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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Mudita provides financial need-based scholarships to students from under privileged backgrounds primarily for their higher education. We have provided scholarships for students of nursing, dentistry as well as post-graduate students. One of the key features of our scholarship program has been to dedicate one donor to one student, thereby ensuring continued support to our students through out their education.Over the past few months we have expanded our education program to support the softer skills of our students to reinforce their interviewing skills, speaking skills and so on that will help them as they move into the working world. Recently, we have also introduced an “Education Fund” which will be a pooled funds of contributions made towards education that will be used towards scholarships for both school level as well as higher education students  Mudita scholars also receive training in soft-skills such as interviewing, email writing, group discussions and so on to make them ready for the job market. We have also initiated a program whereby Mudita alumni then mentor the current scholars offering them advise and counsel them on various issues that might come up in college or otherwise. We believe, peer counseling would be far more effective and relevant to these youngsters than counseling from the trustees or other volunteers. One of the institutions supported by Mudita has been the Poona Women’s Council Mano Vikas School for Intellectually Challenged. Run under the aegis of the Poona Women’s Council, the oldest women’s NGO in Pune, Mano Vikas is run almost entirely on donations from philanthropists & well wishers, Mano Vikas students come from the economically weaker section of society. Mudita supports Mano Vikas in a variety of ways. With increasing digitization, the need for updated computers if not a luxury but a necessity. Mudita has supported better computers as well as software at Mano Vikas. Many students at the school had also been attending school without the uniform. One of our donors supported the donation of uniforms to all students at the school. 

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Medical treatment is one of the biggest drains on an individual’s income and this is especially so in the case of illnesses such as cancer.  The Mudita Medical Treatment Program covers treatment cost for cancer as well as eye care for patients from low-income families who are either not covered or have exhausted their eligibility of all government schemes.  Mudita supports adults with young families as they fight cancer under our partnership with Switzerland-based Love Kare Trust. These are individuals who are usually in their 30’s & 40’s with at least 1 child below the age of 10 years old.  In 2022, we also started supporting pediatric oncology patients with funds contributed by private, individual donors. All patient reports & treatment protocol are first passed through our Onco-consultant, Dr. Shriram Inamdar. Dr. Shri consults with the patients and ensures the best suited treatment protocol is recommended for the patient – by sourcing medicines from the chemist, ensuring minimal in-patient days and so on.  Apart from supporting medical treatment for the patients, Mudita also ensures support for the family whether it be education for the children or at times even livelihood building for the spouse in case of the passing of the patient.  Mudita has partnered with Switzerland-based Love Kare Trust to provide medical treatment for patients suffering from cancer. The Mudita-LKT partnership supports all medical treatment for individuals suffering from cancer who have dependents – young children.   Mudita also extends support to patients not covered by the LKT funds through other donor channels.

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The monthly distribution of ration kits has been enabled by our partners SCHOOL (Society for Community Health Oriented Operational Links). The SCHOOL team has strong connections within the community across slums in Pune and help us identify the right recipients for the ration kits.

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Started by Ripple Mirchandani and Katya Balasubramanian, Mudita is envisioned to be a conduit for transparent &amp; strategic giving.Working across several causes ourselves prior to starting Mudita, the founders found NGOs and social groups always seem to be looking for donations while many philanthropically minded people often are just not sure how best to make the impact they wish to. It is this gap between the donor and the beneficiary that Mudita aims to bridge.Mudita is a registered trust under the Bombay public trust and all donations to Mudita are eligible for tax deduction under section 80(G) of the Indian IT ACT.

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

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