We are ‘Vriddha Mitra’, truly the friends of older people!

We at ‘Vriddha Mitra’ are committed to work for the Elderly (aged 60 years and above / also referred to as older people, elders and senior citizens) of our society. We initiated this process in 2018 and with pride we share that we have reached out directly to more than 150000 (one hundred and fifty thousand) older people in the last three and a half years, through various activities across the country by way of creating community based support systems, ensuring social protection, extending recreation, conducting health care check-ups, supporting with assisted devices and undertaking humanitarian response, including COVID-19.

Today, we are a family of over 500 individual supporters (both national and international) that help ‘Vriddha Mitra’ in increasing its reach by every passing day. We are committed to do whatever it takes to reach out to every elderly in need in India. You can also join this family and can do your bit to help the vulnerable and disadvantaged older people of India.

Together we can help them claim their right to an active, fulfilling and healthy life in their old age, which they deserve.

‘Vriddha Mitra’ runs solely on donations and to sustain our projects and continue setting up more of these, your support is vital.

Any amount donated by you will be utilised by ‘Vriddha Mitra’ to plan and implement on-ground projects to benefit the vulnerable and needy older people of India. We ensure that our response is timely and is delivered at an appropriate scale.

While we appreciate one-time donations, monthly donations help us plan our programmes better and sustain them for a longer duration. Even a nominal amount of ₹1250 per month will make a big difference in the life of an elderly in need. This support of yours can help us reach out to an older person and provide with basic essentials, health-check-ups, assistive devices, counselling for mental well-being and long-term care for the immobile and bed-ridden.

How do you make sure that your donated money is actually doing all this?

You can keep a track of our work at all times by following us on social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. You can access our quarterly newsletters which captures the highlights of our work done in the quarter gone past. ‘Vriddha Mitra’ is very transparent with its spends. In the year 2021-22, we spent 100% of what we got as donations to run our programmes.