Impact
Rangubai can finally lead the life she earned
Rangubai Mule is a 66-year-old woman who lives in a small, one-room house allotted to her by MHADA. She has a BP problem and joint pain but there is no one to look after her.
She cannot work regularly because of her health issues. She occasionally works as help in homes nearby but does not earn enough for even two meals a day. She gets by on a meagre monthly pay of about Rs. 1500.
She was referred to Dignity Foundation and their social workers visited her home and evaluated her living conditions. She was then added to their monthly ration program.
She now receives rations free of cost every month from the Foundation. She has spent all her life working and does so whenever she can till date. But she no longer has to constantly worry about how she will be able to earn a day’s meals. This has taken a load off her mind and she can now afford to rest, take care of her health and live a life suitable for an elderly citizen.
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About The Program
What the beneficiary gets
Program Description
The population of senior citizens is increasing as life expectancy is increasing. Families in urban areas are becoming nuclear and smaller, as a result of which there are fewer people available in the house to provide care and comfort to the ageing.
Due to the increase in number of the elderly population their needs and problems are increasing too. There are many senior citizens who are without any financial support and are living below the poverty line. There are senior citizens with small pensions but most of it goes for medical treatment and hardly anything is left for nutritional support. For such needy senior citizens, Dignity Foundation has started Ration Service. The needy elderly are given dry rations for sustenance every month. The senior citizens are then tracked through home visits.
The elderly deserve dignity in their last days and a little support can help them with the dignity they deserve.
About The NGO
Dignity Foundation
Program Updates
Program Updates
22 July, 2019
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Program Update
Dignity foundation ration service’s main aim is to provide at least one day’s full meal to elderly person or couple for full month. Dignity foundation with the help of our volunteers conduct camps or surveys in Slum areas of Mumbai and find out elderly person or couple, who are suffering from food storage due to financial in balance. Ration service is provided, if that elderly person or couple fits to beneficiary criteria. Our monthly ration service consider of:- Atta–5kg,Rice–3kg,Sugar–1kg,Tur dal–1kg,Tea–250gm,Cooking Oil–2ltr, Moong full 500gm, Salt–1kg,Poha–500gm,Rawa–1kg
Story from the field
Yallava Nagappa Shinnur is a window 65 yrs old, who lives alone suffering spondylose problem in slums of Dharavi Mumbai. She don’t have earning hand and due to old age can get work , so she has to get money from her sister. It was difficult for her to fulfill her food needs. She uses to adjust with half day meal. Also there was no money to buy medicine, which affected her health. After getting Dignity foundation ration service Yallava, had a better meal for both times in a day. Now she is able to maintain her health, also saved money is utilized for medicine. She is able to manage her meal and health. Before only sometimes rice and dal was made, after monthly ration service chapatti, rice and dal is meal for her. She is thankful for providing her monthly ration service, which helps her to feed herself with nutrition food. Therefore monthly ration service is giving her better health and helps to manager her medicine requirement.
| What is the expected total number of beneficiaries in this program for FY18-19? | 130 |
| What is the number of beneficiaries/ benefits provided in this program, Year-To-Date | 102 |
| Village/City/State where project is located | Mumbai |
| Total Budget for the project for FY18-19 | 162500 |
| Total Expenses for the project YTD | 112200 |
30 October, 2018
Dignity Foundation's Update
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Program Update
The main aim of this program is to provide at least one full day's meal to an elderly person or a couple for an entire month. We at, Dignity foundation, with the help of our volunteers, conduct camps and surveys in the slum areas of Mumbai to identify elderly persons or couples who are suffering from food storage due to financial imbalance. When these identified elderly persons or couples meets our criteria, they are enrolled into the program. They are provided with monthly ration materials so as to provide for themselves. Our monthly ration articles include:- Atta-5kg, Rice-3kg, Sugar-1kg, Tur dal-1kg, Tea-250gm, Cooking Oil-2ltr, Moong dal full 500gm, Salt-1kg, Poha-500gm, Rawa-1kg
Story from the field
Yallava Nagappa Shinnur receives monthly ration , Therefore some money remain in her hand for medicines
Yallava Nagappa Shinnur, a 65 years old window, suffering spondylose problem lives alone in the slums of Dharavi Mumbai. Due to old age, she is unable to go to work everyday and earn her own bread. She is dependent on her sister financially. Although, it is very difficult for her to fulfill her food requirements with the support she receives from her sister. She managed to live on a single meal everyday. Additionally, she had medical requirements which she couldn't afford. She did not have money to buy medicine. It gradually started affecting her health.
Yallava was identified by one of our volunteers, and was later admitted into Dignity foundation's ration service program. Yallava, now receives better meals two times a day. She now uses the monies she receives from her sister to attend to her medical needs, and maintain her health. Earlier only at times she could afford to eat rice and dal. After she has become a part of the program, she is able to eat chapatti, rice and dal for meals everyday. She is thankful to be a part of the program and receive her monthly rations, which helps her to feed herself with nutritious food.
| Expected total number of beneficiaries in this program for FY18-19 | 130 |
| Number of beneficiaries/ benefits provided in this program this year | 102 |
18 May, 2018
Dignity Foundation's update
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Dignity Foundation supports indigent senior citizens in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Pune by providing a month's worth of basic dry provisions to the very poor senior citizens who cannot fend for themselves.
107 Senior citizens are receiving rations at their doorstep every month without fail till the financial year of 2017-18
Senior citizens either call on Dignity Helpline or come in person to request for ration support. Dignity Foundation also reaches out to the slum localities through the Dignity on Wheels outreach programme and with the help of volunteers.
The Ration project takes off after a physical verification of the genuineness of the case by a Social Worker. These senior citizens are not sleeping hungry and are able to live with dignity in their last days. This has been made possible by your support for this program. Expected total number of beneficiaries in this program for FY18-19 - 50 Total Budget for the project for FY18-19 - INR 1,00,000
Sulochana's story This is real life situation of one of our ration beneficiaries. She is a 65-year-old lady staying in a small room (semi pakka) in the slums of Mumbai. She lost her husband at a very young age. She had two sons and one daughter to take care of. With no literacy she started to do domestic work and support her children. Her children went to local municipal school and were school drop outs. Slum conditions and poverty were responsible for death of her two sons. Her daughter, 45 years old, is staying with her. Due to poverty and multiple factors her daughter studied upto primary school. From young days she joined her mother as a domestic helper. Recently the mother had a stroke which resulted in paralysis of right side. To keep herself active she takes up domestic work. The ration support has helped her in a big way. She never goes hungry now.
13 March, 2018
Survey conducted to understand needs of poverty-stricken elderly
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A survey was conducted among 31 beneficiaries receiving rations from Dignity Foundation. Quite a few interesting observations were made out of the 24 questions that were asked. These findings help the organisation to improve their services better, especially because the beneficiaries are all poverty-stricken elderly people, belonging to an age group of 60-90+. The total monthly income of the beneficiaries is 1500 on an average with about half of them having zero income. The rations that they receive are shared with 2 more people on an average. About 90% do not work and the remaining work either as domestic help or on part time basis. An updates on a beneficiary: Ramesh Solanki, 73 is a differently abled man who lives with his wife in Mumbai, in search of a livelihood. His wife works as a domestic help. Their three sons live in the village and do not look after them. Rations are provided to them by Dignity Foundation so that the couple can get through each day with proper food.
