Worried about your elderly parents back home?

Worried about your elderly parents back home?

If you're an NRI whose elderly parents are back home in India, you are very familiar with that almost constant worry of their welfare lurking at the back of your mind. Added to that worry is also a lingering sense of guilt, for having left them to fend for themselves, particularly if you don't have siblings or relations living close to them.
Well, worry no more. In Bangalore at least, a set of parents have taken the initiative and founded an organisation called the NRI Parents Association (NRIPA), aimed at providing a support network for themselves. If you have elderly parents back home, you will be only too aware of their sense of loneliness and isolation - and it is precisely for this reason that NRIPA was founded.The organisation holds regular meetings for its members, where not only do they get a chance to socialise with each other, but also get to share the common set of concerns that NRI parents have.