Parivaar Winter Relief for Uncared for Elderly

8000 blankets distributed to vulnerable elderly across more than 200 tribal villages in 7 districts of Madhya Pradesh. We completed this big logistical exercise last week. Quality blankets were ordered from Ludhiana in Punjab and ferried to more than 200 villages, many of which did not have any roads. This line of work is seen these days to be old-fashioned charity, even regressive, by most sections of ‘the development sector’, particularly when the beneficiaries are people who have long lost their productive possibilities – the vulnerable elderly or such. But we do undertake such activities annually apart from Parivaar’s regular work of educating feeding and taking care of 20 thousand children on a daily basis. We have found that it is very rejuvenating to our spirit and sharpens empathy of all our workers and volunteers. I increasingly feel that the society which cares for its vulnerable non productive class is most empathetic and is an ideal for society to achieve. The human being’s worth cannot be measured in terms of economic possibilities only. I was fortunate to have been present in about 20 such villages during the distribution and interactions with our elderly, hearing their problems and receiving their blessings.