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Donations to HelpAge India’s approved projects are 100% Tax Exempt under Section 35 AC and 80 GGA of the Income Tax Act. Support our forgotten leaders DONATE NOW ! Empowerment & Inclusion 85 plus year old Vastala Vishnu Surve, from Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), spent most of her life teaching less fortunate children in a Mumbai school until retirement. Being the family's main bread winner, despite her increasing physical weakness, she refused to ask her children or anyone for help. Her health didn't permit her to stand in long lines at a hospital. HelpAge India's Mobile Medicare Unit programme took her under its wing and today she comes for regular checkups and has started looking after herself again. “Live with dignity, never beg”, says a proud Vastala. This 80 plus former tennis champion gave her best to the country. Today, only an old photograph is proof of her earlier life, for her memory now comes in bits and pieces as Dementia has taken its toll. With no one to take care of her daily needs, she found shelter in an old age home supported by HelpAge India in Bangalore, a home away from home. This 80 plus bespectacled man from Beri village (Rohtak), Haryana, was an earnest vegetable vendor, through which most villagers ran their household. One day his fingers got amputated under a mustard oil refinery machine, but that didn't deter his smiling spirit. A widower, with no family to support him, Kewal was then enrolled into HelpAge India's Support a Gran programme, through which his basic needs were met and he could lead a life of dignity. Promilla Singh played for the country But life played with her Kewal supplied food to all But was left with none himself Vastala spent her life teaching the young Asking nothing in return C-14, Qutab Institutional Area New Delhi – 110016 Ph: 011- 41688955/56. Email: [email protected] To know more and to contact our offices nationwide, log onto: www.helpageindia.org HEAD OFFICE www.helpageindiaprogramme.org, www.supportagran.org, www.hisave.org Our other websites: At HelpAge India, we actively voice the needs of thousands of such disadvantaged elderly. We advocate for their rights and work towards empowering them. We focus on issues such as pensions, social inclusion and healthcare to enable them live with dignity. With your assistance, we reach out to many more like them. For many older people who don't have a roof over their heads or a place to call their own, HelpAge supported Old Age Homes & Day Care Centres serve as a home away from home. HelpAge has been working towards creating composite shelters for the elderly. It envisions residential complexes for elders offering a broader range of services and comfort, such as those provided in HelpAge – NDTV Viewers supported Tamaraikulam Elders village in Cuddalore (TN) and Kalyan Ashram in Kolkata (WB). During disasters the worst affected are the elderly, physical frailty often prevents them from running to safety in time or even in accessing relief material where they often get sidelined by younger and more able bodies. HelpAge works at rehabilitating these elderly, by not only providing them relief material but also by providing long term sustainability options. HelpAge has actively run projects during the Kashmir & Gujarat earthquakes, Orissa cyclone & floods, the 2004 Tsunami, Bihar floods in 2008 and the Leh cloud-burst in 2010 among others. Special Tours for the elderly are organized to historical & religious places with the aim to fulfill their dreams and reward them physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. These tours give elders an opportunity to explore places they always wanted visit but never could during their busy lives. The tours help senior citizens find peace, joy, relaxation and rejuvenate them. It also helps tackle the problem of isolation, boredom and neglect. Old Age Homes/ Day Care Centres Relief & Rehabilitation DISASTER MITIGATION DISASTER MITIGATION HERITAGE TOURS HERITAGE TOURS SHELTERS SHELTERS www.helpageindia.org
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Donations to HelpAge India’s approved projects are 100% Tax Exempt under Section 35 AC and 80 GGA of the Income Tax Act.
Support our forgotten leadersDONATE NOW !
Empowerment & Inclusion
85 plus year old Vastala Vishnu Surve, from Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), spent most of her life teaching less fortunate children in a Mumbai school until retirement. Being the family's main
bread winner, despite her increasing physical weakness, she refused to ask her children or anyone for help. Her health didn't permit her to stand in long lines at a hospital.
HelpAge India's Mobile Medicare Unit programme took her under its wing and today she comes for regular checkups and has started looking after herself again. “Live with dignity, never beg”,
says a proud Vastala.
This 80 plus former tennis champion gave her best to the country. Today, only an old photograph is proof of her earlier life, for her memory now comes in bits and pieces as
Dementia has taken its toll.
With no one to take care of her daily needs, she found shelter in an old age home supported by HelpAge India in Bangalore, a home away from home.
This 80 plus bespectacled man from Beri village (Rohtak), Haryana, was an earnest vegetable vendor, through which most villagers ran their household. One day his fingers got amputated
under a mustard oil refinery machine, but that didn't deter his smiling spirit.
A widower, with no family to support him, Kewal was then enrolled into HelpAge India's Support a Gran programme, through which his basic needs were met and he could lead a life of dignity.
Promilla Singh played for the countryBut life played with her
Kewal supplied food to allBut was left with none himself
Vastala spent her life teaching the youngAsking nothing in return
C-14, Qutab Institutional Area New Delhi – 110016 Ph: 011- 41688955/56. Email: [email protected]
To know more and to contact our offices nationwide, log onto: www.helpageindia.org
HEAD OFFICE
www.helpageindiaprogramme.org, www.supportagran.org, www.hisave.orgOur other websites:
At HelpAge India, we actively voice the needs of thousands of such disadvantaged elderly. We advocate for their rights and work towards empowering them. We focus on issues such as pensions, social inclusion and healthcare to enable them live with dignity. With your assistance, we reach out to many more like them.
For many older people who don't have a roof over their heads or a place to call the i r own, He lpAge supported Old Age Homes & Day Care Centres serve as a home away from home. HelpAge has been working towards creating composite shelters for the elderly. It envis ions residential complexes for elders offering a broader range of services and comfort, such as those provided in HelpAge – NDTV Viewers supported Tamaraikulam Elders village in Cuddalore (TN) and Kalyan Ashram in Kolkata (WB).
During disasters the worst affected are the elderly, physical frailty often prevents them from running to safety in time or even in accessing relief material where they often get sidelined by younger and more able bodies. HelpAge works at rehabilitating these elderly, by not only providing them relief material but also by providing long term sustainability options. HelpAge has actively run projects during the Kashmir & Gujarat earthquakes, Orissa cyclone & floods, the 2004 Tsunami, Bihar floods in 2008 and the Leh cloud-burst in 2010 among others.
Special Tours for the elderly are organized to historical & religious places with the aim to fulfill their dreams and reward them physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. These tours give elders an opportunity to explore places they always wanted visit but never could during their busy lives. The tours help senior citizens find peace, joy, relaxation and rejuvenate them. It also helps tackle the problem of isolation, boredom and neglect.
Old Age Homes/ Day Care Centres
Relief & Rehabilitation
DISASTER MITIGATION DISASTER MITIGATION
HERITAGE TOURSHERITAGE TOURS
SHELTERS SHELTERS
www.helpageindia.org
Student Action for V a l u e E d u c a t i o n (SAVE)
Working with Senior Citizens Associations
It is imperative that right education and values be inculcated within children early in life for them to be sensitive to the needs of the elderly. Keeping this i n m i n d , H e l p A g e launched its Student A c t i o n f o r V a l u e Education programme. The 3 main goals of SAVE are: To Inculcate values of care & respect for the elderly in children, to prepare today's children & youth for their old age and to create an age-friendly society. HelpAge is working closely with schools and educational institutions urging them to show their support and advocate for the cause of the elderly.
HelpAge India recognizes the potential of the senior citizens and is involving them in various activities. Seminars are organized by HelpAge in conjunction with Senior Citizens Associations (SCAs) across the country on National Policy on Older Persons, Maintenance & Welfare of the Parents and Senior Citizens Act (2007) and other relevant elderly issues for better advocacy of their rights and entitlements, urging Government and decision makers for quicker action. Senior citizens are now feeling empowered to raise their voice & take action on issues concerning them.
Creating an Environment for Change
elpAge has been working towards integrating it's programmes and services and consciously moving from welfare towards development. Advocacy for the H
rights of the elderly has gained immense momentum and HelpAge is working closely with the Government and Senior Citizens Associations across states to bring about changes at the policy level.
A composite response to senior citizens needs across urban areas, are HelpAge India's Agecare Service Hubs which provide customized services such as: a helpline facility, physiocare, recreation activities, a tea/coffee corner, assistive devices, healthcare, a library, computer literacy, discounted services, servicing homes for the aged, opportunities for active ageing, volunteering and working with Senior Citizens Associations. The Hubs located in more than 20 states provide a vital support system for many elders. In addition, more than 40 physiotherapy clinics 'Fitness & Wellness Centres' have been established in the country in partnership with Senior Citizens Associations.
HelpAge's Mobile Medicare Unit (MMU) service brings not just basic healthcare to the door steps of the needy elderly, but also in some areas provides alternative care, through yoga & meditation classes, shelter assistance, disability aids, counseling and conducts multi-specialty camps and home visits to bedridden elderly. Each MMU vehicle is manned with a qualified doctor, pharmacist and a social worker. Medicines & treatment are dispensed free of cost. In 2010 - 11, 10 lakh treatments were meted out, spread over 840 locations in 29 states, through more than 70 MMUs.
With age, it is important one takes extra care of one’s health, a little care and caution can prevent or delay many disabilities. HelpAge has opened physiocare centres across the nation, helping many elders walk again and continue with their basic daily act iv i t ies without being dependent on others.
Palliative Care is the care of patients and their families, by a team of trained professionals at a time when the patient's disease is no longer responsive to curative treatment and life expectancy is
Mobile Medicare Units (MMUs)
Physiocare
Palliative Care
relatively short. HelpAge is running Community Managed Palliative Care projects in 52 villages spread across the districts of Cuddalore & Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu and Kollam district in Kerala.
For the want of a simple eye operation many elderly can't even see the smile on the faces of their loved ones and become entirely dependent on others for their sustenance. More than 80% of the 12 million blind people in India, can't
see due to cataract. HelpAge India conducts thousands of free cataract surgeries for the elderly every year.
Other specialized care projects are also underway for Alzheimer and Cancer patients.
Through this programme the destitute elderly are provided basic ration, daily use articles, clothing and some money to sustain themselves through the year. Today, these elderly live with dignity & independence.
HelpAge launched its first Elder Helpline in Chennai in 2004. These Helplines address problems of elders such as isolation, neglect, facilitate emergency responses, counsel them, provide information on access to various elderly schemes and linkages with the government, police and referral rescue & relief services. Today, Elder Helplines running across the country serve as lifelines for many elderly.
HelpAge's income generation & micro-credit schemes aim to restore pride and dignity to thousands of elderly making them financially self-sufficient and independent. It enables them to look after themselves and their family and keeps their self respect intact.
Eye Care
Support a Gran
Helplines
Livelihood Support
ADVOCACY ADVOCACY
AGECARE SERVICE HUBSAGECARE SERVICE HUBS
HEALTHCAREHEALTHCARE
SOCIAL PROTECTIONSOCIAL PROTECTION
