In Vrindavan, thousands of elderly widow mothers face the harsh reality of abandonment and suffering. With no one to turn to, many are left begging on the streets, exposed to heat, cold and rain,Donate so that Maitri can provide shelter, food, clothes and medical support to abandoned elderly mothers now. Give generously.Winnie Singh has witnessed many cases of widow mothers being abandoned on the streets of Vrindavan, one of the holiest places in India. “Children leave their mothers as soon as they become widows. The children start feeling the burden. This has become a practice in today's society that money comes first and everything else later,” says Winnie whose Maitri India, rescues widowed mothers from the streets of Vrindavan.Many widowed elderly mothers often end up living a lonely life and begging to survive on the streets. And Maitri aspires to take care of every widow in need of help, but because of lack of funds, Winnie and Maitri are in a position to do it."Elderly widows don't have shelter. They sleep in cowsheds over sacks. They don't have a blanket. Nights are really difficult for them," shares Winnie Singh. <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />Maitri aims to:<ul><li>Provide shelter and nutritious 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 and engagement around the struggles of abandoned widow mothers</li></ul>Why donate to MaitriWinnie needs your support to help those in need of food, healthcare and well-being. “Maitri urgently needs your support to provide nutritious food, clothing and healthcare to sustain these widow mothers who are prone to more illnesses as they age,” appeals Winnie. “You can become the family they were denied. Hold their hands so they don't need to beg ever again,” she adds. Let’s rescue abandoned widows mothers from the streets of Vrindavan and give them a better future. Donate now.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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“What will happen to them after me? I am 80+. I spend sleepless nights,” worries ex-Air Force officer, Group Captain AC Barua while talking about the future of the 28 destitute women under his care. “They have nobody in this world, sometimes they don’t remember their own names. They are absolutely alone,” he informs us as he goes from one room to the other meeting all the women who live at Seneh, the only home where they are loved and taken care of. After fighting for his country all his life, this octogenarian is now fighting to rescue homeless and abandoned women from dying on the streets. But he cannot do it alone. “Everyday I keep on getting calls from here and there. ‘Oh! there’s a woman lying here. Can you help?’ But I don’t dare to go and help because I don’t have the money. I don’t have the resources, our resources are very limited,” explains Gr. Capt. Barua who is lovingly called ‘Sir’ and ‘Deuta’ (father in Assamese) by the residents of Seneh. With your help, 80-year-old Group Captain Barua can fulfill his mission of rescuing abandoned and homeless women from dying on the streets, alone. Donate nowDonate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. All 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).Seneh- a home filled with love, care and hopeThe residents of Seneh often don’t remember who they are, where they have come from. Many times these are women with mental health conditions and considered being a witch due to superstitious beliefs and beaten up as a result. They are victims of domestic abuse or widow mothers who are considered to be a burden on the family. Group Captain Barua has not only rescued them from critical conditions, he has provided them with urgent medical care, food and above all, a free safe shelter where they can live with love and care. Among these residents is Sarala Kalita who fled to save herself from the tortures of her alcoholic husband only to face neglect and trauma from her brothers- and sisters-in-law. “Both my brothers and their wives urged my father to leave me somewhere as they didn’t want to take care of me anymore. One day my brother’s wife didn’t even let me have food at home. She just wanted me to leave and go away. So that’s why, my father got in touch with Seneh through someone, and handed me over to Sir to take care of me,” says Sarita who has found joy in living at Seneh. “Coming to Seneh, it felt like I got a new life altogether. Sir has given me a harmonium. I love singing. It makes me forget everything and takes me to someplace else entirely,” she adds. More women like Sarala can find their way to a loving home like Seneh. All they need is a little bit of your kindness. “It is difficult to make both ends meet”To sustain their daily expenditure, Capt Barua needs approx ₹3 lakh a month and arranging the funds is a mammoth challenge for the NGO. “Our expenses are growing day by day. Residents are growing older, their sicknesses are increasing. At times we have to give them special food. They require more care so we have to get more employees. About half of them require leading around, 1-2 has to be fed also. It will be very difficult to sustain it unless we get help,” he added. One act of your kindness can save these abandoned women, with no one in this world, from struggling on the streets to survive. At 80+ Gr. Capt. Barua cannot sustain Seneh on his own. “With folded hands, I appeal to all. Please come and please help us. Let us help these people, these old people who have nobody in this world. They are dying. They will die on the streets,” he urged. Donate to this fundraiser by Give.do to support retired Air Force officer, Group Captain Barua in his mission to rescue abandoned and homeless women from dying on the streets.

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Cattle, bred for profit and abandoned after they stop producing milk, are often found malnourished, injured or sick on city streets. Many face bitter winters, starvation and death in road accidents - a sad fate for cows in a country where they are revered by lakhs of people. To save cows from such a sad end, Swami Ishwar Das started Shree Krishnayan Desi Gaushala, currently home to 18,000+ abandoned cows. But with the rising costs of fodder and medicines, he is struggling to provide the quality of care such mistreated animals deserve. “It was in 2010 when I witnessed abandoned cows from the streets in Uttarakhand being transported in a truck. The cows were administered anesthesia and stacked one above the other like lifeless goods. When me and a few of my acquaintances brought the cows off the truck, two of them died before my eyes and that sight shook me to the core. It was then that I started Shree Krishnayan Gaushala with 11 abandoned cows in a small donated land,” says Swami Ishwar Das.Swami Ishwar Das is unable to bear the rising cost of nutrition and medical care for injured cows and needs support to continue to save these voiceless animals. 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).<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/ead01668-6b4d-4a8c-85de-30b43e174f22.JPG" />Every life matters“Here at Shree Krishnayan Desi Gaushala, it is our resolve to leave no stone unturned in caring for helpless cows. No matter what the cost of treatment may be, we make every possible effort to aid ill and injured cows. Our only objective is that a cow should not lose its life for the want of medical care, food or water,” says Swami Ishwar Das. In order to provide the best quality of care and treatment to its adopted cattle, three well trained veterinary doctors attend the gaushala 24/4. The NGO - Shree Krishnayan Desi Gauraksha Avam Golokdham Seva Samiti - spares no expense in providing nutrition either. From jaggery and grains to a healthy mix of green and dry fodder, cows are given meals best suited to their needs.With cost of fodder on rise the Gaushala needs help<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/93e7eafe-4438-40d6-ae40-6972feaf0988.jpg" />Swami Ishwar Das and his team, however, are struggling to keep up with rising costs of nutrition and medical care for cows. “The cost of fodder has risen by almost three times in the last couple of years. From food to medicines everything has become expensive. And we will never compromise with the quality of care and love that we want to give to our cows,” says Swami Ishwar Das. Help Swami Ishwar Das provide the best care and love to abandoned cows while saving them from a desperate life of starvation and suffering on the streets.

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Diya Foundation is a social organization striving for a just and civil society working for the deprived and underprivileged who lack access to resources, services, information and market. It is a non-political social organization irrespective of caste, religion, colour and creed. It is registered under the Societies Act 12 of 1983 at Meghalaya on the 29thday of July 2011. Df is committed to integral and holistic development in the underserved areas reaching out to the bottom and to the downtrodden. Its registered office is located at Smit Village, East Khasi Hills District in the state of Meghalaya and its Administrative Cum Head Office is located at Loharghat, Via. Mirza in the District of Kamrup Rural, in the Assam State.Vision A society of self-reliance, sustainability and dignity.  Mission.Serving the community to enhance their capacities, participation, institution-building and sustainable use of resources Objective.<ul><li>To impact the lives of 60,000 by 2032 through livelihood, health and education programs.</li><li>To build institutions and local governance for better participatory decision-making.</li><li>To bridge the gap for resource mobilization, linkages and entitlements;</li></ul>Diya Foundation primarily works for the enhancement of existing and creation of new rural Livelihood opportunities among the small and marginal farmers belonging to scheduled tribes, schedule caste, and tea tribes through various Agricultural activities and Horticulture plantations through organic practice, Sericulture, Livestock, Decentralised Renewable Energy and enabling them for resource identification (locally available), their sustainable management and building linkages with stakeholders and resource agencies. Diya also promotes community institutions such as women's self-help groups, Farmer's Interest Groups and Producer Groups. For long-term sustainability and scale-up, it identifies, trains and deploys community cadres and community volunteers. Diya identifies areas of strength (organization as well as community) for proper engagement with the community. Diya engages with resource agencies and government programs to reach out to the target communities, small and marginal farmers of Assam and adjoining villages of Meghalaya.

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The covid vaccination drive conducted by health departments in Assam has been very challenging due to shortage of manpower within the health departments, scattered and remote habitations, lack of enough transport facilities and more depressing is hesitancy due to social taboos, misinformation and communication, religious believes and myths. In places where there are minorities settlements, tribal communities situated in the forest villages and border areas of Assam-Meghalaya there very little vaccination happened. Even though 80 to 90 percent of the 18+ population completed 1st dose vaccination yet there are a certain number of populations in districts and blocks who have not reached out or covered fully. More importantly, lapse for 2nd dose vaccination currently is 25 percent as mentioned by a few BPHC's under Kamrup District. The number of 1st vaccination completed are yet to receive the 2nd dose by almost 45 to 50 percent under 5 Blocks of Kamrup District (Chhaygaon BPHC, Hajo BPHC, Nagarbera BPHC, Rampur BPHC and Rangia BPHC) of Kamrup Rural District of Assam.Therefore looking into the current context of vaccination progress it is to ascertain that much effort in terms of supporting the health departments, health workers with transport facilities, volunteering them wherever there is a gap and need, awareness creation, driving out people from home for vaccination etc.Since Diya Foundation has post-experience working among these communities. At present Diya Foundation also implementing Livelihood and Maternal Health programs in these areas which has a huge potentiality to intervene in these areas.During the Covid period, the organization has built a very good relationship with the block-level health department. Diya foundation also supported to mobilized people for vaccination and testing during that period. A Volunteer group has been developed by the team in the different villages who help the health department to mobilize people of their areas. Besides that, these volunteers are now facilitators of the concerned are not only for vaccination but awareness of good health practices in the community, coordination with local ASHA as well PHC and block-level and health worker.Diya intends to work for 2nd dose vaccination in 5 Blocks of Kamrup District (Chhaygaon BPHC, Hajo BPHC, Nagarbera BPHC, Rampur BPHC and Rangia BPHC) out of 12 Block PHC where less than 50 percent achievements are made in the district. As data shared by the Kamrup District Information Officer, NHM, the five BPHC's have attained less than 50 to 55 percent 2nd dose vaccination in those five BPHC's and therefore target number of vaccination till date in five blocks is 635130 and Diya Foundation intends to take up the vaccination program for this target to cover within 3 months starting from 1st January 2022 to 31st March 2022. 
 Diya's plan is to reach out to 5 Block PHC's of Kamrup Rural District i.e. Chhaygaon BPHC, Hajo BPHC, Nagarbera BPHC, Rampur BPHC and Rangia BPHC having less coverage than 50-55 percent vaccination. These BPHC have high settlements of minority communities, remote forest villages, tribal communities situated in the Assam-Meghalaya Border where less vaccination happened. Total vaccination of 635130 is the target for 5 numbers of BPHC's under kamrup Rural District i.e. Chhaygaon BPHC having a target of 155831, Hajo BPHC having 1129148, Nagarbera BPHC having 147342, Rampur BPHC having 60396 and Rangia BPHC having 142414 within three months starting from 1st January 2022 to 31st March 2022. Of this total number of vaccination i.e. 635130 Diya Foundation will cover 50 percent of the total target vaccination which is 317565 vaccinations. Rest 50 percent i.e. 317565 will be covered by the department. A full-time team will be developed under each block which will comprise Community Health workers, Data entry operators and Community volunteers to manage the entire vaccination program. Community Health workers will monitor and provide support services to Community Volunteers during the process of vaccination and in any other need base support, they require. The data entry operator will be responsible for capturing the vaccination data from Community Health Workers and enter in the MIS Systems. The Community Volunteers will monitor villages to village and house to house along with ASHA and other health workers from the line department and facilitate vaccination. The Community Health Workers and the Data entry operator will be salaried persons and the Community Volunteers will be paid an amount per vaccination basis. A program coordinator will be appointed who will manage the entire vaccination program, his/her role will be to assist the entire program as well as report the donor agency from time to time, provide support services to community health workers and data entry operators and as required in any area/district level/at block level during the program period.In order to assure 100 percent vaccination in the targeted BPHC's door-to-door visits in each village along with the support of ASHA and Health workers from the Department will be conducted. Joint efforts will also be made involving ward members of respective panchayats in every village of Blocks. Transport facilities or fuel will be provided to health workers of the departments too and PHC's so that travelling to the remotest part of the block will not be a barrier. Awareness campaigns, meetings and sensitization programs will be conducted in collaboration with administration, health workers from Departments and Panchayats so that not a single person is left behind unvaccinated in any targeted villages. 
 The impact we intend to create through this program is-<ol><li>100 percent vaccination in the Blocks where intervened</li><li>Strong network and coordination build with health team at Block and District level</li></ol>

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