, security and care to these abandoned and homeless
children and help them become self-dependent, patriotic and virtuous citizens of the country by creating love of mother towards her offspring in the hearts of the destitute young women who will bestow motherly love on these children; also to provide love and family to the destitute and neglected old women and to obtain the benefits of their mature guidance for the Vatsalya Parivar. Further, to establish a close knit family termed as “Vatsalya Parivar”, comprising of a dedicated mother, an aunt and seven children with a grand mother who will have close relationship based on love. The aim is to make children and mothers complementary to each other obviating the necessity to establish an orphanage for destitute children or women’s home for the young women or old age homes for the old ones.
In a Vatsalya Parivar, the abandoned and orphan children are assured the love, warmth and nurturing care of a mother and blessings and advice of a Granny to the children. Moreover, Didi Maa moulds her children with Sanskar to make them truly cultured, dedicated human beings and patriots on attaining adulthood. The Vatsalya Parivar is not an orphanage but a temple of maternal affection. This is a home for homeless mothers, aunts, grannies and abandoned children.
The love-based relationship ties such children and creates a healthy atmosphere that normally prevails in a conventional family. Indian cultural values, traditions and above all the unbelievable love provide all opportunities for the growing children to excel in their life. Waking up by a motherly touch on the forehead and not by the troubling alarm call starts the routine for a child. The mothers are carefully trained for their role in dealing with up to seven children per home. This arrangement encourages bonding within the family and gives the children a sense of belonging, both essential factors in the child's early development. Although there is no blood relationship in this Vatsalya Parivar, all members of the family are connected by an emotional bond of love and trust. Under the loving shelter of Pujya Didi Maa, these children are sure to shine out in near future and are going to become a pride for the nation and the society. From a dark stage of the life, their entry to Vatsalya Gram has brought them freedom and fulfillment and immense care that could make them a complete man and an asset to the nation.
Complementary approach: Combining a deserted woman and a deprived child is mutually beneficial. The woman can have an opportunity to revive the dying feelings and affection inside her heart that fills her life with new colors and at the same time the child can access a loving lap of a mother. The materialistic world welcomes the curse of grand parents by sending them to the Old Age Homes. But for a country wherein lineage of obituary to ancestors is still alive, if parents have to live in some Old Age Home, then there can not be anything worse than this. Actually the treasure of life-long experiences of the grand parents makes a family culturally rich and robust to face the challenges of the evils emerging with the process of development. An understanding that only strong and self-reliant women and culturally gifted grant parents can ensure a progeny that can stand any force of time with the help of moral and social values and strength of worldly knowledge and skills they are gifted; and pave the path of progress for the motherland has been the bedrock upon which the whole edifice of Vatsalya Gram is being built up.
Uniqueness of Vatsalya Parivar from that of an Orphanage: The following table gives an understanding about how Vatsalya Pariwar is different form the Orphanages of the modern world.
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Achievement : With untired support of our donors and wellwishers, Vatsalya Gram Vrindavan is serving many homeless children with destitute women and lonely grannies for years and the number has reached the following figures during the year 2009-10.

Unique Roll-model: Based on the above concept Vatsalya Gram, Vrindavan was established way back in 1992 wherein more than 200 such children and women have established their lives and become roll-model for entire nation. With the loving nurturing of Didi Maa, the dustbin wastes have been turned as the best citizens of the nation today, who otherwise would have become either anti-social elements or created their own world of insecure life.
Time has now come to replicate Vatsalya Model across the globe as this is a burning issue in almost all the countries in the world. The synchronization of Orphanages, Women Homes and Old Age Homes would not only create a family environment conducive for the growth and development of child but also reduce the cost drastically. The children in the orphanages will always have the identity crisis while the environment of Vatsalya Gram would be quite different from it. The western concept of Orphanages, Women Homes and Old Age Homes shall be wiped out from this country and shall have our own model to accommodate our mothers and children in a culturally accepted manner proven by Param Shakti Peeth at Vatsalya Gram, Vrindavan. When we have our own proven replicable model, why should India borrow the western models which do not even ensure the basic rights to the children?
Need for replication: Prompted by the success in Vatsalya Gram, Vrindavan, Param Shakti Peeth has now moving ahead to replicate Vatsalya model all over the country and abroad. The foundations are already laid for 4 Vatsalya Grams in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat. Though, we have facilities to accommodate more number of children and mothers in Vrindavan, but accessibility from other parts of the country is really become an issue. The neonate children need immediate care, both medical as well as parental and is not feasible to carry from far distance places because of legal restrictions as well as health concerns of the child. Therefore, we need to establish Vatsalya Models across the country to reach out each and every orphan kids and needy women.










