Workers and vulnerable groups
Senior citizens — company, care and safety online
The fastest-growing group of Indians living alone is people over seventy whose children moved cities or countries. Most of them are not poor. They are isolated, and increasingly they are targets.
We run companionship visits and phone calls, help with pensions and paperwork, and arrange care where it is needed. A weekly visit from someone who notices that the fridge is empty prevents a great deal.
We also teach digital safety. Elderly Indians lose more money to online fraud than any other group, and an hour of specific, practical teaching — what a real bank call sounds like, what a UPI request actually does — prevents most of it.
How the programme works
- Weekly companionship visits and check-in calls
- Help with pension claims, documentation and entitlements
- Digital safety sessions on UPI, bank fraud and impersonation calls
- Geriatric and palliative care referral, and day-care centres
What your donation buys
- ₹2,000A month of weekly companionship visits for one person
- ₹10,000A digital safety workshop for forty senior citizens
- ₹50,000A day-care centre running for a month
Questions about this programme
My parents live alone in another city. Can you check on them?
In the cities where we operate, yes. We arrange regular visits and calls and report back to you. Tell us where they live and we will say honestly whether we can reach them.
What should I do if an elderly relative has been defrauded online?
Report it on the national cybercrime portal and to the bank within the golden hour, which is when recovery is most likely. Contact us and we will help with both, and with the police complaint.