I'm M L Kabir, working primarily in the field of spreading of awareness in the domain of menta-health and children education and skill development for the youth. As per WHO data :
• Globally, more than a billion people live with a mental health condition.
• Affordable, effective and feasible strategies exist to promote, protect and restore mental health.
• The need for action on mental health is indisputable and urgent.
• Mental health has intrinsic and instrumental value and is integral to our well-being.
After retiring from Siemens as General Manager and Location Head of Eastern Region in 2019 , I have ventured into contributing in the areas of social work and development while pursuing some professional passion in the areas of Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Social Impact Assessment and also providing consultancy and professional advice to Industry members. Have been a health enthusiast for last 2 decades and regularly participate in Marathons and Walkathons. While I prepare for participation in the upcoming TSW25K , this would be 3rd time I should be lucky with your good wishes and support to complete the distance of 25 KM – a unique distance that is only competed in this iconic TSW25K event in Kolkata.
Looking forward to the support of all Like Minded fellow members of our Society to join hands and work for the cause of social uplifting of the downtrodden. Jai Hind.
I am reaching out with a humble request to stand beside Paripurnata, an organization whose work deeply resonates with me.
Paripurnata envisions a society where equality, justice, and peace prevail—without discrimination or marginalization of any kind. Their mission is especially close to my heart: to restore dignity, rights, and hope to marginalized women living with mental illness, helping them reintegrate into society with care, compassion, and confidence.
As I participate in the TSW25K Kolkata through its philanthropic platform, I wish to dedicate my efforts to support Paripurnata. Every contribution, small or big, becomes a step toward giving these women a chance at healing, independence, and a life they truly deserve.
I sincerely appeal to you to join me in this cause. Your support will empower Paripurnata to continue their remarkable work and transform more lives.
Together, let us run for dignity.
Let us run for inclusion.
Let us run for Paripurnata.
With gratitude,
Mohammad Lutful Kabir
A few words about PARIPURNATA – Halfway Home
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In 1992, a group of philanthropic people in Kolkata, spearheaded by Dr. Joyce Siromoni, established Paripurnata, the first Halfway Home in Eastern India for mentally ill women, who have long been incarcerated in the jails and mental hospitals.
A Halfway Home is the mid-point in a person’s journey from her place of confinement to her natural home. Here, in a family like ambience, individuals are guided to pick up the lost pieces of their lives, with the objective of reintegrating them with their families and the wider society, so that they once again can lead a productive and meaningful life.
MOTIVATION
The mentally ill women from the poor and lower-middle class sections of our society, because of their afflictions, mostly have been neglected, despised and often tortured as unwanted beings in the society.
The need to bring about a change in their woeful existence to a socially productive life, motivated this project.
INTERVENTION
The change may be achieved by intervention through psycho-social rehabilitation process. The process comprises medico therapy and socio-cultural therapies, structured to assist the beneficiaries to pick up the lost pieces of their lives and to strive to live as socially responsible human beings with dignity.
GOAL
The main goal of Paripurnata is to reintegrate the beneficiaries with their families. Also, our programme of ‘follow up of our ex-Residents for at least for three years’, is quite fruitful. Our main objective I to reintegrate the mentally ill women to their family. We are purpose-driven to achieve more than 90% of their integration.
BENEFICIARIESÂ
Paripurnata beneficiaries are the mentally ill women from the marginalized sections of our society. They are mostly between the age group of late teens to mid-fifties and may belong to any part of our country.
They are inducted, mainly from government mental hospitals e.g. ; Calcutta Pavlov Mental Hospital, where they are initially admitted on judicial orders.
Paripurnata does not work in a specific demographic area. Our beneficiaries happen to belong not only to West Bengal but to interior Jharkhand, Assam, Tripura, Orissa, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Agartala, Chattisgarh, Andra Pradesh. Gujrat etc.
The project is executed in Paripurnata’s own three-storied building on a lend-leased land from Govt. of West Bengal. The building has a 30 bed accommodation, along with all the stipulated facilities, where the associated facilities like accommodation, food, clothes, toiletries etc. are provided cost free.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
During our existence spanning 35 years, we have been able to serve 521 mentally ill patients from the poor and needy sections of our society towards successfully rehabilitating and integrating them with their family and the community in general. Our success rate in rehabilitation as on 31st March 2026 goes beyond 90% of the 521 patients we have treated as on date.
HONOURS& AWARDS
To know more: https://www.paripurnata.org/
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A few words about Paripurnata
Brief History
In 1991, a group of philanthropic people in Kolkata, spearheaded by Dr. Joyce Siromoni, established Paripurnata,
the first Halfway Home in Eastern India for mentally ill women, who have been incarcerated in the jails and mental
hospitals for long per…
Impact 360 Foundation, FE-68, Sector III, Salt Lake Rd, Near Central Park, Karunamoyee, Kolkata, West Bengal 700106, India
Phone Numbers-+91-9903894994 , +91-8436063099
Email: tsw25k@impact360.org.in