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Hunger & Homelessness

Akanksha Singh

“I lost my husband 15 years back and since then worked as a daily wage labourer and brought up my blind son with great hardships. Despite all the troubles I faced, I kept working even at an old age, I never lost hope until one fateful day when I broke my leg at a construction site. The accident crushed the bones of my leg and broke my spirit too. I had absolutely no one to turn to before being brought to Sapna,” says Laxmi, a resident of an old age home run by our NGO partner Sapna, who is in her late sixties. For 100+ homeless elderly, Sapna is more than just a home, it is a refuge for them, which has saved them the hardships of living on city streets. Because of a paucity of funds, Sapna cannot extend its care to more helpless elderly in need of urgent help. With your support, the NGO can be a haven for many more elderly parents separated from their families. Donate now.All 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).While some residents at Sapna were brought here after losing their caregivers, there are many who have found safety after being abandoned by their kin. The NGO not only provides its residents with a comfortable living environment and nutritious food but also ensures that the ailing elderly receive the best medical care.“Most of our residents suffer serious medical conditions on account of having lived on the streets and the medical expenses incurred are quite significant,” says retired Indian Police Service officer Sudhir Pratap Singh, a founding member of Sapna.“We have an ageing population in India and it is our responsibility to take care of our elderly. If you can stand by us considering the work we are doing we will be able to take care of many more homeless elderly who have nowhere else to go,” adds the former Director General of National Security Guards, India’s elite anti-terror force.The zeal to serveTalking about his journey from being a President of India’s award-winning IPS Officer to dedicating his life to the service of homeless and abandoned elderly Singh says, “It was in 2002 that I saw the plight of those suffering without food and shelter near hospitals in Delhi first hand and decided to serve them in whatever capacity I could. For me, my duty as a police officer was also never just a job but was service to the community. And when I started to get involved in social causes, it was just the next chapter in my journey.” Love and care can change lives of the elderlyAccording to Singh, many homeless elderly are handed over to them after receiving treatment from hospitals in Delhi. “Most residents who are brought to Sapna’s old age home Anandmayee are recovering from severe ailments, road accidents and mental illnesses. They have no one to care for them and have no family to call their own. But we have observed that with the kind of love and care we provide for our elderly residents, they are able to recover much faster even from serious illnesses.  “I have never sought financial support from anyone, but if people can come forward and help us, we can not just continue to take care of our residents but can open our gates to many more people in need of love and care,” says Singh.Donate to this fundraiser by Give to support retired IPS officer Sudhir Pratap Singh in his mission to rescue abandoned elderly from a life on the street and give them the care they need.

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Women Empowerment

Sapna

Education is a key factor for a healthy, productive, and equal society. The national average female illiteracy rate (age 15 and older) stands at 45.5% compared to 23.1% for men (UNPFC). In Rajasthan, 56% of women are illiterate compared to 23% of men. Girls’ enrollment in Rajasthan is dismal. Rajasthan has 9 of the 26 most backward districts in India. The Literacy rate of Alwar district is 70.72%. The literacy rate among males was 83.75% and among females were 56.25%. Alwar district of Rajasthan comprises the Mewat region. The literacy rate of Meo Muslims in this region is meagre. As per 2001 census the literacy rate of Meo Muslims in Alwar district is 30.12%. The attendance rate of girls in school in the age of 6 to 8 years is only 36.8%. The literacy rate among Meo-Muslims was as low as 23.54% in 2011, with a negligible female literacy rate of 6.15% (The Alwar Mewat Institute of Education and Development).We at SAPNA believe that education of girls is essential for the equitable advancement of society. Improvements in girl’s education benefit the status of the family and empower women. In this background, SAPNA has established a pre-primary school named ‘SAPNA Shikshalaya’. 
 SAPNA started a pre-primary school named SAPNA Shikshalaya in 2015 which presently, in 2019, has extended till primary school. The aim of the school was to provide 'quality, flexible and relevant learning' and targets girls from poor backgrounds in the adjoining rural belt. The program is envisaged to empower girls from poor and marginalized backgrounds with capability, freedom and choice to follow their dream. The program nurtures the overall development of the girls. This entails hygiene, discipline, punctuality, nutrition and overall turnout, in addition to learning and personality development.In this academic year (2019 – 20), 160 girls have enrolled in the school. A well-designed curriculum focuses on developing the verbal and written skills of the students. Our student-teacher ratio is 15:1 i.e. we have 1 teacher looking after 15 students. Use of teaching aids such as a ‘Smart Class’ enables the children to learn pre-writing and pre-reading concepts. For overall and quality development of teachers, time to time training is organized for their capacity building.The school provides girls with uniform, books, stationery and nutrition. Girls are provided healthy food in school to overcome nutritional deprivation that often exists due to poverty and gender bias at home. We also provide transportation to ferry the children from their villages. Regular parent-teacher meetings are conducted to sensitize the parents about their children and other social and environmental issues which need attention at home. 
 We are currently providing educational support, both academic and material, to 156 girls through 15 neighbouring villages. Through constant monitoring and follow-up, the SAPNA Shikshalaya team has been able to maintain 84.73% and 81.3% average attendance in academic session 2018-19 and 2017-18 respectively which has a direct impact on the academic performance of the girl. Dropout rates of girls, which, at the national level, is more than 40% by the time girls reach class V, has successfully been curtailed to less than 10%. In the last academic year 18-19, the dropout rate of the project was 8.1%.The school has improved literacy rate among girls coming from the rural belt; now there are more literate girls from low-income families, the community is more parent-teacher about the importance of girl’s education, girls have become more aware of other important issues which help them in their overall development. Girls have started to understand the importance of education due to which child marriages have come to a halt, Around 43 girls' saving accounts have been opened under Sukanya Samridhi Khata, in which a minimum of Rs 1000 is deposited in girls' accounts yearly, which they will be able to use it for their future.The total budget for this program for FY2019-20 is Rs.30 Lakhs. Sapna is need for Rs. 7,20,000 total of which Rs. 1,20,000 would support nutrition of 160 students for a year, Rs. 3,00,000 would support part salary of 12 teachers and Rs. 3,00,000 would be used for book and stationery of all 160 children.

 Sapna Shikshalaya, A School for Underprivileged Girls at Vijay Mandir, Alwar (Rajasthan)

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Rohit Nair

Impact Suman was a 7-year-old child without any dreams. Simple joys like going to school and making friends were alien to her. Her father had a damaged kidney and her mother was a daily wage worker. Their extreme poverty neither allowed them to send her to school and nor were they able to fulfill her small needs. RBKS intervened to help enroll Suman in their Boarding School. She was given free access to education, boarding and lodging, uniforms, shoes, socks, and food. With proper support, she now excels in academics and has discovered her talent in dancing. For someone who was a shy insecure child, she now performs the Kalbeliya, which is a folk dance of Rajasthan. You can help give a child her right to dream. About The Program Sapna's 'Support the Girl Child' program - 'Pankhuri', currently works with underprivileged girl children from the villages of Kaduki, Vijay Mandir, and Thekra in the Alwar, Rajasthan. Beneficiaries for the program are identified based on their family's economic condition. The girls are admitted to reputed schools and Sapna takes care of all their needs, including school fees, uniforms, books, and transport. The Program Coordinator monitors the academic progress of the girls in the schools. The girls covered in this program report to Vijay Mandir from where they are sent to school in a bus owned by Sapna. After school, the girls come to Vijay Mandir where they complete their homework with teacher assistance, attend library sessions, computer classes, and receive nutrition before going home. Donations made to this program support the cost of education and transport. When you donate to this program, you will support the education of underprivileged girls. About The NGO Sapna was created by a group of professionals who shared a dream to work on a people-centric model of development in areas of public health, education, women empowerment, community development and social welfare. Inspired by Gandhian ideals of social change, their primary objective is to: Empower the poor and marginalized; Provide shelter to the sick and destitute; Promote community health programmes and services; Support literacy centers and e-learning; Facilitate livelihood programmes; Help the poor access information and resources; Work for environment protection and conservation. Their basic focus is to help those who are the most vulnerable and are in dire need of help.They believe that development has to be holistic to break the vicious cycle of poverty and wish to bring about visible change. They work by focusing energies in these sectors as well as building their understanding of the related issues. They believe that any organization, or for that matter, any individual, whose fundamentals are based on the virtues of honesty, ownership towards our society and regard to human dignity, are bound to grow in the right direction and the last 10 years have been a testimony to this philosophy.

Mission Every Girl in School

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Impact Little Deepika is a resident of Kaduki Village in Alwar, Rajasthan, and the youngest student in her school, Sapna Sikshyalaya. When she joined the school she used to come wearing dirty clothes, without taking a bath. She couldn't converse with her teachers and classmates. Slowly and gradually, with invested efforts from the school teachers and their teaching methods, Deepika slowly started changing. She now comes to school tidily and on time. She interacts with everyone and now trusts the teachers enough to share her problems with them. The school works with a vision of empowering young girls from marginalized communities by providing them with a quality education. About The Program Sapna's 'Support the Girl Child' program 'Pankhuri' currently works with over 33 underprivileged girl children from the villages of Kaduki, Vijay Mandir and Thekra in the Alwar district of Rajasthan. Beneficiaries for the program are identified at the beginning of the academic year based on their family's economic condition. The girls are admitted to reputed schools and Sapna takes care of all their needs, including school fees, uniforms, books, and transport. The Program Coordinator monitors the academic progress of the girls in the schools. The girls covered in this program report to Vijay Mandir from where they are sent to school in a bus owned by Sapna. After school, the girls come to Vijay Mandir where they complete their homework with teacher assistance, attend library sessions, computer classes, and receive nutrition before going home. When you donate to this program, you will support the nutrition of underprivileged girls at Vijay Mandir. About The NGO Sapna was created by a group of professionals who shared a dream to work on a people-centric model of development in areas of public health, education, women empowerment, community development and social welfare. Inspired by Gandhian ideals of social change, their primary objective is to: Empower the poor and marginalized; Provide shelter to the sick and destitute; Promote community health programmes and services; Support literacy centers and e-learning; Facilitate livelihood programmes; Help the poor access information and resources; Work for environment protection and conservation. Their basic focus is to help those who are the most vulnerable and are in dire need of help.They believe that development has to be holistic to break the vicious cycle of poverty and wish to bring about visible change. They work by focusing energies in these sectors as well as building their understanding of the related issues. They believe that any organization, or for that matter, any individual, whose fundamentals are based on the virtues of honesty, ownership towards our society and regard to human dignity, are bound to grow in the right direction and the last 10 years have been a testimony to this philosophy.

Support the nutrition of poor girls to aid education

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Caring for the sick and destitute is a complex process. The risks of disability, chronic illness and destitution are processes exacerbated by poverty and other forms of structural inequalities. Cultural patterns, prevailing attitudes and expectations – all need to be factored in while honing in on a model of appropriate care. We believe in ensuring that a person who is not fully capable of self-care can maintain the highest possible quality of life, according to his or her individual preferences, with the greatest possible degree of independence, autonomy, participation, personal fulfilment and human dignity.We also believe that their first right is to reside with their own families if possible. Hence, our aim is to give them medical and supportive care until they are healthy enough for being rehabilitated with their families. In this way, SAPNA has been instrumental in restoring several sick and infirm people to their families. There are some unfortunate ones who do not have a home or have been abandoned by their families or are unknown. Some are even in a comatose state. Anandam at Alwar (Rajasthan) acts as a feeder for such survivors from Trauma Centre (AIIMS) and Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi who are in need of recuperative care and support.The organisation provides shelter to the sick and destitute; by ensuring their health and well-being. We keep patients at Anandam- Vijay Mandir &amp; Dadikar, Alwar &amp; One Short Stay Home at Noida. We provide immediate care support to patients discharged from Safdarjung Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre. We try giving them such an ambience where patients can actively start participating in day to day activities. As they start recovering from their ailments, our social workers start engaging them in activities of the organization.Patients from Anandam, Vijay Mandir had to be often brought to Delhi for checkups and in cases of emergencies. A short-stay home in Delhi has come in handy to meet our needs. Its objective is to extend support for poor and needy patients who come for treatment to Apex Government Hospitals such in Delhi. Depending upon the diagnosis, the patients stay for about a fortnight and entail recovery from a serious medical event such as an accident or multiple trauma, paralysis, or orthopaedic or surgical procedure.Presently, Anandam is providing shelter to 110 patients out of which 30 are female.Your support will cover the expenses of medicine &amp; medical treatment, nutrition, salary of social workers and ambulance transportation.

Anandam- A Home for the Homeless - Vijay Mandir & Dadikar , Alwar & in Noida

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Impact Every monthly donation brings hope to elderly citizens like Prabhu About The Program Mission: Elderly Lives Matter About The NGO Sapna was created by a group of professionals who shared a dream to work on a people-centric model of development in areas of public health, education, women empowerment, community development and social welfare. Inspired by Gandhian ideals of social change, their primary objective is to: Empower the poor and marginalized; Provide shelter to the sick and destitute; Promote community health programmes and services; Support literacy centers and e-learning; Facilitate livelihood programmes; Help the poor access information and resources; Work for environment protection and conservation. Their basic focus is to help those who are the most vulnerable and are in dire need of help.They believe that development has to be holistic to break the vicious cycle of poverty and wish to bring about visible change. They work by focusing energies in these sectors as well as building their understanding of the related issues. They believe that any organization, or for that matter, any individual, whose fundamentals are based on the virtues of honesty, ownership towards our society and regard to human dignity, are bound to grow in the right direction and the last 10 years have been a testimony to this philosophy.

Elderly lives matter

health

Impact Madhav is a 45-year-old plumber from Gurgaon. He barely earned enough money to get through a day. **His life shattered when he fell off the first floor of a building where he was working.** He had **multiple fractures and severe injuries** when he was taken to the closest hospital. They soon discovered that there was no one to look after him and he had no money for the medical care he needed.**The NGO Sapna learnt of his case and decided to step in. They covered the surgeries, medicines and care that he needed. He was discharged after a few months with rods in his leg. He could not move or take care of himself. Sapna continued to look after Madhav, moving him to Andamam, their Home for Sick and Destitute.The social workers helped him gradually heal, build strength and get back to a routine. He worked hard to get back on his feet. **After months of intensive physiotherapy, his legs began to respond and he could slowly get on his feet with the aid of a walker.** He began to help around Sapna with his plumbing skills. Over time, he was put in charge of the store at Sapna with a modest monthly salary. Today he holds his dignity and works hard. Life at Sapna has helped him get his life back on track and dream again. About The Program Sapna runs a home for sick and destitute people in Alwar, Rajasthan. Most of the inmates have either been abandoned by their families or suffer from memory loss and live in a vegetative state. Sapna identifies sick and destitute patients with no homes to go back to, from the trauma centers in AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi and sends them to the shelter home in Alwar. Once here, the residents are given round the clock support free of cost. A team of social workers looks after their general well-being, while a Public Health Centre in the premises provides them with nursing and medical care. When you donate to this program, you will support the living and medical expenses of sick and destitute adults About The NGO Sapna was created by a group of professionals who shared a dream to work on a people-centric model of development in areas of public health, education, women empowerment, community development and social welfare. Inspired by Gandhian ideals of social change, their primary objective is to: Empower the poor and marginalized; Provide shelter to the sick and destitute; Promote community health programmes and services; Support literacy centers and e-learning; Facilitate livelihood programmes; Help the poor access information and resources; Work for environment protection and conservation. Their basic focus is to help those who are the most vulnerable and are in dire need of help.They believe that development has to be holistic to break the vicious cycle of poverty and wish to bring about visible change. They work by focusing energies in these sectors as well as building their understanding of the related issues. They believe that any organization, or for that matter, any individual, whose fundamentals are based on the virtues of honesty, ownership towards our society and regard to human dignity, are bound to grow in the right direction and the last 10 years have been a testimony to this philosophy.

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SAPNA was registered in Delhi under the Societies Registration Act on 21st October, 2004. It was founded by a group of professionals who shared a dream to work on a people-centric model of development in areas of health, education, gender, community development and social welfare. Aims &amp; Objectives:·     Provide shelter and care to the old, sick and destitute;·     Support needy patients to access healthcare;·     Impart quality education to underprivileged girl children;·     Spread e-literacy amongst rural youth;·     Facilitate livelihood programmes;·     Empower women to redress domestic violence;·     Enable the disadvantaged access information and resources;·     Conserve and protect the environment.Spatially, SAPNA has support centres in Delhi, Noida and in Alwar (Rajasthan).

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Raghav Menon

Veero's story at Anandam, part of the Sapna NGO network, illustrates the transformative power of dedicated care and medical support. At 52, she was transferred from another center to Anandam, Vijay Mandir, with significant health challenges, including impaired mobility and memory loss. Upon arrival, she struggled with basic movements and had no recollection of her past, including her home and family. The attentive care provided by Anandam's social workers, along with the medical guidance from healthcare professionals, laid the foundation for her recovery journey. A physiotherapist was brought in to work with Veero, focusing on exercises to improve her mobility. This tailored rehabilitation plan, emphasizing both physical and nutritional care, has led to notable improvements in her condition. Within just two months, Veero has regained the ability to walk without assistance and manage her daily activities independently, marking a significant milestone in her recovery. Although memory issues persist, preventing her from remembering her family, she has found a new sense of belonging and happiness within the nurturing environment of Anandam. This progress underscores the impact of Sapna's work, offering not just shelter but also a comprehensive care system that fosters recovery and independence for its residents. However, the ongoing challenge of funding remains a hurdle for extending such care to more individuals in need. Your support can make a difference in the lives of many more elderly individuals like Veero, providing them with the necessary care and a chance to live with dignity and independence. Donating to Sapna allows us to continue its mission of rescuing and rehabilitating abandoned elderly, ensuring they receive the love and care they deserve in their twilight years. Help us care for the needy and donate now!

beneficiary story

The aged and infirm are abandoned and left to their own devices by the people they are supposed to trust most - their own family. Sapna has taken it upon itself to rehabilitate the lives of those who have no one else to rely on. Our donors have allowed us to sponsor the lifestyle of 110 abandoned elderly in their shelter home " Anandam" between January and September, 2023. Your money has helped pay the costs of two beneficiaries who are in a coma, as well as the funeral rites for another two who have passed on. Sapna uses your funds to maintain the lifestyle of its beneficiaries by - <ul><li>providing shelter to the homeless</li><li>taking care of medicines, treatments, and essential healthcare services 24x7</li><li>giving daily meals to take care of beneficiaries nutritional requirements</li><li>providing social support to address psychological needs</li><li>facilitating the reunion of their beneficiaries with their families. Till date over 600 beneficiaries have been reunited.</li></ul> Anandam is even attempting to build a new building in their compound which would drastically increase their capacity by a staggering 140! Despite the astounding work done by Sapna and their Anandam shelter, we need your continued aid to extend our services and help even more abandoned elderly live a dignified life and be reunited with their loved ones.

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