In Vrindavan, thousands of elderly widow mothers face the harsh reality of abandonment and suffering. With no one to turn to, many are left begging on the streets, exposed to heat, cold and rain,Donate so that Maitri can provide shelter, food, clothes and medical support to abandoned elderly mothers now. Give generously.Winnie Singh has witnessed many cases of widow mothers being abandoned on the streets of Vrindavan, one of the holiest places in India. “Children leave their mothers as soon as they become widows. The children start feeling the burden. This has become a practice in today's society that money comes first and everything else later,” says Winnie whose Maitri India, rescues widowed mothers from the streets of Vrindavan.Many widowed elderly mothers often end up living a lonely life and begging to survive on the streets. And Maitri aspires to take care of every widow in need of help, but because of lack of funds, Winnie and Maitri are in a position to do it."Elderly widows don't have shelter. They sleep in cowsheds over sacks. They don't have a blanket. Nights are really difficult for them," shares Winnie Singh. <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />Maitri aims to:<ul><li>Provide shelter and nutritious meals leading to improved health and wellbeing</li><li>Make physical and mental health services accessible</li><li>Offer necessary quality aged care and assisted living support</li><li>Increase awareness and engagement around the struggles of abandoned widow mothers</li></ul>Why donate to MaitriWinnie needs your support to help those in need of food, healthcare and well-being. “Maitri urgently needs your support to provide nutritious food, clothing and healthcare to sustain these widow mothers who are prone to more illnesses as they age,” appeals Winnie. “You can become the family they were denied. Hold their hands so they don't need to beg ever again,” she adds. Let’s rescue abandoned widows mothers from the streets of Vrindavan and give them a better future. Donate now.Our help will enable Maitri to save hundreds of abandoned widows from a life of begging, and restore the respect, dignity, and identity they deserve.

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“I used to be sexually abused repeatedly, and when I screamed in pain, they hit and threatened me with more violence,” says Priya (name changed), a rescued child sex worker. Priya was abducted by traffickers and sold into a red-light area house before she was rescued by Guria led by Manju. For over two decades, Manju has been rescuing young girls forced into prostitution across the country. She has been shaken to the core seeing some of the most horrifying crimes that young girls have to undergo. “You can’t imagine the state of girls forced into sex work. The girls are given electric shocks and burnt with cigarette butts just to get kicks out of it. And if they get pregnant, the "owners" kick them repeatedly in the womb so that the child inside dies…If you want to see hell, it is here on this planet where young girls are sexually abused,” says Manju.Manju needs your help to rescue more young girls from forced prostitution and reunite them with their families. Donate now.Guria’s work over the yearsBased out of Varanasi, inarguably the holiest place in India, Manju and her organisation Guria, fights the sexual exploitation of girls, especially minors, by taking on the traffickers head-on, and rescuing and rehabilitating them.Started in 1993, Guria has rescued over 5500 persons from slavery, sex trafficking, and child prostitution so far. It has also been instrumental in shutting down hundreds of places that housed trafficked girls and putting scores of traffickers out of business and in jail.For instance, in 2005, a Guria-led rescue operation in Varanasi's red-light area led to the freeing of 49 women and girls, including minors. Many of them were kept against their will. Some of the traffickers were also arrested and tried. Since then, Guria has rescued thousands of young girls.Manju and her husband, Ajeet Singh began rescuing girls from Varanasi’s red-light areas and then working to stop the sex-trafficking of young girls within Uttar Pradesh and outside. The organisation’s aim is to eliminate the sex trafficking of women, especially minor girls, end second-generation prostitution and child prostitution, and rehabilitate women and girls who are rescued from the trade. Manju has faced violent backlash from the traffickers and other vested interests, but it has not deterred her from carrying on rescuing young girls from trafficking. Rescue and rehabilitationBesides rescuing girls trafficked for sex, mostly from low-income families, from across the country, Guria fights on their behalf in courts and also provides education, food, vocational training, and other facilities until they are united with their families. But because of a lack of funds, Guria is finding it difficult to rescue more girls and also take care of them once they are away from the clutches of the traffickers. Take the case of Sameena (name changed), who was abducted from Uttar Pradesh all the way to Telangana. Guria took it upon itself to rescue the girl with the help of its own work and also the authorities. After months of rehabilitation, Sameena went back to her family and even completed her education. With your support, Manju can rescue many more young girls from trafficking and help them live the life of their dreams.

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A period or menstruation is a natural, biological process of the female body. Unfortunately, it has become a source of suffering and illnesses for women and young girls from poor families as they can’t afford sanitary pads. “Proper menstrual hygiene is every woman’s right but has become a curse for many. No one should be denied this right, and sanitary pads should not be a luxury. Just for the sake of a ₹5 sanitary pad women and girls are putting their health and even their lives at risk,” says Khyati Gupta founder of Pinkishe Foundation. Khyati and her NGO are committed to ensuring that no woman or girl is deprived of something as basic as sanitary napkins.Pinkishe Foundation has identified 4,000 women and young girls from acutely poor backgrounds who need to be supported with monthly sanitary napkins. Without this support many girls might be forced to use unhygienic alternatives, putting at risk their health and wellbeing. Donate now to protect the right to safe menstruation.Donate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. Charitable donations to this fundraising campaign are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India).The shocking truth“In villages and tribal areas, girls cannot afford sanitary pads and therefore are forced to use things like dirty cloth, ash, hay, old newspapers, or even cow-dung cakes, to manage their period blood. Because of this, girls suffer various illnesses such as rashes and urinary tract infections, and these illnesses at times turn into cancer as well. Out of all the cervical cancer cases in the world, almost one-fourth of them occur in India. A major reason for that is that women are unable to maintain hygiene during periods, shares Khyati.According to Khyati, lakhs of girls are even forced to drop out of school after their first period because of their inability to manage their periods.Your donation can ensure that the health and future of women and girls from poor families are not compromised because of their inability to afford sanitary pads. Donate generously to give every woman and girl her right to safe menstruation.Donate to this fundraiser on Give.do, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help young girls and women from poor families receive free sanitary pads.NGO's 80G number: AADTP3680QF20218NGO's 12A number: AADTP3680QE20178

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Adarsh Shiksha Samiti is a non-profit organization formed by a group of volunteers in Salumber block of Udaipur District in the State of Rajasthan. It was formally registered as an organization in 1989, under the Rajasthan society’s registration act. 1958 with 80 G &amp; 12 A and later on it was also registered under the Foreign Contribution regulation act 1976.Thus the major challenges of the area are –Poverty, Movement of youth away from their villages due to lack of sufficient sources of livelihood, Poor health and education status, Low status of women.Since its inception in the year 1989 the NGO have covered a long distance of development process in its 30+ years work.Vision: Creation of an equal and just society where the vulnerable and marginalized section of the society effectively participate in the social development process leading to control over their resources .GOAL: The general goal of our organization is to ensure partner and community need-based socio-economic self-reliance for the deprived and poverty-stricken rural populations.Mission: To work towards the promotion of gender equity and social justice among st the vulnerable to strengthen effective articulation of their needs and gaining access and control over their resources.Creating mass awareness on various social and economic issues was the first ever initiative of the organization, once the awareness programmes cleared the dust of lethargic attitude, ignorance and unwillingness to leave impractical traditions, the NGO started bringing in socio-economic development programmes with the support of various government as well as leading non-government organizations. Adjoining blocks of Salumber as well as in Pratapgadh and Banswara district. Presently the geographic are covered by the Samiti is situated in the tough &amp; uneven hilly terrain of Aravalis. The population is predominantly tribal (52.45%). The hilly terrain, lack of sufficient rainfall and uneven land in the area makes the live of rural people terrible and pathetic. The average literacy level of the area is extremely poor and the female literacy rates are far below the national average.

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Adarsh Shiksha Samiti since 1989 is fighting against violence, oppression and injustice against women and the main focus is to empower women to make their own choices and provide a way out for any women in distress. Adarsh Shiksha Samiti from the very first day of formation, seeking to end violence against women and girls by ensuring the realization of women’s rights and thereby improve women’s quality of life in Udaipur district and surrounding region and offering frontline services to victims and survivors of violence and using research, training and development and outreach work to strengthen gender-based violence interventions that are women-centered and rights-based. Violence against Women is devastating not only for victim who experience it but also for the children who witness or live with such violence.  Adarsh Shiksha Samiti with the support from “Share &amp; Care Foundation” had launched the flagship project “Shaktidayini - A Center for women in crisis” a first of its kind in the Udaipur district which offer a variety of specific benefits to help women, their children, and girls, and where relevant, address a wide range of challenges they may face when escaping abuse.  The project intervention includes: F 24 X 7 Help line number on emergency basis to respond to immediate protection needs in situations of violence, including crisis intervention, risk assessment and safety planning. F Medical assistance for immediate and long-term consequences of violence (i.e. those resulting from violent injury, effects of trauma, chronic distress and/or restricted access to health care by their abusers). F Counseling and therapeutic supports to develop survivor understanding of the typically complex dynamics associated with abuse and leaving situations of violence, as well as assistance to overcome the traumatic affects of it. F Vocational training  F Providing Legal assistance for justice to bring Human rights. F Raising public awareness on violence against women and children to encourage social change in communities. To make this project meaningful for the society and for those who needs it most, your support and guidance is urgently needed on continuous basis and we are confident that with your active collaboration and cooperation with our 24X7 Help line staff members, the project will be able to provide critical assistance to the victims at the time when they need it most. We are also requesting you to give us permission for displaying of our Shaktidayini Help Line Numbers at the common places of your premises to raise awareness and to call us at the time of emergency by those who are in need for it. We are confident that you and your staffs will be with us in this challenging and tough journey and will be guiding us in all the hard situations to make this society a better place for women.

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Salumbar is one of the blocks of Udaipur. It has 48 panchayats (NIC 2008) and a total of 249 revenue villages. The block is located 72kms south of Udaipur city, and bordered by Dungarpur, Banswada and Pratapgadh district. It has a central plain area surrounded by the hilly terrain of Aravali range. The world famous Jaisamand Lake also comes within this block.The project is being proposed to be located in 10 villages of Salumber Block (Bedawal,Pawati,Sati ki chori ,Malpur,Morila , Baroliya, Kerpura, Payatalab, Banoda, Sarwni ) Udaipur city districts of Rajasthan.The problem we are trying to address is the problem of Low income and low infrastructure set up in the project area have a negative impact on children, who need to be in school for education and good health. One of the major problems in the area is the particularly low literacy rate, especially among women, as described above. Another problem is seasonal migration for livelihood: often, parents take their children with them, which results in the children not attending school for the period of the migration, and leads to dropouts. Parents are generally not involved or only little involved in the education of their children. This results in serious underdevelopment in the skills of the children, including reading, numeracy, writing but also life and emotional skills. An important number of children don't have the level associated with the class they are in and are struggling to learn and improve. This goes against RTE claims. The local institutions concerned with the education of children (such as School Management Committees) are not functioning and they are not adequately linked together. we also believe that the state governments are also trying to solve these problems by implementing their own solutions, they need technical support and demonstrations from non-profit organizations in respect to more qualitative conceptualization and implementation of solutions. From that perspective, it is a challenge for the state that not many quality promising examples and demonstrations argent available. Even those that are available, are not catering to the population of similar socio-economic backgrounds.  
 Child Development project :This project aims to promote education of out-of-school children aged between 06 to 14 years, including those who are either differently-abled or otherwise at risk, by facilitating their access to mainstream State-funded primary/elementary. This is a one-year project. The project is named as Build Bright Future For 300 Tribal Children .The activity sets included in this project are:-Criteria for selection of childrenThe Child is between age group 06 to 14 yearsChild who has never been to schoolChild who is not attending school but nominally enrolled, irregular or absent for more than 45 days without informing the school .Child who is a laggard ((e.g. the child’s age is 12 years but can read text of only Class II &amp; III etc).Priorities should be given to following socially vulnerable groups:-children at risk, like children of inmates, children in conflict with law, runaway children, children of sex workers, children of migrant workers, victims of child labour practices, HIV positive children, children of HIV positive parents, orphans and children in need of care and protection. 
 About 300 tribal children will be sent to primary school.<ul><li>About 150 tribal family will be benefited in getting education for their children. The children will be relieved from drudgery &amp; illiteracy.</li><li>About 10 villages consisting of 150 tribal families will be motivated for children’s schooling. </li><li>Dropout of tribal children will be reduced. </li><li>No admission will be rejected on the basis of caste and gender of the child. </li><li>Higher involvement and participation in school activity by all parents.</li><li>Contribution to local learning material made by parents and local community.</li><li>More children in the tribal community will be sent to the primary school. </li><li>This project will be able to address the primary education, health and social environment of tribal children with a social integration component of their family in the mainstreaming of national development.</li></ul>

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