This winter, as the biting cold descends on 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 freezing winds and sleepless nights. A warm blanket could mean the difference between despair and hope.Donate warm clothes and blankets to abandoned elderly mothers now. Give generously."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, the founder of Maitri. "Since they are abandoned, they don't have a home or family. They have no means to care for themselves or their nutrition. Winters are extremely painful for them, and many eventually pass away. Without thermals, it's not possible to survive winters in Vrindavan."<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />This heartbreaking reality is why Maitri is committed to providing blankets and warm clothing to these abandoned widow mothers. Your contribution can help shield them from the piercing cold and offer them a lifeline during this harsh winter season. "Maitri also provides food, shelter, and healthcare to abandoned widow mothers. Your funds will help them reach and support many more widow mothers in need.

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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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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 Christmas, 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 Stephen 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?” Carmel 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.

This Christmas, help Carmel of Share and Care feed abandoned grandparents and care for them

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Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphans Welfare Society (SHEOWS) is a "home away from home" for the abandoned elderly of our country. The organization is registered under the Society Registration Act of 1860 and the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, of 1976. Since the last 20 years we have been providing free shelter, food, cloth, medical care, love, and affection to the destitute, abandoned, homeless, and PWD (Person with disability) elderlies with the help of generous and mindful people of our community.The Old Age Homes stand with a Special Care Unit, 24X7 Doctors and nurses, Physiotherapy unit, Pathology lab, Digital X-ray monitoring machine, an in-house Pharmacy, and all the necessary equipment required to treat any sort of illness or disease. All these facilities are provided to the elderly completely free of cost. Most of these elders are picked up from the streets of Delhi NCR or brought in by Police/hospital authorities.Our caregivers facilitate a homely environment in the Ashrams and ensure the socio-emotional well-being of the beneficiaries. SHEOWS is currently running 2 old age homes , Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram of Delhi and Garhmukhteshwar, since 2003 &amp; 2008 respectively. These are the homes of 600 elderly residents who were found alone and abandoned, left to die on the streets. In the last 20 years, we have served over 7,000 elders out of which more than 2,600 have been rehabilitated back to home.The aim is to serve every destitute, orphan, needy, abandoned, specially challenged elderly by providing them free shelter, food, clothes, healthcare, love, and respect. We uphold a strong belief that helping aged people and spreading awareness of elderly care would not only give them a new life but also reduce the issue of elder abuse in society.We believe in the notion of “Vasudeva Kutumbakam” which means that the whole world is our family and this inspires us to serve every needy old aged person as our own family member. We urge you to come forward and ensure that each elderly gets to live a respectable life and none of them dies on the streets!AWARDS &amp; RECOGNITION:● Shram Samman Award 2009● Purvanchali Pratibha Summan Award 2011● Distinguished Service Award by Rotary Club of Delhi, Midtown 2013● Mahatma Gandhi Intergenerational Empowerment Award, 2015● Best NGO Footprint Award.● Corona Warrior Award, 2021● Mahatma Award for Social Good, 2021● World Geriatrics Care Award● Indian CSR Social Impact Award- Top 20 NGOs of the Year, 2023

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Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphans Welfare Society

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

This nonprofit is registered under section 80G of India's Income Tax Act, 1961. This means you can deduct 50% of the donation you made through your tax return.

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we still need donation doctor has said to do her operation before 15th of November. please help and share as much as you can.

Need your help urgently!!!

Raghav Menon

To our wonderful donors:Thank you for your unwavering support! You've allowed us to provide essential services to our residents to impact the lives of the elderly positively. Here is our incredible work so far, but we still need your continued support to give these abandoned men and women a dignified life. Donate now to multiply the impact!!!

Impact report update for SHEOWS

🌟 The Give team recently had the privilege of visiting&nbsp;Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphan Welfare (SHEOWS) to witness the impact of your generous contributions. Your support has truly made a remarkable difference, and we're thrilled to share some heartwarming insights from the visit. 🙌😊 Field Visit Date: 23/08/2023Field Visit by: Nehal Negi, Sr. Associate, Online Giving Delivery Team - Give Visit Summary:We first visited Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram in Gautampuri, New Delhi. This is their first and oldest centre, currently rented out, providing living and medical facilities for abandoned and rescued elderly from the streets. It serves 100 elderly individuals daily, offering three meals a day and housing 15 Special Care Units (SPU) at full capacity. The beneficiaries reside in a spacious hall-like room, divided by a curtain into male and female sections. Mattresses are placed on the floor instead of beds because a significant number of the elderly residents have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia, and they have previously fallen from beds, resulting in injuries. The centre has a physiotherapy room with a dedicated doctor, although therapy is available only 2-3 times a month due to limited resources and high demand, and an on-site pharmacy with a pharmacist. They also have a small shop/storage room where all the items crafted by the elderly, such as candles, diyas, and decorative items, are kept and later sold. We interacted with the beneficiaries, the majority of whom are above 65 years old, with around 80% of them being dependent on diapers. They have all been abandoned by their families and have nowhere else to live. We also visited their recently opened centre in Okhla, New Delhi. This centre has approximately 60 male beneficiaries, a kitchen, SPU, and an area for recreational activities. It is currently undergoing renovations so that in the future, they can accommodate more elderly in need. We met their implementation, medical, finance, and HR teams. One caregiver is assigned to 12-14 elderly, one or two security guards are in each of the centres, along with a physiotherapist and pharmacist, two visiting doctors, one driver, and a three-member rescue team. The funds from this campaign are primarily used to cover the costs of medicines, dry rations, and staff salaries. They incur expenses of INR 49,000 per day for medicines alone. 🌟🙏Your continued support plays a pivotal role in helping SHEOWS cover the rising medical, food and running expenses of the ashrams and offer these abandoned elderly a life filled with dignity and happiness.&nbsp;🏡🌟

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Thanks everyone for supporting our fundraiser!This will close on the 11th Nov, and the proceedings donated will go to the SHEOWS old age home :)

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As per Census 2011, the number of indigent elders in India of Indigent elderly destitute who are homeless or deserted by the families) is 18 lacs (0.18 Crore) and growing. With COVID-19 pandemic maximizing the risk to elderly lives across the world, there is desperate need for the society to focus on the indigent elderly of the society. With the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the risk to the lives of these elderly, we at SHEOWS are trying to save maximum lives by conducting rescue of such elderly who are homeless, abandoned, homeless and a victim of elderly abuse and abandonment. At the same time, out of every 10 elderly couples in India, more than 6 are forced by their children (source link - <a href="https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2009/07/old-age-problems-india/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2009/07/old-age-problems-india/</a>)  to leave their homes leaving a large number of elderlies abandoned on the streets. SHEOWS for the last 18 years is working on the cause of saving the elderly who are dying on the roadsides, footpaths etc. as presently there are no old age homes for paralytic, disabled and bedridden elderly who provide comprehensive support to them under one roof. 
 SHEOWS aims to conduct rescue operations across Delhi/NCR and rural areas of Uttar Pradesh and provide them with not only the basic facilities like food, shelter, clothing but also comprehensive medical care facilities like - <ul><li>General Health Check-ups </li><li>Availability of a neurologist</li><li>Facility of an SCU (equipped with multiparameter monitors, oxygen concentrators, bi-pap machine, etc.)</li><li>24X7 nurses </li><li>Caregiver facility (as all the residents of the old age home are either fully/partially dependent)</li><li>Physiotherapy</li><li>Pathological testing </li><li>SOS treatment </li><li>X-ray facility </li><li>In-house pharmacy </li></ul> 
 The impact that we wish to create is to save maximum indigent elderly lives. Provide social security and basic amenities along with comprehensive medical care facilities to the once abandoned and homeless elderly (all free of cost). The project will enable reduction in mortality rate of such population and enable an improved quality of life and dignity to the indigent elderly population. The project will provide medical care benefits to those who once lived without food, shelter and clothing. It will improve the physical and mental health of the abandoned elderly rescued by SHEOWS. The most at-risk population amidst the COVID-19 population will be served and saved through this project that is elderly who are sixty years and above, without food/clothing/shelter, co-morbid and a victim of elderly abuse and abandonment.

Healthcare for the abandoned, destitute and homeless elderly

Our nation used to be one that is rooted in tradition and culture. One that prides itself in respecting our elders, related or not. But sadly, the society is no longer aligning along these lines of value and culture.  According to the 2011 census, more than 18 million elderlies are abandoned in India with no way home. There has been a  rapid rise in the aging population which is  accompanied by a silently growing pressure on all aspects of care for older persons – financial, health and shelter. This pressure has considerably increased after the pandemic. Apart from this, the current working culture  and a dynamic shift towards nuclear family patterns has all the more increased elderly abandonment. As a result, frail and ailing elderly are found on the roadsides, being vulnerable to several mishappenings and helplessly awaiting their end. 
 <a href="https://www.sheows.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">SHEOWS</a> (Saint Hardyal Educational &amp; Orphans Welfare Society) strives to make India a better and safer place for the elderly to live. Our aim is to mitigate the sufferings of abandoned elderly, rescue them from the streets and work towards providing them a safe and comfortable shelter where they are properly fed and their medical needs are taken care of-all free of cost!We are currently working tirelessly to spread our services across the states of Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. SHEOWS has successfully served more than 7000 elderly till date. Currently we are a home to 600 people, who were rescued in an extremely miserable condition. SHEOWS aims to create a hospitable and caring environment for such people where they can overcome the trauma they suffered and lead a happy and dignified life. 
 In the last 20 years we have rescued around 7000 elderlies out of which more than 2,600 have been rehabilitated. There is still a long way to go and in the longer run <a href="https://www.sheows.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">SHEOWS</a> aims to continue providing shelter, food and quality medical care facilities to these neglected elderlies all over India. Constant efforts are being made to widen our network of community outreach and enhance our rescue and rehabilitation program so that we are able to provide for a growing number of underprivileged and destitute people. Your support is required for fulfilling this dream of establishing a society where no elderly is abused or neglected!

Healthcare for the abandoned, destitute and homeless elderly

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