“They insert a candle in the vagina, fingers are inserted (in the vagina) and tortured, and if children don’t relent even then, they put chilli powder so that children will say “yes” because of the burning of the skin… There are teeth marks on their bodies, and their vaginal parts are burnt. When children stay in these conditions, it is painful even to hear,” says Lalitha SA of Society for Participatory Integrated Development (SPID), in course of talking about many heart-rending stories of trafficked children in red-light areas.In over three decades, the SPID led by Lalitha, has saved over 3000 children from the red-light areas, many from clutches of sex trafficking.Sadly, many more children need to be rescued and in need of a loving home. But Lalitha needs our support to carry on the mission, to move out of her small facility so that she can rescue more children, house them in a permanent location and give them all the love they deserve. Your support can help her give these children the care and upbringing they need. 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).A movement to protect vulnerable childrenAs a social worker, Lalitha has worked for decades in GB Road, the red-light area of Delhi and helped many women escape the clutches of being forced into sex. But it was the exploitation of children, many of them hardly ten or twelve or even less. The SPID has focused on rescuing such children and giving them a new life.Lalitha plays a vital role in the survival and safety of vulnerable children in the red light areas. As SPID is almost entirely dependent on donations from the public, we can support and strengthen SPID’s mission to save children. Donate generously.Donation to SPID’s fundraiser on Give.do“I have limited funds and very limited space, and if I had the funds, I would be able to rescue many more children and provide them with more comfort. With folded hands, I plead with you that you help us with funds in large numbers and support us in providing us children with a decent life. Become a part of the mission,” pleads LalithaDonate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help Lalitha give hundreds of children rescued from brothels a life away from violence and abuse.NGO's 80G number: AADAS3217RF20212NGO's 12A number: AADAS3217RE20214

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"My son used to kick me when he was in my womb. Why make an issue when he kicked me in my old age?" reasons a very forgiving Shakti Dasi. The widow travelled 2300 kms from Tripura to Vrindavan after her only son violently beat her with a burning plank of wood and broke her knee one evening. She had to leave behind the business she had built with her husband who had died a few years back. Shakti ended up on the streets of Brindavan begging for food and shelter. But when Winnie Singh of Maitri saw Shakti in a frail state in tattered clothes, she brought her to the shelter home where Shakti gets food, care and medicines. What more, with Maitri’s intervention, Shakti reconciled with her son - and daughter-in-law, and now travels home to Tripura twice a year to spend time with her grandchildren. But she is not leaving Maitri, as this has become her family.Not every elderly widow who comes to Vrindavan after being abandoned by her family gets as lucky as Shakti. Many of them often end up living a lonely life and begging to survive on the streets. Maitri aspires to take care of every widow in need of help.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/ce101369-528c-4d37-bc1d-1118b9925af3.jpg" />Maitri’s Project Jeevan to the rescueAbandoned, elderly widows are the amongst the most vulnerable in India. After being thrown out of their often abandoned by their own children and are forced to beg for food and shelter. “Through Project Jeevan, Maitri houses aging widow mothers in two ashrams in Vrindavan and Radhakund (Mathura), providing them with wellness and well-being. The programme also reaches out to widow mothers beyond the ashrams with fruit, milk and healthcare services,” explains Winnie Singh, co-founder and executive director, Maitri India.Save homeless elderly widows from begging on the streetsMost widows who make their way to Vrindavan are abandoned by their families, often after years of abuse. They come here hoping they will spend the rest of their days in prayer and devotion. But most live in impoverished conditions on the streets and in dingy rooms. Since poor living conditions often cause a wide range of health ailments, including respiratory infections and chronic conditions, Maitri comes to their rescue through its Project Jeevan.The project aims to:<ul><li>Provide 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 on and engagement around the struggles of abandoned widow mothers</li></ul><img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />Project Jeevan needs your support to help those in need of food, healthcare and well-being. Donate now.“Maitri urgently needs your support to provide food, clothing and healthcare to sustain these widow mothers who are prone to more illnesses as they age,” appeals Winnie.Maitri believes in a woman’s right to dignity in life and death, more so a mother. 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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Upholding the Gandhian Philosophy of Rural Development, Kaarigar Clinic was founded by Nilesh Priyadarshi in 2016 as a Rural Business Clinic. They work with artisans to overcome challenges related to growing traditional craft practices into self-sustaining businesses for the contemporary market.Over the past few years, Kaarigar Clinic, a livelihood project of Banyan Tree Foundation has been working with the sole purpose of strengthening village economies in order to overcome deep-rooted issues related to rapid Urbanization and Unemployment.Due to the uncontrollable migration of rural people in search of livelihood, local economies are suffering and many traditional craft skills are on the brink of extinction. Vision : Develop micro entrepreneurs among kaarigar communities to create sustainable livelihood and strengthen their social and economic status, and empower them to make villages a better place to work, earn and live.Mission :Create strong and sustainable business for Kaarigars, who are very keen to develop their own business but unable to do so due to lack education, resources, business, management and design skill.Goal :Develop 1000 kaarigar entrepreneurs across rural India and create livelihood for 1,00,000 families.

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Recently We have seen a huge crowd of migrant labourers walk on the roads during the national wide lockdown due to the covid19. One can imagine how terrific situation when labourer including their children has to walk for 500 km to reach their villages. Even they live in a very congested area in cities like Dharavi, which become a hotspot of spreading corona. When we try to find the root cause, unemployment in the rural area is one of the main reason which leads them to migrate to the city area. Nowadays, Unemployment and Urbanization are two major burning issues in India. Rural people migrate to the urban areas in search of livelihood and Due to massive migration, people suffer a lot of other problems like Overpopulation, pollution, Health Problems, Cleanliness &amp; hygiene, Traffic problems, Water scarcity and increasing slums etc.Traditionally Rural people always have some skills but do not have formal education, resources, business or management skill so unable to run their small business, unable to understand market demands and due to that getting failure in their small business and leave the traditional work. Those who fail in their business, start migrating to city areas, live in slums and work as a labourer in factories. Due to the migration, Rural tradition and culture have vanished. And also their children do not get a proper education. If Rural people get the livelihood at the local level, they do not need to migrate and it helps to overcome all these problems. 
 If rural people get the livelihood at the local level, they do not need to migrate and it helps to overcome these problems. Due to the lack of education, resources, business management and design skills, the majority of artisans are not able to run their own business. And That’s why we have started the project- Kaarigar Clinic to support the artisans to develop their own business and business ecosystem.“ Kaarigar clinic” is a Rural Business Clinic, where rural artisan can come to diagnose their business problems. We work with talented artisans who are very keen to develop/strengthen their own traditional business, but unable to do that due to lack of education, resources, business and management skill. At Kaarigar clinic we diagnose their strength, weakness and potentiality to run the business. We figure out their USP’s and continuously help them to develop a strong and sustainable business model. So that they can generate livelihood for themselves, their families and other co-working artisans while preserving traditional arts and culture. Kaarigar Clinic helps rural artisans to strengthen traditional business, so that that they do not need to migrate to urban areas for work. 
 We want to develop micro entrepreneurs among rural artisans community, who can generate livelihood not only for themselves but also for the co-working artisans. We also encourage artisans to promote locals by using local technique, material and resources, which strengthen the local rural economy. The overall impact would be, No one should leave the village in search of livelihood. Each of Our artisan entrepreneurs is able to generate livelihood for at least 100 people in their village. Under the Kaarigar clinic project, we wish to develop 1000 artisans entrepreneurs in rural India, who will provide a livelihood to more than 1,00,000 families.

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