Feed a poor senior citizen by Action for Development of Demos(ADD)

How do you feel when you have a delightful breakfast in the morning and on the way to your work you find an old man begging just to have one bread ? Now, changing the scenario. How do you feel when you find someone gathering some food from the house-hold garbages of muncipality? In both the scenes, hunger is the vital issue. We have enough to sustain and to feed our stomach, but what about those who don’t even have a single penny to feed themselves. The situation becomes worse when the body retires and is unable to do something for earning livelihood. Our volunteers when reported about the poor pathetic condition of the rural senior citizen people in slums of rural areas of Patna, immediately got determined to do something for their proper rehabilitation. We initiated by starting this programme specialy dedicated for feeding the poor old people. Every year we add hundreds of poor old from the rural slum areas and we thereafter we start providing them with the rations that includes 3.5 kg rice, 7.5 kg wheat, 1kg pulse, 1/2 kg salt, 1 kg mustard oil, vegetable & Nutritional Aid 250 gm of milk each day and 1 kg Chawanprass. The whole material is monitored and checked for nutritional prospect. In summer we provide Horlicks in place of Chawanprass. We were left overwhelmed with the post effects of this live saving programme. Each of the supported beneficiary i.e.the senior citizens, are in a well health condition. They consider this Programme as their god father. We truly admire the kind donors for their generous and noble support.

Hunger is something no one should strugle with

Very profoundly we have been working over many years. The satisfaction and assurance that the the senior citizen express with us is the most remarkable and relaxing compliments that we receive. The nutritional milk and horlicks supply to the senior citizens has helped them in enhancing their declining health. Hundreds of new, old & needy beneficiaries including the existing ones are regularly being donated the the monthly ration (3.5 kg rice, 6 kg wheat, 1 kg pulse, 1/2 kg salt, 1 kg mustard oil & vegetable) along with the milk and horlicks. Although, the monthly rations does a great deal to the needy people but we are well aware that a lot more is still to be implemented for the all round welfare of the selected beneficiaries, and we do are working on that.

Program Update

Under the aforesaid Programmes, we spot out Poor Senior Citizens and provide them with Monthly rations with Nutritional Support. The ration includes 3.5 kg of rice, 5 kg of wheat, 1 kg of pulse, 1/2 kg salt, 1 kg of mustard oil, 1 kg of Soyabean along with one-month Vegetable Supply. The nutritional support includes 1/2 kg Horlicks every month & Nutritional Aid of 250 gm of milk each day. Till March, 2019 we had been benefitting about 30 beneficiaries each month with all the preset provisions of the programme and still we do are continuing with the same beneficiaries. However we are in plan to add about 150 more beneficiaries in the list by next quarter.

Story from the field

Our Hero of the Programme, we spotted out is the Poor Senior Citizens Bachu Saw who once was seen wandering in garbages and begging here and there for food. Thanks to our volunteer, who sincerely presented him to our organisation. Very soon without any delay, we inspected his every detail including his family background. We positively enrolled him under our Nutritional Programme and since then we have been providing him with the Monthly Food Ration along with the nutritional Support every month. Though he has 4 sons but none of his sons take any care of him. Even on this matter, we personally intereferd and convinced his sons to take care of the poor old Bachu. Hopingly one of his son has changed his mind and now he keeps the old man with himself and take a good care of him. Bachu Saw always expresses his deepest quote of thanks to ADD and to his kind donors for uplifting the lives of helpless old man like him. Really, helping such poor starving people make the correct judicial use of the donation, that the kind people pay for such causes. However there are countless helpless old men like Bacchu who can be found in the poor backwards areas of our society. We firmly need to do a lot to them to improve their worries lives.

Program Update

Under this program, we provide the selected beneficiaries with one month ration which will include Rice, Wheat Flour, Pulse, Mustard Oil, Salt, Potato, Soyabean along with green Vegetables and daily Dairy Milk Supply. Apart of all these we also do provide with Horlicks or Chyawanprash as nutritional aid. Each of the selected beneficiaries will be provided with all these stuffs each month. We do follow a strict criteria for selecting the beneficiaries on the basis of their financial status and their family background. The selection process is made efficient and genuine by the help of our active volunteers who continuously keep surveying the selected rural areas thoroughly.

Story from the field

Kamla is an old, poor and vulnerable lady. Her husband expired a few years back. Though the poor widow has two sons, Bhulan & Naresh, none of them take any notice of the crawling desperate soul living under harsh pity condition. When our volunteers noticed her, they immediately got the old widow enrolled under ADD's this noble venture. It has really proved to be a boon for her. She now lives with hope, under the kind care of ADD. Old Kamla now is getting better day-by-day. The nutritional support in form of Horlicks in making her physique stable and preventing from getting worse. The monthly ration at least help her out in feeding her own stomach. Thanks to the kind donors whose noble help add happiness to such truly needed souls.