About Us
“We Need Parents” began in 2008 with a simple idea. One fine evening of April 2008, Master Saraanssh Rathi a 18 month old child, after seeing some clips of orphans in TV, asked his father “Papa, these child do not have Papa - Mummy... who give them food to eat... when they do not eat - who run after them so that they eat properly and on time, who bring them the toys, cycle, pram.. who take them for evening walk in garden... for shopping… who care them for their vaccinations & health… who take them to doctor aunty when they are having cough and cold… who teach them A for Apple, B for Ball…” etc..
On hearing these very sensitive, really heart melting and genuine questions... his father Kailash Rathi felt that this is the time to awake… to serve the orphans, to serve other needy children & people, to serve the society, to make the life “Beautiful” for thousands of children who need parents and to enhance the beauty of being called “Humans”.
He identified the Issues, the correlated solutions existing there itself, the complex interwoven problems and the key hurdles, the resolutions and the ideas to break through this rigid social issue. He analyzed the major elements at the both sides of the Social coin as below:
- There are thousands of Orphan infants, children and adults who need parents to adopt them.
- There are hundreds of Children who are having parents but not accepted by them due to the physical / mental challenges faced by these children. Ex. Mentally retarded children not accepted by their parents.
- There are thousands of Orphan children who need education and grooming.
- There are hundreds of adult orphans who are searching for spouse to get married.
- There are hundreds of adult orphans who need some one who can take the responsibility of their marriage in the way like their parents might have taken.
- There are hundreds of adult orphans who want Job or self-employment.
- These orphan infants, Children and Adults need not only parents, family and the home, but also the basic amenities along with happiness like education, travel (tourism) - so that they can also move out and see the some of the world, fun and enjoyment, they want to go to amusement parks, restaurants and holy places, they want to sing, dance, paint, and other things which our children do. They also want to DREAM and want some things to be converted into reality!!!
- In the Metros there is long waiting queue of parents - all waiting for months and years to adopt a child, but children are not available… While on the flip in tier 2 and below cities, small towns and villages - hundreds of children are available for adoption but there are no parents to adopt them.
- People have not yet start thinking and giving priority to the adoption as the primary method (after the natural birth) to get a child. The current priority order is 1. Natural birth 2. Through Medical processes like Fertility options 3. Adopting real relatives’ child 4. Adoption from far relations 5. Waiting for years in hope of a child 6. Adoption from Orphanages.
- Not only the children who are in orphanages but there are also thousands of children who do not know about their parents. They are either live with their relatives or alone. These children also look for the parents but people do not have access to the information for these types of children like they have for the children from orphanages.
- There are many adult orphans who are self established but are looking for parents. They don’t have any means to do that effectively.
- We also look Old age people (70 Yrs +) as children only. It is old saying also that Old age is equal to childhood and in old age people start behaving like a child. They also look for some one who can care them as they did for their children. So they also look for someone who can be their PARENTS… Surprised? … Old people do not look for some one who can act as their children but someone who can take care of them, someone who can love them, someone who can do exact devoted care as parents do for their children. Therefore, they also need PARENTS. So we count them as Orphans…
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- These orphan infants, children and adults have zeal, energy, enthusiasm and time.
- There are thousands of couples who want and need to adopt infants / children.
- There are thousands of people in our society specially the youths who have energy, enthusiasm, time, money, responsibility acceptance attitude and thoughts to change the world with their helping hands.
- The corporate world is increasing their focus on the corporate social responsibilities and promotes social welfare to a great extent.
- People are ready to give funds in and as per their individual capacities but, just want that the funds should be genuinely utilized as per their expectations.
- Government is also having lots of initiatives, projects, acts, allocated funds and budgets to promote the social welfare initiatives but it just needs to be utilized properly and ensured that 100% funds are used for the cause it was allocated.
The simple idea then was to bring together “the ALL” - that is - the Orphans, the Parents, the Volunteers, the Government, the Corporate, You, Me, and the World.
This “ALL” makes ‘WE’ and our target is to Match and Relate this ALL - ‘WE’ with the ‘WE’ of needy people and specially orphans.
The implementation of this simple idea was slightly more complex.
The challenges were:
- To frame a platform where “the ALL” can meet, communicate, find & locate, help each other and make a universal virtual family.
- To establish a platform - A platform where all the orphans of the world can be seen together and this common platform can help the adoptive parents to adopt child, help in marriage of adults, educate & support these orphans.
- The next challenge was to go to each and every orphanage in India (in initial stage and then to Rest of the world) and get the database of the children along with their photographs and videos… It is a major challenge to convince the orphanages also.
- The huge amount of money involved to implement this framework and platform.
- To create the real awareness in the people to treat Adoption as the primary method (After the natural birth) of getting child.
- To build a efficient and devoted team to do this work.
“We Need Parents” founder, twenty eight years old Kailash Rathi, an I.T specialist, recalls that the truth was he didn't really knew how this idea will be taken into the real world. What he knew was that he had concrete plans to make this dream true, that he wanted to make a difference, that he loved children, that he believed - every child deserves a space and time each day where they could just be children, that he had trust in himself, his family, his friends and all the people in this lovely world and that he believed "together we can make a difference."
So he focused on how to implement, execute and operate this model. He decided to implement this framework by merging his thoughts and the advanced I.T technology. He visualized and framed the structure of a virtual universal family using a web portal to become his dream platform. A Platform where Not only all the orphans will be together and parents will be able to adopt them But Also - A platform for the old age people, A platform for the people who want to help children and old age people, A platform which will be ‘A VIRTUAL UNIVERSAL FAMILY’ where people can mentor, counsel, take care, help and connect to the orphans and old age people.
And this was wished to be start of a “ God Tme” that would change the world of orphans!!!
So we have started. There are many challenges, There are many roadblocks to be removed, there is a lot of finance involved, and It needs support from “the ALL” to make this happen.
We just know that one day we will make this happen.
