"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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“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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“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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Centre for Aquatic livelihood Jaljeevika is a registered not-for-profit organization committed to the promotion of aquatic-based livelihood opportunities, securing food and nutritional security in rural India. The very essence of Jaljeevika lies in mainstreaming vulnerability reduction related to livelihood and employment opportunities for small-scale farmers through the promotion of climate-resilient agriculture practices. Jaljeevika has a strong footprint of niche development work supporting the most vulnerable and rural small-scale aquatic producers creating inclusive rural economies. With the creation of the institutional strengthening model, Jaljeevika is able to leverage resources, field presence, technical know-how, and practical experience, and its reputation as a successful knowledge entity of climate-resilient, cluster specific livelihood generation models to increase its impact in rural areas with high vulnerability. Since its inception, Jaljeevika is addressing the issue of small-scale fish farmers, building community resilience and capacity to enhance livelihood opportunities using existing water bodies, technology, and leveraging institutions for more than 25000 farmers, women, and tribals across the Indian States like Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh Since the majority of fisherfolk directly depends on the sector, especially the small scale and artisanal fishers, and continue to fall behind the national indices of socio-economic development, it is essential to provide requisite impetus towards amelioration of poverty and backwardness among these marginalized and vulnerable communities and promote their holistic development and welfare. The major bottleneck for the development of fisheries and aquaculture in India include lack of proper knowledge on locally suitable aquaculture technologies, absence of better management practices (BMPs), poor extension services, unavailability of locally produced quality fish seed, lack of quality input supply, absence of private sector investments and institutional credit facility.

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Back-to-back droughts wreaked havoc on agricultural production and farmers’ incomes across Bundelkhand region in India. Regions like Bundelkhand were all the more affected, due to regular drought situation in Bundelkhand region. Stopping rainwater run-off and its storage in large man-made tanks/lakes was part of traditional wisdom in Bundelkhand. The region’s Chandela rulers built thousands of tanks and pond for water conservations. These water tanks are used for irrigation as well as supplement livelihood of thousands of fishing community members across the Bundelkhand region.During the last few years, many ponds and small waterbodies were constructed in the region to support irrigation for farmers. All these small water bodies and ponds have tremendous scope to promote fisheries based livelihood for farmers. On average, each pond of 1-acre water area can produce at least 1 tonne of fish worth Rs. 70-75000. Such kind of livelihood enhancement has the potential to reduce forced migration and also contribute to nutrition intake for the family. Irrespective of opportunities, farmers are having problems in a different sphere. Since more than 50% of small scale fish farmers practices extensive farming, they need support in a different way. Our experiences categorized difficulty area for farmers in the following way:	Unavailability of appropriate technical support services.	Quality seed, localized feed,	Marketing intelligence, 	Tools and equipment.	Credit, input inventories,	 Logistics, new technologies support.The project "Adopt a pond" envisages to set up support services for fish farmers across Bundelkhand region namely in Tikamgarh and Chatterpur district of Madhya Pradesh to enhance production and productivity of ponds. These ponds will serve as a livelihood unit, as well as support in the conservation of waterbodies for better ecosystem maintenance. 
 Centre for aquatic livelihood- Jaljeevika is working with women's fish farming group, fishery cooperatives, and individual farmers to adopt low-cost technology of fish seed rearing within waterbodies to get quality and bigger size seed. so that production will increase from existing water stocking in ponds. We are also imparting best management practices among farmers to manage ponds, fish feeding technique, collective marketing system and use of dried pond bed to cultivate other agriculture crops like watermelon and cucumber. We are also promoting cultivation of other water produces such as water chestnut(singhara) and lotus cultivation to enhance farmers' income in the area.As a campaign, we are targeting at least 100 different ponds to be adopted in Bundelkhand area through your support.We are providing the farmers with good quality seeds, tools and gear, life jackets, funds for installation of low-cost cages for fish rearing and low-cost recirculatory aquaculture system (RAS), and cultivation of Azolla at household level for livestock feed.We are promoting women's group and fish farmers club to devise better management practices. Above all, we intend to collectivize all pond farmers as a producer organization in the coming months. 
 We envisage the following impact of this project:* Enhance household income by Rs.50000 per year by the end of the support period * Enhance productivity of pond from present 400 Kg of fish per year to 1500 Kg per year.* Develop women's economic leadership in 100 women's groups* Set up a farmers producer organization engaged in fishery based activity for more than 2000+ fish farmers* Develop a system of market linkages for farmers, service providers and market functionary for better price realizationand establish a culture of entrepreneurship among fishing community members.

Adopt a Pond- Help to Ensure Better Livelihood Opportunities for Fish Farmers

Millions of small -seasonal ponds and farm ponds have huge potential to bring livelihood security and income for fish farmers. Fish farming is one of the traditional ways of earning income for the fishing community but new technologies like Biofloc, Recircultory aquaculture system, Indoor fish farming, and Cage culture have opened up an opportunity for others, especially youth and women to earn income.Although Fish farming and related local business provide good opportunities for income enhancement in rural parts of India. But the absence of training and a skill-building facility is a challenge for early adopters. There are hardly any knowledge and hand-holding providers to solve day-to-day challenges for farmers. due to a lack of knowledge-building facilities, farmers lose their investments due to sudden crises in farms. post farming, linking them to the market is another emerging issue that needs to be resolved by local technical agencies. 
 Jaljeevika has developed AQUA SCHOOL models, a unique learning and training facility center in rural India to help farmers in adopting new technology and better management practices. AquaSchool facility provides technical knowledge and skill-building support services to farmers, entrepreneurs, processors, vendors, etc. to upscale and adopts climate-resilient models. Framers from nearby villages, women SHG members, Cooperative members, and youth visit Aqua-School to learn new techniques like seed rearing, Biofloc, Recirculatory system, Ornamental fish production, Fish processing and Feed making using local resources. Once they are trained, local community-based instructors visit their farms to provide regular support in farming. In this process, knowledge and best practices are adopted by farmers under close observation of local instructors. 
 Every Aqua School provides knowledge and advisory support to a minimum of 1000 farmers, youth, and women to adopt new fish farming skills. it has been observed that during one year of engagement at an aqua school, fish production is enhanced by at least 35% and their production cost is reduced by at least 25% because of saving in feed and medicine applications in ponds. An increase in fish production directly benefits local women's fish vendors to earn more money.

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From Uniforms to Fishermen: Honoring Our Heroes with Aquaculture Training

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