Chandigarh:
As part of efforts to sensitise children towards the problems of old people, schools in the region are increasingly making students spend ample time with the elderly and are seeing it as a new aspect to moral education. Under HelpAge India’s School Advocacy and Value Education (SAVE) program, students in some of the schools pay regular visits to nearby old age homes and even take their grandparents to their institutions during their monthly guardian-teacher meet.
Speaking to Newsline, Mathew Cherian, Chief Executive Officer of HelpAge India, said, “In India, over 90 million people are aged above 60 years and the number is likely to reach 326 million by 2050. A majority of the people falling in this age group are finding themselves marginalised without the support of family and social security. In the first phase of SAVE we have started with few such activities where children get to spend quality time with their grandparents and other old people”.
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