"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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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.

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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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People’s Rural Education Movement (PREM) is a humanitarian, secular, non-political and non-profit making voluntary organization. The organization PREM is working in one of the most difficult regions of the country considering the historical poverty and the terrain of the region in South Odisha. The organization’s four decades of presence in the region and work with the Adivasi, Dalit and Fisher folk community has produced astounding results. PREM’s primary focus since its inception is on education and awareness on several issues like health, hygiene, sanitation, gender rights, local governance and such other areas that mainly aimed at creation of values like social justice, equality, truth, freedom and the dignity of human life. In 1992 it extended its operations to Andhra Pradesh and in 2004 to Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

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District Gajapati, Odisha has tribal population as high as 56%. Gajapati has (2nd highest) 75% incidence of poverty.  Tribals in high numbers from Gajapati district migrate to neighbouring states in search of livelihood. Tribal migrant workers had to return home after the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic due to lack of employment.The secondary impacts of COVID-19 crisis are also aggravating the challenges faced by many tribal families, especially in terms of access to affordable and nutritious food. The lock down has affected collection, use and sale of minor forest produces (MFP). As per government’s own data, an estimated 100 million forest dwellers depend on MFP for food, shelter, medicines and cash income. The MFP collection season from April to July provides major income support to tribals (almost 60% of annual collection during this period). Most unfortunately, it coincides exactly with the lockdown impacting the communities till now, which will have a drastic and long term impact on their livelihood and survival.  With less resources, no access to social protection or safety nets, they incapacity to cope with the loss of incomes put them at high of in depth poverty. Children and women are most vulnerable and in most difficult condition. 
 The humanitarian emergency situation calls for reaching out to the neglected and poor tribal families to some extent till they have some manageable income at their hand for the families to subsist. Provide long-term livelihood and employment support keeping in mind these may be needed for at least 6-9 months or even more until the broader national economy begins to recover.With loss of livelihood, with no hope for a renewable in near future tribal families need urgent support. One model can be constructed with extending support for backyard vegetable cultivation and poultry. It can ensure impact within six months of the start of the event. PREM proposes to distribute chicks for rearing and vegetable seeds to a total amount of Rs.2,000 (Rupees two thousand only) for immediate livelihood regeneration to the needy. Depending on the funds that we receive, we hope to take up very badly affected families for distribution of the items in the village.In this context PREM recommends to address the issue of poverty through increasing the agriculture productivity with low input costs and proper management of income generation activities. This would boost the rural economy and decline the prevalence of malnutrition among children and women.  
 With timely financial aid of Rs.2,000 from Give India Foundation to each HH and handholding support of the community organizers, the women can grow vegetables in the backyard and utilize for family consumption &amp; the surplus for sale as a result the women can get a minimum of Rs.1000 a month from the 3rd month onwardsSimilarly, women raise backyard poultry and from the sale of surplus, they will be able to earn a minimum of Rs.500 from the 3rd month onwards PREM will also facilitate income generation through horticulture, agriculture activities &amp; MGNREGA in convergence with govt departmentsAs a whole, the 500 women and their families will have sustainable income of at least Rs.2,000 a month through vegetable cultivation and backyard poultry rearing units by the end of the 6th month of the initiation of the Project. One can notice the success as below:<ul><li>Nutrition for healthy living of 500 children and adolescents</li><li>Enhanced income under MGNREGA @ Rs.1000/- pm per HH</li><li>Reduced or zero distressed migration</li><li>Improved health &amp; livelihood</li><li>The people are bankrupt and without any work to meet family needs now but their livelihood situation will improve after the project. The impact would be documented and shared with Give India Foundation.</li></ul>

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Tribals mostly depend upon the agricultural sector for sustaining their living conditions. They are amongest the most vulnerable in terms of food and nutrition security as seen in national statistics. In addition to farm based activities, the collection and sale of non-timber forest produce like kendu leaves and mahua flowers by tribal communities in Odisha has been badly affected by the lockdown, with no collection agents coming and markets closed. Modernisation has led to the disappearance of people-based practices such as agro-forestry and food gathering. This has specifically and adversely affected the lives of women, increasing manifold their daily drudgery. Involvement of women in all the development programmes right from the stage of project planning is essential. Active participation of women in development programmes will help to identify their problems and reduce their drudgery.In order to generate productivity, it is vital for them to possess efficient skills and knowledge. Increase in productivity and profitability can be achieved through, blending practical knowledge with scientific technologies, efficient use of natural resources, implementing time specific management practices, giving importance to technology-driven production, adopting appropriate farming systems, adoption of location-specific technology, market demand driven production and implementing low cost and no cost technologies. 
 PREM intends to implement the following interventions to enhance the annual income levels and improve lifestyle of the HHGrihini Empowerment through life style management training – holistic interventions viz. health, sanitation, family &amp; personal hygiene, education, participation of women in local governance Form and conduct TOTPromote –  Land development, organic farming techniques &amp; practices: manure including composting, soil &amp; seed treatment methods, bio-pesticides, bio hormones/ boosters, mechanized farmingVegetable cultivation and back yard kitchen garden - green leafy vegetables, papaya, drum stick etc)Mixed horticulture – plantation of cashew, teak and Sapota balancing the temperatureFloriculture as a subsidiary crop for diverting the pests and attracting honey bee for better pollinationLivestock development – housing, feeding, vaccination, Deworming, disease controlStrengthening of SHGs; inculcate habit of savings, setting up of micro enterprisesLeveraging govt. funds for irrigation, post harvest management through construction of cool chambers for storage and micro entrepreneurship, livestock housing for demonstration purposeConstruct check dams, diversion canals and create irrigation facilities Devise business plans –  Ensuring sustainable livelihood through group/individual business plans such as Goat rearing, back yard poultry, vegetable cultivation, Dairy &amp; value chain Hand holding support to Grihini business plansFinancial inclusionMarketing support: buyers’ identification &amp; linkage  
 Grihini aims at creating opportunities for beneficiaries’ sustainable annual income up to Rs 60,000 per family through multiple resources. While the trainees are encouraged to adopt business plans for income generation through individual entrepreneurship, they are also trained to gather benefit through participating in group or community level programmes such as SHG, plantation, fishery etc. They are exposed to various welfare schemes run by the government such as employment through MGNREGA, agriculture, education and health care, loan facilities from banks and food security act etc. Individuals: Improved Self-confidence &amp; Better negotiating skills, Dignity, Respect for one’s own abilities, Skills for livelihood, Personal health, Positive attitude among the individuals &amp; women;Children:        All eligible children either at Anganwadi or in School;Family:          Improved Health &amp; quality of life, Supplemental income generation through business plans, Money management Reduced in distressed migration Women play vital role in household decision-making, addressing local public issues that relate to domestic violence and alcoholism100 % institutional delivery, immunizationWashing hands before and after every mealReduced health-related issues due to emphasis on clean drinking water and nutritious food, home remedies for seasonal illnessesProper management of natural resources leads to sustainable livelihood &amp; environment for humankind.

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