Community
Providing essential care and assistance to elderly people and other highly vulnerable individuals — so no one grows old alone.
Food, medicine & companionship
Focus
Elderly & highly vulnerable individuals
Who it helps
Regular, personal, ongoing support
Approach
In the villages and city fringes of Bangladesh live thousands of elderly people with no one left to provide for them. Some are widows; some outlived their children; many survive on what neighbours can spare. Our Elderly & Vulnerable People Support program exists so that growing old in poverty does not also mean growing old alone.
A lifetime of work deserves a dignified old age. But for many of the elderly poor, the final years are the hardest — no income, fading health, and no family able to help. The support we bring is often simple: rice and staples, medicine, a blanket in winter. What it says is anything but simple: you are not forgotten.
We deliver support the way you would care for your own grandparent — sitting with them, listening, returning. For people who have spent a lifetime giving to others, being cared for is a quiet, profound restoration of dignity.
“My husband passed and my sons are gone. When they come with rice and sit for tea, I feel I still belong to someone.”
Be there for an elder
Your monthly contribution can provide steady food, medicine and companionship for an elderly person with no one else. Sponsor an elder's peace of mind.
$25
approx. ৳2,900
School essentials for one student for a full year
$50
approx. ৳5,800
Uniform, shoes and a bag — the dignity to walk into class
$100
approx. ৳11,600
Keeps several children learning for months
