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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“My stepmother brutally abused me and left me on the streets when I was a child” recalls Preeti Chetri who was rescued by our NGO partner Ashadeep. By then, Preeti had spent years of hardship as a homeless person. When Ashadeep found Preeti, she was malnourished and was diagnosed with severe mental illness. After undergoing years of medical treatment and therapy at Ashadeep, Preeti has seen substantial recovery. She feels glad to have finally found a safe home.Dr Anjana Goswami along with her husband Mukul, started Ashadeep Day Rehabilitation Centre four decades back and since then, the couple have rescued over 1,200 mentally ill homeless from the streets. But the rise in costs of medical care and other essentials have begun to pose a huge challenge for the couple.Dr Anjana is struggling to keep the doors of Ashadeep open for more people. Your support can ensure that the NGO can continue to care for those who have been cast away by society and have no place to call their own. 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).Shunned by society but embraced by AshadeepDr Anjana and her husband struggled to find a treatment for a family member who had suffered with mental illness for years. During this time, the couple also saw the plight of mentally ill patients coming from low-income families and those that remained on the streets without any care or treatment. Ashadeep was started as a safe home and rehabilitation centre for homeless mentally ill patients. “Mostly those suffering from mental illness lose their way home and end up on the streets. Sometimes, a few are abandoned by their families and forced to live a miserable life on the streets. These people, out of hunger, eat out of garbage dumps and live painful lives. The fate of women is even worse. Without a safe shelter, they are subjected to constant sexual abuse on the streets,” shares Dr Anjana while shedding light on the extreme difficulties faced by homeless mentally ill patients. They have been rescuing the homeless from the streets and giving them a safe home for decades now.A beacon of hope for mentally ill homeless"Our main objective is to provide the best treatment and psychiatric care to those we rescue so they can live active lives. We enable our residents to live a life of dignity through medication and different therapies. We also try to find the families of those patients who have lost their way home and reunite them with their loved ones. To date, we have been able to reintegrate over 1000 people with their families after completion of treatment,” the NGO founder says.The nonprofit not only provides treatment to the people they rescue but also gives them skills training and a wide array of employment opportunities so they can live with their heads held high.But after four decades of selfless service, Dr Anjana today faces a challenge like never before. The steep rise in costs for medical care, food and other essentials has left the NGO struggling for funds. With your support, Ashadeep can remain a safe haven for hundreds of people who are living a pitiable life on the streets for no fault of theirs.Please donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted fundraising platform, and support Ashadeep in their mission to rescue and give life-changing psychiatric and medical care to the mentally ill forced to live on the streets.

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The Banyan established in 1993, operates with the realisation that all people can reach mental, physical, interpersonal, social recovery when assisted with the required person-based resource investments. We have placed efforts to restore neighbourhood care capital through emergency and community-based mental health interventions aiding people on their paths towards emotional and physical well-being that invariably positions users to choose viable life goals. We are striving to establish and steadily promote best practices through our ongoing collaborations with governmental and non-profit initiatives. We endeavour to address community wellness by:<ul><li>Establishing ethical access to emergency mental health services</li><li>Delivering direct services to the people in various rural and urban settings</li><li>Strengthening distinct cooperation targeting community issues impacted by mental health </li><li>Sustaining a consciously committed team of professionals</li><li>Ensuring safe and affordable housing as a basic need in facilitating optimal mental health and well being</li><li>Securing social care for children, young adults and adults by providing personal care and other practical assistance as per requirement along with access to social entitlements </li></ul>75% of women who have used the services have recovered and journeyed back to their homes and families of origin. 60% of reintegrated women in the last five years remain in continued care to assist them in sustaining their recovery and prevent a lapse back into homelessness. Our approaches utilise user-centric and directed treatments, anchored via holistic care frameworks. These include: <ol><li>Emergency Care and Recovery Center (ECRC) and The Shelter: The ECRC in Mogappair has been accessed by over 3,000 homeless people with mental health issues, of whom over three-quarters have satisfactorily transitioned back to their families throughout India. Here people access emergency and critical care services and are provided food, shelter and clothing alongside health, reintegration and aftercare services. The Shelter we run in partnership with The Corporation of Chennai operates similarly for homeless men with mental illness. Post recovery, collective efforts to reintegrate users based on choice and provide needed long term aftercare services to maintain health and wellbeing is offered with the cooperation of carers and families creating pathways for social rehabilitation. </li><li>NALAM - Community Mental Health Care: is delivered through grassroots mobilizers. They identify psychological distress, offering referrals, counselling, clinical care, home visits, home-based care and social entitlements such as citizenship documents, loans, pensions, employment, etc. NALAM clinics spread across urban and rural locations also offer skills development and livelihood initiatives apart from the above mentioned psychological and social interventions for a range of age-groups. In Tamil Nadu, these are offered across 15 service access points in Chennai and Thiruporur districts, reaching out to a population of approximately 7 lakhs. Till date, more than 10,000 individuals have accessed these services with a current active registry of over 2000 individuals. In Thiruporur, Kattumannarkoil and Sriperumbudur Taluks of Tamil Nadu these are administered in partnership with National Health Mission. </li><li>Home Again: offers over 200 individuals with mental illness with sustainable long-stay care needs across a cross-section of low to high disability levels who live in homes as members of families formed in simple rural and urban neighbourhoods with residential daily assistance and case management. Apart from Tamil Nadu where this intervention was first piloted, the model has also been replicated in partnership with the Governments of Kerala and Maharashtra aimed at reducing the incarcerated count at state mental hospitals and the needs of those who continue to remain in psychiatric facilities for over a year or more.</li></ol>

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60 Million Indians suffer from mental illness. 130,000 Indians commit suicide every year. 1 in 3 homeless individuals suffer from a mental illness. Clearly, poor mental health is a growing public health concern that affects multiple domains of a person’s life: their relationships with family, friends, colleagues, productivity, physical health outcomes &amp; of course -- their own personal satisfaction and happiness.Many of us remain in our comfortable bubbles of privilege, not realising that 1 in 5 Indians live below the poverty line, and that just as easily could have been us. Adverse experiences with caste and gender based violence, lack of access to education, shelter and food directly affect an individual’s personal and a community’s collective mental health.Common mental disorders are almost twice as frequent in those living in states of poverty &amp; schizophrenia is 8 times more prevalent in those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.It is no wonder that good health and well being is one of the main sustainable development goals put forth by the UN. Higher levels of stress and isolation, due in part to exponential advancements in technology and unconstrained population growth, has made mental health everyone’s business. It is a problem that needs to be addressed with no further delay.  
 The Banyan has developed a variety of holistic mental health solutions that address multifaceted components of distress that those with mental health issues face. We aim to create replicable &amp; sustainable models of care that address the interconnected elements of mental ill health. This includes, emergency and acute medical, psychiatric, psychological and social care offered through our street based services, hospital settings, shelter based services, community based outpatient care and inclusive long term care options for persons with high support needs.We take service user feedback extremely seriously and all of our programmes and co-created and audited by the people who use them.We approach mental health through the wellbeing and development paradigm, rather than through an illness framework, and seek to ensure an improvement in overall quality of life, for individuals experiencing psychosocial distress.We believe that every individual deserves the right to a dignified and meaningful life, with the opportunity to be aspirational and reach their fullest potential, regardless of the social and structural barriers that have caused them to be left behind and forgotten.  
 1) Benchmark The Banyan as offering usercentric, human rights promotive, comprehensive care services for the most marginalized and vulnerable populations, including persons poor and homeless2) Increased access to mental health care through a network of collaborating stakeholders, to foster improved client mental health outcomes.3) Creating low cost collaborative care delivered by wellness mobilizers, and promoting cost effective and resource efficient care models.4) Creating pathways for community inclusion for people in institutional spaces5) New contributions to implementation science and evidence in the mental health sector emerging from a LMIC context, and to influence on policy level in uptake of recommendations based on approaches developed that address the mental ill health – poverty– homelessness nexus.

Help mentally ill patients get access to healthcare

It is the life of most people with persistent mental health conditions to be consigned forever to a care institution. You may wonder why this is such a bad thing – after all, they have food, safety, shelter and treatment. Yes, they do get treated, but not rehabilitated. Yes, they do recover from a disability, but never returned to being fully functional or living a complete life. Social and economic inclusion is but an unattainable dream for the individuals. 
 In response to the longing for home, The Banyan has created an innovative model of long term care. Quite simply we are renting homes in rural and sub urban neighborhoods, encouraging women to form small affinity groups and occupy these homes. Together, they create a shared space of comfort that mimics a familial environment. Every house of three to five women is staffed by a community worker who facilitate the psychosocial and medical intervention they continue to need. The women are supported to engage in a diverse range of work, embrace leisure, recreation and socialization within the community. 
 Over 220 individual live in 49 homes across 3 states and experience an enhanced quality of life due to the opportunities for participation and social mixing offered by the Home Again approach. The approach is being scaled in partnership with State Governments of Kerala and Maharastra, as a means to facilitate exit options into community based living options for long-stay patients in government running mental health centres.The Home Again approach is a high value solution, that improves quality of life, reduces levels of disability, and fosters community integration – while reducing cost of care. The cost of operating a Home Again programme is less than half of what it costs in institutional / hospital based setting.

Creating welcoming spaces for homeless mentally ill

Imagine not having clean clothes to wear, or dress in a way that makes you feel comfortable in your own skin. Imagine what it would feel like to wear dirty and soiled clothes that are partially torn and dirty. The people we serve have only known a life like this.   
 While we do not have enough resources to ensure only fresh sets of clothing for all our clients, we aim to ensure that they experience agency and dignity in what they wear, and provide each individual in our care with 3 clean and new sets of clothing, including undergarments, each year.  
 Clothing and dressing is just another facet of self-expression. Creating opportunities for each individual to be themselves, and express their individuality through their attire, enhances self-esteem, recovery, and quality of life. Help us offer this experience! Support us through donations, or better still - come take our residents shopping!

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During their time on the streets, many of our clients have gone days without a meal. Others have had to resort to rummaging through garbage and waste, in order to survive. It is no wonder that most of our clients have chronic malnutrition and anaemia at the time of their admission.  
 Meals at The Banyan go well beyond the basics. Not only do we provide freshly cooked meals that are tailored to the diverse cultural roots of the people we serve, but we also mitigate chronic nutritional deficits by providing food that is healthy and nutritious. 
 They are a collective experience through which staff and residents, a like, partake in one of the most basic acts of human connections and bonding. At any given point of time, there are 350 homeless persons with mental health issues residing at our ECRC programmes.