WHY WE DO NEED OLD AGE HOMES?

Right from a very young age, a child is taught  to worship his/her mother, father, teachers and guests as God. One thing my father insists time and again is that one can find heaven at one’s mother’s feet (Maa ke pairon mein swarg hota hai). Parents take a lot of pain to grow their children and sacrifice aplenty for their happiness. Our culture has it that it is duty of the child to look after his parents. On the contrary, the Indian society seems to be changing very fast and so are its moral values. Everyone is in a mad race of earning money, buying cars and going on foreign trips, and in the process do not take time off to look after their parents. Combined families are getting disintegrated into nuclear families. For the benefit of their children, the ageing parents are choose to stay by themselves or join old age homes.

Our values have become super-materialistic; we have become obsessed with money, power and status so much that we are gradually losing our morality. Commercialization has begin to spread its roots. The need of the hour to redefine success. But, what is success?

A successful person is he who is good at heart and has good relationships and human values. His or her social status does not constitute success. We are living in a society where interdependency is vital for the sustenance of the society. Life is an experience and not just a business. One can blame it on the rising aspirations, westernization, urbanization, migration or a host of other factors for this change. All these are very closely knit, and the absence of even one of these can affect the other needs.

Aged parents are like children; they are sensitive. One has to take care of them like the way a child is taken care of. The India of today is intensely influenced by the western world where parents live alone or stay at old age homes. Most people who settle abroad come home once in a while to see their parents or talk over phone and send home nickels. But  what they really want? No, in fact they want to be with their sons or daughters and play with their grand children. Parents are the primary source of inspiration who teach moral values to the children.

Contrastingly, in rural India, the old aged are looked after by the young the moment they are unable to look after themselves. The not-so-young and the not-so-old toil hard from dawn to dusk to run their families. It is a simple tale of giving and taking where everyone does his/her bit. There are no old age homes there! Have you ever thought why?

Vicissitudes of life have contributed to the misery of elders with no one to depend on, no means of income, no emotional security of making them destitute with a big question mark over their head about how to carry on with their lives and their only asset is their will to survive. To afford a helping hand to these senior citizens, will be creat SHREE KRISHNA MANAV SEWA CHARITABLE TRUST. 

FUTURE VISION OF SHREE KRISHNA MANAV SEWA CHARITABLE TRUST FOR OLD AGE HOME 

 SHREE KRISHNA MANAV SEWA CHARITABLE TRUST  has very clearly defined future plans as under:

To move to own well designed premises to accommodate endless numbers of elderly people – FREE OF COST
To provide in-house medical facilities and physiotherapy
To provide a place for prayer, yoga, meditation, recreation, library and other needs.
To develop organic kitchen gardens to make SHREE KRISHNA MANAV SEWA CHARITABLE TRUST  self sufficient.