Four students of the Free Community Computer Lab holding certificates of appreciation with their mentors, under the lab banner in Hisar

Hisar, Haryana · Founded 2018

It began under a tree,
with no furniture
and no funds.

बदलाव एक धीमी प्रक्रिया है, हम सब को मिलकर धैर्य से काम करना होगा। — Change is a slow process. All of us have to work at it together, with patience.

An engineer left his job, gathered the children working at Hisar’s brick kilns, and started teaching them in the open. Eight years on, more than a hundred and fifty students are in full-time school.

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150+

Full-time students

First-generation learners, schooled free to grade 12

1,000+

Women and girls

Reached through the school Sanitary Pad Bank

10,000

Saplings planted

Green Earth campaign with local communities, 2025

100%

Of public money reaches programmes

Administration is carried by the founding members

Children of the centre standing in rows in the yard at assembly, seen from above

एक साथ · The whole centre

एक ही पंक्ति में, एक ही ज़मीन पर।

One row, one ground. Every child stands in the same line, and the schooling, the books and the uniforms cost their families nothing — the most direct answer this foundation has to caste and class.

What we run

Five things, carried
year after year.

Not campaigns. Each of these has run since the year it began, from the foundation’s centre in Hisar.

Paryatan Foundation students in an outdoor lesson

01Lessons move outdoors when the centre fills up.

Foundational education

Free schooling, books and uniforms for slum and dropout children — carried all the way to grade 12 rather than stopping at basic literacy.

Grades 1–12Books & uniforms

The Paryatan Foundation team at the Free Community Computer Lab in Hisar

02The Free Community Computer Lab, Hisar.

Computers, coding and German

A working lab and a foreign-language wing, so a first-generation learner leaves with a skill the job market actually pays for.

Digital literacyLanguage wing

Women and girls at a community meeting at the Paryatan Foundation centre

03A women’s meeting at the centre, Hisar.

Health and women's dignity

School-based Sanitary Pad Banks and hygiene counselling, reaching over a thousand girls and rural women — often the single reason a girl stays enrolled.

Pad BankCounselling

Mentors and students eating the same food seated in one row on the floor

04सहभोज — the same mat, the same food.

सहभोज — eating as equals

Regular circular dining where everyone sits on the same floor in the same row. It is not a ceremony; it is the practice the whole organisation is built on.

RegularOpen to all

05The Green Hisar drive — volunteers, students and families.

Trees, and the city around them

Ten thousand saplings planted with local communities, alongside clean-city work — run by the same students who are taught here.

10,000 saplingsClean city

The Charity Shop

They make it.
They price it.
They keep the ledger.

Lippan mirror-work, painted panels and folk pieces, made by the students themselves and sold at stalls across Hisar and at Panjab University, Chandigarh. Every rupee goes into the maker’s own college fund.

See what is for sale

A hand-painted panel made by a Paryatan Foundation student

06Hand-painted panel.

07The stall, run by the students.

Empower & Support

Every rupee creates
verifiable ground impact.

At Paryatan Foundation, 100% of your contributions go straight to field programs — school kits, computers, sanitary pad banks, and daily nutrition. Administration costs are supported personally by our founding directors.