"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.

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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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“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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Late	Ms	Prema	Gopalan,	as	Founder	and	Executive	Director	of	Swayam	Shikshan	Prayog,	developed	an inclusive,	participatory,	and	women-led	approach	to	disaster	management	through	her	pioneering	work of	community-led	rehabilitation	and	reconstruction	in	1200	villages	after	the	devastating	1993	Latur Earthquake. Swayam	Shikshan	Prayog	(SSP)	which	stands	for	Self-Education	for	Empowerment	was	formally	registered in	1998.	For	the	last	24	years,	SSP	has	facilitated	sustainable	community	development	by	building	capacities of	grassroots	women’s	collectives	to	lead	social	and	economic	transformation	in	climate-threatened	regions of	India.	SSP	widely	advocates	for	changing	public	policy	in	favour	of	recognizing	grassroots	women’s collectives	in	their	new	roles	as	community	resource	persons/community	level	facilitators,	and leaders	and shares	these	learnings	widely	with	peer	networks	and	institutions	globally.	Our	work,	by	choice,	is	centred around	low-income	climate-threatened	communities	across	India.

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Your generous&nbsp;donations&nbsp;will support in giving trainings and handholding support for the underserved marginal women farmers for bio-farming in the Marathwada region (Latur, Solapur, Osmanabad, Latur, Nanded or Washim districts) of Maharashtra. Cost for training and handholding support for each farmer is @ INR 3,000. We aim to train 100 farmers on kharif season's cultivation with the funds raised. Breakup of the fund - 100 marginal women farmers x INR 3,000 = INR 300,000. Donations can also be done @ INR 1000 onwards towards the cause.

Training and handholding of 100 marginal women farmers in Marathwada region of Maharashtra

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In India, 79%[1] of rural women are engaged in agriculture as compared to only 63% of rural men, yet, women are seldom the decision makers around what to grow, what inputs to use, what to keep for the family, and what to sell and where.This gender injustice in agriculture propels larger problems for the small and marginal farmers and the ecology - dependency on expensive and ecologically harmful chemicals, falling into high-interest debt traps, increasing vulnerability to climate change risks, reduced food, nutrition and livelihood security, health adversities, and migration.[1] <a href="http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=170364" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=170364</a> 
 SSP’s solution, the Women-Led Climate Resilient Farming (WCRF) model seeks to integrate women’s empowerment as part of its strategy and design by building overall economic and social resilience towards the long-term sustainability of women and their households in rural agrarian communities. The project strategy aims to close this last-mile connectivity gap through a careful selection and inclusion of women’s groups and by putting power in the hands of women so they are in the driving seat instead of being mere bystanders. SSP will align with National flagship programs by connecting vital dots, the multi-sectoral approach becomes widely relevant as it closely aligns with the Agriculture Mission, focus on Zero Budget Natural Farming and national rural employment and the water conservation program dedicated to creating awareness and improving conservation. These programs are selected as they are unique as they emphasize community involvement, self-help, and convergence. SSP promotes a multi-level, multi-pronged approach to build capacities of small and marginal farming households for combatting drought. The approach focuses on creating a cadre of women such as Samvad Sahayaks or the Community Resource Persons (CRPs) on climate resilience farming strategies. 
 a. Empower and transform rural women as changemakers and local leaders in agriculture with a view to promoting resilient livelihoods and climate-positive food systemsb. Promote the use of bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides as the primary farm input, and encourage optimisation of water through micro-irrigation, rainwater harvesting structures, and local drought-tolerant cropsc. Pilot the use and success of biodigesters to produce natural organic matter for farming to attain circular economy, and promote low-cost clean cooking practices.d. Engage with the policymakers (e.g., National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture) and other key governmental stakeholders (e.g., KVKs, ATMA, SRLMs etc.) to provide an enabling environment for innovative practice to thrive and scale.e. Bring together key ecosystem partners – policymakers, donor institutions (set up a funder’s platform to discuss the way forward in this space), implementation agencies, government departments etc., and harness their collaborative effort and scale adoption meaningfully and effectivelyf. Explore big aggregators to procure and market natural products at a premium to encourage small and marginal farmers to continue farming sustainably.g. Raise awareness among the consumers on a large scale, to raise demand and develop local micro markets

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