About | Arnavaz Jal Mistry

ARNAVAZ JAL MISTRY

Very few people believe in ‘giving back to the society’, but Arnavaz Jal Mistry has lived this phrase for almost three decades. Her humble beginnings can be traced back to 1987. She is one of those people who wear their heart on her sleeve and accomplishes every task with a quiet sense of devotion.

Born to parents with limited means, there was no dearth of rich values that were instilled in Arnavaz and her two siblings. From her early childhood, she had a soft, tender heart, which aspired to be of use to the people around her.

Arnavaz was married at the age of 18 years to Jal Minocher Mistry who was running a successful transport business. With the birth of two lovely daughters -Yasmin and Mehroo, the family was complete.

Having achieved her task as a mother by educating her daughters and instilling the same rich values in them, it was in 1987 that Arnavaz took her first step in the service of the community by working in the Parsi Ward of J.J. Hospital. The ward was an abandoned, desolate out-house in such a dilapidated condition, that even destitutes were wary of habitation there. Her tireless efforts over the years have today borne the fruits. The ward is now a posh homely place.

Over the years, she has travelled across our sub-Continent opening her arms to all –irrespective of strata, creed or caste. Briefly, she helps the deprived to build houses, takes the disadvantaged children of special schools on field trips, providing essential medical care and food grains to the poor. From interacting with the blind girl children, to lepers in hospitals, to healing emotional scars, she understands their struggle and helps them live a better life.

These are just some of the activities done by her. Words fall short, to describe her emphatic feeling towards people. It is truly astounding, how a person can work day after day and decades after decades with an agenda, to uplift people whatever their striving might be, and constantly strive to give them a better life!

Her Interactions which includes Don Bosco Shelter, where she interacts and helps out the street children, Ackworth Leprosy Home which she regularly visits and spends her time with the inmates there, at Jai Vakil School for Children in need of Special Care, she helps out with various projects and interacts with the children, and as a social worker she is also involved in the activities at the Kamla Mehta Blind School, Mumbai.

She is a boon to the needy, old members of the community. if ever there is an abadoned old person the first indidual to be contaced would ideally be Arnavaz Mistry like clockwork it is garunrenteed that she will be there beside,ontime-everytime.

Within the Zoroastrian, she is involved with Young Rathestars - an outfit that undertakes welfare activities in cities and interiors of villages, supplying food grains and other utility articles to the deserving community members, Parukh Dharamshalla, a Home for the aged with 100 residents, Dinbai Pattuck Trust where she has been instrumental in spearheading campaign to help students in pursuing education and higher studies, besides arranging for vocational guidance for them. Spearading her campaign these, she makes her services available to the Masina Hospital and the Parsi General Hospital, Mumbai

All this philanthropic work explains the total faith reposed in her by the community when they voted her as a Trustee to the office of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet with an overwhelming majority in the year 2008.

For her exceptional contribution to various causes, Arnavaz has been felicitated and awarded by many organizations.

Arnavaz has touched the lives of thousands of people who have needed her help and guidance. She has touched the souls of all those who have come in contact with her.
To her, her work is worship. She is a lady of few words, with qualities of grace and charm, and above all, a soft heart that bleeds for the to deprived .