"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.

Save abandoned, elderly widow mothers of Vrindavan from begging on streets

For a mother who has spent her entire life loving and raising her child, being beaten and mercilessly thrown out onto the streets by her own son is too heartbreaking to overcome. But this is a common story among the elderly residents of the Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram. “I’ve seen mothers in old and torn clothes, their bodies smelling and their hands and feet rotting and covered in maggots,” shares Dr. G.P. Bhagat, founder of the ashram. These abandoned elderly men and women lay starving on the streets hoping for someone to rescue them from their suffering. But most people walk past them without a second glance. “Like this”, Dr. Bhagat explains, “many elders die on the roads.”Since 2003, SHEOWS (Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphans Welfare Society) has rescued over 10,000 elderly people from the streets and given them a home with care and support. The elderly staying at the ashram have all been abandoned by their families and have nowhere else to live. Your support can give them comfort after their abandonment. 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). Safe and loving homeFor 20 years, SHEOWS has been providing free shelter, nutritious food three times a day, clothing, medical care, recreation activities and emotional support to abused and disabled elderly people rescued from the streets of Delhi. The Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram has a dedicated rescue team that saves the elderly from the streets and gives them immediate medical care upon their arrival at the home. To tend to the multiple health complications of the seniors, the home has a medical facility with doctors and nurses, a physiotherapy unit, a pathology lab, a digital X-ray monitoring machine and a pharmacy to provide 24-hour care to older adults anytime they require assistance, even during emergencies. Dr. Bhagat prioritizes the health of the seniors and ensures that they receive three balanced meals a day based on their precise health requirements. Need for the fundraiserThe humanitarian mission of SHEOWS is making an impact in the area, as more and more people are being rescued and brought to Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram. To meet the financial costs of running the home, SHEOWS needs support to continue providing the residents with all the facilities that they need. This includes constant care and round-the-clock medical attention, nutritious food and maintaining a hygienic environment to keep the seniors in comfort and good health. Dr. Bhagat explains that as the number of residents is increasing, SHEOWS needs support for food and medicines. “I request you to help these elderly parents lead a peaceful life.”Donate now to help Dr. Bhagat continue caring for the 500 destitute elderly and giving them shelter, food, medical care and the will to carry on living despite their tragic abandonment by their families. Your support will enable SHEOWS to keep serving abandoned senior citizens and help them recover from the trauma of abandonment and life on the streets. “I have been serving these elderly as if they were my own parents”, shares Dr. Bhagat. “I want only one thing - their tears should vanish and they should have a smile on their faces.” To help Dr. Bhagat achieve this dream, your support is critical. Donate now to help SHEOWS care for more abandoned elderly. Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest online donation platform, to support SHEOWS in their mission to rescue the abandoned elderly from the streets and give them shelter, food, medical care, recreational activities and emotional support.

This Diwali, help Dr. Bhagat care for 500+ elderly parents rescued from abuse and homelessness

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.

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Native Medicare Charitable Trust, known as NMCT was registered under Charitable Trust act in 1988. It began its activities with research on Alternate Medicines, Bio diversity conservation, Environmental Protection, Waste management, Forestry Seeds collection by organizing of Adivasis in Tribal villages, followed by a major project on “Integrated Sustainable Livelihood for Tribes”.Simultaneously NMCT entered into Health care activities including Health care for Adolescent girls, Care and Support for people &amp; children infected / affected by HIV/AIDS and awareness on Prevention of HIV/AIDS among industrial migrants.Recently we are partnering with corporate by undertaking their programmes /activities under Corporate Social Responsibility focusing on education and health. NMCT works in 17 districts through conducting Silai Schools of Usha International Ltd empowering Rural Women and Girls aiming at their livelihood. NMCT also supports for Health and Nutrition Education and Promotion of Sanitation infrastructures at Government Schools.NMCT is accredited by Credibility Alliance, Guide Star India-Transparency Key, Member of the National CSR HUB of TATA Institute of Social Sciences. NMCT is also registered under 12 AA, 80G &amp; FCRA of Income Tax Act &amp; NITI AYOG / DARPAN.

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Native Medicare Charitable Trust, known as NMCT was registered under Charitable Trust act in 1988. It began its activities with research on Alternate Medicines, Bio diversity conservation, Environmental Protection, Waste management, Forestry Seeds collection by organizing of Adivasis in Tribal villages, followed by a major project on “Integrated Sustainable Livelihood for Tribes”. Simultaneously NMCT entered into Health care activities including Health care for Adolescent girls, Care and Support for people &amp; children infected / affected by HIV/AIDS and awareness on Prevention of HIV/AIDS among industrial migrants. Recently we are partnering with corporate by undertaking their programmes /activities under Corporate Social Responsibility focusing on education and health. NMCT works in 14 districts through conducting Silai Schools of Usha International Ltd empowering Rural Women and Girls aiming at their livelihood. NMCT also supports for Health and Nutrition Education and Promotion of Sanitation infrastructures at Government Schools. NMCT is accredited by Credibility Alliance, Guide Star India-Transparency Key, Member of the National CSR HUB of TATA institute of Social Sciences. NMCT is also registered under 12 AA, 80G &amp; FCRA of Income Tax Act &amp; NITI AYOG / DARPAN. NMCT proposes to continue the Homeschooling Centers in the Remote Tribal Villages, Karamadai Block, Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu.

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The second wave of the pandemic has drastically affected the access to education for tribal children in Coimbatore and Karamadai, pushing them towards child labor. Native Medicare Charitable Trust is supporting 200 tribal children by providing home schooling, nutritional meals and necessary health &amp; hygiene kits for a period of 10 months at the cost of ₹1,600 per child per month.The schools have been closed since March 2020 due to Corona Pandemic. In the absence of schools, Tribal children tend to go along with their parents for any agriculture and daily wage work which lead to child labor. They do not have access for online class room facility which resulted in their gap in education. Unless we take care of these children, the continuity of their education will not be ensured. Education cannot be neglected in these areas because they are already far behind the mainstream education. Corona pandemic is a reality and we must act, accepting the reality, rather than thinking about everything will be back to normal and only aim at status quo. The new-age problems need to be addressed differently to meet the emerging new normal and hence new-age solutions should also be implemented to ensure quality education in the Tribal areas.  
 Overall project objective –Ø To create an Educational opportunity among 200 tribal children to continue the formal education during and after COVID-19 pandemicØ To provide nutritional meal to the Home Schooling children to cope up with their health.Ø To reduce the child labor and child marriage by engaging the children through Non-formal educationActivities: Ø To conduct Home Schooling in 10 Tribal hamlets for 10 months starting from August 2021( 10 am to 1 pm followed by lunch)Ø To provide quality education with the support of Local volunteers as teachersØ To provide necessary educational aids to the childrenØ To provide necessary health &amp; hygiene kits to the childrenTo provide mid - day meals to the children attending Home Schooling 
 Ø 200Children have improved their profilesØ 200 Children have continued their education during and after Covid-19 crisisØ 200 Children have started practicing hand wash, social distance and hygieneØ 200 Children have qualified to move further with better knowledge on their subjects.

Establishment of   “Home Schooling” in 10 Tribal Hamlets of Karamadai Block, Coimbatore District

Tirupur being the largest industrial city in South India have mushroom growth of Hosiery Units, which employ lakhs of migrant workers from other states and districts. The entire district in and around also accommodate thousands of mini industries undertaking job works for hosiery units. The migrant workers due to lack of awareness on safe sex acquire HIV in a course of time. There are also thousands of commercial sex workers in the district. The Tirupur district has a population around 30 lacks of whom as of 2017, as many as 2500 HIV infected persons have registered with Government Hospitals for ART treatments. Among them 80% of PLHIV have issues related to stigma, human rights violation and denial of opportunities. Most of them also lack adequate facilities to perform medical procedures and health care information. 60% of PLHIV and their family members need social protection support including livelihood to ensure life and dignity. Most of the PLHIV are reluctant to come to public service delivery system and need psycho social support and legal assistance. 
 The PLHIV in Tirupur District are identified through secondary and primary datas and reached out through home visits and care centers. Awareness on self care, counselling, and nutrition food supplements are provided at the door steps of the beneficiaries. Medical and financial assistance is provided to all PLHIV for attending to ART treatments regularly. PLHIV families are supported for maintaining kitchen gardens and milch animals to improve their health status.Simultaneously training are conducted on self care &amp; hygiene, life skill, vocational skills to PLHIV and career guidance training for Children Infected and Affected by HIV / AIDS are imparted at project level and care centers. Education support and Foster care support are provided to orphaned / semi orphaned children of HIV infected families. Sensitization meetings to Health Care Providers including Doctors, Nurses, Counselors, and Lab Technicians are conducted to motivate them for providing Health Care Services to PLHIV without any stigma and discrimination. Sensitization meetings are also conducted to Panchayath Raj Institution members and other social workers in order to access Government Welfare Schemes and other social action programes by PLHIV families. Support of nutrition health supplements and other livelihood supports are provided to PLHIV, CLHIV and deserted widows through project and as well as through linkages and mobilizing donations. 
 <ol><li>Increased access to HIV Care and Treatment Services with decreased stigma and discrimination and developed positive attitude by disclosing their status by PLHIV.</li><li>Improved health and economic status among PLHIV.</li><li>Improved access to education, skill development and free from discrimination, violence and harassment for the CLHIV / CAA children at school and community level.</li><li>Strengthen district level mechanisms for enrollment of PLHIV in social entitlements and social protection schemes by advocacy and collective efforts.</li><li>Increased awareness on STI / HIV and allied Health issues among key population.</li><li>Ensuring dignity of life, and protection of human rights among PLHIV.</li></ol>

LIFE for the People Living With HIV / AIDS ( PLHIV ) families and Prevention of HIV in Tirupur District

Most of the elderly Tribal were working as Agricultural laborers with the landlords nearby while the youth were attending to bricklins and construction work. As the CORONA Pandemic resulted in locking down of the bricklins and slow down the construction work all around the Tribes have left without any job, income and thereby lacking for food.There are nineteen tribal settlements in Karamadai block that suffer from complete isolation and marginalization. Tribal communities are the most vulnerable section who severely affected by COVID – 19 lock down and many lost their livelihood. The major occupation of the ‘Irular’ tribe communities inhabiting these villages is farming and animal husbandry, especially goat and cow rearing. However, in the absence of irrigation facilities, they cultivate crops such as beans, horse gram and ragi as rain-fed cultivation. Many of the families rely on daily wage work in the urban area and some of them depend on border state of Kerala for their daily wage work. Due to lock down and unavailability of transportation,they could not move from the villages and it causes the loss of income and heavily affected their livelihood.Under these circumstances NMCT plans to support Tribal communities with the livelihood support program  
 Provision of Sheep:The project will identify 75 most vulnerable families from amongst the 19 villages and support them with the provision of one unit of lambs with 5 females and 1 male. Provision of Heifer Calves:The project would support 75 families with the provision of 5 heifer calves of cross-bred milch animals each. When the calves grow into cows they can sell one or two cows and retain one or two for milk production. They can earn regular cash income through sale of their surplus milk.Provision of Cows:A total of 40 most vulnerable families from amongst the 9 villages will be supported with one cross-bred cow each and encouraged to pour the surplus milk to the nearest milk collection center. As they gain experience, the project will facilitate with access to credit for purchase of additional cows. Provision of ‘Desi’ Chicken:The project will provide Tribal women with ‘Kadaknath’ breed of ‘desi’ birds that can survive well in outdoor unconfined rearing. It will provide one small farm unit for 10 families together, which will be collectively managed and the resources shared. The project will support for the setting up of 10 such farm units . 
 Enhancing farm income of the Tribal families with Animal husbandry activitiesEnabling promotion and strengthening of livelihoods of the tribal communities and enhance the well-beingThe migration of Tribes to urban areas is mitigatedThe project will sustain the animal husbandry activities of the Tribes

Proposal on Strengthening the Livelihoods of Tribal Communities in Karamadai Block, Coimbatore

The COVID 19 Pandemic devastated the economy among the people especially among the poor and Daily Wagers. Due to frequent lock-downs of Hosiery &amp; Engineering Industries, and commercial establishments, thousands have lost their employment &amp; earnings and entire families are starving.The unprecedented economic constraints caused poverty in the family, left the elderly, especially the widowed women, without proper care, a square meal, and health care, as they depend on their family members. There are hundreds of such women without care, food, and dying without nutrition supplements. This project proposes the support of a Dry Ration Kit with vegetables and necessary nutrition supplements such as Horlicks, Dates worth Rs. 2000/- for each of the identified poor woman.  
 The organization is coming across hundreds of such neglected elderly widowed women, during the implementation of its various activities. NMCT will select 100 needy elderly women, who can support themselves for cooking. NMCT will supply Dry Ration Kits containing Rice, Dal, Oil, Wheat, Salt, Sugar, Health Drink, Dates and other cooking commodities like Eggs, Vegetables &amp; Spinach worth Rs.2000/- per month.It will also arrange for supply of Basic Cooking Vessels, Utensils etc. Without depending on the family members, they can have their meal for at least 2 times per day.  
 Due to financial constraints, family deputes, the members consider the elderly as a burden to them physically and financially. Even though, the elderly live in the joint family, most of the time they feel isolated without any attachment from the family members.Give India support will enable them to live independently, have their own cooking, chat with neighboring grandmas and always have a happy time. The family members also will relieve from the financial constraints.

Establishment of “Home Schooling” in 10 Tribal Hamlets of Karamadai Block, Coimbatore District

LIFE for the People Living With HIV / AIDS ( PLHIV ) families and Prevention of HIV in Tirupur District

Proposal on Strengthening the Livelihoods of Tribal Communities in Karamadai Block, Coimbatore

Ensuring a square meal and Healthy Life for an Aged Woman

Save abandoned, elderly widow mothers of Vrindavan from begging on streets

This Diwali, help Dr. Bhagat care for 500+ elderly parents rescued from abuse and homelessness

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

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