The profound significance of the ADHAR lies in providing lifelong residential care, therapy, and vocational rehabilitation for adults with intellectual disabilities. Founded in 1990, it acts as a vital sanctuary that answers an agonizing parental question: who will protect and nurture these individuals after their parents pass away? Operating specialized centers across Maharashtra, ADHAR successfully fosters independence, daily life skills, and social integration for hundreds of special residents. By offering structured, compassionate environments and crucial financial subsidies to underprivileged families, this community-sustained institution eliminates social stigma, secures long-term futures, and brings immense peace of mind to aging parents.
VFIT supports the cost of maintenance of 25 (out of the total of 338) intellectually challenged adult inmates at the Nashik centre.
VFIT appreciates how ADHAR has been able to develop its premises into zones of comfort and learning for its inmates. The progress of each inmate is diligently tracked and documented.
Says Shri Vishwas Gore, Chairman, ADHAR, “ADHAR’s model is based on contribution from parents and the generous support of society. In this context, the continued support from The Volkart Foundation Indian Trust has been invaluable in helping us sustain and strengthen our services for our special adults. Our heartfelt gratitude to VFIT for its continued support. Thank you for standing with us and making a meaningful difference in the lives of our special friends and their parents.”
CanSupport runs India's largest free home-based palliative care program. It helps people with advanced cancer and other serious illnesses and their families. Its core services are: • Pain Relief: Eases physical pain and manages hard symptoms. • Home Visits: Sends doctors, nurses, and counsellors directly to homes. • Mental Support: Gives emotional and grief counselling to patients and families.
Lets patients live without pain in familiar surroundings.
Fills a huge gap for poor people who lack care.
Honoured globally, including a World Health Organization award
VFIT supports two palliative care teams in the low income areas of Ghaziabad. A palliative care team is an interdisciplinary group of trained professionals who work together to provide physical, emotional, social, and spiritual support for patients with serious illnesses and their families. At its core, the team includes doctors, nurses, and social workers, alongside specialized therapists and counsellors.
VFIT appreciates the comforting influence the CanSupport teams have on patients, care givers and the larger family, both, while the patient and families gather themselves to fulfil any final desire, and, thereafter, when the family finds it difficult to rationalise bereavement / settlement procedures. While CanSupport diligently tracks clinical patient outcomes, VFIT in particular, appreciates a discussion on two parameters, • Percentage of patients reporting adequate pain and distress relief within 24 hours of intake. • Average hours between a patient flagging severe distress and receiving a clinical treatment adjustment.
“Our enduring partnership with The Volkart Foundation Indian Trust has been foundational in increasing access to palliative care, especially in the most impoverished parts of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. A profound reflection from our association is our increased operational capacity, having successfully adapted internal processes in alignment with the Trust. This has ensured effective and impactful delivery of essential, dignified care that makes many challenging journeys both manageable and meaningful for patients and their families we serve together. CanSupport is extremely privileged and grateful for this committed support from Volkart Foundation Indian Trust.”
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