Human trafficking in India is a horrifying crisis. Thousands of victims, primarily women and girl children, are exploited in red-light areas. Over 10,659 cases were reported between 2018-2022, but experts say that these numbers are likely a fraction of the reality due to underreporting, yet they still do expose the magnitude of the crisis. Girls make up 71.4% of missing children in India and a large number of these girls end up at red-light areas. Sex trafficking is particularly gruesome, with girls as young as 12 sold for as little as a few thousand rupees.

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Infant India runs a home called Anandgram that cares for 60 HIV-positive orphaned children from underprivileged backgrounds. Through no fault of their own, these orphans contracted HIV, a serious disease. Without parents or guardians, these children have no access to medicines, doctors and the HIV treatments needed to stay alive. Infant India is an NGO that takes in these orphans and provides them with a home, nutritious food, medication and education for the rest of their childhoods and sets them on a path to have better and healthier futures. HIV-positive orphaned children face harsh discrimination and are outcast and shunned by relatives, neighbours, schools and society as a whole. The NGO has even come across children who have been forcibly thrown out of their schools, once it is discovered that they are HIV-positive. But these children suffer from more than the lack of medication or even access to education. Because of the stigma against HIV and AIDS, these innocent children are stripped of their worth and value and are forced to live in shame and in hiding. <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/55afd1bc-529d-430b-8d5e-033592037ee1.webp" />You can help Infant India care for 60 HIV-positive children and transform their futures through medication, nutrition, shelter and education. Donate now.Donate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. How Infant India helps HIV-positive childrenFounded in 2006, Infant India has helped more than 650 HIV-positive children, the youngest of which is just 3 years old. By focusing on holistic and long term care, the NGO provides all that a child needs. Infant India’s safe and loving shelter, food and medical care tends to the children’s basic needs and keeps them safe and well fed and gives them the vital medication their bodies require to fight the disease. The NGO also provides education and skills training to give the children a future in which they can be self-sufficient, financially independent and live dignified lives. But the NGO does not want the children to spend their lives alone, after having been abandoned at such young ages. So when the children become adults, the NGO arranges marriages with suitable partners, something that would be difficult to do on their own. Because of this thoughtful care, these marriages have resulted in the births of around 34 babies who are HIV-free. Each of these children contracted the virus through mother-to-child transmission. But through the NGO’s care, these children are able to become parents to HIV-negative children and live a full life.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/f0af0c9f-eb76-4f7c-a576-76eb7c9cc0da.webp" />The founders’ personal connection to HIV-positive orphansDatta Bargaje was working as a lab technician and came across two blood samples in the lab of a woman and her child, which showed an HIV-positive result. In a few weeks Datta Bargaje learned that the mother died, leaving the child orphaned. Without care or guardians, this HIV-positive child was doomed to discrimination and death. Datta Bargaje and his wife didn’t take long to make the decision to adopt the child and this was how Infant India started the NGO that would go on to care for hundreds of HIV-positive children. Need for the fundraiserInfant India needs your support to continue to care for the 60 HIV-positive orphans in their care. From the life-saving medication to the practical skills-training, Infant India’s care for HIV-positive orphans has transformed the lives of hundreds of children and raised them into self-sufficient and well-adjusted adults who have the foundation, motivation and positive outlook to live healthy and happy lives. To help care for HIV-positive orphaned children, donate to Infant India’s fundraiser. Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest online donation platform, to help Infant India give 60 HIV-positive orphaned children medicines, nutrition, education, skills training and a loving home to have safe and long lives.

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"Hundreds of young girls are lost forever in the dark lanes of red-light areas," says Leena Kejriwal, the founder of Missing Link Trust. These girls endure unimaginable abuse and exploitation, being lured or trafficked into an industry that breaks them physically and emotionally. Missing Link Trust is on a mission to prevent the tragedy before it happens, and also rehabilitate girls and women who are rescued from forced sex work.Leena’s journey began with her powerful street art project in Kolkata, where she painted haunting silhouettes of missing girls to raise awareness against sex trafficking. Now, she leads a larger fight — one that focuses on prevention and rehabilitation. But this mission needs your support.You can save countless girl children from going missing forever. 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).<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/21bc97c7-ad20-4fcf-8775-dd5ec8a646d1.webp" />Preventing Trafficking Before It Begins“When girls come into a red-light area, the first thing is that they are broken, physically and emotionally,” Leena says. “It’s like they will be caught, hands and legs tied, and all heinous crimes committed on them.” These are the brutal realities that Missing Link Trust fights against every day.Many of these girls are from impoverished regions like the Sundarbans, and traffickers prey on their vulnerability. “It’s shocking that they sell themselves for as low as a hundred rupees,” Leena adds. "They ready her through violent acts, removing all threads of shame from her."But why wait until a girl is trafficked to save her? Missing Link Trust believes in stopping trafficking at its root — through “prevention, prevention, prevention” as Leena puts it. The goal is simple: protect girls from ever being lost to this darkness.A Safe World for Children“Our mission is the prevention of abuse and exploitation of children,” Leena emphasizes. “Our vision is to create a safe world for children, and we want to do this with a preventive methodology.”<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/7e4968bd-c428-41cc-ac2e-baabb2ebf0bf.webp" />Every Donation MattersYour support will help Missing Link Trust continue its vital work of rescuing, rehabilitating, and preventing the trafficking of young girls. The funds raised will go directly towards:<ul><li>Prevention programs in vulnerable areas to stop trafficking before it happens.</li><li>Rehabilitation services for girls rescued from red-light areas, providing them with medical care, emotional support, and education.</li><li>Awareness campaigns to reach at-risk communities and ensure girls are protected from traffickers.</li></ul>Together, We Can Make a Difference“Why wait for a girl to get trafficked to save her?” asks Leena. With your help, we can stop this horror before it begins. Your donation will help us create a world where no girl is lost to the nightmare of trafficking.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online giving platform, to support Missing Link Trust to save young girls from being trafficked and help rehabilitate those rescued.

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