UN's WORLD ELDERS DAY is celebrated by Dignity Foundation on 1st October every year. A day which is a dedicated to our Volunteers, who are the wealth of the foundation. Their commitment to the cause is tremendous and they have become an inseparable part of Dignity Foundation and hence on this Special day, our volunteers are felicitated for their hard work. This year the awards function was held on October 6, 2009 at Sophia College Auditorium. Mrs.Vijaya Mehta, Executive Director and Trustee, National Centre of Performing Arts and Mr.Sujit Ganguli, SVP & Head - Marketing, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. Ltd. gave away the awards. A Kathak Dance performance by Nrityaranjini Sonia Parchure, was very well appreciated by our volunteer members.

This year Dignity Foundation celebrated the World Elders' Day, 1st October very differently. We wanted to make every elderly person feel very special and thank them for being there for us and as a mark of appreciation for the hard work and their contribution to society, we decided to felicitate every 50+ we could reach out to.

A "BEST" bus with banners and thanksgiving messages for the 50+ was booked by us. It plied between Colaba and Andheri with Dignity Foundation staff and volunteers, wearing Dignity Foundation T-Shirts. The bus made around 13 stops enroute. At every stop all the volunteers and staff got off the bus and reached out to as many 50+ as possible and crowned them, made them feel unique. This was a way of "Thanking them for being there for us". It really touched many of the elderly when we wished them Happy World Elders' Day and felicitated them. "The Smiles on their faces said it all"