Donate and help

Your donations go directly to the Om Shanthi Widows of India Project in India, and the project is supported by volunteers.  We keep our management expenses to a bare minimum.  Our annual calendar, as well as our new flyer and new website have been donated by dear friends of the project.

Your donations finance and support our Om Shanthi Old Age Home.  Here we house up to 30 aged, homeless, and sometimes handicapped widows and women.  They are cared for round the clock by 8 young widows.  These women finally have a “forever home”, until they pass peacefully to the next world.

We also provide support for approximately 150 young widows and approximately 300 children, who live in very poor conditions in Tiruvannamalai, or in the outlying rural area.

Our social workers outreach to the outlying areas, seeking out those in need.

We promote and support the education of  the children, and if possible, the appropriate education or workplace training for the young mothers. We help in all emergency situations (medical, repair of the houses etc.).  Each situation is different, and we carefully screen to ensure we are most effectively managing donated funds, meeting their most urgent and specific needs.

Further, we follow up on a regular basis with those in the program, to ensure that all is going well.  The ultimate goal is that these women become able to independently support themselves and their children. Our Counseling Center is open to all women who need help.

Further, we assist in application for the small government widows pensions, when eligible.  Many and most are illiterate, do not have birth certificates or identification, or the where-with-all to navigate the challenging application process.