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, 250 of the children rescued from abuse and exploitation 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 Ahmednagar, 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 majority 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.

Help Girish give 250 HIV+ children, rescued from abuse in red-light areas a new life

“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

Help Lalitha give kids rescued from abuse in red-light areas a safe and loving home. Donate now.

“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

Help Vinay bring children facing abuse in red-light areas to safety and protect them

This is a sample description for education. For the purpose of testing I will use the word EducationEducationEducationEducation.

Education

This is a sample description for Children. For the purpose of testing I will use the word Childrenchildrenchildren.

Children

This is a sample description for Livelihood. For the purpose of testing I will use the word LivelihoodLivelihoodLivelihoodLivelihood.

Livelihood

Learning Initiatives for India (LIFI) is established as a Section 8 company and is 12A, 80G certified. It was started in the middle of the pandemic (COVID-19) when Raman Bahl (Founder) met Neelam in the village Purkhas Rathi, near Sonipat, Haryana. Purkhas Rathi is about 70 km away from Delhi. Raman was then working on a project with OoSC in Gurgaon, Haryana mentoring a team of 70 community teachers, which got severely affected because of the pandemic.On 27th July 2020, we started our Suno aur Seekho program with around 16 children in Purkhas Rathi. ‘Suno aur Seekho’ - LIFI’s flagship program that leveraged audio lessons and aligned activities and worksheets cater to the foundational literacy and numeracy skills of children. LIFI has now evolved as an organisation having sailed the last 2 academic sessions and having worked with more than 700 children. 80% of the children went back to schools as they got reopened in these multiple contexts. LIFI is now a team of 4 full-time members working with more than 16 Youth Teacher Leaders and a collective of 3 partner organisations in 5 states - Delhi, UP, Haryana, MP, and Uttarakhand. In 2021, we LIFI also worked with two partner non-profit organizations in Bihar.  To know more about us, please visit <a href="http://www.learninginitiativesforindia.org" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">www.learninginitiativesforindia.org</a>

Donations through Give Foundation, registered under section 80G of India's Income Tax Act, 1961 are tax-deductible.

Raman Bahl

Learning Initiatives for India

This nonprofit is registered as a charitable trust under section 12A of India's Income Tax Act, 1961.

This nonprofit is registered under section 80G of India's Income Tax Act, 1961. This means you can deduct 50% of the donation you made through your tax return.

Create change with NGOs on Give.do! Explore 3,000+ NGOs dedicated to causes like human rights, animal welfare and healthcare. Your contribution matters!

Find the best NGOs in India on Give.do and Donate to Fundraisers

NGOs Listing page

India has 32 million children who are out of school (NSSO 17-18). To put things into perspective, this number is more than the entire population of Australia. This population of Out of School Children(OoSC) is projected to double owing to the pandemic. Reaching these children and keeping them in school is one of the most difficult challenges in the Indian Education system.With a large population of OoSC, our country loses out on the demographic dividend. It increases children’s exposure to violence and exploitation: early marriages are likely to increase, exploitation of girls rises, teenage pregnancies become more common and child labour grows. Many children and youth miss out on social contact that is essential to their learning and development. Lacking access to a proper education puts an individual at risk of falling into the poverty trap. This vicious cycle leads to rising inequity in our country. 
 Our technology backed and community enabled approach creates a highly rigorous program that puts out of School Children (OoSC) children on a lifelong learning path. Our solution caters to two broad segments of children - migrants and non-migrants. For the non-migrant communities, we run our community interventions, where we work with youth from the same communities. The program mentors these youth to work with OoSC in their individual contexts and facilitate the process of enrolling them to schools. We also partner with Government bodies within these communities, to facilitate admissions, track the progress of the children and ensure retention within schools.For the migrant communities, we work with a network of non-profit organizations, to build an ecosystem for OoSC wherever they are in the country. We offer our partner organizations with program support, curriculum, technology, and monitoring and evaluation tools so that the children receive the same program quality. For children for whom formal schooling is not a sustainable solution, we work with them via our Youth Teacher Leaders and partner organizations and map them to alternate learning avenues (open schools/other vocational training centres) so they are under the purview of education. 
 The overarching goal of LIFI is to enable a lifelong learning path for all Out of School Children (OoSC). We are on a mission to create a collective of Youth Teacher Leaders (YTLs) and a network of organizations that can support out of school children in their contexts. We mentor and coach the collective to bridge the academic achievement gap in the children and put them on sustainable learning pathways. Our goals for 2022-2023 are :<ul><li>Objective 1: Recruit 50 YTLs across 5 states (UP, MP, Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand) who will be part of the LIFI Changemaker’s Fellowship. The Fellowship will be a way to outreach and support OoSC. </li><li>Objective 2: Impact 3000 OoSC (in the age group of 6 - 14 years) in one year</li><li>Objective 3: 80% of 3000 OoSC are ready and enrolled in age-appropriate grade levels in school or any other alternative learning paths (open school)</li></ul>

LIFI Changemakers' Fellowship (Learning Initiatives for India)

At LIFI, we are tackling one of the biggest problems facing India today - 150 million children - that's one in three - are being denied access to basic rights because they have been pushed out of the education system. This is due to a myriad of barriers, including poverty, child labour, disabilities, civil strife, lack of infrastructure, reverse migration, harmful gender norms, and discrimination.The situation is further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to a 7% dip in learning levels for children nationally and threatens their educational continuity. We cannot allow this crisis to go unaddressed. 
 LeAD UR India (Leadership and Development in Urban and Rural India) Fellowship With multiple iterations and our experience, we realised that we need a more local approach to solve the complex problem of out of school children. With this thought, we adopted a fellowship model in 2021. The fellowship is called LeAD UR India Fellowship. It aims at empowering the local youth in becoming advocates  for children who are at risk of dropping out of school or have already fallen out of the education system. The fellows (also called as youth teacher leaders) undergo intensive training and mentorship to work in their own communities for the following:<ol><li>Identify children who have been pushed out of the education system</li><li>Bridge their learning gap through contextual pedagogy in the community learning centres</li><li>Facilitate the process of putting back children in the formal education system and retain them.</li></ol>The USP of the Fellowship is to build a collective ecosystem of support for children, wherever they may be in the country. This is being enabled through partnerships with NGOs working towards a similar vision across India. Till now we have partnered with 3 NGOs to implement our fellowship in their own communities and one state government. 
 Some milestones of our fellowship journey are as follows:<ul><li>More than 80% of our children have gone back to schools and are attending them with regular attendance</li><li>Our children have shown great progress in the foundational learning outcomes with a 40% increment in their Hindi and Maths scores, adding to their confidence and dignity! </li><li>Our YTLs are setting examples for the children by being their role models, taking a stand for their own learning and development. Some of them now will be leading their own learning pods within the community to continue to teach and some of them are accepted into other Fellowships.</li></ul>Request :In the new year (2023-24), we are looking forward to partnering with 2 state governments and 3 additional NGOs for our fellowship. To keep our momentum going we are looking to raise INR 59,00,000 for the upcoming academic session, and we are counting on your support to make it happen.Your contribution will go directly towards supporting our work with children. This includes stipends for our Youth Teacher Leaders, remuneration for community mobilizers, classroom materials, travel costs, and residential training for our Youth Teacher Leaders in June.When you support LIFI, you are investing in a brighter future for India. You are empowering the next generation of leaders and innovators, and ensuring that all children have access to the opportunities they deserve.

LIFI Changemakers' Fellowship (Learning Initiatives for India)

LeAD UR India Fellowship - Learning Initiatives for India (LIFI)

Help Girish give 250 HIV+ children, rescued from abuse in red-light areas a new life

Help Lalitha give kids rescued from abuse in red-light areas a safe and loving home. Donate now.

Help Vinay bring children facing abuse in red-light areas to safety and protect them

Disclaimer