Widow Support
We are providing essential care and support to vulnerable widows, ensuring they have food security, a safe place to live, and a sense of belonging.
Hope Through Practical Support
The plight of widows in India, particularly elderly widows, is heartbreaking. Culturally they are ostracized and often either abandoned by their families or given very little support. We assist both young and older widows who often have major health challenges, lack skills or education and face other limitations caring for themselves. Our first goal is to make sure that they have enough to eat and somewhere safe to live. Our second goal is to provide enough funding so they are able to tend to their health needs. Our third goal is to help those who are still able to work find a viable way to generate income. Many of the younger widows we support have had to give up their children for others to raise, due to their poverty. We would like to be able to reunite these mothers with their children as they regain the ability to care for them.
Stories of Success
Mary is a widow, 39 years old. She lost her husband in 2016. Mary contracted HIV and non-contagious TB from her husband. She is the live-in caretaker for five orphan girls, serving without a salary. Due to Mary's health conditions, another unpaid helper comes to do the cooking, cleaning and laundry for all of them.
Our support means Mary can eat better quality food to boost her immune system and increase her health.
With a generous donation from a U.S. optometrist, Hope Givers United was able to arrange payment for a necessary eye surgery for the widow Emelamma. She would have lost her eyesight without it but was able to retain her vision due to this donation.
Hope Givers United is proud to be able to provide monthly support to widows like Mary and Emelamma in their journey towards a healthy and dignified future.
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