Building a Kinder, Safer & More Compassionate Community
A Mumbai-based trust dedicated to senior citizens, mental health, abandoned animals, and community care.
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
Three 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.
Learn More →
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.
Learn More →
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.
Learn More →
Some second chances
look like this
Found lying in his own waste. No fur. Heavy infection. Teeth removed by the breeder. Blood counts dangerously low. Kidneys failing.
A 9-year-old Chihuahua, he had spent his entire life inside a breeder's cage — used, discarded, and never once held with kindness. His eyes were clouded with cataracts that had never been treated.
His chances of survival were very low.
— The vets were honest with us.
But we weren't ready to give up on him. Over the weeks that followed, our team gave him consistent care, a warm place to rest, and people who showed up every single day. Slowly, he began to turn around.
The infection cleared. His strength returned. Rehomed by Pawdopt — Mumbai's first no-profit, no-loss pet rescue. Entirely free of cost.
Dr. Anjali Chhabria
Dr. Anjali Chhabria founded Golden Citizens Trust with a simple belief: the world does not belong to humans alone. Every living being — people, animals, and the environment around us — deserves the opportunity to coexist with dignity, comfort, and care.
One of India's most respected psychiatrists and mental health advocates, Dr Chhabria has spent her life understanding the importance of human connection, compassion, and community. Through GCT, she has transformed those values into action, creating initiatives that support senior citizens, mental health, vulnerable communities, and abandoned animals.
The Covid-19 pandemic became a defining chapter in the Trust's journey. During one of the most challenging periods in recent history, GCT connected with compassionate individuals and organisations from across the world who were working tirelessly to help others. Their dedication reinforced a powerful lesson: that meaningful change happens when people come together with a shared purpose.
That spirit continues to guide the organisation today. Under her leadership, GCT has conducted mental health awareness and outreach programmes across India and internationally, while continuing to expand its impact across multiple causes. Yet, as Dr Chhabria often reflects, the work has only just begun.
For her, community care is not an obligation — it is an opportunity. An opportunity to leave the world a little better than we found it, and to inspire others to do the same.
The world belongs to all of us. Every act of compassion is an opportunity to leave it better than we found it.
