By IndiaTomorrow.net,
Guwahati, 20 Dec 2015: With the number of needy senior citizens growing in the country – thanks to breaking down of joint family system along with several socio-economic factors – the small work of this little-known NGO becomes significant. The Minority Welfare Society (MWS) connects 4,000 people through 350 families, providing them solace, medical help and counselling them to face new modern challenges.
About 100 senior citizen members of the society were felicitated in a meeting here on Sunday. MWS is an organization which is active in different social fields for the last 20 years and is run by minorities who originally hail from Barak Valley, but now are professionally settled in Guwahati.
At the outset, Mukhtar Hussain Ahmed Choudhury, president of MWS and former Joint Commissioner of Taxes, gave a rousing reception to all the senior citizens and members present on the occasion.
“The MWS should constitute a new forum for senior citizens to facilitate their involvement in socially beneficial activities and provide them with opportunities to spend time in constructive activities,” said Abu Saleh Najmuddin, former Health Minister of Assam.
Abdul Waris Chowdhury, general secretary MWS and former excise official said that the organization for the last three years has engaged itself in providing help to senior citizens like providing medical care to them and taking care of their domestic needs.
“The social bonds are stronger in India and as such senior citizens do not suffer from depression and anguish here as much as they do in the United States,” said Jiyauddin Choudhdury, another former official. He was speaking on the life style of senior citizens in developed countries such as the US and gave a comparative picture with that in India.
Sofia Ahmed Barlaskar, educationist, appealed to senior citizens to adapt to changing times and gear up to face new challenges.
