“My 8-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer and it left the entire family devastated. I was told the cost of treatment would run into lakhs. I was barely managing to make ends meet and there was nothing I could do to save Swaroop. But the Nargis Dutt Foundation stepped in and took care of all the expenses. I can’t even imagine the consequences had they not been there for my son,,” says teary-eyed Devendra.The helplessness that Devendra felt is not uncommon among low-income families of cancer patients. There are many who helplessly see their dear ones, including children, lose their life in the most painful manner. Nargis Dutt Foundation has ensured that thousands of families don’t see this fate. It’s been a ray of hope for thousands of cancer patients since its inception over 40 years back. You can help save many more patients with cancer. Donate now.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), &amp; 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (USA). The cost of each chemotherapy is as much as ₹15,000 and a cancer patient can require between 6 to 12 sessions. The hefty cost for cancer treatment is well beyond the reach for poor families that are barely surviving on two square meals a day. Help Nargis Dutt Foundation provide treatment to poor cancer patients and save them from a slow and painful death.Giving hope to cancer patients“I was just 13 when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. When I saw my mother struggling for life it left a lifelong impact on me. Her condition had deteriorated to such an extent she was almost unrecognisable. I know how it feels like to lose a loved one to cancer and I am not alone in my grief. There are thousands of people struggling to save their family members,” says Priya, daughter of noted actress Nargis Dutt, who lost her life to cancer, and in whose name the NGO has been founded. Priya has made it her life’s mission to save as many cancer patients as she can, but she can not do it alone. Nargis Dutt Foundation needs your support. Your donation can not only save cancer patients but can give life to entire families.Need for the fundraiserCancer is often seen as a death sentence. But doctors say that if detected early and if a patient receives essential treatment, the illness can be defeated and the person can return to their lives. “Treatment of cancer often depends on multiple factors including the type of cancer and the stage in which it is detected. Some patients require surgery while some can be cured with just chemotherapy or immunotherapy. “Whatever may be the need, our nonprofit supports patients till the time they are cancer free. We not only take care of the cost of treatment but even assist patients with nutrition which is vital in the fight against cancer. Moreover, we ensure that family members who are already facing immense hardships get proper accommodation and food during treatment so they don’t suffer any further,” says the NGO leader. With your support, Nargis Dutt Foundation can help patients win the fight against cancer and save their families from grief of losing a loved one.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted fundraising platform, to support Nargis Dutt Foundation in their mission to give life-saving chemotherapy and care to cancer patients who can not afford treatment.

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“The Hummingbird School is my only hope to succeed in life. I feel I am trying to swim out of this place (Majuli) and my school stands as a beacon on the other side of the river. If my school closes down, I feel I will drown in this river. Not just me but every child in villages around here and our families depend on this school”, says Roopjyoti, a bright, young student of Ayang Trust’s The Hummingbird School.Majuli Island, where The Hummingbird School is situated is shrinking rapidly, leaving a majority of its residents struggling to survive. For the children of this impoverished tribal community, education remains the only way out of suffering.Your support to Ayang Trust’s Hummingbird School can ensure that its students can have a future different from their parents who are struggling to get even two meals a day. Donate now.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).From IIT Kharagpur to Majuli“When I first visited the remote villages of Majuli I was shocked. The extent of the struggles here was beyond my imagination. These villages had no connectivity to the outside world, no healthcare, no education, there was absolutely nothing”, says Bipin Dhane founder of the school. Bipin, who grew up in the small town of Satara in Maharashtra, faced countless financial hardships. Despite his struggles, Bipin secured admission to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and then went on to take up a job in Singapore. Owing to his childhood experiences Bipin was always inclined towards helping the less fortunate, and he believed in the transformative power of education. It was in 2016 that Bipin left his lucrative career abroad and moved to Majuli, to provide the children from this inaccessible river island education they were deprived of.“Whatever little money I had saved, I gave it to my parents. I had no money to start the school. It was then that villagers came together to build bamboo huts. Each family donated bamboo, wood, and whatever little they could. It was the parents of our students who erected huts for the school to start”, shares Bipin while talking about the inception of The Hummingbird School in 2017.Help Bipin save underprivileged children of Majuli Island from generational poverty and give them a chance to succeed. Donate now.Donate to save future generations“People of the island value education greatly because they know that their children have no future without it. Parents have vested their faith in The Humming Bird School because they don't want their children to suffer the way they have been”, says Bipin. Bipin says, “Today we have over 280 students in our school and about 90 children live in our hostel. Many of these children are orphaned and have no means of survival. I urge each one of you to come forward and donate to us so we can help hundreds of children escape from the cycle of poverty.”Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help children of Majuli Island get an education and break the cycle of poverty.

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Time stood still for 12-year-old Shrikant when he got the news that his father, a debt-ridden farmer from Beed, had taken his own life. Shrikant’s village was one of the worst hit areas during devastating drought in 2015 and his mother, a daily wage labourer, was finding it hard to feed the family of three. The family was penniless and could not feed itself, and debtors were knocking on the doors. Had it not been for Ashok Deshmane and Snehwan, Shrikant would have slipped into the bottomless pit of child labour.Deshmane needs your help to rescue the children of drought-hit farmers taking their own lives. Donate now.Deshmane, who has faced the perils of farmer distress firsthand, has made it his life’s mission to come to the aid of children affected by farmer suicides. He left a successful career in IT and founded Snehwan to provide food, shelter, and education to orphans of farmer suicides. There has been a steep rise in farmer suicides following Covid-19 and fresh droughts in Maharashtra. The number of kids that are in dire need of support is growing almost every day.Snehwan is building its second shelter home to take in 200 more children and needs your urgent help to complete it. Help orphans of farmer suicides find their feet and fresh hope in life. <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/8c3923fc-52f9-4732-9088-0174a4553718.jpg" />Ashok’s missionAshok, son of a farmer himself, braved his way through abject poverty to educate himself and build a career in IT. During a visit to his village in 2015, he was overwhelmed seeing the orphans of farmer suicides starving, and decided to take 18 children into his care.“I just could not remain a mute spectator while children starved in drought-struck villages. I had to do something” says Ashok, and Snehwan was conceived in 2015. Swami Vivekanand Dnyanalay, a ray of hopeAshok says that his responsibility is not merely to provide food and shelter to children but to provide them with holistic development. He aspires to raise them as socially aware, skilled, and responsible citizens of the country who can then carry his work forward.The shelter home which started with 18 kids is now a ray of hope for more than 50 children who call it home. Situated in a village near Pune, the Swami Vivekanand Dnyanalay not only provides food, shelter, and quality education to these kids but gives them a family. Ashok and Archana’s plea“Drought and climate change is worsening and we are in urgent need of funds to extend our efforts and expand the shelter home to bring in 200 more children under our protective wings. We cannot let these kids have a fate similar to their parents”, pray Ashok and Archana. Only you can help Ashok and Archana save the future of these children. Donate generously.

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​Antarang Foundation is a registered Indian not-for-profit organization that enables adolescents and young adults to make the transition from education to employment. Antarang envisions a world where every young adult is productively, passionately, and positively engaged in a career of their choice. Our model focuses on the simple philosophy that young adults have an innate sense of agency once they know what and how to. We <ol><li>Build awareness of career opportunities </li><li>Build clear aspiration</li><li>Build employability skills and the ability to make informed career decisions </li><li>Provide access to career opportunities </li></ol>This 4 stage model has enabled 100,000 students between the age of 14 to 25 years across Mumbai, Pune, Udaipur, Goa, and Varanasi to make informed career transitions. Antarang has delivered this model through 2 structured programs: CareerAware and CareeReady.Career Aware:<ul><li>Focusses on children between the age 14 to 16 years</li><li>Key program inputs of this program include self-awareness, career awareness, and exploration, career guidance and career counselling with parents</li><li>Key impact outcomes of this program include increased aspirations, clarity of career choice and a clear career plan along with reduced school dropout rates</li></ul>CareeReady<ul><li>Focusses on young adults between the age of 16-18 years</li><li>Key program inputs include self and career awareness with higher focus on core employability skills, linkage to career opportunities and post-linkage support in the form of mentorship and career development workshops</li><li>Key impact outcomes of this program include a employability diagnostic score jump, graduation rate, successful employment and training linkages along with successful mentor linkages</li></ul>Antarang has built a strong employability ecosystem over the last decade to enable successful school-to-work transitions including :<ol><li>An Intensive and interactive high-quality career readiness curriculum</li><li>A dedicated cadre of trained 450+ career facilitators in Maharashtra and Rajasthan</li><li>Partnerships with 8 government agencies and 10+ NGOs to deliver the program at scale to over 56,000 students annually across 650 government and low-income private schools</li><li>A Validated Employability diagnostic tool that has assessed more than 3000 youth </li><li>A 300+ employer network to provide access to internships and jobs opportunities</li></ol>From the year 2021, Antarang intends to build on this ecosystem and has started embedding phygital career campuses in government schools to institutionalize career exploration and school-to-work transition support for high school students.

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Why is it that close to 70 million adolescents in India can only survive, not thrive? Why are they told that they cannot have a dream? Why is it that they do not get the same opportunities as their more privileged peers? My organization, Antarang Foundation enables adolescents from the poorest quartile of India to aspire for careers that would help them break the intergenerational cycle of poverty. We often hear about young adults from extremely disadvantaged backgrounds making it to aspirational careers. These examples are outliers, as access to careers that promise economic and social mobility is systemically denied to 1/3rd of the population in India.  More than 70 million youth in India live at or below the poverty line, with little access to healthcare or quality education, thus severely limiting their ability to aspire for a future that enables socio-economic progress. Less than 27% of them actually complete school. Around 30% of them cited economic factors and the inability to cope with education as primary reasons for dropping out of school. High dropout rates lead to unemployment or low-wage employment that perpetuates the intergenerational cycle of poverty. It is this lack of awareness and access to opportunity that perpetuates social and economic inequity that Antarang is solving. Antarang's CareerYatra is a 4-year seamless intervention that aims to provide intensive career guidance, interactive career exploration, employability skills, and access to skilling and employment opportunities for youth between the age of 14-18 years. We are embedding a career readiness curriculum for students of grades 9 - 12 across Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Goa. Key components of the intervention include:<ol><li>Career Classes embedded into the school timetable that cover self-awareness, career awareness, career planning, and transition support.</li><li>Career Facilitators who guide students in Career Classes through career exploration, help them arrive at clear career plans and provide support in filling forms and gaining admission into higher secondary education. </li><li>A digital career tracker / the career GPS that will help students navigate their way to careers of their choice. </li><li>A career development diagnostic that measures the developing career readiness of high school students</li><li>WhatsApp career chatbot that enables 24X7 career support and transition support to students</li></ol> Antarang Foundation envisions to create equity in careers. Every youth despite any socio-economic barrier must receive equality of opportunity to aspire for a career of their choice, receive appropriate guidance, and access to experiential learning opportunities. We have made it our mission to build this holistic ecosystem to enable a 20% increase in GER (Gross enrolment ratio) to higher education and ensuring students successfully transition to career pathways in line with their aspirations.

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