Supporting Seniors, Mental Health, Animal Welfare & Community Care
Golden Citizens Trust is committed to creating lasting social impact through compassionate care, community service, and environmental action.
Every living being deserves dignity
Golden Citizens Trust (GCT) is our effort to make the world a better place. We believe that everyone has a right to happiness, dignity, and support when they need it most.
Founded in 2018, GCT began by working with senior citizens — reaching elders who are isolated, unsupported, or struggling. But when Covid-19 struck, we realised our responsibility extended far beyond one group. Mumbai needed us. India needed us. It was a moment that showed us compassion could not have boundaries.
What followed was one of the largest chapters in our journey. GCT mobilised ambulances, oxygen, hospital beds, vaccines, meals, and essential support for thousands of people across Mumbai during the pandemic.
Today, we support senior citizens, promote mental health awareness and rehabilitation, help reunite vulnerable individuals with care and treatment, and rescue abandoned animals. Through Pawdopt — Mumbai's first no-profit, no-loss pet rescue and ambulance service — we have given over 1,250 animals a second chance, entirely free of cost. Because unlike humans, animals cannot speak for themselves, yet they are often the ones most in need of protection.
No matter the cause, our mission remains the same: to reach those who are overlooked, offer help without barriers, and create a kinder world for all.
Every meal served. Every life rescued. Every person supported. Always free. Always driven by compassion.
Our numbers tell the story
Bombay Public Trust Act
Pawdopt, entirely free of cost
awareness programmes
and internationally
at peak of Covid crisis
income tax exemption · 12AA
Four causes — One mission
We work at the intersections of age, mental health, and animal welfare, where the need is greatest and the help is least.
Caring for those who built our world
Our work began here — reaching elders who are isolated, unsupported, or struggling. We connect seniors with emotional support, physical care, food, and community through a network of volunteers and a buddy system that links them with doctors. Every elder we support is a reminder that dignity in old age is not a privilege — it is a right.
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Building a world where mental health support is accessible to all
We have conducted 50+ mental health awareness sessions across India and internationally, reaching over 2 lakh people. During Covid, we counselled patients, families, and frontline workers. We also donated an ambulance to Shraddha Rehabilitation Trust to rescue mentally ill destitutes from the streets. Through The Shrink and the Nut, we continue to make mental health conversations accessible, relatable, and stigma-free through education, dialogue, and community engagement.
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Every animal deserves a second chance
Pawdopt is Mumbai's first no-profit, no-loss pet rescue programme — rescuing, treating, rehabilitating, and rehoming abandoned companion animals, entirely free of cost. We also operate Mumbai's first not-for-profit pet ambulance. Since 2021, we've rescued 1,250+ animals and reunited them with loving homes.
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Protecting Mumbai through action & collaboration
We have supported beach clean-up drives across Mumbai, including Juhu Beach, and worked with civic bodies and organisations like Project Mumbai and MCGM to help set up waste collection centres to improve coastal waste management and reduce littering.
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Compassion, institutionalised
Golden Citizens Trust was statutorily formed in 2018 under the Bombay Public Trust Act, beginning with a simple mission supporting senior citizens who are isolated, unsupported, or in need of care.
When Covid-19 struck, GCT rose to the moment. We helped citizens access ambulances, oxygen, hospital beds, and vaccines during the crisis, while supporting frontline workers with sanitisers, PPE kits, home-cooked meals, and masks. Alongside this, we conducted mental health awareness talks reaching communities across India and around the world.
Our commitment to mental health extended further with the donation of an ambulance to Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation, run by Magsaysay Award winner Dr Bharat Vatwani, supporting the rescue and treatment of mentally ill individuals living on the streets.
More recently, we launched Pawdopt, rescuing, treating, and rehabilitating abandoned animals entirely free of cost — supported by a dedicated ambulance that transports animals at no profit, no cost.
GCT received Income Tax approval in 2019 under Sections 12AA and 80G of the Income Tax Act, making all donations to the Trust eligible for tax benefits under Section 80G.
The world belongs to all of us. Every act of compassion is an opportunity to leave it better than we found it.
