For over a year now, Team WAPIZ, dedicated to community service for decades, has been making a difference in the lives of the community’s underprivileged, especially neglected seniors. Team WAPIZ has been diligently working towards providing our silvers a more hygienic home to live in, with dignity.

Recently, a request for help was received for an 87-year-old mother and her daughter, from a Parsi Colony, who were undergoing a very rough time, especially post COVID, sometimes having to make with just one meal a day. WAPIZ sprung into action, providing monthly doles, clearing medical bills and replacing their old non-functional fridge with a brand new one, through the generosity of a donor. Mr. Dinshaw Tamboly also consented to provide monthly doles as well via WZO Trust Funds.

Team WAPIZ took on the arduous task of cleaning their home, though BMC was earlier approached but refused to help unless the house was fumigated first. Sharing the experience, Anahita Desai, WAPIZ Trustee, said, “When we entered this house, it was difficult to believe that just two people could hoard so much! It was suffocating. They have received no help from neighbours, family, friends or community members to help clean up their home. The first room we started working on had not been lived in for years. It had become a dumpster infested with insects, its two wooden beds and cupboard were so infested with white-ants, that the cupboard crumbled to the ground when we tried moving it! There were 5 – 6 corroded metal trunks with disintegrated bottoms.

Hoarding starts with first piling clothes, newspapers and other stuff onto chairs, which spills over to the sofa and the bed and before one realises, an entire area of the room becomes a storage corner which keeps gradually increasing till the room itself is designated a store room! Then it gets too overwhelming to clear up the huge mess, especially when there is old age, isolation, sickness, financial constraints and a crumbling, dilapidated home.

It’s so ironic that community members live in such unfortunate conditions. We pray that no Parsi should be left to live like this. It’s our moral responsibility to look after such members of our community who are neglected.”

If you are aware of community members in similar situations, pls connect with us: 9820113791.