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Social Needs and South Asian Community Centre

South Asian Community Centre: The South Asian Community Centre helped make it with grant money. , according to CBC. "They're sitting at home, and they're totally dependent on their kids for their social needs, for their physical needs, for their medical needs, for their emotional needs, and all that. They have nowhere to go," Baig said. "The social circle they had was all back home, in their home country. They start getting depressed. A new documentary on elder abuse in the South Asian community was screened in Windsor this weekend. Vice president Mirza Baig explains that when immigrants from countries such as Pakistan and India bring over their parents, the older generation often becomes shut in. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.