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 earlier worked as “Sanjeevani Healthcare Services” (From 2005) at the district level in which we provide support to Old age / senior persons, needy persons by providing a roof over their heads is the critical need of the destitute elder, sick and often abandoned by family. Sanjeevani Health care Service has established model homes for the aged. We have also supported more than 250 people across Haryana &amp; Punjab.We support Elders struggling to survive, especially in rural regions, who live lonely and impoverished lives. We organize them into sustainable Elder-Self-Help-Groups (ESHGs) so they can pool their resources and support each other in times of need. Once the group is formed, the elders choose a viable livelihood activity that can generate income as well. There are thousands of destitute elders who have no one to look after their basic needs and require support &amp; help to sustain their day-to-day living. Over the years, we have enabled more than 1500 destitute elders, by providing them regular supplies of food rations, clothing, basic healthcare, and some pocket money, so they can live a life of dignity with the help of our membersWith the help of generous and mindful people of our community, the old age home now stands with<ul><li>Special care unit</li><li>Daily medicine</li><li>Clean clothes</li><li>24/7 doctor and nurses</li><li>Nutritious food</li></ul>All these facilities are provided to the elderly completely free of cost. Most of these elders are picked up from the streets or roadside of Haryana and Punjab. Rabb Aasra is currently running 1 old age home. These are the home of 50 old men and women found alone and abandoned old age people. In the last 16 years, we have rescued nearly 1500 elders.The aim is to serve every destitute, orphan, needy and abandoned elderly by providing them free shelter, food, clothes, healthcare, love, and respect. With a strong belief that helping old aged people and spreading awareness of elder care would not only give them a new life but also reduce the issue of elder abuse in society. We strongly believe in the notion of “Nar Seva Narayan Seva” by Shree Ramkrishan Paramhans &amp; “Nanak Naam Chardi Kala, Teraa Bhane Sarbat Da Bhala” words of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji from Shri Guru Granth Sahib which means, Wellbeing of all of humanity, Prosperity for everyone in the worldwide community and Global Peace for the entire planet.

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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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Rabb Aasra is currently running 1 old age home and 1 is under construction at Zirakpur, SAS Nagar, Mohali, Punjab. These are the home of more than 100 old men and women.In the last 16 years, we have rescued nearly 1500 elders and provided them with food, shelter and basic medical facilities. Over the last few years the destitute elder, sick, Roadside, unclaimed, helpless mentally/physically disabled, persons in distress, Ailing, widows and often abandoned by family near us increased day by day and due to that the capacity of our old age home is getting overwhelmed all time and we are unable to take or admit new member in our family and which make us guilt or sorry for not able to help our elder or needy one.  
 After that, we planned to addition and large place ( 1500 sq yard) for our old age home in Zirakpur with the capacity of more than 400 people live together under one roof and for this kind we need funds as we are suffering in shortage of funds in the construction of the building and other infrastructure includes beds, clothes, first aid medicine etc. for surviving of our elders and needy one. The estimated cost for construction of 1500 sq yard with 3 story building including all basic amenities like kitchen, washroom (separate for male/female) first aid cum doctor room, attend room common dining room etc on every roof and the total expenditure on construction is around 200,00,000 (2cr) and we need funds on urgent basis and we receive lots of query from our elders and roadside as we denied them due to restriction in available space and food or other necessary thing and lack of funds.The funds received from donations will only be used for the above cause only. We want to collect funds for the construction of the Old Age Home. As construction started we face lots of problems in finance and were delayed due to that. we planned that our elderly home is ready by Nov 2022 so we start functioning. 
 Through Old age home, we serve every destitute, orphan, needy and abandoned elderly by providing them free shelter, food, clothes, healthcare, love, and respect. With a strong belief that helping old aged people and spreading awareness of elder care would not only give them a new life but also reduce the issue of elder abuse in society. We try to make those old hearts happy who are staying away from their family, staying away from their own home.We are committed to helping them to live a safe &amp; secure life.

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