"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

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.

Help Dr. Bhagat care for 500+ elderly parents rescued from abuse and homelessness

“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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TIDE (Technology Informatics Design Endeavour) is a development organisation that leverages technology for conserving the environment, creating livelihoods and addressing societal issues. TIDE's work encompasses energy access and biomass-based cooking solutions, energy conservation and renewable energy promotion, Environment management and advocacy, and Technology based on innovative livelihoods, particularly with focus on rural women.TIDE (Technology Informatics Design Endeavour) was founded in 1993. In its 26-year journey, TIDE has been promoting sustainable development through innovative technological interventions. Since inception, we have developed/adapted and transferred technology options like improved cook stoves, biogas, biomass gasification, biomass briquetting and energy audits.

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<img src="https://cfstatic.giveindia.org/8bf1a1e3-e8f1-4172-9568-6462b7b9d7ee.png" />Kalpana is from a farming family. Her husband manages their small piece of land and works in a coconut mandi in Tiptur to make ends end meet. “My husband used to work in coconut mandi in Tiptur and came home quite late. As our land holding is small, I had to find a way to bring in more income into the house” says Kalpana.She was making and selling ragi papads without much success. She participated in a ragi value-addition training conducted by TIDE where she learnt about value added products such as ragi malt and nipattu. She also understood other important aspects like quality, compliance for food grade, packaging, and marketing. She used this knowledge to reduce her production costs and improve her profit margin. In her words “We were taught why packaging our products is important and were also shown different materials that can be used and were told where we can buy them from. We were introduced to equipment like sealing machines and electronic scales.”She got the FSSAI licensing for her production unit and displays this registration number on all her product packaging. This, along with neat packaging and labelling, helped her get repeat orders. Today Kalpana manufactures several ragi based products like papad, malt, hurihittu, savouries like chakli and nipattu. “Ragi is a simple grain traditionally consumed in rural areas but these food items like papad, ragi malt and savouries have a good demand in urban areas and if we can tap into that this can be a profitable business” says Kalpana.Her business has grown and she now employs 3 women from her village to help her. Her husband manages the procurement of raw ingredients, marketing and delivery of finished products.Consistent quality and perseverance are keys to Kalpana’s success. She says she strives to maintain the quality of her products and never delays orders. Through such efforts she has managed to gain regular orders from retail and wholesale businesses across Tiptur town.She recalls how her entrepreneurship journey with TIDE provided her knowledge, skills, and linkages like opportunity to participate in various exhibitions and events in Bengaluru and other cities.While she is grateful for the support, she stresses on how important it is for the women to put in effort and most importantly not give up midway. Post our intervention, Kalpana earns a profit of Rs 8,000 to 12,000 every month from sales of her products and after paying women employed by her.

Kalpana – A successful entrepreneur who now employs other women

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<img src="https://cfstatic.giveindia.org/6cdaa8e9-8427-4ab5-8cd5-e32514fe43b2.png" />Kalpana is from a farming family. Her husband manages their small piece of land and works in a coconut mandi in Tiptur to make ends end meet. “My husband used to work in coconut mandi in Tiptur and came home quite late. As our land holding is small, I had to find a way to bring in more income into the house” says Kalpana.She was making and selling ragi papads without much success. She participated in a ragi value-addition training conducted by TIDE where she learnt about value added products such as ragi malt and nipattu. She also understood other important aspects like quality, compliance for food grade, packaging, and marketing. She used this knowledge to reduce her production costs and improve her profit margin. In her words “We were taught why packaging our products is important and were also shown different materials that can be used and were told where we can buy them from. We were introduced to equipment like sealing machines and electronic scales.”She got the FSSAI licensing for her production unit and displays this registration number on all her product packaging. This, along with neat packaging and labelling, helped her get repeat orders. Today Kalpana manufactures several ragi based products like papad, malt, hurihittu, savouries like chakli and nipattu. “Ragi is a simple grain traditionally consumed in rural areas but these food items like papad, ragi malt and savouries have a good demand in urban areas and if we can tap into that this can be a profitable business” says Kalpana.Her business has grown and she now employs 3 women from her village to help her. Her husband manages the procurement of raw ingredients, marketing and delivery of finished products.Consistent quality and perseverance are keys to Kalpana’s success. She says she strives to maintain the quality of her products and never delays orders. Through such efforts she has managed to gain regular orders from retail and wholesale businesses across Tiptur town.She recalls how her entrepreneurship journey with TIDE provided her knowledge, skills, and linkages like opportunity to participate in various exhibitions and events in Bengaluru and other cities.While she is grateful for the support, she stresses on how important it is for the women to put in effort and most importantly not give up midway. Post our intervention, Kalpana earns a profit of Rs 8,000 to 12,000 every month from sales of her products and after paying women employed by her.

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<img src="https://cfstatic.giveindia.org/c2021e53-8d6c-4bf8-bdb2-ef0620a5e197.png" />Kalpana is from a farming family. Her husband manages their small piece of land and works in a coconut mandi in Tiptur to make ends end meet. “My husband used to work in coconut mandi in Tiptur and came home quite late. As our land holding is small, I had to find a way to bring in more income into the house” says Kalpana.She was making and selling ragi papads without much success. She participated in a ragi value-addition training conducted by TIDE where she learnt about value added products such as ragi malt and nipattu. She also understood other important aspects like quality, compliance for food grade, packaging, and marketing. She used this knowledge to reduce her production costs and improve her profit margin. In her words “We were taught why packaging our products is important and were also shown different materials that can be used and were told where we can buy them from. We were introduced to equipment like sealing machines and electronic scales.”She got the FSSAI licensing for her production unit and displays this registration number on all her product packaging. This, along with neat packaging and labelling, helped her get repeat orders. Today Kalpana manufactures several ragi based products like papad, malt, hurihittu, savouries like chakli and nipattu. “Ragi is a simple grain traditionally consumed in rural areas but these food items like papad, ragi malt and savouries have a good demand in urban areas and if we can tap into that this can be a profitable business” says Kalpana.Her business has grown and she now employs 3 women from her village to help her. Her husband manages the procurement of raw ingredients, marketing and delivery of finished products.Consistent quality and perseverance are keys to Kalpana’s success. She says she strives to maintain the quality of her products and never delays orders. Through such efforts she has managed to gain regular orders from retail and wholesale businesses across Tiptur town.She recalls how her entrepreneurship journey with TIDE provided her knowledge, skills, and linkages like opportunity to participate in various exhibitions and events in Bengaluru and other cities.While she is grateful for the support, she stresses on how important it is for the women to put in effort and most importantly not give up midway. Post our intervention, Kalpana earns a profit of Rs 8,000 to 12,000 every month from sales of her products and after paying women employed by her.

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There are approximately 7 crore rural households living below the poverty line in India. With COVID, women are bearing the brunt of the economic and social fallout of COVID-19 and youth have lost employment opportunities and returned home. In TIDE's experience, many women and youth from these households are entrepreneurial, have strong survival instincts and a deep desire to come out from their cycle of poverty. However, the infrastructure and institutional mechanisms required for creating, nurturing, and sustaining micro-enterprises in rural areas are not fully in place. Livelihood opportunities need to be expanded and diversified. Additionally, aspiring entrepreneurs face social and cultural barriers which need to be addressed. 
 TIDE’s work in technology based micro-entrepreneurship for rural communities  has proven to be a successful model in this area. TIDE's Women's Technology Park (WTP) , a 2-acre residential training centre, is a hub for these activities.Over 2,500 women have been trained in livelihood skills by TIDE, covering various technologies and set up farm based and non-farm-based enterprises. TIDE has also encouraged rural entrepreneurs to set up digital Kiosks to provide common digital services and help youth to explore various entrepreneur opportunities. Apart from technical skills, TIDE is also helping entrepreneurs by training in marketing, labelling, packaging, building SOPs and business plans.TIDE is also providing infrastructure, licensing, and software support to carry out entrepreneur activities. These include providing papad machines to women groups, Kiosk kits to entrepreneurs ( Desktop, printer and fingerprint scanner ) , tailoring machines, weighing and sealing machines for food entrepreneurs. Your donation will help us provide the following services to these rural entrepreneurs <ul><li> FSSAI certification to women groups to enable better market reach</li><li>Providing weighing and sealing machines  for packaging and labelling of products</li><li>Papad rolling machine for food SHG women groups </li></ul> 
 Year after year, TIDE, through its Women's Technology Park (WTP), trains and helps incubate hundreds of women-led micro enterprises. 20 ragi products enterprises have been incubated by TIDE in the last 2 years with profits ranging from Rs 2,000 to Rs 20,000 per month and 50 new enterprises have been initiated. We also provide support to women such as packaging and labeling, FSSAI certification, Market linkages etc. School children visit WTP and learn about environment-friendly technologies. Visitors from other NGOs, civil society organisations and Government visit WTP to learn from our model. Corporate volunteers visit for community engagement and mutual learning.Read a case study of success here: https://sggsc.blog/2018/03/12/societe-generale-gsc-csr-impact-story-from-agricultural-labourer-to-a-successful-micro-entrepreneur/

Help rural women earn incomes through home-based food businesses

The Model School Program aims to empower children and prepare them for rapidly changing environment and the complexities that come with it.Menstrual hygiene is a matter of human rights – but we find that the children we engage with lack access to both information and products to meet this basic need.Almost 19% of girls are unaware of menstruation cycles. This translates to almost one in five girls, most of whom also have little to no access to safe, affordable feminine hygiene.We want to make a systemic change by providing awareness, accessible menstrual products, and a means for responsible disposal of menstrual waste.Good menstrual hygiene and responsible disposal will enable these young girls to reach their full potential and become environmentally conscious .With your donations one girl can be equipped with sanitary napkins for an entire year and prevent negative impact on their education, health, safety, and human development. 
 To effectively manage their menstruation TIDE wants to ensure that children have access to affordable and appropriate menstrual hygiene materials, information on good practices, and a supportive environment where they can manage menstruation without the embarrassment or stigma. TIDE has already installed incinerators in these schools for safe and hygienic disposal of sanitary napkins. This will ensure that the waste gets converted into ash and other non-hazardous residue. 
 TIDE is looking to raise enough money to cover the cost of a year’s supply of good quality sanitary napkins for the girls of GKHTPS school and Bilishivale school - 120 girls in total. These schools cater to children from disadvantaged backgrounds, ethnic minorities etc and face financial constraints to purchase it themselves.In addition, we want include a children’s manual on menstrual awareness and hygiene that includes illustrations and storylines that convey all they need to know about menstruation and lift the taboo that surrounds menstruation through education.TIDE has already installed incinerators in the restroom facilities of these schools. They are designed to be user friendly, safe and effective in disposing of the menstrual waste.The schools lack the resources to create awareness on menstrual hygiene among its staff and students alike. TIDE will be inviting experts to conduct sessions for each school to sensitize them about menstruation, breaking gender stereotypes and norms.The menstruation kits will provide the girls with the resources they need to attend school regularly and maintain normalcy in their lives.

Support safe Menstrual Hygiene of a child

There are approximately 7 crore rural households living below the poverty line in India. In TIDE's experience, many women from these households are entrepreneurial, have strong survival instincts and a deep desire to come out from their cycle of poverty. However, the infrastructure and institutional mechanisms required for creating, nurturing and sustaining micro-enterprises in rural areas are not fully in place. Livelihood opportunities need to be expanded and diversified. Additionally, aspiring women entrepreneurs face social and cultural barriers which need to be addressed. 
 TIDE’s work in technology based micro-entrepreneurship for rural women has proven to be a successful model in this area. TIDE's Women's Technology Park (WTP) , a 2-acre residential training centre is a hub for these activities.Over 2,500 women have been trained in livelihood skills by TIDE, covering various technologies like stove construction, solar-cum-biomass drying, areca leaf sheath products, value added products from millets, greenhouse horticulture, nursery, vermi-composting and paper bag making. Some of these women have gone on to become leaders, like Lalitha Bai, a TIDE trained Stove Builder who won the CII Women Exemplar Award. (http://niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/new_initiatives/Women_Empowerment_7Sep2016_3.pdf)TIDE is developing WTP as an rural outreach-cum-incubation centre and as a safe place for women to develop their entrepreneurial skills. 
 Year on year, TIDE, through its Women's Technology Park (WTP), trains and helps incubate hundreds of women-led micro enterprises. 20 enterprises in Areca leaf sheath products and 10 in ragi products have been incubated by TIDE in the last 2 years with profits ranging from Rs 2,000 to Rs 20,000 per month. School children visit WTP and learn about environment-friendly technologies. Visitors from other NGOs, civil society organisations and Government visit WTP to learn from our model. Corporate volunteers visit for community engagement and mutual learning.Read a case study of success here: https://sggsc.blog/2018/03/12/societe-generale-gsc-csr-impact-story-from-agricultural-labourer-to-a-successful-micro-entrepreneur/

Making rural women self-reliant through entrepreneurship

TIDE is poised for growth with its proven expertise in technology and sustainability. Our focus areas of Sustainable communities and Livelihoods are getting good traction, from CSR, carbon credit funders, etc. Recently we have worked on a strategic business plan and are looking at building a strong leadership to deliver on them. TIDE is looking for an Executive Director replacement after our incumbent Executive Director had to relocate to Singapore. We can attract good candidates, but the salary expectation is 24LPA + while TIDE’s budget is capped at 18LPA leaving us with about 6-8 L gap in funding.To build on essential roles like communication, TIDE wants to support and train its dedicated staff. We have identified an agency to do capacity building in communication across the organization. Unfortunately, project funders do not support these activities and it would help TIDE to be funded on this to strengthen their funding pitch. The salary and a communication workshop need a budget of 7L.  
 With the funding we receive we will be able to meet the demands of suitable candidates capable of running the organization and ensuring its steady growth and progress.With the funding received we will be conducting a few workshops covering communications and strategic project management. 
 With this position filled, along with a strong strategic and operational team, TIDE should be able to demonstrate greater impact. The incoming candidate for Executive Direcotr would be able to grow the organization and support the salaries. We can up our game on communication, crucial for fundraising and showcasing impact. It would also strengthen our funding pitches moving forward. This will add to the fundraising capacity and the expectation is that increased funds will cover this cost in the future.