Mother’s Day: 5 NGOs led by extraordinary women you can support

THEY are founders, rescuers, educators, and protectors. They have pulled abandoned mothers off temple steps, brought trafficked girls back to their families, fed children fighting cancer, educated the blind, and given children born in the shadows a chance to step into the light. This Mother’s Day, meet five extraordinary women who have made serving others not just their mission, but their life.

Manju Singh, Guria 

There is no gentler way to say it. Girls are trafficked in India every single day and that is a fact. They are taken from their families, sold, silenced, and forgotten. Manju Singh of Guria has made it her life’s mission to find them, rescue them, and bring them home.

Like a mother bear protecting her cubs, Manju is fierce, tireless, and utterly unwilling to give up. She has fought legal battles, entered dangerous spaces, and stared down systems that would rather look away. She has reunited daughters with mothers who had stopped hoping.

For the girls she rescues, Manju is often the first adult who has fought for them — not against them. She offers not just rescue, but rehabilitation, legal support, and the kind of steady, unconditional presence that survivors desperately need.

Behind every reunion Manju makes possible is a mother somewhere whose world has been made whole again. This Mother’s Day, help Manju fight for the daughters who are still waiting. Donate now.

Sanjeevani Hingne, Swadhar 

Children born in red light areas carry a burden they did nothing to deserve. The world they are born into is one of stigma, instability, and closed doors. Without intervention, the cycle continues — daughters follow mothers, sons disappear into the margins.

Sanjeevani Hingne of Swadhar refuses to let that happen.

Through Swadhar, Sanjeevani has created a world where these children are not defined by where they come from. They receive education, emotional support, vocational training, and above all, the unwavering message that their lives have value and possibility.

Sanjeevani understands that changing a child’s future means standing beside them through every stage of growing up — through confusion, shame, ambition, and hope. She is equal parts educator and mother, firm and loving in exactly the right measure.

This Mother’s Day, your support gives Sanjeevani the resources to reach more children who deserve a chance to thrive. Donate now.

Veena Mehta Verma, National Association for the Blind, Delhi 

Veena Mehta Verma knows what it means to be blind in a world that does not accommodate you. She has faced the discrimination, the low expectations, and the quiet cruelty of being told — in ways spoken and unspoken — that you are less.

She decided that no child after her should have to face it alone.

As director of the National Association for the Blind in Delhi, Veena is a protector, an educator, and a fierce advocate for every blind girl and boy who comes through her doors. She ensures they receive not just education and mobility training, but the confidence to demand the life they deserve.

For the blind girls in her care especially, Veena is proof that blindness is not a barrier that a woman who cannot see has built one of the most visionary institutions in the country. She is a mother, mentor, and living example all at once.

This Mother’s Day, support Veena in making sure no blind child faces discrimination, limitation, or loneliness. Donate now.

Winnie Singh, Maitri India

In the narrow lanes of Vrindavan, widows arrive every day. Some are abandoned by their own children. Some find their way alone, with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Many end up begging outside temples and alleys.

Winnie Singh saw them and could not look away.

Through Maitri India, Winnie has spent years pulling these women back from the edges of destitution — off temple steps, out of railway stations, away from lives of hunger and humiliation. She gives them shelter, food, healthcare, and something far harder to find: dignity.

“We pray to all these goddesses,” she says, “but we forget our own mothers.” For Winnie, these women are not strangers. They are her mothers. And she is the daughter who never abandoned them.

This Mother’s Day, Winnie and Maitri India are still searching the streets, still bringing mothers home. Your support keeps that home open. Maitri is part of our mission for the elderly, ‘Help Abandoned Elderly’. Donate for the mission.

Purnota Dutta Bahl, Cuddles Foundation 

When a child is diagnosed with cancer, the world stops. For families living in poverty, the cruelty is compounded — they must watch their child fight an unimaginable battle while being unable to afford the nutrition that makes treatment bearable, and survival possible.

Purnota Dutta Bahl founded Cuddles Foundation on one simple, powerful belief: that no child should have to fight cancer on an empty stomach.

Cuddles provides holistic nutrition support to underprivileged children undergoing cancer treatment across India. Purnota understood early that nutrition is not a luxury in cancer care — it is medicine. A well-nourished child responds better to treatment, recovers faster, and survives at higher rates.

But behind every statistic is a mother sitting beside a hospital bed, praying. Purnota works for that mother too — reducing one burden, giving one more reason to hope, making sure that when a child fights, they fight with everything they need.

This Mother’s Day, support Purnota and Cuddles Foundation, because every child deserves to fight with a full stomach and a fighting chance. Donate for this noble cause.

This Mother’s Day, support a mother who Is fighting for others

Winnie, Manju, Sanjeevani, Veena, and Purnota did not set out to build institutions. They set out to help one person — and then another, and another, until helping became their life’s work.

They are mothers in every sense that matters. Not always by birth, but by choice, by courage, and by an unwillingness to look away when the world needed them to look closer.

This Mother’s Day, the best gift you can give is not flowers or a dinner. It is the chance for these women to keep going — to rescue one more daughter, feed one more child, shelter one more mother, educate one more blind girl.

Support them. Because what they do, they do for all of us.