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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“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 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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Pratham Books is one of India’s largest non-profit children’s book publishers. We print in over 21 Indian languages and develop and disseminate content in multiple formats (print &amp; digital).India has a critical reading deficit. Over 52% of children in government schools in India read at three grades behind. One of the reasons for this reading deficit is the lack of quality, and affordable reading material. We believe that joyful reading resources in the mother tongue of the child will promote reading and help reduce the reading deficit in India.Pratham Books endeavours to enable access to books by reducing the barriers to reading.Our visually attractive and culturally relevant books cover a range of themes and genres including fiction, on fiction, STEM ( science, technology, environment, mathematics), biographies etc.Pratham Books created a crowdfunding platform Donate A Book, in 2015 we connect donors with organizations/schools that need books for children. Over 3,50,000 books have been distributed through the platform impacting over 500,000 children across India including hard to reach places, tribal and rural regions. Donate-a-Book helps build libraries across the country.

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<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/aadbbae1-ba27-4544-894e-73f9bddbd317.png" width="210" />The right to read. To learn. To discover… It’s what every child deserves.The pandemic has adversely affected a billion students. In many parts of the developing world, children still lack access to books in their mother tongue, that they can easily read, understand, and learn from. The disruption of education systems due to COVID-19 has deepened inequities, creating a learning crisis impacting up to 99% of students in low and lower-middle income countries.The need for inclusive, open access to high-quality, multilingual storybooks and story-based learning resources for children is more urgent than ever. 
 As part of our efforts to bridge the learning gap that began in the pandemic, we are leveraging technology, our repository of multilingual open-licensed books, and our wonderful network to quickly pivot and create programmes and resources that can be used in resource-scarce environments.We have already begun to put together resources for students, including:<ul><li>Foundational Literacy Programme: 180 books across 6 reading levels for Grades 1-3</li><li>Reading Programme: Available in 6 languages to support reading development</li><li>Localised resources: Facilitated translation of 6,000 books in 130 language</li><li>Readalongs: 650+ AV books across 5 languages to aid language acquisition</li></ul>StoryWeaver has been working at scale with the CBSE to implement its Reading Mission, a 2-year initiative to promote reading literacy across 26,000 schools by encouraging children to actively engage with storybooks. It has also been working with UNICEF, MSCERT and Integrated Child Development Services to launch Goshticha Shaniwar, a statewide reading programme in Maharashtra which shared 300 books with 25 lakh children.Under the Padhe Bharat campaign, we partnered with the SCERT Punjab for a state-wide Reading Programme in English, Hindi and Punjabi to address both the importance of foundational learning as the basis for a child’s future education. 
 At Pratham Books’ StoryWeaver, we believe that every child has the right to read. With your help, we can do even more to bridge the gap between children and the books they sorely need. By drawing upon the best of technology and open licensing, we hope that children have uninterrupted access to the books they so richly deserve to read and enjoy. Not just today, but every day.

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1 out of every 2 children cannot read at grade level in India, moreover, there are several schools across the country that simply do not have access to non-academic reading resources and the infrastructure to set up a library.There's also a severe lack of funds to start a library. We are striving to make books accessible to every child by raising money for 1000 libraries to reach the last mile child. Donate-a-Book is a crowdfunding platform set up by Pratham Books in 2015. The platform helps bridge those in need of books and those who want to help. The platform allows the beneficiary to get books at no cost, and have access to choose multilingual books and multi-level books. They also have the option to choose either books or Library-in-a-classroom kits* with the money raised.100% of the money raised goes to the beneficiaries in the form of our books. They have the liberty to choose the titles, reading levels, genres, and language of the books from our vast collection.*Library-in-a-classroom kit is developed for schools that are infrastructure and resource-scarce. Each kit has 90-120 books. They are portable and can be hung in the classroom, on a window sill, a hook, or such. They are customizable according to the reading levels and language preferences of the organization. To date, we have distributed over 25,00,000 books to over 27 states in India. The Donate-a-Book platform has hosted over 680 campaigns that have impacted over 10,00,000 children.

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