Kudos Farah Pavri
New Jersey-based Farah Pavri was recently awarded the prestigious ‘Girl Scouts of the USA – Gold Award’ – the highest award that a scout can receive from this century-old institution. When Farah was nine, all she wanted was a dog. Her parents, Yasmin and Cyrus Pavri, had to turn her down because Farah’s younger brother, Porus, has severe haemophilia, and his treatment for the same warranted the absence of pets.
Determined to help those like her brother, who live with haemophilia, Farah ‘thought local, and went global!’ In 2018, Farah teamed up with Mumbai’s King Edward Memorial Hospital, with the goal of providing physical therapy equipment to help people like her brother recover and maintain their health.
Farah states, “People with haemophilia bleed internally, often into joints, which are constant sites of bleeds and called ‘target joints’. Physical therapy helps strengthen joints which reduce the amount and frequency of bleeding in target joints.” Unbeknownst to most, physical therapy helps with both alleviating symptoms and recovery.
Seeing how the King Edward Memorial Hospital is a severely underfunded, public hospital mainly serving the impoverished and in dire need of donations to operate successfully, Farah felt compelled to make a difference. For three consecutive years now, Farah has been organizing and running the ‘Allendale Supports Hemophilia Walk’. Her donors were gracious and generous and their numbers extend beyond the Parsi community.
To date, Farah, along with volunteers and assistance from organizations like the New York City Hemophilia Chapter and National Hemophilia Federation, has raised over $50,000 for the cause. Her efforts have helped heal countless hemophilia patients in India, an achievement which earned her this prestigious award.
Farah plans to attend college next fall, handing the reigns over to her brother to manage the charity she started. You would be pleased to know that she finally did get a pet dog – Rustom. Kudos to Farah for accomplishing this extraordinary feat!
[Courtesy: Parsikhabar.net]
