“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.This Christmas, you can gift these kids, through your donations, books and warm clothes.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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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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“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

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PRAGATI PATH is a voluntary development organisation committed for people-centred development established on 20 June 2001 with the mission of empowering the children, women, poor and marginalised people. Ours is a non-profit, non-governmental civil society organisation, which believes in participatory approaches and practices participatory methodologies for empowering the community. We have deep social concern and commitment to social change. We believe that when given an opportunity, the poor could rise to the occasion to help themselves. We always aim to focus on mobilising the community, educating them, and sharing right information which would give them an advantage in their social economic and political life and liberate them from all injustice, vulnerability, and marginalisation. Pragati Path strives to educate, organise and empower the poor and to promote people-centred development as a liberating force aimed at social justice, economic growth and self-reliance.

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Indian streets are home to approximately 18 million children. These are the children who have been relegated to the fringes of society: marginalized, exploited, abused and neglected. These children are subjected to malnutrition, hunger, health problems, physical abuse, commercial sexual abuse, child labour and harassment.What sets apart these children is their capacity to compete and hold their own in an adult, and often antagonistic, world. Yet, despite the extraordinary harshness of their everyday existence, it is a wonder that so many of them have their humaneness intact- they smile, laugh, share and give of themselves readily. It is for this ‘never say die’ spirit of theirs, that there is still a lot of hope to change their attitude towards life. They need to be freed from emotional blocks so that their psycho-social development is not arrested. 
 1. Mobilizations of street children and distribution of educational material 2 Contacting the children at contact points3. Awareness, motivational building programmed on education, health, and hygiene at the contact points.4. Parents counselling if required in selected cases (where parents object to sending their children to the centre).5. Identification and enrollment of the children in the Educational centre6. Starting the classes with basic education, counselling on moral values, health, hygiene, good habits, personality development etc.7. Starting vocational training classes for children of older age and those who can’t or are not interested in studying and have the responsibility of earning a live hood for the family.8. Conducting periodic health check-ups. 9. Organizing sports activities and various competitions like quiz, drawing, painting etc. 
 Goals: •	Bringing street children into the mainstream of our society. •	Creating an environment for them to harness their hidden potential and enable them to escape the poverty trap•	Installing a sense of purpose in their lives by helping them become self-dependent and ultimately responsible citizens/human beings.Outcomes:•	A changed attitude towards their circumstances – view themselves as an oppressed minority and become protagonists rather than passive recipients of aid•	Overall development of the children by encouraging them to think, imagines, evolve and enable them to develop their capacity and livelihood•	Preventing their susceptibility to drug addiction, begging, petty crimes etc Street child suffers traumas that even grown-ups would find hard to handle. They are exposed to many detrimental environments and take up begging, shoe shining, rag picking, and many of them even get involved in petty crimes. They are vulnerable to become a potential link in the vicious cycle of Marginalization-Deprivation-Criminalization. Education or rather illiteracy is the perfect tool that can help them to come out of this vicious cycle. This problem needs to be addressed on a war footing. If not given the right direction, their lives will be a waste. With the right combination of education, care and professional supervision, a street child can find new ways to be loved and understood, to forge a friendship, to prepare himself for a career and to have workable dreams for this future.

Establishing Remedial Education Center/ Non-Formal School for Street Children between the Age Group of 6-16 years

The pandemic has led institutions into exploring online models of education. However, the inaccessibility to internet facility and learning devices for many households continue to pose challenge for many children from accessing education. As a resolve Pragati Path aims to set up 10 remedial study centres with an LED each, internet connectivity and subscription to learning apps to bring together 20 students at a time (while following the social distancing protocols) to ensure continued learning for children. Your contribution of ₹1,000 can go a long way into educating children in rural communities of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.The Indian education system is characterised by a huge rural-urban gap when it comes to literacy, expenses incurred at household level, and accessibility to education. Covid-19 has forced educational institutions across India, and the world indeed, to suspend physical classrooms and shift to online classes. When it comes to technology, only 15% rural households had access to the internet as compared to 42% of urban households. It becomes clear that access to internet needs to be accompanied by access to computer devices/mobile phones to arrest the educational divide in a Covid-19 world where online classes are becoming the new normal. While faculty grapples with new ways of managing this sudden transition to online education, students of rural areas are far more behind. The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the roots of the world. We as an organization have seen a toughest time during this worldwide pandemic. The organization has been working in the field of education since 2008. The offices have shifted to work from home mode, but our field staff was regular in providing aid and assistance to the underprivileged children keeping in mind all the safety precautionary measures as guided by Govt of India. During a survey in the nearby slum areas of Jhansi, We have found out that education is amongst the most impacted sector during the pandemic. The students living in urban area can cope up with the technology and adapting fast to the new mode of education but for children who are the first-generation learner of their area are facing difficulty and almost at the verge of living their studies behind. 
 We came up with an idea to help the poor and underprivileged children by imparting free education to them. Till now we have utilised our staff as a medium to impart education to the needy ones, but now we are looking to set up a remedial study centre with a basic facility where students need not to worry about the smartphones and data pack.There are several educated youths in the nearby area who are now unemployed, the covid-19 pandemic has devastated their life and dream of many such youth who were working hard pre-pandemic to earn their livelihood. This project will not only cater the educational need of the students but will also support such hard working- educated youth to get some source of income with a dignified life in their vicinity only.With the help of this project, the organization will setup a centre with a bare minimum facility like LED, Internet connection ,1 coordinator and one technical staff. We are planning to setup 10 such remedial study centres. The organization will subscribe yearly plan of applications like Studyadda, Edureview for each class. The organization has already identified the target groups per village. The classes will be functional in a batch of 10 students keeping in mind the social distancing norms  
 <ul><li>200 children (20 children per centre, total 10 remedial centres) will be getting education post pandemic.</li><li>10 educated youth who lost their job in pandemic, will get dignified employment.</li><li>Improvement in student’s learning/academic achievement</li><li>Improvement of access to technology for all students</li><li>Greater Earnings Potential</li><li>Greater Access to Resources</li><li>Increase economic growth of the area.</li><li>Improve community social structure.</li><li>Positive change in student’s life and further education</li><li>Enhanced community involvement in development</li></ul>

Establishing Remedial Education Center/ Non-Formal School for Street Children between the Age Group of 6-16 years

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