Sponsor living and medical expenses of a destitute and abandoned senior citizen by Priyadarshini Seva Mandali

Sponsor living and medical expenses of a destitute and abandoned senior citizen

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Impact

After years of abuse, Lakshmi Bai finally finds a safe home

Life had deal Lakshmi a hard hand. She was widowed at a very young age. She raised her son by working as a maid in several houses. She earned very little and struggled hard to raise her son.

When he grew up, she found him a wife. She had a hope that he would start earning and she could finally rest.

He went to Mumbai to find work. However, he never came back. She lodged a missing complaint in Mumbai. The family never found out if he went missing or abandoned them.

With her son missing, her troubles increased. She was over 70 years old but went back to working as a maid in homes. She was very weak, but she used to go to work to earn a square meal for herself and her unemployed daughter-in-law. Her daughter-in-law began torturing her regularly. She would verbally and physically abuse her. Lakshmi Bai became depressed and fell ill frequently because of age and abuse.

At last the neighbors took pity on Lakshmi. They decided to rescue her from her torture at the hands of her daughter-in-law. An elderly neighbor having heard of Priyadarshini Seva Mandal called the organization. He informed them about the sad plight of Lakshmi Bai.** Lady Volunteers from Priyadarshini Seva Mandal reached the area where Lakshmi stayed. They and brought her to the home.**

Within a short time, Lakshmi recovered from her depression. She now lives a peaceful life with no need to work.

Priyadarshini Seva Mandali runs a Home called NEST for the abandoned elderly senior citizens. Their kin abandons them or deserted by their children because of poverty or serious illnesses.

Now, Lakshmi bai has a good quality of life, nutritious meals, decent clothes, and toiletries. She even receives regular medical checkups, medicines, and medical treatment whenever required.

Lakshmi finally a place she could call home at the NEST. The residents at NEST are now her family. They share their joys, sorrows and all their experiences in their lives.

Without the support and care of Priyadarshini Seva Mandali, Lakshmi would have spent her old age going through abuse. The home has given her a new life and hope in her golden years.

You can also help poor destitute seniors get a safe shelter and medical care that they deserve. You can donate so that they can get the support with which they can live their golden years in peace. You can give with confidence because every program listed is GIVEASSURED.

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About The Program

What the beneficiary gets
Shelter Home
What you get
Tax Exemption
Periodic Reports
Program Description

Priyadarshini Seva Mandali runs a NEST, a home for the destitute, homeless senior citizens who have been abandoned by their families. This was started in 2012.

One unit of donation to this program covers the medical expenses, the salary of the caretaker and cleaning staff as well as rent of the home and admin expenses for one person for a month

The residents are well cared for by the staff. They are provided with free accommodation, medical expenses, and food. While most of them are too old to take on regular work, some of them keep themselves busy by making cotton wicks and paper covers.

These senior citizens are provided with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. An in-house doctor and medical facilities take care of the healthcare requirements.

The home can accommodate 20 -25 residents. The minimum age of senior citizens living in the center is 60.

When you donate to the program, you will help abandoned senior citizens get access to three meals in their golden years.

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About The NGO

Priyadarshini Seva Mandali
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Priyadarshini Seva Mandali

Priyadarshini Seva Mandali (PSM) commenced its journey on 27th April, 1991 with the aim to provide a platform for the unprivileged ones. The organisation is registered under A.P Fasli Telangana Society registration Act 1350 F.

The organisation currently works with the grassroot level of the society in order to bring them back to the mainstream of life. They work in 5 revenue mandals in Khammam district, with headquarters in Khammam.

Initially they started with a small group of people. However, with time, several like minded people joined them and became a wonderful part of their journey, contributing precious time in shaping the dream of a beautiful nation. They are focused on facilitating community organization and women empowerment that leads to sustainable development of the society.

By means of several projects, PSM reached the poor through numerous programs like Women Empowerment, Non-pest Management, Livelihood programs, Nutrition and Medical support to HIV/AIDS effected/ infected Children, HIV/AIDS Awareness camps, PPTCT center for HIV/AIDS pregnant women and mid day meal program to destitute senior citizens.

Priyadarshini Seva Mandali organizes Nutrition & Medical support to HIV children, serving mid day meals to 45-50 destitute senior citizens in Khammam. They now also have a home for the destitute senior citizens.

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founders
Founded in 1991
NGO Leadership

M. Aruna

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Area of Operation
Area of Operation

Nutrition | health

location of work
Location of Work
Location of Work

Telangana

Priyadarshini Seva Mandali has

provided free shelter and food to 45 poor senior citizens last year

awards
Awards And Recognitions
Awards And Recognitions

2017: Social Excellence Award

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Last Audited
Periodic Compliance Checks by GiveIndia

Renewals FY 19-20

Program Updates

Program Updates

22 September, 2023

An update on the program you are supporting

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Activities and work undertaken in the last 5-6 months

Total number of beneficiaries impacted was 112 out of which 60% were females, in Sangareddy, Telangana


Challenges faced and next steps

We have rescued a womzn who was taking shelter on the streets and later we shifted her to a govt facility as she is mentally ill person.


Stories from the ground

DeepaliGuptha, who is 66 years old hails from Kolkata and moved to Hyderabad. She was married to Sunil Kumar Guptha, who died some 15 years ago. The couple had a son named Sagar Kumar Guptha. The son was alcoholic and lost interest to take up jobs. Poor Deepali had to feed his lazy son .Since she was unable to meet both ends meet with her meagre labour job wages, they have to starve for days together at that time her son left her. When Deepali joined NEST HOME, she was totally weak and was even unable to walk because she had a very bad wound on her left leg. She is diabetic too. Within days after joining NEST HOME, Deepali picked up her health. With good diet, medical are being provided her wound got regular dressing with help of nursing staff and exercises she picked up her health fast.Today, DeepaliGuptha is a happy lady and she is ever grateful to the staff of NEST HOME for giving her a decent dignified life. Deepali Guptha is very grateful to her donors supporting her.


8 December, 2022

At 75, Madan is Healthier, Hale and Hearty!

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Activities and work undertaken in the last 5-6 months

Our NEST HOME has been providing medical care to the abandoned old people, besides providing secured shelter and nutritious diet. There are about 150 old-age people residing at our NEST HOME. Our medical care to these old age people consists of providing regular checkups and consultations from qualified doctors. Giving prescribed medicines and ensuring they maintain good health and build their strong immune system via physical exercises and yoga exercises. Our aim is to ensure good health and good life to these poor abandoned old age people housed at NEST HOME. The major milestone we have achieved is to build their immune system stronger and to ensure their good health. With their immune system stronger they could also able to beat covid and covid related diseases. Not one of our senior citizens has suffered from covid or covid related diseases. That's how we serve our poor old age people. The major events that our inmates enjoy is the way we celebrate festivals. Festivals like Sankranthi, Holi, Rakhi Poornima, Dasara, Deepawali, Ramzan, Christmas are these festivals that our inmates enjoy the most. There would be Rangoli Competition on Sankranthi. All the inmates light the entire premises with Diyas on Deepavali. They help in preparing sweets. We celebrate Rakhi Poornima to inculcate in them the brother-sister relationship. There are about more than 50 orphaned old age people who were impacted through our programs of giving quality healthcare. The way all the old-age people living at NEST HOME maintain their good health and life is evidence enough to prove how their lives have been impacted or effected.


Challenges faced and next steps

Most of these old-age people suffer from several illnesses and diseases like Diabetes, High BP, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Arthritis, Back Pain, Depression, and Mentally Imbalanced etc. Tending and nursing these weak senior citizens is indeed a big challenge. We provide prescribed medicines, regular checkups, and physiotherapy treatments and help them recover fast from their illnesses. Qualified yogic instructor and physiotherapist are appointed for training them in warm up exercises and yogic breathing exercises so that they maintain good health. Besides providing prescribed medicines, taking care of these sick and infirm old-age people is indeed the biggest challenge which we overcome with passion. Our NEST HOME is able to put covid related issues and illnesses behind them through building stronger immune system through medication and yogic exercises. It is our commitment and enthusiasm in serving these old age people that we could easily overcome all our problems. We wish to continue beyond the next six months without any gap in our services, commitment and dedication. This is our mission.


Stories from the ground

Madan had lost his wife decades back. He had a son and a daughter. The son and his wife, daughter and her husband have driven Madan out of their home. Unable to live on his own, one of his distant relatives had contacted NEST HOME and got him admitted after due processes. Upon medical checkups, he was found to be diabetic. Since then, he was being given prescribed medicines and was made to do some walking, warm up exercises, yoga and breathing exercises to control his diabetes. He soon picked up his health. With his immune system built stronger he even warded off covid related diseases. Today, at 75, Madan is looking all healthy, hale and hearty. Thanks to NEST HOME's care and comfort.


30 June, 2022

At 76, Ramakrishna Going Strong. Thanks to PSM Care.

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Activities and work undertaken in the last 5-6 months

We at Priyadarshini Seva Mandali has been in the noble service for decades in providing shelter, food and medical support to poor orphan, destitute and abandoned senior citizens. For the last six months, we have aggressively moved forward in servicing these poor hapless senior citizens. We will continue to forward with much enthusiasm for years to come. It gives us immense pleasure in rescuing and sheltering the abandoned senior citizens left on the roads to die their death. We bring these abandoned old-age people into our NEST HOME and provide them medical support with regular checkups, medicines, diagnostic tests and ensure their good health. Also, we provide them nutritious food twice a day with breakfast and supper snacks with tea, coffee and other health drinks.

Our regular checkups and good care and monitoring also ensure that they are kept safe from covid effects. There wasn't a single instance of covid affecting our inmates. Life at NEST HOME is precious. There are about 100 plus inmates at NEST HOME. All these senior citizens feel that they have found a new home for themselves and live together like a well-knitted family. This is the reason senior citizens at NEST celebrate every festival like Dusshera, Diwali with much gaiety. Thanks for your magnanimous support in ensuring their good health through your donations for their living and medical expenses. We at PSM along with the senior citizens are much grateful and look forward.


Challenges faced and next steps

Running PSM is a big challenge for us. To provide shelter to protect the abandoned senior citizens at our NEST HOME; giving them good health and quality life is demanding. Nevertheless, we have easily surmounted this challenge. Thanks for your generous support and standing by us in our mission through your donations in serving the poor abandoned destitute old-age people who are left to die on roads. There is joy for us in helping and giving good health with a decent quality of life to these poor destitute old-age people.


Stories from the ground

Ch Ramakrishna Raju is the only educated senior citizen at our NEST HOME. He is 76 years old and still going strong. Thanks to the care of NEST HOME. Once he lost his wife to breast cancer, his children began to neglect him and gradually stopped giving him food too. He was made to starve and due to malnutrition, he became very weak. He was even unable to stand or walk on his own. Also, he developed other health issues that come with malnutrition. Someone brought him to our home and we gladly took him under our wings of care and love at NEST HOME. After a few months of his joining, he soon picked up his health with our medical support and good dietary regimen. We also made him perform yogic and physical exercises to keep him fit. Thanks to your support for giving him a good life and health.


30 September, 2021

R Venkatamma Going Strong at 75! Thanks to NEST HOME of PSM!

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Activities and work undertaken in the last 5-6 months

Thanks to your support, we have been moving forward with much enthusiasm in our bid to provide secured shelter to abandoned senior citizens, enabling them to lead a qualitative life in our NEST HOME. We conduct regular checkups on our beneficiaries given the dreaded COVID situation and take care of them by providing medicines and a healthy diet. We also ensure that they regularly exercise and do yoga and meditation to stay fit and healthy. We monitor all our inmates to keep them happy, hale and hearty. We have kept the dreaded COVID at bay... miles away from our PSM and NEST HOME. Celebration of festivals like Sankranthi, Holi, Ramzan is what our inmates enjoy the most. They help in preparing sweets. We have extended our programs to cities and districts in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with much success despite facing a financial crunch. 90 people benefitted from our program. They are all doing well health-wise and are living happily. Through our program, we could help them maintain their health in good condition.


Challenges faced and next steps

There were no particular challenges in carrying out our operations. Covid was at bay with due care, medication and yogic exercises. We would love to continue in the same spirit and vein for years to come. It is our mission and goal to provide quality life to abandoned senior citizens.


Stories from the ground

Stories from the ground:R. Venkatamma, who is 75 years old, hails from a very poor family. Soon after her husband died, her only daughter began to ill-treat her and tortured her. Poor Venkatamma, whatever she earned through working as a maid at few homes was taken away by her drunkard daughter. When she became old and could not earn, her daughter drove her away from home. She has no one to take care of her. Someone took pity on her and got her admitted to our NEST HOME. She soon gained her health under our due care. We provided good food, regular checkups and made her do yoga, meditation and walking. She is now healthy but has age-related weaknesses. We are grateful for your support.


23 March, 2021

Now, Susila has a family

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Besides providing good quality life to the inmates of our NEST Home, providing medical attention is a basic principle and a necessity at our Priyadarshini Seva Mandali. In fact, without good health whatever wealth we have is all waste and useless, which is why we provide importance to good health. We place utmost importance on medical care and stress on good healthy life for all of our inmates. Under this medical program, we regularly conduct health check-ups on all our inmates. General Doctors and Specialists regularly visit our NEST Home to check the health condition of our inmates. Following due medical care under our doctors' advice, we at NEST provide good medical care, provide medicines, allow them total bed rest and ensure our inmates follow the strict dietary regimen as prescribed by our doctors. Apart from medical care, we ensure that these old-age people at NEST take care of their health through yoga, exercises, walking, jogging and meditation etc. This way, we provide good health to all our old-age people residing at our NEST HOME ensuring they live a happy healthy life


M. Susila, aged 60 years was abandoned by her children, kith and kin. After her husband died, her two daughters and sons-in-law took away whatever little property and savings she had. They gradually began neglecting her, not feeding her properly. They made her go hungry. They used to give Susila the stale and leftover food. The daughters made her work like a donkey in their homes. They treated her like a slave. Susila suffered all this in silence. When she fell ill, they could not even provided her medical care or purchased a tablet. Unable to bear the torture, she one day ran away from her family and went to live with her relatives. For a couple of days, they looked after her very well. Soon there too, the torture began. She was half-fed and worked like a slave there too. She was finally fed up and ran away from her relatives place too. She roamed the streets and lived by begging. She slept on roads and footpaths. There was no one to look after her. When she fell ill and was unable to even get up and walk, a kind gentleman, after knowing our noble charitable activities and how we take care of abandoned destitute old-age people informed us about her condition. We then brought her to our NEST HOME. When we took her for medical check-ups, she was found to be having diabetes and heart problems. We provided her good medical care and nursed her back to good health. She soon regained her health under our due care and love. She participates in all the activities happily like a little child.



5 August, 2020

Medical check-up to the inmates of old age home

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Medical check-up to the inmates of old age home




The inmates of the will undergo regular medical checkups with B.P, Diabetes and general check up which is very useful for us and this time we tried a Acupuncture treatment for the inmates of old age which really works and many of them felt better from their knee pains and other body pains.



22 July, 2019

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Program Update


Besides providing good quality life to the inmates of our NEST Home, providing medical attention is also the integral part of our Priyadarshini Seva Mandali's Preamble. We place utmost importance on medical care and stress on good healthy life for all. Under this medical program, General Doctors and Specialists regularly visit our NEST Home to check the medical condition of our inmates. Under their guidance, PSM provides good medical care including medicines, bed rest, and prescribed dietary food. Besides, providing medical attention and care, we also ensure that these senior inmates at NEST take care of their health through yoga, exercises, walking, jogging and meditation etc. Thus, we ensure that all the senior inmates live a healthy happy life ever after.


Story from the field


Janardhan was once an orphan was abandoned by his own daughters after he performed their marriages. He was left penniless after spending everything on his daughters' marriages. The mental torture he suffered at the hands of his own daughters and sons-in-law left him in a depressed state, which gradually turned him into a mentally deranged man. Soon his daughters and sons-in-law kicked him out leaving him orphaned. Besides his mental condition, his physical condition too worsened due to lack of food and proper medical care. There was no one to take care of him. No medical attention. He hardly ever got a full meal in a day. He used to go without food for days together. Under this condition, someone told him about our Priyadarshini Seva Mandali and our NEST Home and the good jolly life at NEST. Having found our address, he straightaway walked into our office and joined as an inmate. Under our care, over a period of time he picked up his health condition and became physically fit. As for his mental condition too, through meditation and proper medical attention he became mentally fit too. He was, along with other inmates, enjoying good quality food, nice clothes to wear and a roof over his head, and friends and associates at NEST made his life more comfortable and enjoyable. He is now peacefully and blissfully living at NEST enjoying his life.


What is the expected total number of beneficiaries in this program for FY18-19?50
What is the number of beneficiaries/ benefits provided in this program, Year-To-Date38
Village/City/State where project is locatedAmeenpur(V)(M), Sangareddy Dt
Total Budget for the project for FY18-19500000
Total Expenses for the project YTD497537

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