PROPOSAL FOR CARING HELPLESS AND HAPLESS AGED AND OLD

In a single thatched hut with hardly any ventilation a person was lying naked on the floor, with dense bunch of hair on his head, beard on face, long nails like a Chimpanzee, eating and toileting there itself, unable to wake up and speak, only signaling his aged wife for help. Any outsider walking inside the house would indeed be horrified. The man was Dama Jena of village Majurigadia in Bhadrak district. He was once a powerful youth and a hard working daily laboure who was a wonderful flute player as well. Unfortunately, Dama is no more. He died a couple of years ago. Born in a scheduled caste family, he lost his parents in his early childhood and was nurtured by his uncle till his marriage. Dama lost his only son on whom he had pinned his hope and aspiration for the future at the tender age of 22. Since then, he became mentally and physically weak and his many suicide attempts were averted many times. He was landless and poverty stricken person surviving only on pension. Dama suffered paralysis two years before he died. Not much medical care could be availed by him except for the homeopathic medicine by a distant practitioner through a generous third person in the village. After his death, the wife is left in lurch alone to fend for herself.

There are millions of Dama Jena in this country who spend their days with no hopes in life, perhaps in search for God’s help to overcome their sufferings. Dama Jena could have lived for some more time had he been properly cared for, provided with basic necessities of life, proper medical treatment.

In Buguda and Polasara blocks of Ganjam district, there are thousands of Old and Aged persons who are land less, poverty stricken and no one to care for. Lord Sri Shiridi Sai Baba says that he is present in all living beings and thus tells his disciples to find him in each living being, help all of them in need - that would be the service to the creation of God, the very purpose of humanity. In the present day society there is need to promote the ideologies and practices of Shri Shiridi Sai Baba, serving others in need, building a just society where all are equal, live in harmony with each other, get peace of mind and discharge the duties for the greatness of human kind.

Considering the plight of the helpless, aged and old, the Ashram now intends to take up very focused intervention for the helpless, old and aged that could include any one from the cross sections of society. Although we have been taking up free distribution of food, cloth and blanket for them in a limited scale due to paucity of fund, we now plan to take into our fold at least 50 needy people in the Buguda and Polasara blocks of Ganjam district (25 each in every block) to serve them and care for them.

We propose to undertake;

• Free monthly ration distribution

• Free monthly medical checkup and medicine

• Free yearly cloth and blanket

• Meet their exigencies

The volunteers of Trust shall identify them and provide them necessary services.

• Helpless old and aged receive the care and attention

• Get assured food for the month

• Healthy life due to medical treatment and food

• Reliance on God gets fulfilled

• Overcome suffering

We have future plan to establish an Old Age home within the Sai Premises and expand the programme.

Your benevolent support for this noble cause is highly solicited.