Sponsoring Vital Medicines, Bedsheets, Protective Cloths to Disadvantaged and Uncared Elders

SAMUKA MUNNETRA SANGAM (SMS) is a legally registered NGO (Society) working for the welfare of the poor and deprived women and children since 2013. In our project area, the condition of the deprived rural elders is very poor. About 65% of them are uncared for by their relatives. They depend on their son or son-in-law for their basic living and health care needs. Few of them involve landless agri-coolie and others work with meager wages, struggling for their daily bread. They live in small huts in remote villages and slum area. Because of age and illness, they do not perform well at work and are unable work on regular basis. Hence the income level is very low, not even sufficient to buy protective clothing during rainy seasons or to purchase basic health care medicines. The condition of elder widow women is more pitiful; they are denied basic support by their siblings and not even allowed to talk with their grand children. They live with buried feelings.

About 148 cases are identified as pro-poor elders, widow elders those are very pathetic in condition in our working area. They live a semi-orphan life at their sibling’s house with careless support. We have to support about 60 of them who are in critical need of support.

They are infected by disease and have poor health status and immunity. Through this proposed intervention, we have to provide bedsheets, protective cloths and basic health care medicines, multivitamins for helping them gain strength to cope with their normal lifestyle. We also wish to provide timely guidance and counseling support to ventilate their buried inner feelings till their lifetime. We have so far supported 28 (poor elders and widow elders in our rural working villages) during the year 2017 & 2018 through various health welfare schemes of government and private agencies. We already have a good follow-up in our field through the staffs.

This option helps to support over 60 more rural poor elders, widow elders in the rural working area. This donation will highly help to get basic cloths, bedsheets, protective cloths during rainy seasons and will help to cut off the expenses of their medical care expenses, purchase of Vital Medicines, especially the purchase of medicines and vital drugs needed for their life saving. So that they can able to lead their normal lifestyle and cope with their belonging society. About 60 more rural poor disadvantaged elders, particularly elders widow women would get benefited by donations to this project and would have access to basic clothing and basic needs.