Category: Give NGOs
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5 NGOs committed to tribal welfare in India
AS is the case with many indigenous people worldwide, centuries of facing inequalities, marginalisation and encroachment of their space have shaped the lives of tribal communities in India. They live in difficult areas, relying primarily on subsistence agriculture and forest produce. The government’s tribal welfare measures have not reached all of them, and many lack…
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5 NGOs striving to curb human trafficking in India
THREE years ago, 16-year-old Somesh was lured away from his village in Bihar to Jaipur by some men from his neighbourhood on the premise of enrolling him in a good school and helping him study. Somesh belongs to a low-income family and his father was struggling to support a household of four. Rather than escaping…
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Top 5 NGOs working for tiger conservation
TO raise awareness about the majestic but endangered big cat, the world has been celebrating International Tiger Day on July 29 every year since 2010. The St. Petersburg conference of 13 tiger range countries decided that tiger conservation and protection of its habitats would be the focus of this special day. The conference also set…
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5 NGOs that facilitated access to education during COVID-19
THE coronavirus pandemic has brought about several challenges to the country – access to education was one of them. Schools were shut, and education came to a standstill for many children from underprivileged backgrounds in urban and rural areas. While “e-Learning” or online classes became indispensable for many children in urban areas, schools and children…
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Top 5 Indian NGOs working for widow welfare
WIDOW welfare is not seen as a priority in India, even though the country is home to over 55 million widows, one of the highest in the world. Losing a marital partner is a distressing experience for both men and women. But in India, because of religious practices, traditions and patriarchal customs, women often face…
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Family remittances dry up – a tragic tale of the pandemic
RAMESH Ram used to earn ₹500 per day working as a contract labourer at the Alang ship-breaking yard in Gujarat. He sent most of the money home. These family remittances at regular intervals kept his folks going in Bihar’s Kaimur district. But the second wave of the pandemic forced Ram, and thousands like him, to return to his…
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5 NGOs striving to restore child rights in India
NISHAD was among a group of children rescued by the police after a tip-off from child rights activists in Jaipur. The 12-year-old was kept locked up in a dingy room and forced to work in a bangle factory for 15 hours daily under gruelling conditions. He could not even step out or contact his family.…
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5 NGOS in India working on environmental protection
AS every living creature on this planet depends on nature for sustenance, environmental protection has become more important than ever before. It is not simply about food, clothes or shelter anymore – it is much beyond that. We are depleting natural resources faster than nature can replenish them. One of the most difficult challenges that…
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6 NGOs tackling mental health issues head-on
THE pandemic left deep mental scars. Isolation, loneliness, grief, domestic violence, general anxiety, professional burnout, and post-traumatic stress became part of the health crisis. Covid-19 hit a double blow – both to the body and mind. While physicians and health experts carefully document its effect on the human body, the psycho-social effects on mental health…
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5 NGOs working for climate change in India
IF you have ever wondered what is causing the summers to be too hot or why the winters have become colder. Or why are cyclones and tornadoes appearing so frequently and the ice in the North Pole melting, the answer is climate change. In acknowledgement to this, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in an…
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5 NGOs helping cancer patients facing monetary crisis for treatment
CANCER, of which there are about 200 different kinds, is by far one of the most costly diseases to treat. With over 17 lakh cases a year, it forces six crore Indians below the poverty line annually. On World Health Day, we focus on NGOs who are trying to help the poorest cancer patients win…
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5 NGOs empowering people with autism in India
AAHAN was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) when he was around five years old he also had a speech impairment and did not interact with others like children do. Although he attended regular school, he could not make friends. In fact, the young boy could not connect with people around him, including his family…
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A miracle saved 23 orphaned children from a dismal future
IT is rare to come across people who open their hearts to help others and, in the process, transform lives, including their own. That’s exactly what Shivaji Lazarus and his wife Prema did 10 years ago when they opened their home in Bangalore to children who were orphaned or abandoned by poor parents in distress.…
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Top 5 NGOs working to conserve India’s water bodies
INDIA is gifted with astonishingly beautiful and distinctive lakes. Not only do these lakes act as water reservoirs, but they also play an important role in maintaining the ecological balance. Sadly, many of these water bodies have either dried up, been filled up for development or are heavily polluted. Natural water bodies such as lakes…
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10 reasons to conserve forests, the lungs of the world
The coronavirus pandemic should have taught us a lesson on the ill effects of encroaching upon the natural world THE world loses 10 million hectares of forest (about the size of Iceland) each year. This accounts for up to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions – a major factor in climate change. To try and…
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Noble initiative to rehabilitate widows of our brave soldiers
VeerNaari Shakti Resettlement Foundation addresses both their emotional and financial trauma WHEN CRPF Constable Shyam Babu was leaving his home in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Dehat district after a brief visit to join duty, little did the family know that that was the last time they would ever see him. Shortly after, the news of the…
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Top 5 Indian NGOs protecting wildlife
The pandemic highlighted the urgency with which we must preserve natural habitats and ecosystems THE world as we know it came to a screeching halt two years ago. Reeling under the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the clarion call to governments and businesses was to stop human encroachment into the wilderness, including strictly regulating the…
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5 top NGOs fighting for social justice in India
SOCIAL justice is what every nonprofit believes in – that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities. Often the inequality is about access and discrimination against groups, and NGOs the world over are fighting to attain these rights for people. Like the story of the manual scavenger in remote Madhya Pradesh who…
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You and Snehalaya gave abandoned infants loving homes!
A telling tale of the power of crowdfunding and donations to change lives ASHOK, abandoned as a baby, was in the loving care of our partner NGO Snehalaya’s rehabilitation center, where his cheeky smile and mischievous sense of humor struck a chord with everyone. Yet he was unable to find parents in India to adopt…
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5 questions to ask before you donate to NGOs in India
From finding a genuine nonprofit organization to determining whether online giving is safe, there are several challenges throughout the donation process. GiveIndia is aware of these difficulties and seeks to remedy them. Here’s a charity checklist for when you donate to NGOs in India. Use it to ensure your donation benefits those in need of…
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Don’t let homeless children remain invisible
The streets are no place for their young lives to play out AT 13, Satender Sharma ran away from home to escape an abusive father. His father beat the entire family mercilessly and even killed his mother by hitting her head into a wall. To get away from a life of more abuse, a petrified…
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AIDS in India: Top 5 NGOs working to reduce infection
Support fight against a cruel epidemic that still has no vaccine WITH over 2.1 million infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which causes AIDS, India is home to the third largest population of HIV positive people in the world. Latest figures show nearly 88,000 people were newly infected with HIV in 2017. Among them…
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NGOs and their critical role in the COVID-19 crisis
Your support through donations is crucial in this mission NGOs or non-governmental organisations are actively involved in combating various socio-economic issues. They include relief agencies, charities and community organisations, tackle countless challenges related to the environment, education, health, poverty, women empowerment, child protection, social justice, human rights, relief work and much more. Also referred to…
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The journey of your donation
EVERY rupee you donate will reach the beneficiary via Give. Here’s how. We started the Corona relief missions on March 22, to raise money to feed the hungry and provide prevention kits for the most vulnerable which includes the daily wagers and stranded migrant labourers who lost their livelihood due to the lockdown. In addition…