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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In the dark and dingy alleys of red light areas, injustice, pain and suffering run rampant. And the worst affected are the children who grow up in red-light areas and are subjected to constant abuse and violence. “The sight of a 12-year-old girl being gang-raped by a group of men near a house l haunts me to this date. I was filled with anguish and resolved to do something,” says Girish Kulkarni who has made it his life’s mission to rescue children from red light areas and give them a safe and secure childhood. In the last 3 decades Girish has saved over 1100 girls from a life of abuse in red-light areas, giving them a loving home, education and medical care. He has further supported over 20,000 children with a better life.Sadly, Of the 250 the children rescued from abuse and exploitation, around 70 of them are HIV positive. The high cost of medication has left Girish struggling for funds. Your support can help him provide these children with 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), &amp; 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (USA). A movement to protect vulnerable children“Growing up in Ahilyanagar, the experiences I had as a child witnessing the horrors of sex trade defined the path of my life. I had even seen my friend’s 15-year-old sister and 70-year-old grandmother being forced to do sex work for the price of a cup of tea”, recalls Girish. “I started by merely feeding and teaching children of sex workers initially with the intention of giving them some respite from the horrors of life of abuse in red-light areas. Gradually more and more mothers started coming to me and asked me to take their children away, even if it was just for a couple of hours,” he further adds.The work that Girish started in his youth gradually grew to become a movement, with many more joining his cause. His NGO Snehalaya to date has transformed the lives of millions. Girish’s work is crucial for the survival and safety of vulnerable children of sex workers. Snehalaya is almost entirely dependent on donations from the public and your support can strengthen his mission to save children most in need. Donate generously.The horrors of life in red light areas“The cruelty and abuse that children as young as 6 or 7 years of age face is something that I can’t explain in words. Young daughters of sex workers are made to watch their mothers being raped, are brutally assaulted and forced into sex work. No child deserves to grow like this, Girish says in anguish.Sad reality of life for children growing up in red light areas is that they are deprived of even the most basic needs like proper food, safety and education. Moreover, a good number of children rescued by Girish are diagnosed HIV positive. The task of securing medication, providing them quality education and much-needed nutrition is one that requires constant support from donors. Moreover, the increase in healthcare cost has left Girish struggling to keep his home for children going. But your support can enable him to give his children a loving environment and save many more who still remain trapped behind closed doors.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help Snehalaya give hundreds of children rescued from red-light areas a life away from violence and abuse.

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“I saw a girl, barely 7 or 8, being pushed into flesh trade. Her cries for help still echo in my ears. There were men as old as 60 r*ping the innocent child. That was the day I knew my mission in life was to get these children out of the hell-like conditions in red-light areas. They are nothing short of hell and no child deserves to grow up in this environment” says Vinay Vasta, founder of Social Activities Integration, an organisation committed to freeing children trapped in red-light areas.Vinay and his NGO have been able to provide education, medical care and nutrition to over 2,500 children. But his dream to provide safe shelter to children remains unrealized. “We do our best to keep these children safe during the day but sadly they are forced to go back to the red light areas at night as we don’t have a home for them. Your donation can help us build a safe home for children of sex workers and prevent them from being pulled into prostitution. Donate to make this dream a realityDonate 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).Life in red light areas“S*x workers use their homes which are barely 6 feet by 4 feet for their business. They invite customers in the presence of their children. Their children not only witness abuse but experience it too. Just imagine a child being told that all she can ever become in life is a pr*stitute”, Vinay shares as he explains the extent of abuse children face in red light areas.This is a life that thousands of children are forced to live behind closed doors where they suffer abuse and exploitation morning, noon and night.A ray of hopeVinay has been relentlessly trying to give children the care and education they deserve. He has provided quality English education to thousands of children, enabling them to secure a livelihood out of red-light areas. Several children taught by Vinay are today leading successful lives as professionals and Government employees. However the sad reality is that Vinay and his NGO, in the absence of a permanent shelter home, are unable to provide round the clock safety to these children, which is essential for their well-being.Your donations can enable SAI to build a shelter home for the children of sex workers and usher in a new tomorrow for them, away from the horrors of red-light areas.Donate to this fundraiser on Give.do, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to provide safe shelter for children of sex workers and save them from abuse and second generation pr*stitution.NGO's 80G number: AACTS0408EF20216NGO's 12A number: AACTS0408EE20028

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Equal Community Foundation was established in 2009 by Will Muir and Rujuta Teredesai in Pune to address the issue of gender-based violence by making boys a part of the solution. ECF’s mission is to raise every boy in India to be gender-equitable. ECF has implemented its flagship gender-transformative programme, Action for Equality (AfE), in 20 low-income communities in Pune since 2009 with an outreach of over 6000 boys. ECF has also provided capacity-building support to over 50 NGOs and trained over 180 field facilitators over the last 4 years. Similarly, ECF has partnered with UNESCO and ICRW to provide capacity building support to teachers to implement gender-transformative programmes for boys in schools. Through these partnerships ECF has trained over 700 government school teachers in two districts in Rajasthan and over 90 teachers across CBSE schools across India. . The platform is currently facilitated via but not limited to an online portal: www.projectraise.org.Over the past year, ECF has also undertaken activities through Project Raise to establish a network of Civil Society Organisations, donor organisations, and government organisations to work towards the common goal of engaging men and boys in gender equity initiatives.

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Gender Based Violence and Discrimination (GBVD) continues to be a reality even in the 21st century. According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), within the age group of 15-49,  around 30% of women in India have experienced physical violence and 6% have experienced sexual violence at least once. Gender equality indicators have also declined recently; India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected, not only health and healthcare, but also GBVD. Oxfam India analysis indicated a rise in domestic violence as well a decline in the ability of victims to seek help during the 2020 lockdown.Gender equality is a basic human right. Societies that value women and men as equal are safer, healthier and prosperous. However it is not enough to empower and educate women. Boys and young men have to be included in the process of transforming gender roles, patriarchal attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours that drive inequality as well. We, at the Equal Community Foundation, believe that it is critical to engage boys to bring about systemic change towards a more equitable society and we need your support. 
 Not every boy is part of a problem but every boy can be part of the solution!ECF’s Action for Equality programs aims to engage adolescent boys in a gender-transformative programme and to enable them to identify, challenge and change gender norms.Our intensive direct interventions with adolescent boys and young men in low-income communities are intended to bring about gender equitable changes in these boys’ and men’s attitudes and behaviours and to endow them with the skills, knowledge and motivation to bring about gender equitable changes within their families, peer groups, schools, colleges, workplaces and communities. Our ultimate goal is to reduce Gender Based Violence and Discrimination within these communities. We also engage other stakeholders such as women and girls from the community, social sector organisations, teachers and students to ensure that more boys and men have the opportunity engage in gender transformative programmes and to our better each our goal to reduce Gender Based Violence and Discrimination.Your contribution will help us reach out to more and more adolescent boys and young men and enable them to identify, challenge and change gender norms. 
 Shivraj lives in a community where street sexual harassment, domestic violence and child marriage are common. Prior to his participation in AfE, Shivraj and his friends would loiter in groups and harass women and girls. In AfE, Shivraj was given the opportunity to critically reflect on gender and human rights issues within his community, as well as to consider his own part in propagating these issues. Through these sessions Shivraj went on to recognise the impact his actions had on the welfare of women and girls around him, and worked, first to spread awareness amongst his community and family members of the harm done by practices like child marriage, dowry and substance abuse as a teenager, and then to organising groups of young men that would work together to bring about gender-equitable change as an adult. Details of Shivraj’s transformation can be found in this  Logical Indian interview: https://thelogicalindian.com/my-story/my-story-when-a-girl-passed-by-i-would-whistle/Learn more about our work at www.ecf.org.in

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