CELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF
PARIVAR BAY AREA
In January, we proudly celebrated our 5th Anniversary! ParivarBayArea was founded on January 26, 2019 by Anand Vedawala, Sanjeev Chahal and Anjali Rimi.
With love and support from you, it has been an honor to be:
- The first Transgender-led Transgender-center organization led by Hijrah & Kinnar global south culturally diverse trans identities in the U.S.
- Hosting TGNCI+ centering support group “Robaroo” at our Castro office with LGBT Asylum Project and hold community roundtables “Charcha”.
- Leading the SF LGBT COVID relief coalition of 22 organizations serving over 3000 local LGBTQ+ folx in 9 counties.
- Delivering Trans global disaster relief across India, Guyana & Bangladesh saving over 90,000 Trans Hijrah livesd
- Scaling "SITALparivar," the world’s largest transgender entrepreneurship program in India with 19 livelihood small scale businesses.
- Hosting over 120 events/spaces centering Trans Queer Joy and working with elected officials.
- Received over 13 awards for our advocacy and grassroots work
- Be the first SouthAsian Trans-led Organization to be fiscally supported by the state of California, City and County of San Francisco, foundations and corporate partners.
- Be the first southasian organization to perform at Silicon Valley Pride, San Francisco Pride & Oakland Pride and to lead the San Francisco Transgender March.
- Serve on the leadership council for “US Transgender Survey” By National Center for Transgender equality for “TransSurvey 2022”.
- Creating San Francisco Transgender Symposiums, and see Nov 18th as “San Francisco Transgender Immigrants Day”
- Hosting Global South Transgender Immigrant TDOV, TDOR and to global Trans leaders in SF.
- Serving on the leadership council for California Transgender Policy Advocacy(CTPA) coalition.
- Helping the lives of over 50 Trans Queer Kinnar Hijrah Latinx Queer Asylees to America.
- Furthering our focus with “The LGBT Asylum Project” to further the legal and social betterment of Global South TGNCI+ and LGBQ+ Immigrants and Asylees to USA under “Center for Immigrant protection.”
- Created TGNCI emerging leader program and secured employment/ opportunity for 14 TGNCI folx across 2 cohorts.
Achievements Report
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