Value Education on Age Care

We all are affected by what we learn at a young age. HelpAge’s “Value Education on Age Care” programme’s main focus is to sensitize school children on ageing issues early in life, so they treat their elderly with love and care and understand their issues in depth.

HelpAge’s association with schools has been since its very birth. Never wavering in their commitment to the cause, schools have always shown keen interest in fulfilling their responsibility towards society. They are now being mobilized in a big scale to support this initiative of HelpAge.

The HelpAge team is meeting up with educationists, school principals and policy makers nationwide, urging them to include Value Education on Age care in school curriculums.

Value Education seminars have been held nationwide in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Gujarat, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Chattisgarh. The response has been extremely positive and the initiative has already started creating ripples