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Highlights Of #SaveOurSeniors Telethon: An Initiative To Protect Senior Citizens Who Are Most Vulnerable During Coronavirus Outbreak
New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) and HelpAge India, a non-profit organisation, are joining hands to focus on the lives of senior citizens, who have been the worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, as they are the most vulnerable, especially those above 80. As India fights the coronavirus outbreak and stays locked down for close to two months now, the elderly are struggling to simply survive. Join the campaign and help us raise funds to protect the people who have protected us all our lives.
Here are the Highlights of the #SaveOurSeniors Telethon:
Pramod Bhasin, Board Member, HelpAge India & Vice President, Genpact on the Telethon
Issues for the elderly in India is massive. Simple things like being considered economical burden, not being aware of their benefits, simple diseases, cause issues for them. HelpAge does wonderful work. We are trying to see how we can reach 15-20 million elderly people specially in rural areas and help them. The larger number of elderly are women, what do they do when they need medicines. We are reaching out to them for help. Elderly are easily most vulnerable. I pledge Rs 5 lakh to help.
Senior citizens have been the worst hit as they are the most vulnerable, especially those above 80. These elderly citizens are at high risk for the coronavirus and, in some cases, are also fighting isolation poverty and neglect.
HelpAge India is reaching out to these seniors, in urban and rural areas, with food, medicines, information, counselling and anything else they may need during a lockdown.
Disadvantaged elders who are homeless or in night shelters, and those in old age homes, are being given free meals, family survival kits with basic rations, protective hygiene kits with masks and handwash, free medicines & healthcare and hospital transportation.
Join NDTV and HelpAge India in raising funds to protect the people who protected us all our lives.