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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“My 8-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer and it left the entire family devastated. I was told the cost of treatment would run into lakhs. I was barely managing to make ends meet and there was nothing I could do to save Swaroop. But the Nargis Dutt Foundation stepped in and took care of all the expenses. I can’t even imagine the consequences had they not been there for my son,,” says teary-eyed Devendra.The helplessness that Devendra felt is not uncommon among low-income families of cancer patients. There are many who helplessly see their dear ones, including children, lose their life in the most painful manner. Nargis Dutt Foundation has ensured that thousands of families don’t see this fate. It’s been a ray of hope for thousands of cancer patients since its inception over 40 years back. You can help save many more patients with cancer. 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). The cost of each chemotherapy is as much as ₹15,000 and a cancer patient can require between 6 to 12 sessions. The hefty cost for cancer treatment is well beyond the reach for poor families that are barely surviving on two square meals a day. Help Nargis Dutt Foundation provide treatment to poor cancer patients and save them from a slow and painful death.Giving hope to cancer patients“I was just 13 when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. When I saw my mother struggling for life it left a lifelong impact on me. Her condition had deteriorated to such an extent she was almost unrecognisable. I know how it feels like to lose a loved one to cancer and I am not alone in my grief. There are thousands of people struggling to save their family members,” says Priya, daughter of noted actress Nargis Dutt, who lost her life to cancer, and in whose name the NGO has been founded. Priya has made it her life’s mission to save as many cancer patients as she can, but she can not do it alone. Nargis Dutt Foundation needs your support. Your donation can not only save cancer patients but can give life to entire families.Need for the fundraiserCancer is often seen as a death sentence. But doctors say that if detected early and if a patient receives essential treatment, the illness can be defeated and the person can return to their lives. “Treatment of cancer often depends on multiple factors including the type of cancer and the stage in which it is detected. Some patients require surgery while some can be cured with just chemotherapy or immunotherapy. “Whatever may be the need, our nonprofit supports patients till the time they are cancer free. We not only take care of the cost of treatment but even assist patients with nutrition which is vital in the fight against cancer. Moreover, we ensure that family members who are already facing immense hardships get proper accommodation and food during treatment so they don’t suffer any further,” says the NGO leader. With your support, Nargis Dutt Foundation can help patients win the fight against cancer and save their families from grief of losing a loved one.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted fundraising platform, to support Nargis Dutt Foundation in their mission to give life-saving chemotherapy and care to cancer patients who can not afford treatment.

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The joy of an elderly seeing their granddaughter’s face for the first time or being able to see sunlight after years of visual impairment is invaluable. Our NGO partner, Nanritam, has given such priceless moments of joy and the gift of sight to thousands of underprivileged seniors who could not afford surgeries. Working in remote villages where it is common for young sons to leave behind their elderly parents in search of livelihood, Nanritam has been a saviour for the visually impaired elderly. Nanritam is in urgent need of funds to be able to provide eye treatment and cataract surgeries to underprivileged elderly in the backward district of Purulia, West Bengal. Donate now to provide life-changing surgeries.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).Giving the elderly gift of sight“The extent of illiteracy and poverty in the villages of Purulia is shocking. These villages are so remote that not even one eye-care institution has ever reached here. Blindness leaves the elderly so helpless that they are even unable to care for themselves and lead normal lives”, says Ranjana Sengupta, Secretary, Nanritam who has been at the forefront of the NGO’s operations. Nanritam is an organisation of several eye doctors who treat patients for free in far-flung areas.Due to limited livelihood opportunities in backward areas, able-bodied persons often migrate to urban areas for better prospects, leaving their elderly parents behind to fend for themselves. Compounding this situation, many seniors grapple with visual impairment caused by cataract, leading to partial or complete blindness. Ranjana emphasises, "The elderly may not be aware that a quick 5-minute cataract surgery has the power to transform their entire lives."Donate to Nanritam now to provide free cataract surgeries to the elderly and change their lives.Why donate to the fundraiser?“We are in urgent need of funds to purchase modern equipment and to cover operating costs to give vision to the elderly who can't even afford basic treatment and medical care. I urge you to support us in this noble mission and help the elderly get their vision back,” says Ranjana.Donate to this fundraiser on Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help underprivileged elderly get their vision back with free cataract surgeries.

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Jan Swasthya Sahyog was founded in 1996 by a group of health professionals who were doctors trained at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and other reputed medical colleges. As other health professionals and health workers joined over time, we could develop this organization to serve the people in central India by basing ourselves in rural Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh. Now with a staff of 345 full time people, and 400 part time health workers and a large peer support group in India and outside, we are able to reach the rural poor in central India directly and poor people at large through our initiatives in training, advocacy and research outputs.Jan Swasthya Sahyog has been working in rural Chhattisgarh for the last 20 years. Through a service based programme, we have helped people in the care of their illnesses with treatment, as well as in maintaining health through preventive measures and health education. During these 20 years we have been able to build up the spectrum of activities at JSS – enabling us to analyse and learn from the service work and share these lessons in fora that address the health concerns of the rural poor.The primary objective of all our activities has been to address inequity. The strategy that we have chosen is of providing health care. Our focus is primary health care in the broadest sense of the term. And thus the greatest support for our organization has been from the people in the area. Due to the impact of the work evident in the decline in premature morality and avoidable morbidity, decreased indebtedness, social changes such as the empowerment of women, JSS enjoys a high level of credibility all over this part of rural central India, especially among the poor and tribals. In this context of running a service delivery programme, we have tried to understand the causes of poor health and then offer through training, writing, and lobbying.JSS now has 345 full-time health personnel as well as another 400 community based workers associated with it, along with a large peer group that works voluntarily with us. We have thus been able to implement primary health care in its detail and spirit, and in this process draw lessons for the country’s marginalised populations.Clinical services: The community health programme has provided effective, low-cost care through more than 7,00,000 consultations to over 3,00,000 patients drawn from more than 2,500 villages from across Chhattisgarh as well as adjoining districts of Madhya Pradesh. This care spans across a comprehensive range of medical, surgical, and obstetric care unique in the region. The inpatient services with 100 beds and an operation theatre complex (including 3 major operation theatres and a labour room) has provided high-quality services to more than 23,000 patients admitted for serious illnesses and 35,000 often life-saving surgical cases. At the second tier of services are community centres that support clusters of up to 30 villages each which are staffed by a team of senior health workers, specially trained by JSS in clinical and community health skills. The ‘last mile’ is the village health worker, all of who are women, based among a closely monitored cohort of 40,000 people in 72 remote villages.   Training and technology: The JSS community health programme is looked upon as a national resource centre and training site. The national ASHA mentoring group held its annual meeting at JSS in 2015 and has picked up several learning points with the view to replicate them at the national level. We have run training courses for village as well as mid-level health workers for both our own and other organization. We now run a full-fledged School of Nursing for tribal and dalit girls that offer courses in both Auxiliary Nurse Midwife training as well as General Nurse Midwifery. We recently have become one of the few organizations nationally to run our own postgraduate medical training programme, offering the Diplomate of the National Board (DNB) in Family Medicine and General Surgery. As far as technology is concerned, from the outset we have been developing appropriate health related technology in response the health needs we encounter in our work. This has resulted in the development of 32 such technologies that are being used in several government and non-governmental health care organizations beyond our own use.Knowledge and advocacy: Identifying the gaps in primary health care, whether technical questions or operational issues, through careful observation and documentation has helped us develop into a resource group for others. This aspect of JSS work has been recognised at the district, state, and central levels. Over the past few years, we have been asked to be a Technical Resource Group for the Government of Chhattisgarh, the Planning Commission, the Mission Steering Group of the National Health Mission, the National Asha Mentoring Group, the High level Expert Group for Universal Health Coverage and several other agencies. JSS has also built several regional and global partnerships including the Lancet commission on global surgery, the Lancet commission on NCDs among the poorest billion, the HEAL Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Family Medicine Residency at Contra Costa County Hospital in the United States. JSS has tried to advocate for better policies in important public health problems like falciparum malaria, hunger and health, tuberculosis and food, price control of essential drugs, and under-3 malnutrition, with some success thus far.Our experience at JSS has taught us that simple people do not have simple problems and we wish to solve these with the appropriate complexity which they deserve. Thus while village health workers play an important role, we recognize they do so in conjunction with the ability to refer and access advanced care rather than abandoning them and their patients to a limited set of options. JSS is one of few rural centres that offer this spectrum of care, from preventative and social work in the periphery, to a rural ICU that can provide tertiary level expert care without the bells and whistles that unnecessarily adorn the urban centres that we have come to expect.Public Health System Strengthening: While we provide service and learn from our work, we are certain that for healthcare to reach the most marginalized, and even the middle-class Indians across this vast nation, it is possible mainly through a strengthened public health system. It is towards this end that JSS started a quality improvement initiative with the governments of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in 2016. Spanning eight districts, our focus has been to bring about improved maternal and newborn care through training, assuring supplies, getting the Quality Improvement process to be embedded in the functioning of hospitals (District hospitals and First Referral Units), mentoring and supportive supervision. Changes have been slow to come, but are now seen definitively and we are looking at ways to make them sustainable. Much of this work has been accepted by the state government to be essential and hence significant components are now budgeted in the State Program Implementation Plan.JSS has been a technical partner at these facilities and has been offering its technical expertise in the areas of quality improvement of maternal and newborn health care; overall quality improvement of public health centers in Anuppur District of Madhya Pradesh; running rural crèches; screening, prevention and management of sickle cell disease; and tailored trainings for ANMs &amp; medical officers broadly.Overall, these 20 years of work have allowed us to improve the quality of life for people in the area, and yet there remains much more to be done before one could be contentment so we would like to describe this as a work in progress. If one measures the work in survival, quality assessments, or in indebtedness prevented, there are significant gains. Equally important has been the learning, many of these have had lessons for the larger discourse in public health for the disadvantaged.

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Undernutrition is perhaps the biggest problem that we face not only in Chhattisgarh, but all over India. It leads to increased chances of falling ill and sometimes dying due to it. Thus, in order to prevent these avoidable deaths, to make a dent into the poverty trap and to allow children to have optimal physical and mental growth, there is a pressing need to prevent, and treat undernutrition in the community. In most households, both parents go out to work during the day, leaving young children in the care of older children. Sometimes elderly parents who are too old to work are left to take care of the child. Even though there are many reasons for malnutrition in young children below 3, the most important cause in poor families is that there is no one available to feed the child several times during the day. Eating twice a day like adults do, is not enough for young children, who need to be fed at least five times during a day.   
 JSS runs 93 Phulwari units with 1 caretaker usually from the same village for 10 children and 2 if there are more than 13 children. They are trained in basic child care, hygiene, nutrition, health and early child learning and play. The crèche is usually run in the home of the crèche worker. Cooking is done in another room or in the open air. The crèches function for 6-8 hours normally. The diet includes 60 gms of Sattu (50% wheat; 25% barley and 25% peanuts) and 150 grams (uncooked) of rice and dal cooked and served as Khitchdi. Albendazole is given 6 monthly for deworming and iron syrup. Monthly anthropometric measurements are done to track progress. The objectives are providing a safe, secure and stimulating environment for children below 3 when their parents are working; demonstrating to mothers - the ability of older children to consume solid food; preventing malnutrition and improving nutritional status; helping older siblings who have dropped out of school for the care of the younger child, to return to school and allowing parents to go out for work and increase their income that accrues out of it. 
 Data on growth monitoring of children (weights taken monthly and heights at six monthly) attending the crèches is analysed using the WHO-Anthro software. Paired data compared over two years showed a significant reduction in wasting and undernutrition. Parents of children attending the phulwaris have noticed that children who were poor eaters have begun eating after seeing other children eat; realized that children can digest solid food (sattu, khitchdi) at a young age. Parents have noticed that their children do not fall ill so often, and are more energetic at home. Any ill child is treated promptly due to awareness spread by the crèche worker and the child is asked to be kept at home (or taken to hospital if very sick) till he or she is well. Since the mother misses work they ensure the child is brought to a JSS trained village health worker or hospital earlier for treatment. Phulwaris have enabled women to earn for the family without having to take their children along to the work-site, with the assurance that their child is being cared for in a safe environment, and is also being fed regularly during the day.

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