Old-age home · 28 residents · Pune
Sanjvela Niwas houses twenty-eight elders who have outlived their savings, their families' patience, or both. Meals, a shared room, a nurse's daily round, medicines, and someone to talk to in the evening — the whole month costs ₹4,500 per resident and this page shows the arithmetic. We assist with daily life; hospitals treat. That line is kept bright.
Assistance, not treatment: the home has a nurse's round and a tied-up local clinic for referrals, not a doctor on campus — and says so to every family before admission, in writing.
For People who want an elder's month costed to the rupee · Neighbours who can give an evening of reading and letters · Families honouring a parent's memory with a named month
These four are promises this page makes on your behalf. Keep them or change them — they are not decoration.
Ways to give or join
Every figure is this home's actual running cost this year, divided across twenty-eight residents — not a national average and not a round number chosen for a poster. Private assisted-living in this city starts at five times these figures; the difference is a rented house, shared rooms, and a trust deed instead of a margin. When costs move, the cards move.
Monthly
Three meals, the shared room's share of rent and power, the nurse's daily round, routine medicines, and the small dignities — a haircut, a newspaper. The whole month, honestly divided.
Monthly
Blood-pressure and diabetes strips, the standing prescriptions, dressings — the shelf that empties fastest in any house of twenty-eight elders.
One-time
Vegetables, dal, milk, tea and the cooking gas for twenty-eight people for seven days — the mandi list is on the kitchen wall and the card matches it.
Volunteer
Newspapers read aloud, letters written home whether or not home writes back, carrom lost gracefully. The loneliness is the illness this house treats, and it is treated by exactly this.
In kind
Bedsheets and towels wear out by the dozen; reading spectacles walk away in ones. Things from the home's own list — brought to the office, entered in the stock register.
Pick the way you want to help and it lands in the form below. Picking another replaces it — this page records one intention at a time, not a basket. NO MONEY MOVES ON THIS PAGE: nothing is charged, deducted or collected here, and how giving actually happens is written under the form.
On the ground
No frailty close-ups and no staged gratitude — the residents are people at home, not evidence. These frames are placeholders for your own house on a working day: the courtyard, the kitchen, the evening carrom. Faces only with written consent.
How giving actually happens
Paste the trust's bank account name, number and IFSC here, and the UPI ID if you use one — exactly as the bank has them. State plainly that nobody collects cash at the gate or door-to-door in the home's name.
Words you have permission to print
A resident who wants to be quoted, or a volunteer, in their own words, with their name — collected with written, revocable consent.
Your honest record
Last quarter's numbers, dated: residents housed, admissions and deaths both, money in and the itemised split of the ₹4,500. The audited annual figures go here exactly as the auditor wrote them.
The frames above are placeholder photographs of the kind of work this page is about — not this organisation's own record, and never a person whose face buys sympathy. The slots below are deliberately blank: this is a template, and an invented beneficiary count, an invented donor or an invented 80G number would be a lie on a page asking people to give — and inventing the tax registration is an offence. Fill each slot with something real and checkable, then delete this line.
How it works
Three steps, and money moves only to the trust's account, only against a receipt.
The form records what you picked and how to reach you. Nothing is charged here — this page cannot take money, by design. Families seeking admission for an elder should call the office directly; that conversation deserves better than a web form.
Within the week, with the account details and receipt mechanics — and for a named remembrance month, the date it will be given and how the kitchen marks it.
The quarterly sheet carries the register and the money's split. Better: come on a reading evening. The house's best audit is its courtyard at five o'clock.
Before you give
No, and we will not blur that. The home has a nurse's daily round, standing prescriptions managed with a local clinic, and a referral arrangement for anything beyond that scope. Families get this in writing before admission; donors get it in the second cell of this page.
By the trust's committee, on need: elders without means or family support come first. There is a waiting list, it moves at the speed of the register's hardest rows, and we decline to dramatise either fact.
Shared rooms in a rented house, a lean staff, no doctor on campus, no margin. The ₹4,500 is printed with its split in the quarterly sheet. Homes that charge ₹40,000 are often honest too — they are simply a different building with different promises. Ours are these.
You sponsor a month, not a person — residents are not allotted to donors. But visitors are the house's oxygen: come on reading evenings, festival afternoons, or any day the office confirms. Whether a particular resident wants company on a particular day remains, as it should, up to them.
Only if the 80G cell at the top carries a current number, checkable on the income-tax portal. The office shares the certificate before any transfer; an empty cell means ask first.
The one thing this page asks
One form, one intention. The office replies within the week — nothing is charged or collected here.
You want to help with
Nothing yet — pick a way to give above, or say it in the form.
Three required fields: a name, a way to reply, a channel. Deliberately absent: any amount field (the cards carry the itemised costs), any PAN (that belongs with the 80G receipt at donation time), any payment field (this page records intentions and takes nothing) — and any admission enquiry fields, because placing a parent in a home is a conversation the office owes families in person, not a dropdown.
Your details go to the trust's office for this one reply and are not added to any appeal list. Never sold, no fundraiser calls, and residents never learn who paid for what.