The main purpose lies in building an old age home with an orphanage where the elderly between

ages 55-75 voluntarily help the institution to provide children with care and education. The intention
is to have a place where the children and the elderly can co-habit and provide a home environment
for each other. The home will also have activities such as cottage industry or teaching, where the
elderly can earn a living and live with dignity. The old people home will be self-sufficient in most
ways and environment friendly. They will have their own power generation through wind/hydro
energy; grow their own vegetables, poultry, dairy etc. These additional factors will provide the
elderly and the children a life in a healthy and nurturing environment.

When the old are unable to stay with their families or are destitute, they can experience feelings of
security and self-worth. It will also keep their mind-body faculties active and help them to use their
free time creatively. Similarly, instead of missing a family life, orphans and homeless children can
grow up in a caring and happy environment. This combines the problems of the aged and the
orphans and solves it through a simple yet effective solution.

An old age home is usually the place, a home for those old people who have no one to look after
them or those who have been thrown out of their homes by their own children. The place is of
course like home where the inmates get all the facilities for a routine living, like food, clothing,
medical and shelter. At least in India till now, the old people staying away from the home, from their
children, or left to themselves is not considered to be a very happy situation. This concept of
separating the elders from the youngsters has been imported into India from the West. It is very
clear to all who visit an old age home that all the inmates are there, not for the love of being away
from home and independent but, because there is no better alternative left for them, once they are
neglected and unwanted in their own homes by th