Every day, elderly parents are left alone on the streets, at train stations, or even outside temples. Many are sick, struggling with age-related problems, and have no money or family to turn to. Some suffer for weeks or months before anyone notices their pain. The heartbreaking truth? They were abandoned by their own families.Although Indian law requires children and relatives to care for senior citizens, many elders still face neglect, abuse, and abandonment. The problem is only getting worse.But there is hope. Our dedicated NGO partners work day and night to rescue these forgotten elders. They provide safe shelter, medical care, nutritious meals, and most importantly—love and respect. Through old age homes across the country, our partners give these seniors a chance to live their remaining years with dignity, comfort, and peace.You can make a difference. Your donation will help our NGO partners:<ul><li>Rescue homeless elders from the streets</li><li>Provide shelter, food, and medical care</li><li>Restore their faith in humanity with kindness and support</li></ul>No elder should spend their final years alone and suffering. Your generosity can give them a fresh start. Donate today and help an abandoned senior citizen find safety, care, and hope.

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65-year-old Shakuntala completely depends on our partner NGO, Share and Care, for her food requirements, as she has no one else to take care of her. “When my only child was young, my husband Nadesan died. It was just me and my young son. After my son got married, he left me to stay with his in-laws, and I was alone. I am old, have pain in my legs, knees, shoulders and my entire body so I cannot work as I once did. But the food rations such as the nuts, lentils, wheat flour and rice I receive from Share and Care help me tremendously and I can eat well every day,” she says. Share and Care helps hundreds of abandoned grandparents, most of them being elderly women. The senior citizens belong to tribal communities and have limited access to necessities such as food and medicines to stay alive and well. This Shivratri, you can help with food and other essentials. Support them. Donate now. Donate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. Charitable donations to this fundraising campaign are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India), &amp; 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (USA). Abandoned elderly supported by Share and Care400 elderly parents abandoned by their children have no one to take care of them and need your help. They suffer from hunger, sight and hearing failure, diabetes, high blood pressure and other medical conditions. As they cannot work and support themselves because of old age, they cannot afford medicines or even clothing. So, they remain poor and alone. Share and Care’s mission Since 1984, Share and Care has been caring for disadvantaged groups of people, including elderly parents who have been living in poverty after being abandoned by their children. The founders, a couple named Carmel and Arokiasamy, aim to eliminate poverty and the suffering of the poor through social welfare programs and education. To achieve this mission, Share and Care runs a program in Chennai and also a village in Tiruvallur, where the 400 elderly live. This program ensures that every month, the 400 senior citizens have dry food rations, medicines and medical care, clothes, physiotherapy, geriatric counselling and other services to nurture them back to good physical health. Need for the fundraiserOne of the founders, Carmel Arokiasamy, shares that the abandoned elderly parents who live in extreme poverty without food or anyone to care for them constantly think about their children and ask, “Did we do something wrong?” Arokiasamy shares that from the time their children are born, they take care of them in such a special way. But when their children abandon them, they weep and cannot stop thinking about them. While dealing with this emotional distress, they are also suffering from hunger and disease. But cannot afford food and medicines. Donate now to help Share and Care provide the abandoned elderly with dry food rations, medical supplies, a medical and eye camp, counselling, clothes, blankets and recreational activities to live their lives with a positive outlook, despite their circumstances.Your donation can provide these elderly parents with their most basic and urgent needs. “Please support our work because this is for the elderly parents who are in great need. These grandparents are bedridden. They need care, love and support”.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest online donation platform, to support Share and Care in their mission to provide food, medicines, counselling and personal care to 400 abandoned grandparents living in poverty.

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In Vrindavan, thousands of elderly widow mothers face the harsh reality of abandonment and suffering. With no one to turn to, many are left begging on the streets, exposed to heat, cold and rain,Donate so that Maitri can provide shelter, food, clothes and medical support to abandoned elderly mothers now. Give generously.Winnie Singh has witnessed many cases of widow mothers being abandoned on the streets of Vrindavan, one of the holiest places in India. “Children leave their mothers as soon as they become widows. The children start feeling the burden. This has become a practice in today's society that money comes first and everything else later,” says Winnie whose Maitri India, rescues widowed mothers from the streets of Vrindavan.Many widowed elderly mothers often end up living a lonely life and begging to survive on the streets. And Maitri aspires to take care of every widow in need of help, but because of lack of funds, Winnie and Maitri are in a position to do it."Elderly widows don't have shelter. They sleep in cowsheds over sacks. They don't have a blanket. Nights are really difficult for them," shares Winnie Singh. <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />Maitri aims to:<ul><li>Provide shelter and nutritious meals leading to improved health and wellbeing</li><li>Make physical and mental health services accessible</li><li>Offer necessary quality aged care and assisted living support</li><li>Increase awareness and engagement around the struggles of abandoned widow mothers</li></ul>Why donate to MaitriWinnie needs your support to help those in need of food, healthcare and well-being. “Maitri urgently needs your support to provide nutritious food, clothing and healthcare to sustain these widow mothers who are prone to more illnesses as they age,” appeals Winnie. “You can become the family they were denied. Hold their hands so they don't need to beg ever again,” she adds. Let’s rescue abandoned widows mothers from the streets of Vrindavan and give them a better future. Donate now.Our help will enable Maitri to save hundreds of abandoned widows from a life of begging, and restore the respect, dignity, and identity they deserve.

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We have completed 21 years of our journey, giving hope for thousands of people wandering on the streets. TERDOD Anbagam striving to create a better world for those who are mentally unsound and are wandering on the streets.Way back in 1999, Mr.Mohammed Rafi started caring for the roadside wandering mentally ill, finding it difficult to accommodate them as the numbers started growing. He established Anbagam Rehabilitation Centre at Thirunilai, near Redhills with the support of Chennai Silks, to provide systematic &amp; scientific treatement, theropy and rehabilitation for the under privileged in 2002.Now with facilities located in Thirunilai, Thondiarpet and Otteri, Anbagam Staff is ensuring services to around 300 men and women. So far, Anbagam have rescued more than 3500 people affected with mental illness and have reunited 3000 people with their family members across India.

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Anbagam Rehabilitation Center and Senior Citizen Home

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We have been running this home for the past 19 years and have purchased a land adjacent to it where we have proposed to construct a home for the mentally retarded adult men and women.The main issue which we face in providing care to the mentally retarded inmates is thelack of enough care takers and training for ADL (activity for daily living). 
 We have 19 years of journey giving hope to thousands of people wandering in the streets. TERDOD Anbagam strives to create a better world for those who are homeless. So far, we have rescued more than 2500 people affected with mental illness and have reunited 1600 people with their family members. A mission was started in 1999 by Mr. Mohammad Rafi for providing shelter to some mentally ill homeless people. He struggled to find space as the number of people increased day by day. In 2002, Anbagam Rehabilitation Centre was established at Thirunilai, near Redhills with the support of Chennai Silks to provide systematic rehabilitation for the people and to help them reunite with their families. Currently it provides shelter to more than 350 people who used to wander in the streets. At present, it runs two centers in Chennai in collaboration with Corporation of Chennai as well as with Guild of Service, aiming at providing holistic support for the recovery of patients. Also, we have senior citizen home where we accommodate 80 residents. We have also purchased a land adjacent to our home, where we have proposed to construct a home for the mentally retarded adult (men and women). Now, we have 25 mentally retarded adults. 
 By this home construction and formation, we intend to help and support their activity for daily living and skill development training.mentally retarded adults suffer from mild moderate severe profound locomotive disability. Since the past 19 years, we have been providing care and physical support to the mentally retarded. We intend to provide better care and support and better training for better therapy, psychological help and support. We planned the ground floor with ramps to help them walk. The building is proposed to be of 4000 square feet for living in which 3000 square feet will be living area and 1000 square feet shall be for bathrooms and toilets for 50 inmates.

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There are 150 elderly residents in our centre who have been rescued from the streets. Most of them are ailing and bed-ridden and we are in need of conveyance to take them to hospitals. And since this home is 30 km far from the Chennai city, we will not be able to get 108 ambulance service. Hence, we need new ambulances for the home. 
 We are working for differently-abled men and women senior citizens, the trust is maintaining the conveyance through private ambulance service, but since need ambulances for daily use. We have charitable funds to implement this ambulance service for mentally ill senior citizens. 
 We have more than 150 senior citizens mentally ill in our home, there are more stranded on the streets to be rescued. Their conveyance and care regime will be completed only through an ambulance service for this project.

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In our old-age home , there are around 100+ elder people. we dont have proper dinning table and chair . most of them sit down in floor and having food. Due to health conditions many elders cant even sit down on floor, they sit on plastic chair and keep food plates on their lap. 																						 
 We are planning to buy 3 seater dining table. we need 35 numbers to accommodate. our option is to purchase stainless steel table which will have durability 
 A small act can add dignity to their daily life.Sponsor a table today And help them eat, with heads held high.

Dining Tables for old-age home

As we are in the service of mentally ill and senior citizen orphans, we are greeting frequent calls to provide care and support for mentally retarded adult both men &amp; women. Under privileged parents people from poor background. Worry about the life of their children as Mentally retarded&amp;mentally ill after them.now we need isolation ward it will supported communicable disease like now we are facing corona, tuberculosis. Patient effected HIV with mental illness.there is no other institution in Chennai to protect those like them. 
 21 years of journey giving hope for thousands of people wandering in the streets. TERDOD Anbagam strives to create a better world for those who are homeless and wandering in the streets. So far, we have rescued more than 3500 people affected with mental illness and have reunited 3000 people with their family members.This is an institution that rescue wandering mentally ill orphans from the road side.at present our condition is corona and not only because they are mentally ill.we rescue from road side and accommodate our center. 
 in this pandemic situation we are does not taken any patient off the road .due to lack of space to accommodate .if there is a building it can be prepared for it.