Friday, December 30, 2016

AMRITSAR Project to engage senior citizens in community activities to be launched

his story talks of learning to earn at old age

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Project to engage senior citizens in community activities to be launched

Inderpreet Singh has been promoting the SPEEE project among citizens, especially students, in Amritsar on

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 15

Implementing his concept of engaging the elderly in activities that bring about a social change and ensuring that their twilight years are productive, city-based youngster Inderpreet Singh has collaborated with Sarab Asara, a home for the old to engage them in community-based activities. He will also officially launch the programme called SPEEE (Society for Productive Engagement and Entertainment for Elderly) in collaboration with IVY Children. Inderpreet has roped in Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who will launch the project on Saturday.
The project is designed to make senior citizens a part of the community skill development movement and make them self reliant. "Initially, we will be working with 12 senior citizens and impart them skills for programmes like mushroom farming, organic farming and other activities that help them keep busy and become productive. A small kitchen garden will be provided by Sarab Asara and the infrastructure will be provided by Dilbir Foundation," informed Inderpreet.
Sarab Asara, an initiative of the Youth For Global Transformation and Peace, will also provide land to expand upon the programme further. "We reached out to several volunteers from Khalsa College's agriculture department, who will guide the inmates about methods of farming. Also, a weekly medical checkup would also be done for free of cost, to take care of their health issues," he informed. The senior citizens will pair up with the underprivileged kids from IVY Children, for the skill development programme. It will include theatre training as well.
Calling his programme unique for the city, Inderpreet Singh said that the lack of avenues and regard for the life of senior citizens from the administration is disappointing. "Old age homes have attained a negative association, only considered as the abandonment ground for people who live with lost cause. I want to change that, working through the same elderly, making these homes a potential start-up hub."

http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/amritsar/project-to-engage-senior-citizens-in-community-activities-to-be-launched/337592.html

Saturday, December 3, 2016

Re: [sss-global] Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people | Indiablooms - First Portal on Digital News Management

Superb....sir.....very happy to read it.seniors serving the others who are suffering is really motivating.our SSS is the right title and it does right things to help elders.

On 2 December 2016 at 18:40, Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy vyasamoorthy@gmail.com [sss-global] <sss-global@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people
India Blooms News Service

The company, which started its journey two years back, provides expert-verified customised geriatric care solutions by leveraging technology and their team of trained, ex-army professionals.

Speaking about the organisation, co-founder Apratim Chattopadhyay said: "I was looking for an organisation that can provide comprehensive speciality care to elders and parents."

The organisation already has over 100 members.

The organisation carries out joint operation with Woodlands Hospital, Kolkata to provide the medical facilities to its members and also has tie-ups with other hospitals like Belle Vue Clinic and AMRI.

The Silver Circle, which is a joint initiative of Support Elders and Calcutta Metropolitan Institute, brings the concept of U3A (University of the Third Age) where retired and semi-retired people can come together to share their skills and experiences.

Chattopadhay,CEO of the organisation, said: "U3A provides life-long learning. Our members learn different instruments and then they can carry it out as their hobby."

Support Elders provides a smart watch to all its members with geo-location tracker, voice communication device and alert button to rescue them in an emergency situation.

The organisation aims to open its services outside the city in the near future.

"We are mainly targeting the tier 1 and tier 2 cities to expand our organisation and that will be decided in the next fiscal year," the CEO said.

The cost of the integrated services provided by Support Elders is currently Rs 2,000 rupees (excluding tax) per month per head

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Friday, December 2, 2016

Re: [indian-society-for-u3a] Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people | Indiablooms - First Portal on Digital News Management

Thank you Mr. Vyasamoorthy and Mr. Malhotra.

Warm Regards
Apratim Chattopadhyay

On 02-Dec-2016 8:49 pm, "ashok kumar malhotra" <akmalhotra123@rediffmail.com> wrote:

It is heartening to know details of Support Elders.
It is Novel. U3A is about learning anything by seniors,not necessarily education by books.
Regards

A K MALHOTRA

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Subject: [indian-society-for-u3a] Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people | Indiablooms - First Portal on Digital News Management

Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people
India Blooms News Service

The company, which started its journey two years back, provides expert-verified customised geriatric care solutions by leveraging technology and their team of trained, ex-army professionals.

Speaking about the organisation, co-founder Apratim Chattopadhyay said: "I was looking for an organisation that can provide comprehensive speciality care to elders and parents."

The organisation already has over 100 members.

The organisation carries out joint operation with Woodlands Hospital, Kolkata to provide the medical facilities to its members and also has tie-ups with other hospitals like Belle Vue Clinic and AMRI.

The Silver Circle, which is a joint initiative of Support Elders and Calcutta Metropolitan Institute, brings the concept of U3A (University of the Third Age) where retired and semi-retired people can come together to share their skills and experiences.

Chattopadhay,CEO of the organisation, said: "U3A provides life-long learning. Our members learn different instruments and then they can carry it out as their hobby."

Support Elders provides a smart watch to all its members with geo-location tracker, voice communication device and alert button to rescue them in an emergency situation.

The organisation aims to open its services outside the city in the near future.

"We are mainly targeting the tier 1 and tier 2 cities to expand our organisation and that will be decided in the next fiscal year," the CEO said.

The cost of the integrated services provided by Support Elders is currently Rs 2,000 rupees (excluding tax) per month per head

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It is heartening to know details of Support Elders.
It is Novel. U3A is about learning anything by seniors,not necessarily education by books.
Regards

A K MALHOTRA

From: Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy <vyasamoorthy@gmail.com>
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Subject: [indian-society-for-u3a] Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people | Indiablooms - First Portal on Digital News Management

Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people
India Blooms News Service

The company, which started its journey two years back, provides expert-verified customised geriatric care solutions by leveraging technology and their team of trained, ex-army professionals.

Speaking about the organisation, co-founder Apratim Chattopadhyay said: “I was looking for an organisation that can provide comprehensive speciality care to elders and parents.”

The organisation already has over 100 members.

The organisation carries out joint operation with Woodlands Hospital, Kolkata to provide the medical facilities to its members and also has tie-ups with other hospitals like Belle Vue Clinic and AMRI.

The Silver Circle, which is a joint initiative of Support Elders and Calcutta Metropolitan Institute, brings the concept of U3A (University of the Third Age) where retired and semi-retired people can come together to share their skills and experiences.

Chattopadhay,CEO of the organisation, said: “U3A provides life-long learning. Our members learn different instruments and then they can carry it out as their hobby.”

Support Elders provides a smart watch to all its members with geo-location tracker, voice communication device and alert button to rescue them in an emergency situation.

The organisation aims to open its services outside the city in the near future.

“We are mainly targeting the tier 1 and tier 2 cities to expand our organisation and that will be decided in the next fiscal year,” the CEO said.

The cost of the integrated services provided by Support Elders is currently Rs 2,000 rupees (excluding tax) per month per head

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Support Elders: A new destination for elderly people
India Blooms News Service

The company, which started its journey two years back, provides expert-verified customised geriatric care solutions by leveraging technology and their team of trained, ex-army professionals.

Speaking about the organisation, co-founder Apratim Chattopadhyay said: "I was looking for an organisation that can provide comprehensive speciality care to elders and parents."

The organisation already has over 100 members.

The organisation carries out joint operation with Woodlands Hospital, Kolkata to provide the medical facilities to its members and also has tie-ups with other hospitals like Belle Vue Clinic and AMRI.

The Silver Circle, which is a joint initiative of Support Elders and Calcutta Metropolitan Institute, brings the concept of U3A (University of the Third Age) where retired and semi-retired people can come together to share their skills and experiences.

Chattopadhay,CEO of the organisation, said: "U3A provides life-long learning. Our members learn different instruments and then they can carry it out as their hobby."

Support Elders provides a smart watch to all its members with geo-location tracker, voice communication device and alert button to rescue them in an emergency situation.

The organisation aims to open its services outside the city in the near future.

"We are mainly targeting the tier 1 and tier 2 cities to expand our organisation and that will be decided in the next fiscal year," the CEO said.

The cost of the integrated services provided by Support Elders is currently Rs 2,000 rupees (excluding tax) per month per head

ttp://www.indiablooms.com/ibns_new/health-details/H/2297/support-elders-a-new-destination-for-elderly-people.html

Saturday, September 10, 2016

School for old women in Thane

Women Between the Ages of 60 and 90 Are Learning Their ABCs at This School for Grannies

JUNE 20, 2016 CATEGORY : BE THE CHANGE

A school that is open for only two hours a day, where the uniform is pink sarees and where all students are between the ages of 60 and 90. Welcome to Aajibaichi Shala (Grandmothers’ School).

Set up by Yogendra Bangar and the Motiram Dalal Charitable Trust, the school – located inPhangane, Thane – is perhaps India’s first school for uneducated grandmothers.

“We started this school to inculcate love and respect for the elderly,” Dilip Dalal, the founder of the Trust toldFirstpost.

Yogendra Bangar – whose brain child the school is – says “Everybody in the village encouraged us, no one said a thing against the school. They said: ‘Nobody has done something like this before. Whatever you are doing is good for the society. We are with you.'”

He continues:

“Knowledge has great importance in life. It is very important to educate these elderly people who never got an opportunity to go to school. We started this school to bring happiness to their lives and make the village 100 percent literate.”

Started on International Women’s Day this year, the school – at present – has 28 students.

Says 87-year-old student Ramabai Ganpat Chandelle, “”I am like a ripe fruit that might fall off the branch anytime. I couldn’t go to school as a child and remained illiterate all my life. But I don’t want to die illiterate. Now, I am happy that I would be able to carry a few words with me to the other world.”

“When I come back home, the grandchildren tell me, ‘Granny, this is how you write this,’ or ‘Granny, this is how you read this.’ They teach me everything. They sit and study along with me. It’s great fun. We read each other’s lessons. We read out poems to each other. We write our lessons… We are certainly happy that we became literate at this age,” says another student, Kantabai.

While literacy is the primary goal, the school also has other activities in the pipeline for the women: “We have planned some creative initiatives wherein they will be trained to make hand-woven quilts and paper bags,” said Bangar.

Friday, September 9, 2016

Meet the 50-year-old Chennai professor who holds 145 academic degrees. No kidding : FYI, News - India Today

When I talk about Lifelong Learning I always refer to Senior citizens and retirees taking interest in learning activity. This is the maximum by number of degrees to be held by a single individual.

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Meet the 50-year-old Chennai professor who holds 145 academic degrees. No kidding
The visiting card of Professor VN Parthiban can barely hold all of the 145 academic degrees he obtained over the course of 30 years.

IndiaToday.in | Posted by KC Archana
New Delhi, September 7, 2016 | UPDATED 16:15 IST

BRIEFCASE
1Professor VN Parthiban holds more than 145 academic degrees.
2He teaches more than 100 subjects in colleges across Chennai.
3He spends all his Sundays appearing for exams and studying.
Just when you thought having four academic degree is a lifetime achievement, along comes a man who holds not 4, not 40, but a whopping 145 academic degrees.
Yes you read that right!

Meet, Professor VN Parthiban, whose visiting card is like a book in itself, overflowing with hundreds of his academic qualifications.

The list of achievements will send you into a tizzy; he holds 8 Master of Law degrees(ML), 10 Master of Arts degrees(MA), 8 Master of Commerce degrees(M.Com), 3 Master of Science Degrees (MSc), 12 research degrees(M.Phil), and 9 Master of Business Administration degrees(MBA). He also teaches more than a hundred subjects in various colleges spread across Chennai.

So, how did 55-year-old Parthiban, muster the strength to achieve this incredible feat?
"I really enjoy studying. It's not difficult at all," he said. "I have been continuously in the process of preparing for exams and applying for new degrees or diploma courses," he told the Sunday Indian.

For thirty long years, Partiban has been in the continuous process of applying for different courses. While we can hardly imagine a life without a lazy Sunday, this man has sacrificed all of it in writing exams, so much that invigilators know him by face.

Professor VN Parthiban comes from a humble family in Chennai, and during his days, it was not very easy to go to a college. He says that failure has been an integral part of his journey so far. "I struggled hard to finish my first college degree and got a job in the judiciary department", he said. He started applying to so many courses, that there were times when he studied for the wrong subject and failed the paper.

He even admits having a Mathematics phobia, saying, "I registered for Actuarial Sciences which I could not finish as it involved lot of mathematics which required a lot of effort."

But all of the 145 degrees has taken a toll on his memory, he finds it difficult to recollect people's faces and he even forgets directions to a place he visits every day.

However, Parthiban wishes to continue his journey of learning and collecting more and more degrees along the way.

Kudos to his will power!

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/50-year-old-chennai-professor-has-145-educational-degrees/1/758486.html

See his list of degrees from a twitter page here: