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.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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“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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Rainbow Homes Program as an umbrella project of RFI (Rainbow Foundation India) works in collaboration with ARUN (Association for Rural &amp; Urban Needy), government and other like-minded organizations aiming to protect, care for, educate and empower our most disadvantaged children. These include children who live on city streets; orphaned, abandoned, and violence-affected children; working children; children of farmer – suicide and starvation families and children of sex workers. We strive to ensure that these children access their rights in loving, open and safe residential care homes in government buildings for them to grow into happy, responsible and caring citizens.Rainbow Foundation India envisions itself to be an Indian organization in which the most marginalized and disadvantaged child is reached and cared for by organizations of disadvantaged people, with strong contributions of the state as well as local civil society in every city creating a movement for caring of the dispossessed for the dispossessed. It intends to create 'social value' by improving the living conditions and future opportunities of street children in India, one of the most destitute classes in the world. A rights-based approach is followed to achieve this: every child has rights to a safe home, food, development, education, care and affection essentially what is clubbed as ‘comprehensive care’. The Rainbow Homes program offers all of these aspects and has achieved remarkable results over the 12 years of its existence. Its objectives are:·        More and more children to be covered under the rights-based care across the country·        Ensuring advancement of the residential, non-custodial, comprehensive, long term care approach·        Ensuring greater primary responsibility of the govt. at the central, state and local level for all vulnerable children·        Ensuring child-centric, transparent, sustainable organization structuresSalient features of the program are:·        Uniform and high standards of care·        Shared learning via best practice sharing and capacity building programs·        partnership with government, local NGOs and civil society·        Program management and monitoring of standards by a professional team through State project coordination and national officesThe genesis of the Rainbow Home Program:The Rainbow Home Program was initiated by Sister Cyril Mooney, Former head of the Loreto Day School in Kolkata, Padma Shri awardee and recipient of a number of prestigious Indian and international awards, for organizing shelter, education and reintegration of street children in India. Sister Cyril in Calcutta got street girls off the street into a safe environment to provide education and comprehensive care for them. This residential place for street children within the school compound that assured them safety and security, food, education, health and nutrition and love and care were called “Rainbow Homes”. In 2002, Mr Ferd Van Koolwijk, a Dutch businessman with a vision to reach out to many street children together with sister Cyril facilitated in establishing more Rainbow Homes. In 2007, with the support and guidance of Harsh Mander, a former IAS, now social worker and writer, was a member of the National Advisory Council and special commissioner to the Supreme Court of India in the Right to Food case and Director of Centre for Equity Studies, scaled the Rainbow Home Program outside Kolkata by partnering with the Government in other cities. With the belief that all aspects of these children’s life should be taken care of for their mainstreaming in society, Rainbow Home comprehensive care model pays equal attention to protection, education, healthcare, nutrition, entitlement and career-related aspects of children.National PresenceThe Rainbow Homes Program currently runs 51 homes in the country for boys and girls that formerly lived and survived on the streets of our urban cities. These homes are located in New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, Ananthapur, Ranchi and Patna; and collectively house nearly 4,000 children. Each home is run in cooperation with the State Government (including partial funding) and operates under the Right to Education Act, or Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, under the Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development. The Rainbow Homes program for girls and Sneh Ghars for boys is a ‘non-custodial, residential comprehensive care’ program to enable the mainstreaming of children formerly on the streets, thereby pulling them away from a life of crime and victimization. A basic degree of safety, nutrition and skill development leads to employable and productive youth.The table below represents the growth of rainbow homes year on year the number of children. As of date rainbow homes has reached 3588 children in 51 homes over 9 cities. Since our inception, we have been able to impact over ten thousand lives on the streets of urban India.

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Homeless people, especially street children are most vulnerable of the human beings in this modern world. Girls and boys (many of whom are without parental care) are susceptible to all kinds of abuse and exploitation on the street and in their work places. These children who live on city streets; orphaned, abandoned, and violence-affected children; working children; children of farmer – suicide and starvation families; and children of sex workers. We strive to ensure that these children access their rights in loving, open and safe residential care homes in government buildings for them to grow into happy, responsible and caring citizens. 
 Rainbow Homes Program as an umbrella project of RFI (Rainbow Foundation India) works in collaboration with ARUN (Association for Rural &amp; Urban Needy), government and other like minded organizations aiming to protect, care for, educate and empower our most disadvantaged children by operationalize and facilitate a comprehensive, non-custodial &amp; voluntary residential child focused, community care model which helps provide basic rights and necessities like nutrition, healthcare, protection, education &amp; opportunities to sustainable futures to children formerly living on streets of Urban India. We are an NGO established in 10 cities pan India working for children from street situations. This model is government &amp; UNICEF recognized to reach urban deprived children, where civil society participation has a big role in recognizing the needs of the most vulnerable sector of our society – the children, their basic rights to a safe &amp; secured living as little citizens of today, and future global citizens of tomorrow. The Rainbow Homes program intends to create 'social value' by improving the living conditions and future opportunities of street children in India, one of the most destitute classes in the world. A rights based approach is followed to achieve this: every child has rights to a safe home, food, development, education, care and affection essentially what is clubbed as ‘comprehensive care’. 
 The intended impact of the overall program is transformed children and providing opportunities to the most vulnerable children by engaging, equipping and empowering children by them being · Educated · Healthy · Social emotionally stable children and youth.· Child rights being ensured· Responsible citizens . Independent and self-reliant

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