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Elder Care — kits packed
Elder Care — monthly handover
Elder Care — the visit
Elder Care — the monthly round
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Old age here is lonely long before it is poor

Every month that means

A month’s ration, the medicines they have been going without, and the part no funding body ever pays for — somebody sitting down and asking how they are.

Support an elder — ₹1,500/monthWhat is in the kit
👵640+ elders on monthly support🍚₹1,500 one month of full support💊100% receive basic medicine cover☕1 hr of company, every single visit📅1st week delivery, every month, without fail
The part nobody funds

The ration is the easy half.

Most of the elders on our list are not starving. They are managing — barely, quietly, and completely alone. The ration removes the arithmetic of survival. The visit removes something harder.

Widows whose children moved cities. Men who outlived their wives and their savings at the same time. People who have not been asked a question about themselves in weeks.

So our volunteers do two things on every visit: they deliver the kit, and then they sit down for an hour. That hour is not a bonus. It is the programme.

  • Same volunteer, same elder. Wherever possible we do not rotate people — the relationship is the point.
  • First week of the month, always. Elders should not spend the last week of a month wondering.
  • Medicines actually collected. Not a reimbursement promise — we pick them up and hand them over.
An elderly woman receiving her monthly ration kit
640+elders who know exactly which week we are coming
Open the bag

Exactly what a monthly kit contains

Enough for one elderly person for a full month, with a little to share. Priced from our own bulk purchase records.

Wheat flour & rice — 10 kgThe staple base for the month ₹420
Dal, pulses & oilProtein and cooking oil for thirty days ₹380
Tea, sugar, salt, spicesThe small things that make food a meal ₹180
Basic medicinesBP, diabetes and pain relief refills, collected and delivered ₹320
Soap, oil & essentialsPersonal care items elders quietly stop buying first ₹120
Transport & visitGetting there, and staying an hour ₹80
One elder, one full month₹1,500
Beyond the kit

Four things we do that a ration list will not show

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Health check-ins

Blood pressure and sugar checked on the visit, and a doctor arranged when the numbers are wrong.

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Paperwork help

Pension forms, Aadhaar corrections, ration card renewals — the queues elders cannot stand in any more.

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The hour

Tea, conversation, and someone who remembers what they said last month. The most requested part of the programme.

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A number that answers

Every elder on our list has a volunteer’s number and permission to use it.

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I live alone since my husband passed. The ration comes in the first week, without fail. But honestly, it is the sitting and talking for half an hour that I wait for.

Savitaben M.Elder care programme

Support an elder

Pick an amount — we will show you what it becomes.

80G receipt issued for every donation.

Adopt a grandparent

₹1,500 a month. One whole person.

The most personal thing on this website. You can know exactly who you are supporting, and many of our donors end up visiting.

  • ₹1,500 — one elder, one month, everything included
  • ₹9,000 — one elder, six months, through the hardest season
  • ₹18,000 — one elder, a full year of certainty
  • ₹7,500 — five elders for a month, a whole lane in one go
If you would like to meet them, you are welcome on the monthly round. Several of our year-long sponsors now go themselves and we have quietly stopped needing to send the photographs.
Elder care questions

What sponsors want to know first

Community leaders, local doctors, anganwadi workers and often neighbours who have been quietly helping for years and cannot manage alone any more. We visit, we verify, and we add them to the list.
Yes. We will tell you their first name, their situation and their locality. We do not share full identity details without their explicit permission — they are entitled to privacy too.
Yes, if they agree. Come along on the monthly round. We ask that you treat it as visiting someone, not inspecting a project.
The volunteer who visits them is the first point of contact and can arrange a doctor. Serious cases go to a government hospital with a volunteer accompanying them, because an elderly person alone in an admissions queue is effectively unattended.
No. Almost every elder on our list would rather stay in their own home, in their own locality, than be relocated. Our programme is designed to make staying possible.
For routine chronic medication — blood pressure, diabetes, joint pain — yes. For anything beyond that we raise the specific amount separately rather than quietly under-delivering the rest of the kit.
You tell us, with no explanation owed. We do not drop the elder — we cover the gap from the general fund and look for another sponsor. Nobody is removed from the list because a donor's circumstances changed.
Yes, and it is one of the most common requests we get. Many sponsors fund an elder in memory of their own mother or father. We are glad to record it that way on the receipt.
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