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Senior Citizen Support

Companionship, pension linkage and doorstep healthcare for elderly residents living alone.

Senior Citizen Support

Overview

Many elderly residents in our villages live alone after their children migrate. Our volunteers visit regularly, help them claim pensions and entitlements, and arrange doorstep medical support.

Objectives

  • —Link eligible seniors to old-age pension and ration schemes
  • —Arrange doorstep health checkups and medicine delivery
  • —Run weekly companionship visits by trained volunteers

Eligibility

  • • Residents aged 60 and above
  • • Priority to those living alone or without income

Benefits

  • • Assistance with pension and documentation
  • • Free medicines and periodic checkups
  • • Regular volunteer visits and community gatherings
Children studying at a community learning centreWomen training on sewing machines at a tailoring unitDoctor examining an elderly villager at a health campVolunteers planting saplings during a plantation drive

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