Taking care of the old lady has been compounded by the lack of facility to house her.
Care givers have been impossible to find as well. No one wants to do the job of helping her with her toilet which she does in a bed pan. We can't find anyone willing to clean her or the pan. It's considered a job only for the low caste or harijans who do work of cleaning the drains and sewers.
Even if we were to get her adult diapers no one would handle those.
We have had to accommodate this lady with the dwellers of the shanties around this area, parents of some of our children are helping in setting her up.
We made her a small tent like structure as no one else is willing to give her a room, even though we were prepared to rent one, right now we still need financial help with her bills as well as a token donation to the lady who has agreed to take care of her in a shack next to her that we have just built.
If anyone is inspired please contact me asap: rupa@fflvrindavan.org
The benefit of helping someone reside in Vrindavan is not to be minimized, like Srila Prabhodanda Sarasvati Thakur said:
“One who helps others reside in Vrindavan by supplying them food, clothes, and residence accumulates a million more times the piety than one who resides there, because one who resides there delivers only himself, whereas one who helps others reside there delivers himself as well as those that he helps.”– Sataka 1, text 73, Sri Vrindavan Mahimamrta Srila Prabhodananda Sarasvati Thakur"
Ultimately we will have to set up a small facility—even if it is just two rooms where we can take these destitute elderly – women and men so they can at least have some dignity in their last moments. A full time staff of 3 can administer palliative care.
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