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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“My 8-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer and it left the entire family devastated. I was told the cost of treatment would run into lakhs. I was barely managing to make ends meet and there was nothing I could do to save Swaroop. But the Nargis Dutt Foundation stepped in and took care of all the expenses. I can’t even imagine the consequences had they not been there for my son,,” says teary-eyed Devendra.The helplessness that Devendra felt is not uncommon among low-income families of cancer patients. There are many who helplessly see their dear ones, including children, lose their life in the most painful manner. Nargis Dutt Foundation has ensured that thousands of families don’t see this fate. It’s been a ray of hope for thousands of cancer patients since its inception over 40 years back. You can help save many more patients with cancer. 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). The cost of each chemotherapy is as much as ₹15,000 and a cancer patient can require between 6 to 12 sessions. The hefty cost for cancer treatment is well beyond the reach for poor families that are barely surviving on two square meals a day. Help Nargis Dutt Foundation provide treatment to poor cancer patients and save them from a slow and painful death.Giving hope to cancer patients“I was just 13 when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. When I saw my mother struggling for life it left a lifelong impact on me. Her condition had deteriorated to such an extent she was almost unrecognisable. I know how it feels like to lose a loved one to cancer and I am not alone in my grief. There are thousands of people struggling to save their family members,” says Priya, daughter of noted actress Nargis Dutt, who lost her life to cancer, and in whose name the NGO has been founded. Priya has made it her life’s mission to save as many cancer patients as she can, but she can not do it alone. Nargis Dutt Foundation needs your support. Your donation can not only save cancer patients but can give life to entire families.Need for the fundraiserCancer is often seen as a death sentence. But doctors say that if detected early and if a patient receives essential treatment, the illness can be defeated and the person can return to their lives. “Treatment of cancer often depends on multiple factors including the type of cancer and the stage in which it is detected. Some patients require surgery while some can be cured with just chemotherapy or immunotherapy. “Whatever may be the need, our nonprofit supports patients till the time they are cancer free. We not only take care of the cost of treatment but even assist patients with nutrition which is vital in the fight against cancer. Moreover, we ensure that family members who are already facing immense hardships get proper accommodation and food during treatment so they don’t suffer any further,” says the NGO leader. With your support, Nargis Dutt Foundation can help patients win the fight against cancer and save their families from grief of losing a loved one.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted fundraising platform, to support Nargis Dutt Foundation in their mission to give life-saving chemotherapy and care to cancer patients who can not afford treatment.

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We aim to establish, run, maintain, support and grant aid or other financial assistance to schools, colleges, any educational or other institutions or centers including for professional courses, libraries, reading room, universities, laboratories, research and other institutions of the like nature in INDIA. This is meant to be used by students and the staff and also for the development and advancement of education and diffusion of knowledge amongst the public in general and for coaching, guidance, counseling or vocational training or to grand individual scholarships for poor, deserving and needy students for elementary and higher educations.We also wish to acquire property for the sole use for public good by making it available for public purposes as for example housing a library clinic, computer centre, crèche and /or as a community hall to be available for public use as training classes, seminars, discourses for the benefit of the rural community in general. We want to render help in vocational training and rehabilitation of the physically challenged people, street children, school or college drop outs and orphans to the extent possible by offering them employment where ever possible. Lastly, we wish to promote the programs of the state government and central government for welfare of the rural people.We run the following programme:1. Free Medical Camps: We do conduct regular free medical camps and eye testing, cataract operations and distribute of spectacles/eye glasses for the poor and needy people in rural villages.2. WOW Project: Well being Out of Waste is a project taken up in joint venture with ITC. Under this project we collect waste paper from colonies, offices, Industries, schools, universities, etc., through our Lion’s clubs network and give it to ITC, who converts it into excellent and well known note books “Classmate” which are distributed to poor and needy students mostly from Government Schools. It’s save the Nature, climate and water.3. E-waste: All type of damaged non working electronic waste viz laptop, desktops, monitors, keyboards, mouse and all types of electrical, electronic and hard plastic waste will be collected from corporate companies, manufacturing companies, housing colonies through our Lions clubs and our trust as part of the “Swatch Bharath” and recycle the same, convert as BRAND NEW COMPUTERS and the same will be deployed in GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS and LIONS LIFE CENTRE COMPUTER LAB in Rural areas, Mandal Head quarters as part of the Digital India program4. Life Centre: Library of Information for Future Education (LIFE). The LIFE centre with computer lab provides all information and training on LIFE SKILLS, and EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS right from school life to college life. Our only aim is to provide right education to students to unfold their dreams and achieve their goals, thereby bring LIFE to them. This centre also provides training and employment opportunities information as well for 10th fail inter, degree students and school and college dropouts

Ramesh Lakshmanan

Lions Life Charitable Trust

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Most of the successful candidates hail from remote rural villages and small towns of India. In India national level entrance exams & competitive exams being conducted as online tests. Not so far in the coming years, all states may adapt the same process.There is a considerable GAP between rural students and urban students in terms of:Computer literacyCompetence of lecturersInfrastructure availabilityLevel of understandingExposure to take National & State level competitive entrance tests online.Weak personal financial statusIn the light of these facts/gaps, there is a desperate need to provide some external assistance to support the students from rural areas. 
 LLCT came up with idea of creating "Lions Life Centers" in every Mandal Head quarter in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh State in first phase to strengthening training facilities & support to benefit Rural citizens.Digital classes which is the most effective and economical initiative to all sections of Indian students.The Objectives:To support rural students from all sections of the society in accessing computers, practice material, digital library, scholarships and thereby it helps students to take online competitive exams on par with their urban counterparts.To provide exposure to rural students to realize their true potential by using ICT in class room teaching or learning at Life CentersTo bring a social change by providing training to rural community on need basis and help them in finding suitable jobs for livelihood. 
 Directly or Indirectly minimum 20000 to 30000 rural students will get benefit through 100 "Lions Life Centers" every year.To minimize the gap between rural students and urban students to a considerable extent.To improve access and quality of education for under-served communities in India.Community & Rural Development by providing free access of digital infrastructure to rural students and youth in jobs.

“DIGITAL EDUCATION AWARENESS PROGRAM” - Digital classes & online test preparation material for RURAL STUDENTS

RAMESH LAKSHMANAN is raising funds for LIONS LIFE CHARITABLE TRUST(LLCT) that works to establish LIFE CETNERS in the RURAL & URBAN SLUM Areas for the less privilleged students

“DIGITAL EDUCATION AWARENESS PROGRAM” - Digital classes & online test preparation material for RURAL STUDENTS

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