For a mother who has spent her entire life loving and raising her child, being beaten and mercilessly thrown out onto the streets by her own son is too heartbreaking to overcome. But this is a common story among the elderly residents of the Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram. “I’ve seen mothers in old and torn clothes, their bodies smelling and their hands and feet rotting and covered in maggots,” shares Dr. G.P. Bhagat, founder of the ashram. These abandoned elderly men and women lay starving on the streets hoping for someone to rescue them from their suffering. But most people walk past them without a second glance. “Like this”, Dr. Bhagat explains, “many elders die on the roads.”Since 2003, SHEOWS (Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphans Welfare Society) has rescued over 10,000 elderly people from the streets and given them a home with care and support. The elderly staying at the ashram have all been abandoned by their families and have nowhere else to live. Your support can give them comfort after their abandonment. 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). Safe and loving homeFor 20 years, SHEOWS has been providing free shelter, nutritious food three times a day, clothing, medical care, recreation activities and emotional support to abused and disabled elderly people rescued from the streets of Delhi. The Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram has a dedicated rescue team that saves the elderly from the streets and gives them immediate medical care upon their arrival at the home. To tend to the multiple health complications of the seniors, the home has a medical facility with doctors and nurses, a physiotherapy unit, a pathology lab, a digital X-ray monitoring machine and a pharmacy to provide 24-hour care to older adults anytime they require assistance, even during emergencies. Dr. Bhagat prioritizes the health of the seniors and ensures that they receive three balanced meals a day based on their precise health requirements. Need for the fundraiserThe humanitarian mission of SHEOWS is making an impact in the area, as more and more people are being rescued and brought to Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram. To meet the financial costs of running the home, SHEOWS needs support to continue providing the residents with all the facilities that they need. This includes constant care and round-the-clock medical attention, nutritious food and maintaining a hygienic environment to keep the seniors in comfort and good health. Dr. Bhagat explains that as the number of residents is increasing, SHEOWS needs support for food and medicines. “I request you to help these elderly parents lead a peaceful life.”Donate now to help Dr. Bhagat continue caring for the 500 destitute elderly and giving them shelter, food, medical care and the will to carry on living despite their tragic abandonment by their families. Your support will enable SHEOWS to keep serving abandoned senior citizens and help them recover from the trauma of abandonment and life on the streets. “I have been serving these elderly as if they were my own parents”, shares Dr. Bhagat. “I want only one thing - their tears should vanish and they should have a smile on their faces.” To help Dr. Bhagat achieve this dream, your support is critical. Donate now to help SHEOWS care for more abandoned elderly. Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest online donation platform, to support SHEOWS in their mission to rescue the abandoned elderly from the streets and give them shelter, food, medical care, recreational activities and emotional support.

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“What will happen to them after me? I am 80+. I spend sleepless nights,” worries ex-Air Force officer, Group Captain AC Barua while talking about the future of the 28 destitute women under his care. “They have nobody in this world, sometimes they don’t remember their own names. They are absolutely alone,” he informs us as he goes from one room to the other meeting all the women who live at Seneh, the only home where they are loved and taken care of. After fighting for his country all his life, this octogenarian is now fighting to rescue homeless and abandoned women from dying on the streets. But he cannot do it alone. “Everyday I keep on getting calls from here and there. ‘Oh! there’s a woman lying here. Can you help?’ But I don’t dare to go and help because I don’t have the money. I don’t have the resources, our resources are very limited,” explains Gr. Capt. Barua who is lovingly called ‘Sir’ and ‘Deuta’ (father in Assamese) by the residents of Seneh. With your help, 80-year-old Group Captain Barua can fulfill his mission of rescuing abandoned and homeless women from dying on the streets, alone. Donate nowDonate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. All 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).Seneh- a home filled with love, care and hopeThe residents of Seneh often don’t remember who they are, where they have come from. Many times these are women with mental health conditions and considered being a witch due to superstitious beliefs and beaten up as a result. They are victims of domestic abuse or widow mothers who are considered to be a burden on the family. Group Captain Barua has not only rescued them from critical conditions, he has provided them with urgent medical care, food and above all, a free safe shelter where they can live with love and care. Among these residents is Sarala Kalita who fled to save herself from the tortures of her alcoholic husband only to face neglect and trauma from her brothers- and sisters-in-law. “Both my brothers and their wives urged my father to leave me somewhere as they didn’t want to take care of me anymore. One day my brother’s wife didn’t even let me have food at home. She just wanted me to leave and go away. So that’s why, my father got in touch with Seneh through someone, and handed me over to Sir to take care of me,” says Sarita who has found joy in living at Seneh. “Coming to Seneh, it felt like I got a new life altogether. Sir has given me a harmonium. I love singing. It makes me forget everything and takes me to someplace else entirely,” she adds. More women like Sarala can find their way to a loving home like Seneh. All they need is a little bit of your kindness. “It is difficult to make both ends meet”To sustain their daily expenditure, Capt Barua needs approx ₹3 lakh a month and arranging the funds is a mammoth challenge for the NGO. “Our expenses are growing day by day. Residents are growing older, their sicknesses are increasing. At times we have to give them special food. They require more care so we have to get more employees. About half of them require leading around, 1-2 has to be fed also. It will be very difficult to sustain it unless we get help,” he added. One act of your kindness can save these abandoned women, with no one in this world, from struggling on the streets to survive. At 80+ Gr. Capt. Barua cannot sustain Seneh on his own. “With folded hands, I appeal to all. Please come and please help us. Let us help these people, these old people who have nobody in this world. They are dying. They will die on the streets,” he urged. Donate to this fundraiser by Give.do to support retired Air Force officer, Group Captain Barua in his mission to rescue abandoned and homeless women from dying on the streets.

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"My son used to kick me when he was in my womb. Why make an issue when he kicked me in my old age?" reasons a very forgiving Shakti Dasi. The widow travelled 2300 kms from Tripura to Vrindavan after her only son violently beat her with a burning plank of wood and broke her knee one evening. She had to leave behind the business she had built with her husband who had died a few years back. Shakti ended up on the streets of Brindavan begging for food and shelter. But when Winnie Singh of Maitri saw Shakti in a frail state in tattered clothes, she brought her to the shelter home where Shakti gets food, care and medicines. What more, with Maitri’s intervention, Shakti reconciled with her son - and daughter-in-law, and now travels home to Tripura twice a year to spend time with her grandchildren. But she is not leaving Maitri, as this has become her family.Not every elderly widow who comes to Vrindavan after being abandoned by her family gets as lucky as Shakti. Many of them often end up living a lonely life and begging to survive on the streets. Maitri aspires to take care of every widow in need of help.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/ce101369-528c-4d37-bc1d-1118b9925af3.jpg" />Maitri’s Project Jeevan to the rescueAbandoned, elderly widows are the amongst the most vulnerable in India. After being thrown out of their often abandoned by their own children and are forced to beg for food and shelter. “Through Project Jeevan, Maitri houses aging widow mothers in two ashrams in Vrindavan and Radhakund (Mathura), providing them with wellness and well-being. The programme also reaches out to widow mothers beyond the ashrams with fruit, milk and healthcare services,” explains Winnie Singh, co-founder and executive director, Maitri India.Save homeless elderly widows from begging on the streetsMost widows who make their way to Vrindavan are abandoned by their families, often after years of abuse. They come here hoping they will spend the rest of their days in prayer and devotion. But most live in impoverished conditions on the streets and in dingy rooms. Since poor living conditions often cause a wide range of health ailments, including respiratory infections and chronic conditions, Maitri comes to their rescue through its Project Jeevan.The project aims to:<ul><li>Provide 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 on and engagement around the struggles of abandoned widow mothers</li></ul><img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />Project Jeevan needs your support to help those in need of food, healthcare and well-being. Donate now.“Maitri urgently needs your support to provide food, clothing and healthcare to sustain these widow mothers who are prone to more illnesses as they age,” appeals Winnie.Maitri believes in a woman’s right to dignity in life and death, more so a mother. 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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Cancure Foundation (CCF) is a Not for Profit Society that started way back in 2007, founded by likeminded individuals from various walks of life and professions towards the cause of assisting the marginalized section of the society in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of silent killer disease, Cancer. The activities of the society is guided and mentored by leading oncologists and members from medical fraternity as well as from the society with impeccable stature, who also form the founder group of the society.The founder members have created a corpus fund which will be augmented with contributions from the generous and philanthropic minded individuals and corporate institutions. Going forward, there are plans to approach National and International funding agencies/NGOs to ensure perennial source of the funds for the society. It has also been decided by the founding members that the operating expenses of the society will be met solely from the Corpus Fund created by the members and the contributions made by individuals and institutions will be only be used to fund the activities of the society as enunciated in its vision and mission. Vision To build a Non-Government Organization that works on the principles of universal empathy, operational transparency, and professional responsibility in the areas of disease prevention through awareness and early detection, and also providing medicinal, curative &amp; palliative support to socio-economically challenged patientsMission ·      To provide information, education, and communication to vulnerable sections of society to create awareness, early detection and prevent the incidence of cancer and renal diseases.·      To foster a collaborative approach to support poor patients with Government, Corporate, Health Care, Educational and Volunteering institutions as its partners.·      To set up early detection centres and conduct camps in remote areas for screening people having or not having symptoms of the disease to enable early detection and cure.·      To set up a chain of dialysis centres for providing affordable life-support system to economically challenged renal patients·      To provide emotional, psychological, treatment and palliative support to patients and their families through volunteering and focused support groups·      To set up palliative care centres to support terminally ill patients who are destitute or socio-economically challenged, to spend their last days of life in a dignified and graceful manner·      To create an ecosystem of Medical &amp; Surgical experts, Health care providers, Pharmaceutical Industries &amp; Distributors, Volunteers &amp; Support Groups, Palliative care centers, Home Help centers to provide a holistic experience of health care to poor patients and their familiesTo develop a perennial source of funds through institutional and individual donors

R. Madhav Chandran

Cancure Foundation Kochi

This nonprofit is registered as a charitable trust under section 12A of India's Income Tax Act, 1961.

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The growing number of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) due to life style changes and high incidence of diabetic and hypertension patients among the people of Kerala prompted the Foundation for entering into the forays of treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). While the rich and affluent can somehow afford the treatment expenses, those poor patients suffering from renal failure who need lifelong dialysis unless he/she can get successful renal transplant find it virtually impossible to see any hopes for an extended life. Depending on each patient’s condition the patient may need to undergo dialysis two to three times a week. Most of the Government facilities where dialysis services are provided have long waiting period with many patients and lessor number of dialysis machines. The charges levied for a dialysis by the private hospitals are too much for the weaker session to afford.The cost of lifelong dialysis, investigations and medicines are not at all affordable to a poor patient whose lifespan sheerly depends on the availability of dialysis facility at his affordable reach. This thought lead Cancure to conceive a dialysis center for the poor and needy at affordable rates or even at no cost. The Dialysis Centre was initiated in association The Rotary Foundation, Rotary Club of Cochin Technopolis and Lourdes Hospital. Dialysis Centre is constructed in the ground floor of our own “Santhwanakendram” premises with 8 Dialysis Units and related equipments worth over Rs. 1 Crore procured for us by Rotary. Medical, paramedical and technical support for the Dialysis centre would be provided by Lourdes Hospital, Ernakulam. However, we need kind-hearted individuals and organizations to partner with us to make the operations affordable to all sections of the society and especially for those who just cannot afford the dialysis services.  
 Any individual or business house willing to become a partner of these two service projects can support this by funding for the running expenses in full or in part. All contributions made to Cancure are eligible under 80G exemptions of the Indian Income Tax Act. Corporate houses can apply their CSR funds also for the support of our activities.Donor investment to support Dialysis Centre<ul><li>Actual recurring cost incurred by the centre per dialysis:             Rs. 800</li><li>No. of dialysis per day:                       15 (with 2 shifts)</li><li>Total recurring cost per month for operations:     Rs. 3,00,000</li><li>Yearly donor contribution needed:           Rs. 36 lakhs</li></ul> 
 With the above support from donors, we would be able to provide the services at highly subsidized rates or at no cost to the genuinely needy patients after due diligence. Dialysis support is like extending life to an unfortunate victim of renal failure who has only 2 options to live longer - regular dialysis or renal transplant. With the cost of both these options being on the higher side, poor patients resign to die than incur these expenses which will shatter their families. Cancure is making a humble effort to provide succour atleast to a few of those who could be gifted with an extended life.

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