Saanjh Sakha connects people to a warm, unhurried phone call in the evening hours — the ones that tend to feel longest when you're on your own.
Saanjh Sakha started in 2023, after our founder's father spent eighteen months living alone following her mother's passing. He never once said he was lonely. It was only after visiting that she understood how long his evenings had become.
She began calling him at the same time every evening — not to check on him, just to talk. Within a few months, she was doing the same for two of his neighbours, at their families' request. Saanjh Sakha grew out of that habit: trained, dependable companions, calling at the same hour every day, for people whose families can't always be there for the quiet part of the day.
— Saanjh: the hour between afternoon and night, when company matters most.
A companion calls at the same hour daily, so it becomes part of someone's routine, not an interruption to it.
No rotating strangers. Every family is matched with one companion who gets to know them, and stays.
Our companions are trained to listen first. A call is a conversation, never a checklist or a wellness script.
A short update after every call, and a direct line to the companion if something feels off.
A retired schoolteacher who calls eleven families every evening, and still remembers every grandchild's name.
Studies nursing by day, and says the calls taught her more about patience than any textbook has.
Joined after his own grandfather passed. Now calls seven evenings a week, rain or shine.
My mother used to sit by the window every evening waiting for someone to call. Now she waits for Ravi instead — and she's usually smiling before he even picks up.
— Deepa S., daughter of a Saanjh Sakha member