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 started when Amit encountered a distressing incident, which made him pledge to work towards this cause. He witnessed a mentally challenged man, eating rotten food from a dustbin.According to the UN Hunger index, approximately 1 in every 9 people suffer from hunger in the country. A 2011 census shows that there were 1.7 million homeless or wandering persons in India and that half of these most likely have a mental illness, according to C.G psychiatrist society &amp; Ministry of health and family welfare 2016 report over 32,120 people with different mental disorders were abandoned by their family in C.G. We are also ranked 71st out of 96 countries in the Global Age Watch Index 2014 as one of the worst countries to grow old in. In Chhattisgarh, 20.1% of the elderly live alone or with a spouse only and 22.1% of them don’t have proof of residence and are assumed to be living alone or on the streets.Feel Parmartham is an initiative focused on the helpless abandoned senior and mentally challenged people in our community. We believe in compassionately providing rehabilitation care for their safety, comfort, and happiness.We are inspired by a vision of a dignified and blissful life for our beneficiaries: With our shelter/rehab centre for abandoned elderly and mentally ill citizens of Chhattisgarh. Currently, we are giving them shelter and complete careOur journey started with identifying the mentally ill and elderly persons who were food insecure. We then partner with nearby hotels to secure them one meal a day. Our team collect the food and feed our beneficiaries with love and compassion. From March 2018 to March 2020, we have served over 10500+ food packets to these socially isolated people and we served 4500+ food packets from April 2020 to November 2020. From March 2018 to October 2020 we rescued 20 abandoned people from an emergency situation and provided them with proper medical care and security and we touched the life of 100+ people.With starting of our shelter home at Bhilai in November 2020 to November 2021 we have saved 60 lives on the roadside and 11 of them were reunited with their family with our best possible effort also we lost 7 lives at our centre. 32 abandoned elderly and mentally ill people are living at our centre with dignity and proper care, Gradually we will increase the capacity and save more lives from the streets.

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The homeless are the most vulnerable people in society, and the condition of women and the mentally ill is even worse. Without Feel Parmartham foundation, these poor men and women suffer the worst humiliation while trying to feed themselves. Amit, Feel Parmartham's founder, believes no one deserves to lead a life of indignity and starvation, and you can help fulfill his dream! In the financial year 24-25, we distributed essential grocery items like milk and foodstuffs to our beneficiaries while compensating our dedicated staff, including the cook, cleaners, and rescue assistants. 77 beneficiaries enjoyed three nutritious meals daily as well as milk and snacks to supplement their health. There is no replacement for the joy of witnessing the light return to someone's eyes. To witness the homeless who are abandoned for years finally find community and safety under our careful watch is our reward. But to fund our activities, we rely on our dear supporters. Every rupee donated goes toward the rescue and maintenance of innumerable homeless persons. Our goal is to bring hope back to the most vulnerable in society and take care of them in their hour of need. Please help us make our dreams come true. Do the right thing and donate now.

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Basanti's story ought to inspire us all. She was found with nothing but a packet of biscuits and a bottle of dirty water in front of a biscuit shop. She had mental health issues and had difficulty communicating her needs to people around her. Despite her miserable circumstances, Basanti's spirit remained unbroken. It was found that Basanti's family was aware of her condition but refused to accept her because of her mental condition. Their rejection was deeply upsetting to her but still she persevered. Despite her missing their company, she kept her brilliant smile. After getting rehabilitated at our shelter home, she found her place. Now surrounded by a community that not just tolerates her but loves her, she is always smiling and has truly escaped her past life. There are an uncountable number of girls like Basanti who live in unimaginable conditions all over India. We need your help to take care of them and prevent their exploitation. Join us in our task and donate now.

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We usually see helpless elderly and mentally abandoned people who are left to die on the streets everywhere, they are used to pick up rotten meals from dustbins, sometimes they starve and sleep on empty stomachs, and many mentally ill women are sexually abused on street, they live an insecure life, sometimes they die on streets due to severe cold and lack of medical support.The state in which we are working alone has 32120 mentally ill people abandoned by their families according to the Chhattisgarh Psychiatric society 2016 report. Now the numbers may have increased a lot. Since 2018 we are working for this cause to save lives on the streets. We face a lot of problems while rescuing people from the streets as we do not have an ambulance to rescue, sometimes we have to wait for 4-5 hours to arrange a vehicle to rescue people, after arranging the vehicle also we find it difficult to rescue sometimes because people whom we rescue are generally mentally ill and they are very aggressive it is difficult to manage them in a small vehicle, many times our volunteers get injured while rescue. Anytime when there is any medical emergency at our centre, we have to rush our people to the hospital at that time also we have to wait for a long time to arrange a vehicle.<a href="https://youtu.be/lMHRPsZjjdI" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a> 
 We are continuously working for the last 4 years on the streets to save lives before 2020 when we did not have any place for giving them care and shelter we use to serve them on the streets only. From 2020 we are running a shelter rehab home where we give complete care including shelter, medical care, and psychological support and make their life better since 2020 we have rescued more than 60+ people from the streets who were near to death and saved their lives. We do not take any admission of elderly or mentally ill people we only rescue abandoned people from the streets and if the rescued person is in the condition to tell we try to find out his/her family and we reunite them with family. If the person who we have rescued is not in the position to tell (mentally ill) we start medical treatment and counsel them continuously and make them believe that we are in their life to take care of and love.We are in mission mode to save every life from the streets!If we will have an ambulance to rescue people then we can easily take them to hospital for any medical emergencies at any time round the clock and to rescue people from any difficult situation without waiting for vehicles to be arranged as sometimes every minute matters and can save lives.We need an Ambulance with proper space. Why with proper space? Why not a small ambulance vehicle?-We usually rescue mentally ill people and mostly they are very aggressive, try to harm us and they can be only controlled by 3-4 people even after boarding inside the vehicle and when we board them on the vehicle and if the vehicle's door is small then we find it very difficult to board them easily, due to which there is always a chance on injury, So to control them easily inside the ambulance and to board them smoothly we need some spacious ambulance like Tata Winger. 
 	Our 1 rescue changes the complete life of 1 elderly and a mentally ill abandoned person who was been left to die on street. As we have reunited 11 abandoned elderly and mentally people from their families who were living on the streets in pathetic conditions. 1 mentally ill person was wandering naked on street we rescued him, started his medical treatment at our centre, gave him proper care and psychological support after 3 months he told us about his village, as he was belonging to a different state we contacted local administration of that state and reunited him with his family he went back with his family in near to normal condition. In the same way, we have reunited 3 people from different states. We can save and make lives of people who are living pathetic life on the streets, dying due to painIf we will have an ambulance we can rescue abandoned elderly and mentally ill people easily from our district and also from our near districts. At the same time when there is any medical emergency at our centre or any medical test has to be performed, we can rush to the hospital or medical test centres immediately without any delay.With your precious support, we can have an ambulance and can rescue more people from the street and rehabilitate them with proper care.Please support generously!

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