The Elders' Home
Vishranthi is a multifaceted center for senior citizens, orphans, and rural vocational training near Jadigenahalli on Hoskote-Malur Road, Bangalore.
It provides a peaceful haven where elders can live with dignity and care.
With seniors making up 25% of India’s population—a number set to rise—the lack of social security for them is a growing concern. More initiatives like Vishranthi are crucial to safeguarding their well-being and raising awareness about elder care.
While respecting elders has always been part of our culture, modern life’s fast pace has strained family relationships. In nuclear households with both spouses working, shifting priorities have led to a decline in traditional values, making support systems like Vishranthi more essential than ever.
The challenges faced by senior citizens stem more from safety than poverty. Many who worked hard all their lives now struggle to find a secure, happy place for their later years. Vishranthi was created to be that haven, offering care with compassion.
With this vision, Padma Srinivasan, Sarasa Vasudevan, and Jayalakshmi Sreenivasan founded Vishranthi Trust in 2003.
Our mission: Care, Support, and Empower. We provide a loving home for elders, physical and emotional care for orphans, literacy programs for rural children, skill development for women in tailoring and baking, and promote community well-being through yoga and meditation.
The Childrens' Home
Over 8 million children live in orphanages worldwide, but 90% have at least one living parent who cannot care for them due to poverty or special needs.
At Vishranthi, many such children are entrusted to us by struggling parents, local authorities, or well-wishers. It is heartbreaking to see their condition upon arrival, but we strive to provide them with love, care, education, and a safe home.
In return, these children bring joy and purpose to our elders. They play, study, and pray together, creating a beautiful bond where elders become the loving grandparents they always wanted to be. It’s a symbiotic relationship that must be seen to be believed.
The Adoption Centre
In the early morning hours outside a hospital in the village of Hosur in Karnataka, a newborn baby girl - still with her umbilical cord attached - was found abandoned and in critical health. Underweight and wet after hours of intermittent rainfall throughout the night, the baby's condition deteriorated.
Picked up by police officers on their rounds, the infant was rushed by hospital staff to a neonatal intensive care unit and then taken to another hospital for better medical treatment.
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The child is only one of several hundred baby girls abandoned each year in the Indian state. Poverty, along with the cultural tendency to favour boys, has pushed parents to abandon infants in dumps, hedges, bushes, bus stands, railway tracks, and water bodies - exposing them to fatal risks. If they survive and are not brought to the notice of the police authorities, they could end up in the network of the illicit trade of child trafficking.
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The main aim of our adoption centre is to save the newborn babies who are dumped in dustbins and bushes right after birth. We take in all abandoned babies born in any hospital in Bangalore city and the surrounding taluks and villages. Once we are informed by the local police or the hospital staff that a child has been abandoned, we make sure the infants are taken immediately taken to a neonatal intensive care unit and given a medical check-up. Once cleared of any illnesses, the child is then relocated to our adoption centre where a dedicated nurse is given the care of each child.
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We take every care to ensure that the infants we are given the responsibility and the privilege of raising grow up healthy and happy, mentally, physically and emotionally. They are a soothing balm that fills the void in the elders' hearts, as they wait to be adopted by a new family.
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The newborn baby gets a chance to live, and a childless couple gets a reason to live. We feel blessed to facilitate that sublime connection.