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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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). 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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Pure Devotion Foundation started in difficult times of Covid-19 to help the widows of Vrindavan who were facing food scarcity due to the lockdown. Started serving 80 matajis in the first month we reached 800 + within a few months and right now we are taking care of 1000 widows in Vrindavan, Goverdhan, Radha Kund, and Haridwar. Since the last two years, we have greatly impacted the lives of these widows who are abandoned by their families.Being shelterless at their advanced age and thousands of km away from their home town they have to face many challenges. They don't even have a proper shelter to stay in, so the last option is to beg or do domestic work in various homes. At this time we come to help them so that they don't have to beg or do any hard labour at this age. These widows come here from Bengal and engage themselves in Krishna bhakti sincerely to get Mukti in this life. So we take care that they don't have to worry about day-to-day needs and they can peacefully perform their sadhana bhajan. Our main purpose is that at this last stage of life they shouldn’t get disturbed for basic necessities, but should do their bhakti peacefully and achieve their aim Mukti for which they have come here.

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Raghav Menon

Life does not seem to care even for the old, widowed women of Vrindavan.So it's important we do. With your help, we continue to provide daily rations to 400 aged women to sustain them and ease their woes, during FY 24-25. Listen to the heartwarming story of Anita, one of our cherished beneficiaries: Anita, a devoted wife and mother, would sit in the Bhajan Ashram, singing praises of Lord Krishna, her voice merging with the divine symphony of the town. It was through this devotion that she earned her daily bread.But fate had turned cruel over the last five years. Cancer had drained her strength, making it impossible for her to walk to the ashram. When her frail body refused to carry her voice beyond the walls of her small rented room, she resorted to begging on the streets. Even that, now, had become impossible. Her husband, Sujit, 80 years old, lay on a tattered mattress in the corner of their dimly lit room. He had once been a strong man, but time had withered him down to skin and bones. Neither of them had the strength to step out, neither had the means to afford medical treatment.Anita often wondered how life had come to this. She had given birth to a son, raised him with love, and dreamed that in her old age, he would be their support. But dreams do not always turn into reality. Five years ago, her son threw them out of their own house, leaving them to fend for themselves. The betrayal stung more than the cancer. Every night, Anita lay awake, staring at the ceiling, wondering how much longer she had to fight this battle alone. One evening, as she sat outside her tiny room, her frail fingers counting the beads of her rosary, Janaki, akind-heartedt woman from the Pure Devotion Foundation, approached her. She had been watching Anita for a while and knew that she needed more than just food.“Maa, we will help you with your treatment,” the woman said gently, holding Anita’s trembling hands.Tears welled up in Anita’s eyes. After years of suffering in silence, someone had finally heard her unspoken prayers.For the first time in years, hope flickered in her heart. Maybe, just maybe, Krishna had not abandoned her after all. There are innumerable women in Anita's condition in Vrindavan alone. We can help only a fraction of the vulnerable with our current resources, and we urgently need your support to extend our reach and provide for these poor widows. After they have lost their families, we cannot let them lose themselves. Support our cause and donate now.

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Roshni Ramesh

Thank you for your generous contributions. Each rupee you donate helps provide food, shelter, and medical care to elderly and abandoned widow mothers in Vrindavan. Your support enables us to offer them a safe and dignified life in their time of need. Look at the budget table below to understand what your funds will be used for.  Your efforts have been tremendous but we can't stop here. We need your help to expand our reach and serve more mothers in need. This is only possible with the help of our selfless donors. Do your part. Donate today.

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<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/6d463942-03dc-496d-a440-7ae1a34d29b2.webp" />Vrindavan is a city of Widows, and most of them are abandoned by their families. There are more than 30000 widows in Vrindavan and 90 per cent of them are above 65 age. At this age, their body doesn’t allow them to do any work so they have to opt for begging and in that they have too many challenges. They have to run from street to street for 7 hours a day just to procure two meals. Most Mataji are having knee and backbone problems where they can sit or walk for long, but to pay for their medical and accommodation bills they have to do domestic work like washing, wiping, groom in local households. They are here to do Sadhna and attain Mukti, but they are hardly any time left for sadhna. For the past 3 years, we are giving monthly grocery kits to 1000 Mataji’s and medical care to 200 Mataji’s. So now two problems are solved and now we are constructing two shelter homes for them in Vrindavan and Govardhan. Also, we have started an ‘Adopt a widow’ campaign where we are connecting widows with individual donors as it’s very hard for us to support 1000 widows alone every month. In adopting a widow we also add vegetables &amp; fruits along with grocery kits.We make sure that our Mataji’s shouldn’t beg for a single penny, nor she should worry about basic necessities. And at the advanced age of 75+, they also need personal care so for that we are constructing shelter homes for them. Now these widows whom we are supporting are having sufficient time for their sadhana and they invest time in chanting and reading holy books, Thakur jee sewa. They say that Lord has sent you to take care of them, and they are getting lost the love of their family with us.

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