Project Small Family
PSF was started in January 2003 with following mission
To promote small family norms in under privileged segments of the world population by providing direct financial assistance to female members of the households. This had the objectives of:
- To raise the status of women in their households by improving their financial status
- To raise the financial status of family by promoting smaller size
- To control the runaway population growth in regions where it is least affordable
What has PSF done to date?
PSF conducted its trial projects in the tribal region of Madhya Pradesh, India. A group of 390 women participated in a unique population control trial, funded by Project Small Family, Inc., USA. During the trial period (2003-2004), this group managed to reduce number of pregnancies by 30% as compared to regional pregnancy rate.
Unfortunately PSF failed to convince Government of India about the usefulness of this approach. In their wisdom they decided that their ‘tried, tested and failed’ schemes were worth continuing instead of trying something new. With great sadness, we decided to stop all our activities till we can come up with better way of convincing the Government of India.
Core belief
‘It is possible to stop world population growth in a very short time by financially rewarding poor young women to delay pregnancies. No other existing scheme can match the effectiveness of this approach.’
Want to learn more?
You can read this interesting article about PSF at
Or if you have lots of time to spare, you can read a book written by me at the closure of initial PSF projects.
You can read this book either as a webpage or Microsoft Word document.
Email: HKGupta@Projectsmallfamily.org