Most of Sharanalayam’s children have ‘V’ as their initial. The ‘V’ stands for ‘Vanitha,’ the founder of the NGO. For the orphaned and the abandoned kids, Vanitha is simply ‘Thaiamma’ (mother). One of them is V Dhanushya, 18, who is studying nursing. “Thaiamma has taken care of me since I was six months old. I don’t know who I was born to, but if somebody asks me my mother’s name, I will say Vanitha,” Dhanushya says.But Vanitha, at 72, is seeking your support to keep Sharanalayam running and help many more Dhanushyas. Donate now.Donations to this fundraiser are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India). <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/519af8b4-e1d1-4974-98c3-a9a15120df8b.png" />“A sex worker’s child should not become a sex worker, and a beggar’s child should not end up becoming a beggar. Every child, in my eyes, is equal, and no child deserves to live on the streets. That is my basic philosophy,” says N Vanitha Rengaraj, chairperson of Sharanalayam.For rescued abandoned infants from bus stands, railway stations, roadsides and temple steps and orphans adopting whose parents have died, Sharanalayam has been a loving home for close to two decades. Vanitha has also been taking care of abandoned HIV-infected and mentally challenged kids. Today, over 80 abandoned kids are given shelter, food, medical care, education and other amenities at Sharanalayam.Vanitha has tried her best to run Sharanalayam from her own resources and that of her well-wishers, but the last two years have been harsh. “I have never extended my hands asking people to donate, but I have to do it now for the sake of the children under my care,” says Vanitha. Donate now.Over 80 children at Sharanalayam attend school and do well in their studies. Many of them study in private schools and Sharanalayam bears all expenses.How Sharanalayam came into beingThe NGO started its operations in 2001 from rented premises in Pollachi in the district of Coimbatore. It had seven children. The first child to be brought to Sharanalayam was a baby of four, who was mentally challenged, and her mother chained the daughter when she went out to work.When Vanitha came to know about this child, she went to inquire and saw that the baby was in a horrible state. She promised the mother that she would take care of the baby. “The baby hardly had any strength. She used to be called ‘insect’ by the people in the neighbourhood. The doctor said that she might not survive beyond a month. But she did for over a year, under my care. I named her Shakthi,” recalls Vanitha.Sharanalayam has come a long way since that time, with hundreds of children being taken care of by the NGO in the last two decades. Many have become professionals in various fields, including medical care, engineering, counselling, banking, etc.Sharanalayam needs urgent support to take care of 80 children under its care. The organisation also aspires to take care of many more orphaned and abandoned children in the coming months and years. Vanitha cannot do it without your support. Donate now.

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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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"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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The Goa Foundation is the most well known of Goa’s environmental action groups. Founded in 1986 by a group of Goan environmentalists each fighting his or her own individual environmental battles, the organisation today commands the respect of judiciary, government and the general public for persisting with its environment agenda for more than three decades.The work of the Foundation spans different areas and fields, all related in some way or another with the conservation of Goa’s natural environment

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Dear Friends of Goa and Goa's Wildlife, We are the tigers of Goa, living peacefully in the forests of the Western Ghats, which have been our home for generations. Our presence here is deeply woven into Goa’s culture—honored in temples, festivals, and local heritage. But now, the Goa government is trying to deny us the protection we need. Despite a landmark judgment from the Bombay High Court affirming our right to a Tiger Reserve, the government is challenging it in the Supreme Court. The Court quoted the Mahabharata in our defence: If there is no forest, then the tiger gets killed;If there is no tiger, then the forest gets destroyed.Hence, the tiger protects the forest and the forest guards the tiger! The Goa government’s lawyers have made wild claims—saying we want 1,000 sq. km for our reserve (wholly untrue) and that we’ll soon be roaming the entire state (atrocious)! For this, they are being paid Rs.25 lakh per appearance! What have we done to deserve this hostility? We’ve always coexisted peacefully with Goa’s people. But if&nbsp;you&nbsp;don’t act now, we risk losing our place in Goa’s wildlife legacy. The Supreme Court has referred the case to the&nbsp;Central Empowered Committee (CEC), whose recommendations will be considered by it on&nbsp;November 12, 2025.&nbsp;The hearings are in Delhi, and though we tigers can’t be there ourselves, we have the Goa Foundation, our trusted ally, fighting for us. But we need your help more than ever. What We Need Right Now!We must raise&nbsp;₹4 lakh&nbsp;by mid-November to cover essential costs, including: <ul><li>Travel&nbsp;to Delhi for the CEC and Supreme Court hearings</li><li>Research&nbsp;and documentation to strengthen our case</li><li>Paperwork, photos, and videos&nbsp;to present our side effectively</li></ul> Without your support, we may lose our home, relegated to the status of "tourists" visiting Goa. We don’t want to be seen wandering the streets of Goa, and we certainly don’t want to be forgotten. We want to remain in our forests. Please donate generously to the&nbsp;Goa Foundation’s Tiger Appeal. Your support ensures that we tigers continue to roam the forests we’ve called home for centuries. With gratitude,The Tigers of Goa

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The Goa Foundation -- the strongest and longest lasting of Goa’s environmental groups, -- has functioned with donations from ordinary Goans now for its entire life of 30 plus years. Goans have ensured that the annual expenses of this small but effective organization are always available.However in the last couple of years, the assaults planned by corporate parties and governments on the ecology and well-being of the citizens in the State have simply proliferated. They have also become bigger in scale. Our annual expenses have certainly increased. We are also seeking to involve many more young lawyers in our public interest litigation in the Courts. The Foundation’s legal cases are lodged in the High Court at Panaji, the National Green Tribunal at Delhi and the Supreme Court of India.The Foundation’s outstanding work spanning three decades (most of it reported at www.goafoundation.org), will convince you that this is one organization worth blindly supporting in small or large ways.The Goa Foundation’s annual expenses range between Rs.20 to Rs.30 lakh per year. This could be higher but for the fact that many people (especially lawyers) willingly fight the Foundation’s cases in the Courts pro bono (free of cost). Several activists assist the Foundation in its work (for example, verifying complaints, visiting problem sites) also free of cost. The Foundation works with few staff, that too, part-time. Nevertheless, office expenses have kept increasing steadily where they are beginning to pinch. Equipment (long depreciated) needs to be replaced. Travel costs of lawyers need to be taken care of. Young lawyers need to be supported in any case, especially if they are in training to be efficient environment lawyers.The Foundation’s daily work output includes Right to Information requests with several government departments, appeals, final appeals, demand for justice letters, drafting of petitions for the High Court, appeals before the National Green Tribunal, petitions, appeals and counters in the Supreme Court. These are simply endless, but often get substantial relief. For example, a petition forced the Tamnar Transmission Line Project to fold up its illegal work at the proposed electricity substation at Sangod (outside Mollem).Recent work has included legal challenges to all the three infrastructure projects which threaten Mollem National Park and the Bhagwan Mahaveer Wildlife Sanctuary, and notification of a tiger reserve for Goa.Last year, in order to spread out its legal expertise among the Goan population, the organization organized its popular course on Public Interest Law, a 20 day course on all aspects of law and courts, with a strong environmental bias. .We continue to work extensively on environmental issues facing the people of Goa, including mining, Coastal Regulation Zone including turtle nesting sites, protected areas including wildlife sanctuaries and forests, protection of the Western Ghats in Goa, conservation of khazans and agricultural lands, air pollution (no to coal), etc.

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The Goa Foundation -- the strongest and longest lasting of Goa’s environmental groups, -- was started by environmental activists in 1986. It has survived till now with a steady stream of donations from people who love Goa and who want Goa – both as an idea and as a place -- to survive for future generations. Thirty years later after its inception, the people in charge want to hand over the fighting organization to Gen Next. Handing over an organization without a Corpus Fund is not a good idea. Those taking over need to concentrate on fighting issues, not raising funds (though they will eventually do that as well). So we thought of a Survival Fund. It’s money you give us which will ensure the Foundation survives well into the next generation.The Goa Foundation’s outstanding work spanning three decades (most of it reported at www.goafoundation.org), will convince you that this is one organization worth blindly supporting in small or large ways.   
 For more than 30 years we never thought of a Survival (or Corpus) Fund. Now we think we need to get one going, to simply ensure that as the major environmental battles that threaten to engulf Goa unfold, the organization is strong enough to ensure an effective and sustained presence on behalf of the ordinary people of the State. You can choose whether the donation you want to make to the Goa Foundation will go to its annual operational requirements (this is a separate GiveIndia project) or to its permanent Corpus Fund. In the first instance, you give and support the expenses of the daily work of the Foundation. In the second instance, you contribute to ensuring the Goa Foundation does not close up after its founders leave. (The main ones in any case are already beyond 65 of age.) 
 Through our advocacy, public interest litigation and support for peoples' movements, we work in multiple areas. First of all, we work extensively on environmental issues in Goa, including mining, Coastal Regulation Zone including turtle nesting sites, protected areas including wildlife sanctuaries and forests, protection of the Western Ghats in Goa, conservation of khazans and agricultural lands, air pollution (no to coal), etc. We try to generate all pro-environment, pro-people research that is required for effective and sustained environmental battles that are engulfing the State in flames.We take a tough staff on pro-environment issues, tackling corporations, governments and bureaucrats without fear.Through our Goenchi Mati Movement (goenchimati.org), we try to ensure that the present generation of Goans (and their political leaders) think of the needs of the next generation and resources for their livelihood as well.

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