Delhi based Agewell Foundation is an NGO which has been constantly working for the welfare and empowerment of the elderly population in India since 1999. Apart from this noble cause, the Foundation aims at enlightening the popular mind-set that regards old age with a sense of pity for their helplessness and thereby replace it with an attitude of confidence and fostering respect for them. Armed with this purpose in mind, the NGO created the Agewell-Helpline for older persons.
Over the years, Agewell has set up a two-tier network of over 7,500 primary and 80,000 secondary volunteers spread across 640 districts of India and interacts with over 25,000 older persons on daily basis through its volunteers' network.
Agewell Foundation has been conducting healthcare equipment distribution campaigns to provide medical accessories to the destitute elderly in the slums of Delhi & NCR for the last four years. Apart from this, it has initiated its Free Food Packets Distribution campaign to provide food rations to the old residing in the slum areas while also conducting their "Share the Warmth" campaign to ensure that no one is deprived of warmth in the winter season. Additionally, the Agewell Centre for Ageing is committed to bringing in a dynamic and continuous change in terms of social participation & integration, economic security, macro societal change and development, healthy ageing, enhancing the physical and mental quality of life and ushering in care systems in diverse cultural, socio-economic and environmental situations.
In recognition of the significant contributions being made by the Foundation, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has granted the Foundation with a Special Consultative Status at the United Nations. It is also accredited as an Associated NGO with the Department of Public Information (UNDPI), United Nations.
Please visit their official website http://www.agewellfoundation.org/, for more information.
For their relentless efforts, Agewell Foundation deserves a Standing Ovation!
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