In Vrindavan, thousands of elderly widow mothers face the harsh reality of abandonment and suffering. With no one to turn to, many are left begging on the streets, exposed to heat, cold and rain,Donate so that Maitri can provide shelter, food, clothes and medical support to abandoned elderly mothers now. Give generously.Winnie Singh has witnessed many cases of widow mothers being abandoned on the streets of Vrindavan, one of the holiest places in India. “Children leave their mothers as soon as they become widows. The children start feeling the burden. This has become a practice in today's society that money comes first and everything else later,” says Winnie whose Maitri India, rescues widowed mothers from the streets of Vrindavan.Many widowed elderly mothers often end up living a lonely life and begging to survive on the streets. And Maitri aspires to take care of every widow in need of help, but because of lack of funds, Winnie and Maitri are in a position to do it."Elderly widows don't have shelter. They sleep in cowsheds over sacks. They don't have a blanket. Nights are really difficult for them," shares Winnie Singh. <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />Maitri aims to:<ul><li>Provide shelter and nutritious 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 and engagement around the struggles of abandoned widow mothers</li></ul>Why donate to MaitriWinnie needs your support to help those in need of food, healthcare and well-being. “Maitri urgently needs your support to provide nutritious food, clothing and healthcare to sustain these widow mothers who are prone to more illnesses as they age,” appeals Winnie. “You can become the family they were denied. Hold their hands so they don't need to beg ever again,” she adds. Let’s rescue abandoned widows mothers from the streets of Vrindavan and give them a better future. Donate now.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.

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For a mother who has spent her entire life loving and raising her child, being beaten and mercilessly thrown out onto the streets by her own son is too heartbreaking to overcome. But this is a common story among the elderly residents of the Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram. “I’ve seen mothers in old and torn clothes, their bodies smelling and their hands and feet rotting and covered in maggots,” shares Dr. G.P. Bhagat, founder of the ashram. These abandoned elderly men and women lay starving on the streets hoping for someone to rescue them from their suffering. But most people walk past them without a second glance. “Like this”, Dr. Bhagat explains, “many elders die on the roads.”Since 2003, SHEOWS (Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphans Welfare Society) has rescued over 10,000 elderly people from the streets and given them a home with care and support. The elderly staying at the ashram have all been abandoned by their families and have nowhere else to live. Your support can give them comfort after their abandonment. 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). Safe and loving homeFor 20 years, SHEOWS has been providing free shelter, nutritious food three times a day, clothing, medical care, recreation activities and emotional support to abused and disabled elderly people rescued from the streets of Delhi. The Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram has a dedicated rescue team that saves the elderly from the streets and gives them immediate medical care upon their arrival at the home. To tend to the multiple health complications of the seniors, the home has a medical facility with doctors and nurses, a physiotherapy unit, a pathology lab, a digital X-ray monitoring machine and a pharmacy to provide 24-hour care to older adults anytime they require assistance, even during emergencies. Dr. Bhagat prioritizes the health of the seniors and ensures that they receive three balanced meals a day based on their precise health requirements. Need for the fundraiserThe humanitarian mission of SHEOWS is making an impact in the area, as more and more people are being rescued and brought to Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram. To meet the financial costs of running the home, SHEOWS needs support to continue providing the residents with all the facilities that they need. This includes constant care and round-the-clock medical attention, nutritious food and maintaining a hygienic environment to keep the seniors in comfort and good health. Dr. Bhagat explains that as the number of residents is increasing, SHEOWS needs support for food and medicines. “I request you to help these elderly parents lead a peaceful life.”Donate now to help Dr. Bhagat continue caring for the 500 destitute elderly and giving them shelter, food, medical care and the will to carry on living despite their tragic abandonment by their families. Your support will enable SHEOWS to keep serving abandoned senior citizens and help them recover from the trauma of abandonment and life on the streets. “I have been serving these elderly as if they were my own parents”, shares Dr. Bhagat. “I want only one thing - their tears should vanish and they should have a smile on their faces.” To help Dr. Bhagat achieve this dream, your support is critical. Donate now to help SHEOWS care for more abandoned elderly. Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest online donation platform, to support SHEOWS in their mission to rescue the abandoned elderly from the streets and give them shelter, food, medical care, recreational activities and emotional support.

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“I used to be sexually abused repeatedly, and when I screamed in pain, they hit and threatened me with more violence,” says Priya (name changed), a rescued child sex worker. Priya was abducted by traffickers and sold into a red-light area house before she was rescued by Guria led by Manju. For over two decades, Manju has been rescuing young girls forced into prostitution across the country. She has been shaken to the core seeing some of the most horrifying crimes that young girls have to undergo. “You can’t imagine the state of girls forced into sex work. The girls are given electric shocks and burnt with cigarette butts just to get kicks out of it. And if they get pregnant, the "owners" kick them repeatedly in the womb so that the child inside dies…If you want to see hell, it is here on this planet where young girls are sexually abused,” says Manju.Manju needs your help to rescue more young girls from forced prostitution and reunite them with their families. Donate now.Guria’s work over the yearsBased out of Varanasi, inarguably the holiest place in India, Manju and her organisation Guria, fights the sexual exploitation of girls, especially minors, by taking on the traffickers head-on, and rescuing and rehabilitating them.Started in 1993, Guria has rescued over 5500 persons from slavery, sex trafficking, and child prostitution so far. It has also been instrumental in shutting down hundreds of places that housed trafficked girls and putting scores of traffickers out of business and in jail.For instance, in 2005, a Guria-led rescue operation in Varanasi's red-light area led to the freeing of 49 women and girls, including minors. Many of them were kept against their will. Some of the traffickers were also arrested and tried. Since then, Guria has rescued thousands of young girls.Manju and her husband, Ajeet Singh began rescuing girls from Varanasi’s red-light areas and then working to stop the sex-trafficking of young girls within Uttar Pradesh and outside. The organisation’s aim is to eliminate the sex trafficking of women, especially minor girls, end second-generation prostitution and child prostitution, and rehabilitate women and girls who are rescued from the trade. Manju has faced violent backlash from the traffickers and other vested interests, but it has not deterred her from carrying on rescuing young girls from trafficking. Rescue and rehabilitationBesides rescuing girls trafficked for sex, mostly from low-income families, from across the country, Guria fights on their behalf in courts and also provides education, food, vocational training, and other facilities until they are united with their families. But because of a lack of funds, Guria is finding it difficult to rescue more girls and also take care of them once they are away from the clutches of the traffickers. Take the case of Sameena (name changed), who was abducted from Uttar Pradesh all the way to Telangana. Guria took it upon itself to rescue the girl with the help of its own work and also the authorities. After months of rehabilitation, Sameena went back to her family and even completed her education. With your support, Manju can rescue many more young girls from trafficking and help them live the life of their dreams.

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Uninhibited is dedicated to reforming public school systems to champion the education of adolescent girls and ensure their sustained presence in schools. Through our comprehensive life skills-based programs, we're striving to cultivate an empowering environment that fosters girls' education, with a particular emphasis on driving change in menstrual health behaviors. Moreover, we're collaborating with state governments to improve access to female-friendly restroom facilities and provide essential sanitary products. With a significant impact already made on the lives of over 350,000 women and girls, we've successfully reduced school absenteeism by 35%. Our ongoing mission is to reach one million adolescent girls within the next five years. <a href="https://medium.com/@pragna.shekar/bleeding-to-building-bridges-aspirations-of-menstruating-girls-in-india-68732cd37169" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Leadership transition</a> of <a href="https://mhhub.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Menstrual Health Hub</a> a global digital menstrual health platform to <a href="https://uninhibited.org.in/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Uninhibited</a> in Oct 2022 was completed to ensure increased representation from development practitioners from the Global South in the menstrual health ecosystem.

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70% of mothers in India consider menstruation “Dirty”, 23% of girls in our country drop out of school due to the onset of periods, 71% of girls in India report having no knowledge of menstruation before their first period and more than 90% Indian fathers are unaware of how to deal with their daughter’s puberty. From an educational point of view, it was also come across in UNICEF report that the national educational curriculum focuses on biological aspects of menstruation rather than its proper management. It also lacks information on psycho-social changes and reproductive health or skill-based hygiene education (FSG 2016) and low capacity among teachers/front line staff on Menstrual Health and Hygiene.’   
 We believe that women should take ownership of their menstrual health and hygiene by understanding their body and making informed choices. Our model is to create change agents which we call the “The Period Fellows”. They will be the people who will start the conversation regarding menstruation among their communities and work with a local group of facilitators whom we called " Community Resource Persons". Community Resource Persons further mobilize the communities, forms groups of women and men in communities and adolescents in schools who will then undergo the menstrual health and hygiene sessions which includes basic physiology, processes like ovulation, menstruation, cultural beliefs and practices and how to enable conversation around menstruation within the communities. The fellowship is currently happening in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. For 2020 we are going to scale up the fellowship in most marginalized districts of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar which are Jhabua, Alirajpur, and Jamui respectively.   
 Through the grassroots initiatives Sukhibhava was able to reach out to 20,220 adolescent &amp; boys and 130,667 women &amp; men across 7 states in India. We aim to educate 24,000 men and adolescent boys in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. i. Pradeep is 30 years old man lives in Satnami Nagar, Bhopal. After attending the sessions on Menstrual Health and Hygiene by Satyam Mishra (The Period Fellow’2019), he initiated the conversation with his wife around menstruation and got to know about her irregular menstrual cycle. He called Satyam and shared the information that his wife is having 15 days long periods, that too from last few months. After getting suggested by Satyam, Pradeep went to doctor to consult about his wife’s health. He regularly reach out to doctor for his wife’s health since then and do not take it for granted. ii. Mr. Deepak Gaur, from the intervention area in Bhopal, initially came late for his first session, after attending half session, he requested the fellow to take another session in his community and commit that he will mobilise the men for the session. Soon after he organised the session with first group, Deepak felt it is important to every men to know the information delivered in sessions. He since then continue mobilising the community in and around his community. He voluntarily support the fellows in mobilising other men.  We wish to see the increase in sexual reproductive health-seeking behaviour among the women and girls, increase in mobility of women and girls, normalisation of conversations about menstrual health in communities and schools and increase in leaders in the menstrual health ecosystem in India. This is only be possible if we will work equally with men and boys and other key stakeholders in the marginalised communities.

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