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.Lt Gen (Retd) Bhopinder Singn and his wife Winnie Singh and have 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. Gen Bhopinder Singh is like a brother to many widow mothers."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 Gen Bhopinder 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,” says Gen Bhopinder Singh. 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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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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For thousands of elderly people, homeless individuals, daily-wage workers and vulnerable families, hunger is not an occasional hardship, it is a daily reality. Danirasa Foundation’s with the help of kind supporters and donors is quietly changing this reality for hundreds each day. Your donation provides a warm meal to an elderly grandparent who has no other means to survive. At ₹25 per meal, your donation of ₹1,250 can provide a meal each for 50 elders. Donate Now.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/4638fd0e-2ec9-4c5e-b3a8-c00af652f0cf.webp" />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).From one crisis to a mission against hungerDanirasa Foundation’s journey began during the devastating 2015 Chennai floods. Founder Indu Priya witnessed families, especially women and children, struggling with displacement and hunger. She and her team mobilised volunteers to cook and distribute hot meals. What began as an emergency response became a lasting commitment to ensuring vulnerable communities have access to food with dignity and care.Today, Danirasa’s Community Kitchen serves around 4,900 people through this programme. The meals reach elderly residents in old-age homes, children from underserved communities, rehabilitation centres, homeless people, daily-wage workers and others facing food insecurity.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/83575191-6a09-495a-90d8-7d25ccfbef96.webp" />A meal can mean so much moreFor an elderly person living without family support, a nutritious meal can bring comfort. For someone surviving on irregular daily wages, it can mean one less worry. For a vulnerable child, it can provide the nourishment needed to learn and grow.But feeding thousands of people every day requires a steady supply of ingredients, cooking, packaging, transportation and dedicated people.Help serve a meal with dignity<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/7e996883-166b-4ca3-bee7-2bc0c73ceefb.webp" />Your donation can help Danirasa continue providing nutritious meals to homeless and elderly people, children, workers, persons with disabilities and families struggling to make ends meet.Help Danirasa ensure that no vulnerable person has to face the day with an empty stomach. Donate today.Donate to this fundraiser by give.do, India’s most trusted online donation platform, to support Danirasa Foundation, in its mission to feed helpless elderly and destitute people, who have no means of survival.

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Goranbose Gram Bikash Kendra (GGBK) is a registered non-profit voluntary organization registered under the W.B. Societies Registration Act-1961 and has FCRA Certificate from the Ministry of Home Affairs. We work on the issue of Human Trafficking, Child Rights, Woman Rights, and Climate Change impact on communities and also provide special need assistance to affected persons in the Sunderban delta of South 24 Parganas District of West Bengal.Through our process and project, we work as a facilitator and train the communities and the leaders of the collective in building resilient communities through Prevention, Protection, Rehabilitation and strengthening Criminal Justice System. Our activities are intervention-based, creating awareness among the community and helping them develop livelihood opportunities.We work directly with community leaders, survivors of human trafficking and marginalized and vulnerable groups. GGBK acts as a facilitator helping the community and survivor leaders to be an implementer with the support of CSRs and Funding partners. Over the past years, GGBK has worked directly with survivors of various forms of gender-based violence. Since the last few years, their focus has been on rehabilitative and retributive justice for survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation who have come back to their respective source communities after being rescued from situations of exploitation in various states of India and abroad. GGBK has developed a collective of survivors of gender-based violence, namely the Bandhan Mukti Survivors' Collective. The organization mentors and empowers the collective to function as a defender of the human rights of the survivors.Presently GGBK is strategically intervening in the axis of gender-based violence, human trafficking, migration, climate change impact on the community, empowerment of adolescents and young adults, leadership and system building. GGBK works in collaboration with the community, survivors, youth, government and non-government stakeholders, police and administration, lawyers, social workers, psychologists, civil society organizations, judiciary and media. GGBK has interventions in West Bengal, Maharashtra, and Delhi. GGBK is part of different networks with CBOs, CSOs, NGOs, and part of different advisory and monitoring committees of the government. 2500 survivors are now in a forum as survivor leaders and there are survivors forums at State and National levels and they are advocating for systemic sustainable changes as co-facilitator with GGBK.Vision-GGBK envisages a community free from all evils, ensuring justice, equality and peace for development with community leadership.Mission-GGBK aims to create the best and most meaningful opportunities for the vulnerable without discrimination ensuring enough means to lead a life with dignity. It also aims to adopt disaster management and mitigate climate change issues. GGBK accords particular emphasis on raising and developing outstanding leaders among women, youth and children as good citizens. We have taken up preferential options for the poor and decided to work with the poor on equal terms with the poor.

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According to the comprehensive Amphan damage report and current context, embanks of Sunderban delta that spread over 160km were wiped out in the cyclone, taking the loss on this count to Rs. 5000 Cr. Hectares of farmland and fisheries have been affected. This is the report of only a single disaster but as we know Sunderban has to face several cyclone and disasters repeatedly every year which causes poverty, loss of life, livelihood, shelter and people are forced to migrate at different states and abroad. After pandemic and super cyclones in the year 2022-2023, the cases of unsafe migration, gender based violence, human trafficking, child marriage, child labor have increased at a large scale. As per GGBK’s study the people from the vulnerable community have taken loans with high interest (18%) per month where they do not had any plan of repayment and which in turn increase the risk of debt bondage. To overcome from this situation sustainable alternative livelihood generation is need of the hour. It is challenge for these communities to avail the knowledge &amp; information of accessing the facilities. A barrier of access between the community and the Government centers is quite prevalent and not available in the location. 
 Training support  - <ul><li>Training on alternative livelihood options like handicrafts, food processing, jute work, organic farming, vermi-compost for livelihood generation.</li><li>Counseling and perspective building of the women and the community people for disaster preparedness and mitigation, access the livelihood.</li></ul>Linkage building  -<ul><li>Marketing &amp; linkage for tie-up with business agencies, local market, e-marketing &amp; government schemes.</li><li>Awareness generation and knowledge build up on disaster preparedness and Government welfare &amp; security scheme.</li></ul>Educational support<ul><li>Promote Education through non-formal education centre, after school and leadership development of children and adults. </li></ul> 
 Ensuring access to services for at-risk children, migrant population, young women and survivors of human trafficking as a resource hub for their knowledge building, psycho-social, counseling, advisory, resilience building and livelihood.<ul><li>1000 families will be able to decide on livelihood options and start their businesses, entrepreneurships using local resources.</li><li>5000 members of 1000 migrant families will be impacted.</li><li>Enabling community self sustenance and preparedness for taking action during disaster.</li><li>70 percent the participants will be linked with Government schemes.</li><li>100% of the Beneficiaries will get the scope of Business expansion, scale up and diversification.</li><li>60% of the trainees get the scope of tie up with small and big business agencies and expand their start ups.</li><li>Adult education will be promoted within 5000 community people.</li><li>1500 children get access to technical, vocational courses depending on their individual abilities.</li><li>Need of education to all will be promoted and immediate learning will be facilitated in the community.</li></ul>

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