Stray dogs and other animals on the streets live a life of acute deprivation. The most painful part is the manner in which they meet their end–lonely and helpless. While some may sustain grave injuries after being run over by vehicles, others are at the risk of starvation and illness. Often, people ignore their plight as they are strays. But not Sudha Narayanan. It’s been almost a decade since Sudha decided to set up a hospital and shelter home for stray dogs and other animals. Sudha’s NGO Charlie’s Animal Rescue Centre (CARE), since its inception in 2013, has saved the lives of thousands of stray animals with urgent trauma care and medical help. Sudha has shouldered a significant amount of the cost of treatment for these animals for a decade. But owing to a steep rise in the cost of medicines she is now struggling to keep the doors of CARE open for helpless street animals.  <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/4f78733a-a2d5-485e-8a89-6a722dbc6540.jpg" />CARE cannot bear the cost of critical medicines needed to save sick and injured animals and urgently needs support so it can continue to rescue voiceless animals from the streets. Donate Now.All donations on this platform are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India), &amp; 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (USA).Plight of the voicelessStray animals not only suffer from road accidents and bear the brunt of starvation and sickness, but also face unimaginable acts of abuse at the hands of human beings. Sudha says, “People pour acid on stray dogs and cats. They are beaten, have their legs broken and even sexually abused…injured animals often receive no care or attention from people around them. They are forced to crawl into a ditch where they die a painful death unnoticed.”<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/620bc0eb-ae3d-4df4-aa19-dc8ead2d215a.jpg" />CARE has taken up the responsibility of providing life-saving trauma care and medical intervention to the strays. The NGO’s rescue helpline receives numerous calls throughout the day. CARE’s team brings the rescued animals to its trauma care centre, where the sick and the injured are admitted and taken care of. With the help of proper medical care the animals are nursed back to health. The animals who are no longer fit to survive on their own due to serious injuries are kept in the NGO’s shelter home which is currently home to over 150 stray animals including dogs, cats, birds etc. The struggle to stay afloatWith their rescue helplines ringing off the hook and the number of helpless animals increasing with each passing day, CARE is finding it difficult to keep going. “The number of animals we save and shelter are increasing continuously. And if we don't get the support we require, unfortunately these animals will also be left without anybody to look after them. We need a huge amount of money for critical care medicines, for animal care items and for the essential food needed for the sick and injured animals. Help us save their lives because if you don’t help us, we will not be able to help them.” <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/01a38cbb-446f-4a68-aec8-aba3727059a0.jpg" />A loving mother to countless voiceless animals, Sudha is in urgent need of your help to save them from meeting a painful end on the streets. Donate now.Donate on this fundraiser by Give.do to support Sudha in her mission to rescue ill and injured stray animals and provide them urgent medical care.

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“There isn't a drop of water in our village. I leave home at 3 a.m. to fetch water. Even the water I can get is so dirty that sometimes we feel like vomiting while drinking it but we have no other option. It's been 30 years since I have been walking day and night for water. My legs don't have strength anymore but I still need to do it for my family,” says Ajiya, one out of thousands of women in villages around Jodhpur, Rajasthan, who have suffered for decades without access to water.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/5e97abc2-b235-4d39-b7fd-6e1092c43fb8.webp" />The solution to their problems is simple. Digging and de-silting of village ponds can help thousands of families collect rainwater, which can last them throughout the year. But today, something as basic as clean drinking water is becoming a distant dream. Karunalaya Social Welfare Foundation is on a mission to help over 30,000 villagers get access to clean drinking water. Your contribution can ease the suffering of women and children who are forced to walk for hours to get water. Donate now to transform their lives.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 nightmare of life without water“Pregnant women have to travel 15-20 kilometres just to fetch water. This sometimes leads to miscarriages, too. The groundwater level here is 700-800 feet deep and it becomes very difficult to bring it to the surface through hand-pumps and the water is brackish, which makes it impossible to drink. When we don’t get potable water, we are often forced to do with brackish water,” says Poonam Singh, Founder of Karunalaya Social Welfare Foundation while narrating the plight of women in the area. <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/b3709a74-bc4b-4d0b-a117-afc3beca04e2.webp" />According to Poonam despite walking for hours women do not know if they can find water during peak summers. Unfortunately, there are times when entire families go without a drop of water. “Many times women walk 3-4 kilometres in the hot sun with empty vessels on their heads in search of water and then they come to know that there is no water. They have to return home with their empty vessels,” she says.  Your contribution can help thousands of women from walking in the scorching desert sun to fetch water. Donate now to give them access to clean drinking water.A solution to decades of suffering“There is water in the pond for only three-four months and there is no water after that. As the ponds are not very deep, the water doesn’t accumulate (during the rainy season). We would like to dig deep and take the mud out so that enough water can stay in the pond during the rainy season”, Poonam says. <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/6e804bba-e3a2-40fb-9d3a-85ef1167be10.webp" />“I would like to request that you donate in large numbers so that we can rejuvenate ponds that have gone dry and help people with safe drinking water,” she appeals.Donate to this fundraiser by Karunalaya Social Welfare Foundation on Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to provide access to clean drinking water to over 30,000 people from water-starved villages of Rajasthan.

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Neither 8-year-old Sarita (name changed), nor her parents had ever seen the inside of a school until recently. And had it not been for our NGO partner Turnstone Global, yet another generation of the family would have followed in the footsteps of those before. And Sarita would be left with no other option but to remain trapped in the cycle of poverty and illiteracy. Not just Sarita but a large number of children have had no access to education in the extremely backward areas of Purulia district in West Bengal. Turnstone Global’s Daulat Public School has brought in winds of change for countless children like Sarita who are the first in their families to receive formal education. Visually impaired, Dr Kanchan Gaba, head of Turnstone Global, noticed the transformation that education can bring in the lives of the less privileged and started Daulat Public School. Its sole objective is to usher in a brighter future for children of Purulia. But she can not do it alone.Dr Kanchan, strapped for funds, is struggling to expand her school to meet the vast need in the region. Join her in this mission and enable hundreds of children to start their educational journey today. 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). Staggering scale of poverty“Poverty in these areas is such that families are struggling for two square meals a day. Most families are surviving on just rice and salt which is provided by the government. Proper education, which can be the only beacon of hope for children to come out of generational poverty, is well out of reach for tribal families here, Dr Kanchan says. The scale of poverty in these villages is staggering and the need for education is immense. Turnstone Global and Dr Kanchan cannot tackle this challenge alone. With a little support, the NGO can be a catalyst of change for generations to come. Donate generously to make Dr Kanchan’s dream come true. Generations trapped in illiteracyAccording to the head of the nonprofit organisation, not a single member of several families has ever set foot in a school. When ground level workers of Turnstone Global began surveying the area and spoke to families, they were astonished to see that even the concept of education was foreign to many. However, today Turnstone Global is providing quality English education and nutritious meals to over 250 students. “We want to open the door of education for hundreds of more children but the biggest hurdle for us is the paucity of funds. We are in urgent need to expand the capacity of our school so that many more can grow up to become capable and successful members of society”, Dr Kanchan says.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online giving platform, to support Turnstone Global in giving children from tribal communities and first generation learners quality education and empower them to break the cycle of generational poverty.

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The Center for Sustainable Solutions [CSS] was set up in 2016, with the express mission of facilitating rural and urban communities to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals[ SDGs]. The core team of CSS consists of experienced professionals with decades of experience in the social and corporate sector. CSS has the competence and capability to implement at scale and has worked with the district administrations and communities across the districts of Bankura, Purulia, Murshidabad, Hooghly and S 24 Parganas in West Bengal.Through stand-alone and integrated projects and programmes, CSS is currently focussed on the realization of SDG # 2, SDG # 5, SDG # 6, SDG # 7, SDG # 12 and SDG #13.

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Families living in the islands of the Indian Sundarbans are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, the poor share this vulnerability disproportionately. While sea level rise and coastal erosion has rendered scores of such families homeless and landless, many more continue to be threatened by intensifying tidal surges and recurring cyclones. The Sundarbans is home to some of the "poorest of the Poor" families in the planet, struggling to survive in an unforgiving environment. Their struggles and miseries are compounded by the increasing frequency and intensity of climate events arising out of the warming Bay of Bengal. Cyclones and related events such as "tidal surges" have always been associated with the Sundarbans, however while the really big events were once in decade or more events, the people in the Sundarbans have been battered by 2 Cyclones in 2019, Cyclone "Amphan" during the CPOVID 19 Induced Lockdown in 2020 and recently on May 26th, 2021 when Cyclone "Yaas" made landfall. The tidal surges caused by the Cyclone got amplified in magnitude and intensity due to astronomical alignments and an unsuspecting population suddenly found themselves engulfed in "brackish" water. The inundation persisted for a couple of days, killing flora and fauna and poisoning the soil and water. Perched on roof tops, families watched as everything they owned including their grain and other foodstuff, livestock, clothing, furniture and personal belongings were washed away. Most families in the Sundarbans survive on remittances from male members who migrate for seasonal or long term jobs to the southern and western states of India. The COVID 19 Pandemic, sent these people back to their homes. Based on their traumatic experience during returning home, many families decided to defer migration and fight it out with their available resources. Cyclone "Yaas" has wiped out their determination and resolve, and families - men, women and children having lost their homes and livelihoods are now forced to think of migration. Hoping to earn back their way to their villages or settling down elsewhere.The number of "Climate Refugees" is swelling and expected to increase manifold in the coming years. Somewhere, the plight of the poor people in a small part of the world , does not seem to bother the mainstream. After every natural disaster, the government and non-government agencies engage in relief activities which driven by media, is short-lived. Thereafter there is nothing. While the Government does initiate some action to reduce vulnerability, these are mostly not well thought out and political interests hinder implementation. Civil society organizations are plagued by resource and capacity crunch and their contribution to vulnerability reduction is insignificant. The lack of foresight and concerted thinking, planning and implementation amongst stakeholders is worrying and unless significant changes are made in the way we think and act about Climate Change and its impact particularly on the poor, more and more families from the Sundarbans will be forced to abandon their homes and lands for a chance at a life, in slums and unregulated settlements in cities across the country. 
 Understandably, it is a very difficult and almost hopeless situation. CSS has invested significant resources in the past couple of years with funds raised from friends and relatives to build the capacity of people to cope with their environmental risks , however everything was washed away by "Yaas". Should we also give up on these people, thinking it to be a waste of our hard earned money. We suppose not, giving up is easy, hanging in there with a renewed determination to make things better by understanding and analysing better, should be the "humanitarian" way to do things. Our biggest learning, following the devastation of "Yaas" has been that conventional solutions to issues do not work in the Sundarbans and that we should go back to our drawing boards , design brand new solutions and demonstrate how these new solutions work.We intend to continue to work with the communities in the island Gram Panchayat of Mousini , overlooking the Bay of Bengal. We are reassessing our intervention strategies and intend to use the island and its people to demonstrate a sustainable model of development that takes the climate risks into account. Families will be provided with the knowledge and skills required to cope with their environmental risks and become climate resilient.While the medium and long term strategies for creating " climate resilience" is currently being developed. We have currently identified the following activities that should be taken up for implementation.Retrofitting and flood proofing all drinking water sources in the Gram Panchayat.Retrofitting / reconstructing household latrines.Retrofitting community infrastructure such as embankments, drainage canals, schools, anganwadi centers and health centers to make them climate resilient.Promoting appropriate "salt tolerant" paddy with farmers.Promoting "Sustainable Fishing" [ fresh water]Promoting community enterprises in both farm and non-farm sectors.Promoting " improved health &amp; hygiene" seeking behaviour.Promoting " Climate Literacy" among children and young adults. 
 The pilot project is located in the island Gram Panchayat of Mousini, Namkhana block in S 24 Parganas. Over a period of 10 years, we would like to enhance the economic and social securities of the 5,000 families inhabiting the island, such that they are better able to manage their environmental challenges and continue to provide for themselves and future generations.

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