"My son used to kick me when he was in my womb. Why make an issue when he kicked me in my old age?" reasons a very forgiving Shakti Dasi. The widow travelled 2300 kms from Tripura to Vrindavan after her only son violently beat her with a burning plank of wood and broke her knee one evening. She had to leave behind the business she had built with her husband who had died a few years back. Shakti ended up on the streets of Brindavan begging for food and shelter. But when Winnie Singh of Maitri saw Shakti in a frail state in tattered clothes, she brought her to the shelter home where Shakti gets food, care and medicines. What more, with Maitri’s intervention, Shakti reconciled with her son - and daughter-in-law, and now travels home to Tripura twice a year to spend time with her grandchildren. But she is not leaving Maitri, as this has become her family.Not every elderly widow who comes to Vrindavan after being abandoned by her family gets as lucky as Shakti. Many of them often end up living a lonely life and begging to survive on the streets. Maitri aspires to take care of every widow in need of help.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/ce101369-528c-4d37-bc1d-1118b9925af3.jpg" />Maitri’s Project Jeevan to the rescueAbandoned, elderly widows are the amongst the most vulnerable in India. After being thrown out of their often abandoned by their own children and are forced to beg for food and shelter. “Through Project Jeevan, Maitri houses aging widow mothers in two ashrams in Vrindavan and Radhakund (Mathura), providing them with wellness and well-being. The programme also reaches out to widow mothers beyond the ashrams with fruit, milk and healthcare services,” explains Winnie Singh, co-founder and executive director, Maitri India.Save homeless elderly widows from begging on the streetsMost widows who make their way to Vrindavan are abandoned by their families, often after years of abuse. They come here hoping they will spend the rest of their days in prayer and devotion. But most live in impoverished conditions on the streets and in dingy rooms. Since poor living conditions often cause a wide range of health ailments, including respiratory infections and chronic conditions, Maitri comes to their rescue through its Project Jeevan.The project aims to:<ul><li>Provide 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 on and engagement around the struggles of abandoned widow mothers</li></ul><img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />Project Jeevan needs your support to help those in need of food, healthcare and well-being. Donate now.“Maitri urgently needs your support to provide food, clothing and healthcare to sustain these widow mothers who are prone to more illnesses as they age,” appeals Winnie.Maitri believes in a woman’s right to dignity in life and death, more so a mother. 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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“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

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“I used to be sexually abused repeatedly, and when I screamed in pain, they hit and threatened me with more violence,” says Priya (name changed), a rescued child sex worker. Priya was abducted by traffickers and sold into a red-light area house before she was rescued by Guria led by Manju. For over two decades, Manju has been rescuing young girls forced into prostitution across the country. She has been shaken to the core seeing some of the most horrifying crimes that young girls have to undergo. “You can’t imagine the state of girls forced into sex work. The girls are given electric shocks and burnt with cigarette butts just to get kicks out of it. And if they get pregnant, the "owners" kick them repeatedly in the womb so that the child inside dies…If you want to see hell, it is here on this planet where young girls are sexually abused,” says Manju.Manju needs your help to rescue more young girls from forced prostitution and reunite them with their families. Donate now.Guria’s work over the yearsBased out of Varanasi, inarguably the holiest place in India, Manju and her organisation Guria, fights the sexual exploitation of girls, especially minors, by taking on the traffickers head-on, and rescuing and rehabilitating them.Started in 1993, Guria has rescued over 5500 persons from slavery, sex trafficking, and child prostitution so far. It has also been instrumental in shutting down hundreds of places that housed trafficked girls and putting scores of traffickers out of business and in jail.For instance, in 2005, a Guria-led rescue operation in Varanasi's red-light area led to the freeing of 49 women and girls, including minors. Many of them were kept against their will. Some of the traffickers were also arrested and tried. Since then, Guria has rescued thousands of young girls.Manju and her husband, Ajeet Singh began rescuing girls from Varanasi’s red-light areas and then working to stop the sex-trafficking of young girls within Uttar Pradesh and outside. The organisation’s aim is to eliminate the sex trafficking of women, especially minor girls, end second-generation prostitution and child prostitution, and rehabilitate women and girls who are rescued from the trade. Manju has faced violent backlash from the traffickers and other vested interests, but it has not deterred her from carrying on rescuing young girls from trafficking. Rescue and rehabilitationBesides rescuing girls trafficked for sex, mostly from low-income families, from across the country, Guria fights on their behalf in courts and also provides education, food, vocational training, and other facilities until they are united with their families. But because of a lack of funds, Guria is finding it difficult to rescue more girls and also take care of them once they are away from the clutches of the traffickers. Take the case of Sameena (name changed), who was abducted from Uttar Pradesh all the way to Telangana. Guria took it upon itself to rescue the girl with the help of its own work and also the authorities. After months of rehabilitation, Sameena went back to her family and even completed her education. With your support, Manju can rescue many more young girls from trafficking and help them live the life of their dreams.

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MAHILA MARGADARSHI NGO INDIA is a women’s Non Profit Charity Organization established in the year 1998 with qualified women who committed to making transformation by working for the holistic development of downtrodden communities focusing on care and protection of Women, Children, young populations and elderly people in Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh. MAHILA MARGADARSHI working in rural villages and urban slums since last 18 years in the State of Andhra Pradesh to eliminate poverty and development constraints in communities. Mahila Margadarshi has taken many initiates for the Single Women and their families, Children who are in need of care, protection and development, infected and affected with HIV/AIDS, victims of Trafficking, destitute and old age people. MAHILA MARGADARSHI registered as a TAX EXEMPTED Organization in India under 12A &amp; 80G of Indian Income Tax Act, 1961 and registered under FCRA at Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India to receive foreign donations We received prestigious award "ZILLA MAHILA SAMMAN" from Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India for our commendable services and received "Best Service Organization" from the District Collector many times and received many awards for our services in the field of serving the poor and needy in the society

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Many women in the age group of 18-35 years are living single due to destitute, divorced, widowed, separated, unmarried, infected/affected with HIV/AIDS, survivors of violence against women (VAW) living single and living separately with disabilities. Majority of these women lead their families i.e. their children and aged parents with doing various small businesses, daily wage workers and street vendors. Due to Covid-19, the Government of India implicated lockdown in India severely since 25th March 2020, stop all activities except emergency services. Still many villages and towns in Srikakulam District continued in lockdown due to rapid increasing the Covid-19 positive cases, the situation worse impacted to single women and lost their livelihood. They never allowed outside for selling their items, no labour work availed, and not opened their petty shops; this will lead their families to starvation. Children in these faced malnourishment, elders has not availed medicine for their regular health disorders, this leads their families to liabilities through hand loans. Now the situation of the families of the single women were utmost worst and looking for support from various sources but not availed, Mahila Margadarshi working these families since last 8 years on their rights and avail Government Schemes 
 In the Covid-19 Crisis time, Mahila Margadarshi would like to promote home based income generation activities for 135 Single Women families for improving their livelihood. We trained them on stitching and selling reusable cotton masks, preparation and selling of hand sanitizers and cotton sanitary napkin making with using sewing machines, these are all the need of the communities in current situation. The communities make more expenditure for Masks and Sanitizers, girls and women in the general communities are not in a position to bear the cost of sanitary napkins for purchase. Hence, we promote these activities through using sewing machines for 135 single women families to improve their daily income for livelihood.For this, 85 single women need your support for purchasing the sewing machines and running costs for the material to prepare Masks and sanitary napkins, 50 Single Women need the support for material cost of Sanitizers preparation; this will surely improve their livelihood during the crisis time and they come out of their debts in a short period 
 The families of the single women being supported through this initiation and support the communities to reduce their cost of investment in Masks, Sanitizers and Sanitary Napkins. The communities using surgical masks, which are once use, thrown them in to the streets and canals carelessly, this is most dangerous and spread the Corona virus rapidly. Due to availability of reusable cotton masks at low cost, the communities habituating the use of reusable masks and low cost sanitizers available at their villages, this will protect the environment, protect the communities from Covid-19 and promote the income of Single Women at their homes. The initiation promote livelihoods, women empowerment, environment protection and protect the communities from Covid-19Due to the availability of wage at home, the single women feed their children properly, purchase general medicine for elderly people in the family and clear their credits taken during lockdown

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The women in the age group of 18-35 years are living single due to destitute, divorced, widowed, separated, unmarried, infected/affected with HIV/AIDS, survivors of violence against women (VAW) living single, and living separately with disabilities. These women lead their families by doing daily labor, wage workers, and street vendors, but they get limited daily income, and due to the nonavailability of work, they have no workdays in a month; as a result, they don’t have income those days; this will lead these families to severe poverty conditions. Hence, the young single women searching for alternative income sources and trapped by the middlemen to use them as sex workers while they are involved in sex work, infected with HIV/AIDS, and facing many other health issues; they lose their dignity in the society, they can’t do further for labor work to generate income for their family. Mahila Margadarshi conducted a study with these families about their income sources and wellbeing; we identified that most of these women have various skills in sewing, food preparation, little shops, skilled in developing backyard poultry, and trading with goat/sheep lambs. But, due to a lack of financial feasibility, these women are working as unskilled labor and getting insufficient income to manage their families. Due to the situation, the family members face no food days and become malnourished. This will affect the lives of these families. 
 The proposed project ‘Living Expenses for a Single Women Family’ addresses the poverty issue among 100 single women families and provide financial assistance to the women according to their skill to earn money at their home, provide financial aid to developing backyard poultry, purchase goat/sheep lambs for rearing, buy a sewing machine for income generation, start a little shop at home to lead by their parents. The financial aid to these single women will bring them out of the severe poverty conditions and improve their dignity in society; Mahila Margadarshi will take responsibility for protecting the young single women from the middlemen and take the lead role in accessing the benefits of all Government Schemes. 
 The project will address the issues of poverty and dignity, the project beneficiaries will improve their family income which will lead to zero hunger days in a month, and the young single women will start their enterprise at home to earn income and prevent the pressure from the middlemen in the society; as a result, they are not infected with HIV/AIDs and reduce the rate HIV infections, the survivors of Violence Against Women will stand firm for accessing justice.

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