"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.

Save abandoned, elderly widow mothers of Vrindavan from begging on streets

Hunger and malnutrition have become a reality for thousands of elderly parents abandoned by their own children, in villages and slums across India. Seeing the rampant distress among the elderly, a team of selfless heroes from our NGO partner Mitti Cafe, though disabled themselves, have taken up the responsibility of providing cooked meals and dry rations to over 5,000 elderly in urgent need of support. Setting aside their own struggles, Mitti Cafe’s team, led by Ayesha Alam has been relentlessly fighting to free elderly from hunger and malnutrition through its Karuna Meals initiative. The need for nutrition support is growing with each passing day and Mitti Cafe is struggling to fulfill this enormous need. With your support, the NGO and its team of persons with disability can put food on the plates of hundreds of more elderly parents. Donate generously.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). Elderly deserve love, not neglect and hunger“There have been countless senior citizens, in extremely backward villages of the Sundarbans in West Bengal, who had not had a proper meal in days when we found them. We have seen people picking food from the garbage out of extreme hunger.”, recalls Ayesha of Mitti Cafe, while talking about the extent of hunger faced by senior citizens. According to Ayesha, there are thousands of elderly who have been either chucked out of their homes or have been left behind in villages by their children. “Our elderly don't deserve this life and it is our responsibility to come to their aid. If we come together we can ease the suffering of hundreds of people battling hunger and starvation. Donate now Our heroes’ war against hungerPersons with disability who were once discriminated against by society are today at the forefront of the fight to save abandoned elderly and children from hunger. The Karuna Meals team, comprising only of persons with disability has been able to cook and serve over 10 lakh meals. They have also distributed over 1 lakh packets of dry rations. ”They overlook their own struggles and suffering just to reach the elderly and provide them with the food they need,” says Ayesh. But their job is not yet done. “There are still many villages which have many malnourished and hungry seniors and we have not been able to reach them. But with your support, we can collectively end starvation,” she says. Donate now. Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help the elderly fight hunger and malnutrition.

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“What will happen to them after me? I am 80+. I spend sleepless nights,” worries ex-Air Force officer, Group Captain AC Barua while talking about the future of the 28 destitute women under his care. “They have nobody in this world, sometimes they don’t remember their own names. They are absolutely alone,” he informs us as he goes from one room to the other meeting all the women who live at Seneh, the only home where they are loved and taken care of. After fighting for his country all his life, this octogenarian is now fighting to rescue homeless and abandoned women from dying on the streets. But he cannot do it alone. “Everyday I keep on getting calls from here and there. ‘Oh! there’s a woman lying here. Can you help?’ But I don’t dare to go and help because I don’t have the money. I don’t have the resources, our resources are very limited,” explains Gr. Capt. Barua who is lovingly called ‘Sir’ and ‘Deuta’ (father in Assamese) by the residents of Seneh. With your help, 80-year-old Group Captain Barua can fulfill his mission of rescuing abandoned and homeless women from dying on the streets, alone. Donate nowDonate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. 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).Seneh- a home filled with love, care and hopeThe residents of Seneh often don’t remember who they are, where they have come from. Many times these are women with mental health conditions and considered being a witch due to superstitious beliefs and beaten up as a result. They are victims of domestic abuse or widow mothers who are considered to be a burden on the family. Group Captain Barua has not only rescued them from critical conditions, he has provided them with urgent medical care, food and above all, a free safe shelter where they can live with love and care. Among these residents is Sarala Kalita who fled to save herself from the tortures of her alcoholic husband only to face neglect and trauma from her brothers- and sisters-in-law. “Both my brothers and their wives urged my father to leave me somewhere as they didn’t want to take care of me anymore. One day my brother’s wife didn’t even let me have food at home. She just wanted me to leave and go away. So that’s why, my father got in touch with Seneh through someone, and handed me over to Sir to take care of me,” says Sarita who has found joy in living at Seneh. “Coming to Seneh, it felt like I got a new life altogether. Sir has given me a harmonium. I love singing. It makes me forget everything and takes me to someplace else entirely,” she adds. More women like Sarala can find their way to a loving home like Seneh. All they need is a little bit of your kindness. “It is difficult to make both ends meet”To sustain their daily expenditure, Capt Barua needs approx ₹3 lakh a month and arranging the funds is a mammoth challenge for the NGO. “Our expenses are growing day by day. Residents are growing older, their sicknesses are increasing. At times we have to give them special food. They require more care so we have to get more employees. About half of them require leading around, 1-2 has to be fed also. It will be very difficult to sustain it unless we get help,” he added. One act of your kindness can save these abandoned women, with no one in this world, from struggling on the streets to survive. At 80+ Gr. Capt. Barua cannot sustain Seneh on his own. “With folded hands, I appeal to all. Please come and please help us. Let us help these people, these old people who have nobody in this world. They are dying. They will die on the streets,” he urged. Donate to this fundraiser by Give.do to support retired Air Force officer, Group Captain Barua in his mission to rescue abandoned and homeless women from dying on the streets.

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Driven by the conviction that there is a way to create a world of equal opportunities for people with disabilities, the Society for Child Development (SFCD) was set-up as a non-profit organization in 1992 to establish programs and initiatives for its actualization. Prabhat, a school for children with learning difficulties was set up with an aim to provide students with an educational and training facility that would assist them in acquiring basic living and academic skills. At the age of 18, students transfer to the Vocational Training Center to learn market-driven skills and crafts.But the road to development is not about school and vocational education alone, and SFCD started a unique website called the Disability India Network. Encouraged by the enthusiastic responses, they added an Online Legal Aid Cell which provides pro-bono counsel to the differently-abled and their families.To expand the scope and extend their reach further, they also set-up a Parent Support Network to provide a forum for parents to benefit from each others' experiences. Because of this expansion, the Society for Child Development now includes a variety of programs and initiatives to promote the rights of persons with disabilities from several angles.

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Most of us take the privilege of standing on our own two feet for granted. However, for the beneficiaries of SFCD, self-reliance does not come easily. Specially abled children are still seen as a curse across India and abandoned when their condition is discovered. Society For Child Development goes through great pains to ensure no child is left behind and each one gets the attention and care they deserve to realize their potential. But we can't do it alone! We're suffering from a dire lack of funds and urgently need your help to overcome this challenge. Get inspired by understanding how we plan to serve the vulnerable; observe the chart below. Do your part. Donate now.

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Most of us take the privilege of standing on our own two feet for granted. However, for the beneficiaries of SFCD, self-reliance does not come easily. Specially abled children are still seen as a curse across India and abandoned when their condition is discovered. Society For Child Development goes through great pains to ensure no child is left behind and each one gets the attention and care they deserve to realize their potential. But we can't do it alone! We're suffering from a dire lack of funds and urgently need your help to overcome this challenge. Get inspired by understanding how we plan to serve the vulnerable; observe the chart below. Do your part. Donate now.

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Need: In India, 90 percent of India’s estimated 40 million children aged 4-16 years with physical and mental disabilities are out of school. In Delhi, a recent study indicated that only 1% children with physical disabilities and 0.1% of children with intellectual disabilities received education of any kind – formal or informal. Despite the amendments made to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (2020) to include children with disability in the present educational system, such children continue to remain out of school. Why disabled children are usually out of school 1. Most believe that children with special needs cannot benefit in a regular school system. This is a fallacy, since more than 66% of such children are educable till grade 5, provided appropriate modifications are made to their early learning experiences, and a strong pre- academic foundation is developed. 2. However, many disabled children who are out of school (especially those from the low-income groups) have not been exposed to a learning environment –according to reports, even anganwadi centers do not encourage their attendance, thus vital school readiness skills are left unattended. 3. Special Schools, due to high operational costs can serve and accommodate only a miniscule population. Besides, the vast distances in Delhi makes it expensive and time-consuming for parents to even arrange for their child to reach the school. 4. Disabled children in their early years require therapeutic interventions that may not be easily available, and hence vital years are lost, making the child overage for the class. 5. Working parents – with both parents working, children are usually left to fend for themselves or are entrusted to the care of the older girl child. When the child is disabled (disability and poverty are closely linked) the sibling parent can only provide physical care to keep them alive,with no other inputs. When integrated with a diverse population, all children develop holistic and humane characteristics that hold good stead in adult life, with acceptance from the community. Parents are empowered (by virtue of the education their children have received) to ensure that their wards are not violated or mistreated. 
 The education of children with mental retardation, and other learning difficulties has been a neglected field. Prabhat was set up to herald a “New Dawn” in the pedagogical process where the child is the pivot of the program. Thus, Prabhat works in the areas of early childhood and elementary school education with a clearly defined curriculum and with the use of specially designed work materials. Located in North Delhi (an area that is very poorly served for this population) the school works with 50 students in the age range of 3 – 18 years. Facilities: All essential support facilities like  Physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy are available in house.  Specially designed workbooks for Hindi and Mathematics, hands-on tool kits for early academic concepts specially structured by a psychologist have proved to be extremely effective as educational aids.  Innovative teaching strategies like drama therapy, arts and media, and extra curricular sports are regular features.  Outdoor activities, social skill training, survival skills training and behavior modification techniques used to develop the child into a holistic adult.  Early stimulation activities, parent training sessions and regular parent teacher meetings ensure continued development at home. Implementation of current proposal  Given the huge need it serves, this facility needs to be to be extends its capacity to at least 100 students .  Up gradation of facilities, blackboard, books, toys, stationery and other basic educational requirements for children with special needs.  Basic educational facilities for children between the ages of 3-14 years will be catered for.  Basic physio/occupational and speech therapy facilities will be provided, and where required the children will be referred to advanced centers for treatment. In addition,  Identify and provide educational and therapeutic facilities to over 100 children  At the end of each year, efforts will be made to ensure their inclusion in mainstream schools or be further trained and educated in Prabhat Resource Center - in case of children with moderate and severe levels of disability. 
 Create a world of equal opportunities for children with disability through models of innovative and impact driven school education to provide a good start in life.

Prabhat Special School for children with disabilities

In India, 90 percent of India’s estimated 40 million children aged 4-16 years with physical and mental disabilities are out of school. In Delhi, a recent study indicated that only 1% children with physical disabilities and 0.1% of children with intellectual disabilities received education of any kind – formal or informal.Despite the amendments made to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act to include children with disability in the present educational system, such children continue to remain out of school.Covid-19 added to the already bad situation, by leaving out of the online digital learning system the remaining 10% who were in school – Special or otherwise.Why disabled children are usually out of school1.      Most believe that children with special needs cannot benefit in a regular school system. This is a fallacy, since more than 66% of such children are educable till grade 5, provided appropriate modifications are made to their early learning experiences, and a strong pre-academic foundation is developed.2.      However, many disabled children who are out of school (especially those from the low-income groups) have not been exposed to a learning environment – according to reports, even anganwadi centers do not encourage their attendance, thus vital school readiness skills are left unattended.3.      Special Schools, due to high operational costs have been able to reach out to only a miniscule population. Besides, the vast distances in Delhi makes it expensive and time-consuming to even reach the school.4.      Disabled children in their early years require therapeutic interventions that may not be easily available, and hence vital years are lost, making the child over age for the class.5.      Working parents – with both parents working, children are usually left to fend for themselves or are entrusted to the care of the older girl child. When the child is disabled (disability and poverty are closely linked) the sibling parent can only provide physical care to keep them alive. There are no further inputs.Intellectually challenged children who belong to the poorest families of the slums of Delhi have little or no access to formal educational facilities due to financial and other hardships. In addition, they also require specific interventions to help them be independent enough to attend formal school.When integrated with a diverse population, all children develop holistic and humane characteristics that hold in good stead in adult life.And for those children with disability, who benefit from exclusive one-on-one engagements, services need to be provided at their doorstep. 
 It is often said “If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn”. And we add to that by saying, “If the child cannot reach the school, then the school must reach the child”This project is an extension of Prabhat Special School, which has been providing center-based special educational services to children with disability from low income areas since 1992.This extension is considered essential as it is believed that all children with disability must be educated and the onus is on the service-provider to work out different means. The choice of Doorstep education would help vulnerable families with the choice of opting for either home or center based services as per their own need.The objective is to prepare the child, who is unable to come for center-based education in a special facility to be readied for local school admission or be provided continuous doorstep education.This will be done by taking educational facilities to their doorstep so that the child receives the opportunity to learn and become ready to avail of formal schooling in the neighborhood.  This will extend the intended benefits of the National Education Policy 2020 and the Right to Education to these deprived children who belong to the poorest strata of our society, thus paving a way for these children to live a dignified and purposeful adult life.Implementation·        The Doorstep school will be housed in a bus and will be equipped with multi-media facilities, blackboard, books, toys, stationery and other basic educational requirements for children with special needs.·        Basic educational facilities for children between the ages of 6-14 years will be catered for.·        Basic physio/occupational and speech therapy facilities will be provided, and where required the children will be referred to advanced centers for treatment.·        The bus will go to 4 selected slum clusters (each area will thus be visited two times a week) where intellectually disabled children reside, (but do not have access to education) and provide educational and therapeutic services for 2 to 3 hours at two slums each day.In addition,·        Identify and provide educational and therapeutic facilities to (at least) 200 children with disabilities in each slum, thus reaching a target of 800 children by the end of the 1st per month.·        At the end of year 1, efforts will be made to ensure their inclusion in mainstream schools or be further trained and educated in Prabhat Resource Center in case of children with moderate and severe levels of disability.Identification of BeneficiariesSince 2010, SfCD has been working in collaboration with the North Delhi District Commissioners’ office to generate awareness and assist families of persons with disability avail of facilities provided by the government.The Disability Cell was started in November 2010 under the patronage of Sh ZU Siddiqui, Deputy Commissioner (North district) and Chairperson, Local Level Committee (North Delhi) of the National Trust for the welfare of persons with Autism, Cerebral palsy, Mental retardation and Multiple disabilities.Community based awareness programs are conducted on the last Saturday of every month where an average of 15 new families visit. From November 2010 to December 2019, the Cell provided knowledge and facilities to 4176 persons with disabilities and their families. In addition to the assistance provided to the people, certification of persons with disability, especially those with Intellectual disability, autism, cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities (who often have to make several trips to the hospital) were facilitated by connecting with the outreach centers of Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) in Timarpur and Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital, Jahangirpuri.Verifiable Beneficiary DataAll relevant details of the child and their families will be recorded along with attested copies of government issued documents.Communities served by this projectFamilies of children with disability from low income communitiesDuration of the InterventionOn-going project, with impact assessment carried out every year. 
 Assess 2,00,000 population for disability identification in childrenImpact measurementAll Quantitative metrics will be as per the following:·        Number of children reached and their attendance details·        Number of children admitted in regular schools·        Number of children continuing Doorstep EducationQualitative data gathered to assess impact will include:·        Satisfaction levels of parents·        Improvements in physical and mental performance

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<ol><li>Unemployment: The past few months have made the situation worse for people with disability, who in any case were the last in line for skilling and employment. Women with disability are the worst sufferers remaining dependent for every need. </li><li>Covid Times - Personal Safety has been made mandatory so stepping outside the home has become very difficult. It is possible that the pandemic will become endemic like tuberculosis, like HIV. Translated it means that precautions are here to stay. Given this scenario, work from home has been adopted by many, even large corporations.</li><li>Pollution: It took just 50 days in April and May 2020 for the air to become pristine and the sky blue - All over the world, and perhaps more so in India, there is the other issue of Climate change caused by pollution, over-consumption and faulty disposal policies and habits. </li><li>Waste Management: It has been proven without doubt that we need to be careful about our waste disposal practices, especially since the ideal – of reducing consumption – may not be achievable soon. The alternative of reuse needs to be practically implemented.  </li></ol> 
 The Remake Project addresses all of the above: The 4 PsPeople:                Women with disability provided with the tools and skills to be included in the dialogue of change and remake their lives in a scenario that is unprecedented - a fresh start. The community receive access to high quality 		 and low cost upcycled goods and participate in this process of change.Products:             Protective gear, Stationery and BagsPlanet:                 Products made from surplus material sourced from Export and other Production Houses; Reusable, Non-polluting, Bio-degradable - avoiding the dump yard!Profit:                   Financial benefit, Positive visibility for people with disability hitherto viewed as recipients of charity, Dignity of Work and Financial inclusion.Methodology: Work with thirty women with disability - 20 with physical challenges or hearing impairment to start micro-enterprises for self-employment; and 10 women with mental challenges (including mental illness or Intellectual disability) to participate in supported self-employment. These women will be equipped with tools and training for a period of 6 months to achieve the first-line goals:<ol><li>Income generation </li><li>Addressing the deeper discourse of alternative waste management through Remake Design and Fabrication </li><li>Easy access for the general public to such products at affordable costs </li><li>Use of surplus and discards that would have filled the dump yards </li></ol>Mentoring: In sales and market development 
 Primary·        Develop a platform for persons (especially women) with disability to earn ·        Showcase the potential of such women when provided with opportunities ·        Make planet friendly products available for all at affordable ratesSecondary·        Engage local administrative authorities in the scope of the activity and adopt the model by providing more opportunities at the state level·        Partner with larger business houses to encourage self-employment ventures·        Involve local business to support and encourage these (and new) ventures

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In 2020 – when the world paused, business remained shut, people worked from home and children continued their education through online classes; SfCD started Prabhat Mobile. Prabhat Mobile is housed in a cheery bright yellow bus, which travels to two extremely deprived and impoverished community clusters in North Delhi to provide education to children with disability who were unable to attend online classes. The main reason for this inability was primarily the lack of access to a smartphone!  On an average 75 – 100 children come to the library to browse through the many books and also to play with the large collection of toys. Book and Toy donation drives are regularly carried out. The results have been most promising with 445 children with disability, and/or at-risk of a disabling condition, enrolled till date. It was clear as we went along that there were many more persons with disability who needed access to referral services for medical care, nutritional counseling and/or preventive healthcare. The beneficiaries of these two offshoots of the Mobile school were under-6 and 50+. Here counseling for mothers on nutrition and direct physiotherapy was provided. For the 50+ referrals to appropriate medical centers for debilitating conditions and nutritional care was the agenda. The experience of 11 months indicates that more such mobile units need to be set up.   
 For the Urban poor:<ul><li>A model delivery of services and impact creation has been developed.</li><li>Operate a similar bus to attend to 500 children with disability in two more low-income clusters · </li></ul>Since identification of the beneficiaries is primarily carried out with the help of community influencers and house-to-house survey, additional data of other age groups are also collected for medical and therapeutic aid, nutritional support and livelihood opportunities, as and when available:<ol><li>Elderly disabled or severely ill persons above 60 years of age </li><li>Young adults with disability for skill development</li><li>Mothers of children with disability for skill development and/or home-based livelihood </li><li>The very young (&gt;6 years) child with disability</li></ol>For the Rural Poor<ul><li>Provide a similar service in Thapalia-Mehragaon in Uttarakhand</li></ul> 
 Provide direct services to 1500 persons with disability