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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.Lt Gen (Retd) Bhopinder Singn and his wife Winnie Singh and have 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. Gen Bhopinder Singh is like a brother to many widow mothers."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 Gen Bhopinder 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,” says Gen Bhopinder Singh. 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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Our Early Childhood Education Project enhances school readiness for children aged 3-6 by developing crucial skills like writing, phonological awareness, and motor skills, while also focusing on language, attention, and social skills. Trained local youth promote sustainable education and community involvement. Parents are empowered through workshops to support their children's development, laying a strong foundation for academic success. The Anandapath Project ensures comprehensive support for early childhood development at multiple community levels.

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Tomorrow’s Foundation, co-founded by Arup and Swarup Ghosh in 1991, has traversed a remarkable journey of 32 years, spearheading numerous projects aimed at empowering underprivileged children and underserved communities. Through a holistic approach encompassing education and livelihood initiatives, the organization has profoundly influenced the lives of countless individuals. What began modestly with 17 children in need of care and protection has burgeoned into a movement that has touched over a million lives over three decades.The organization's commitment spans across both rural and urban landscapes, with primary emphasis on three key areas:<ol><li>Primary Education,</li><li>Skills &amp; Livelihood (covering both farming and non-farming sectors), and</li><li>Climate Change.</li></ol>With an unwavering dedication, Tomorrow’s Foundation has already impacted many lives, setting a formidable precedent. Looking ahead, the vision is to extend this impact exponentially, aspiring to touch the lives of 1 million individuals by the year 2047, coinciding with India's centennial celebrations, thus turning the page on poverty in a significant and sustainable manner.At the heart of Tomorrow’s Foundation's ethos lies the noble endeavor to elevate the quality of life for underprivileged and marginalized children and young adults, including those with disabilities, through comprehensive education and training initiatives. By nurturing individual skills and knowledge, the organization aims to empower these young minds, enabling them to recognize and realize their inherent self-worth.Presently, Tomorrow’s Foundation operates across multiple slum locations spanning West Bengal (including Alipurduar, Kolkata, and Birbhum), Sikkim, Chhattisgarh (encompassing Raipur, Bijapur, and Dantewada), Chennai, Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai, thereby ensuring a widespread and impactful presence.Vision:To foster an environment of active participation and protection for every child, thereby fostering sustainable development within marginalized communities.Mission:To serve as a catalyst for positive transformation within marginalized communities, enabling them to unlock their full potential through the provision of rights, protection, education, and livelihood opportunities.Awards:Human Rights AwardTomorrow's Foundation, was rewarded the Human Rights Prize of the French Republic for its efforts and contributions in the field of protection of Human Rights of disabled persons in India by the Commission National Consultative des Droits de l'Homme (National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, CNCDH), France.The award was presented by Mr. Jean-Marc Ayrault, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development - Paris, France to the Co-founder of Tomorrow's Foundation Mr. Arup Ghosh. The Rights Award ceremony was held in Paris on 15th of December 2016 to acknowledge the commendable work done by the Foundation with disabled children. Four NGO's internationally got the award among 182 Projects.The NGO’s Leadership Award ’ 2017 given by CSR WorldRecognition for working with Small Tea Growers of Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri Districts

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Hello! I am Sayantani, 10 years old and I suffer from Intellectual Disability.I cannot speak or see very well. Because of these reasons, I am not welcome in any school near my house, where other children go.But Mani sir has been teaching me for more than a year over the mobile phone, which my mother always helps me with.I am excited for you to see , what I have learnt to do by myself.But I would still like to go to school and play with other children- and also my mother will have some free time when I am in school.Will you donate to the Charaibeti fundraiser and help children like me to have our own happy sanctuary ? <a href="https://youtu.be/S4JM55Xhl3o" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"> </a> Transcription of audio : Sayantani's mother is encouraging her to dress herself, step by step:Sayantani puts a hairclip in her mother's hand - her mother asks Sayantani whose clip it is and clarifies that it is hers. She then directs Sayantani to dress herself, and we can see Sayantani putting on a hairband and taking it off; then she wears bangles on both her arms and also puts on a necklace by herself. Her mother says the final touch is the decorative dot on her forehead. At the end, Sayantani mother's voiceover tells us that Sayantani is well able to dress herself before going out anywhere.

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21 million people in India and 1.8million people in West Bengal are disabled. Further, 55% of the disabled in India belong to margnisalised and last-mile communities. Tomorrow's Foundation’s 'Charaibeti' programme, serves children with Special Needs from the slums of Kolkata, West Bengal.The Government of India has created policies around special education, healthcare benefits and rehabilitation for people with Special Needs. However, their implementation efforts have not benefited a majority of those whom it was enacted for.Children with Special Needs from impoverished backgrounds face stigmatisation, exclusion and rejection, even within their own families. Access to education, remedial or healthcare benefits is poor at best. The negative impact of this on families and communities is immeasurable. Families and communities need to be sensitised about issues around disability, counseled how to look after their children and how to access services and benefits.High rates of poverty and illiteracy among these communities adds to the problem of accessing any intervention which is not free of charge. Procedures to obtain government benefits are often byzantine and costly. 
 Tomorrow's Foundation (Charaibeti Project ) focuses on raising overall awareness about disability issues within communities we work with, alongside specialised interventions for the children. The intervention brings special education to children who need these services and lack any means of access to other options. The activities are pedagogical, educational, recreational, behavioral and allow each child to express themselves and grow. Charaibeti also offers regular community outreach with parents to counsel them on various aspects of disability and their own responsibility to not marginalize the child. Referral and guidance for issues related to disability are offered.After a mobile outreach programme conducted inside buses as classrooms, we started a fixed location centre which operated 5 days weekly,offering a range of special services, including therapy. Closed during the pandemic due to financial constraints, we switched to an online model immediately.This model continues to run uninterrupted till date. It has proven largely successful for children who had absolutely no recourse to any form of intervention for over 2 years.Physical and speech therapy, which can only be done in person, are vital for holistic development. Primarily because of this, we are committed to setting up a fixed location centre at the earliest.A hybrid model of online teaching and in person classes will continue, as children with severe mobility or health issues will still not be able to attend regularly. 
 This project aims to increase inclusive development of a society and raise awareness around disability in marginalised communities. This would help reduce stigmatisation, exclusion and rejection. And increase respect for those who are different in any way from us.Impoverished and illiterate families will be able to access facilities and benefits for children who have a disability.Children with special needs will be able to access education, healthcare and livelihood options.Those who cannot be educated beyond a point, will be able to access skill training for self dependence.Children needing lifelong care, will learn self help skills and achieve limited independence in Activities of Daily Living.Once the centre is set up, children who have languished in the last 2 years, will have a safe space of their own.We wish there will be awareness about a happy sanctuary - where they can play, meet other children like themselves and most of all - where they will be accepted and loved as they are.

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Project Freedom is planned as an Urban Poverty Alleviation Intervention in the slums of Kolkata, West Bengal - where the target beneficiaries are children and adolescents engaged in exploitative labour situations, without access to education. Some have never had the opportunity to go to school and are kept at home to add to the family income. Others are school drop-outs because they cannot cope with their lessons and their social and peer environment is a deterrent. Many of the children are rag pickers. Some work in leather tanneries or leather stitching home industries. There are instances where they are the only wage earners in the family. Others support their parents and siblings as part of a family enterprise. Not all work directly in the leather industry. There are many ancillary industries of food supply, tea shops, packaging and delivery units, tyre repairs, car washing etc all of which offer jobs for children because little hands work hard and little voices do not complain about the abysmal pay and miserable working conditions. There are also other industries nearby: garment workers and embroiderers. Not too far away are the brick kilns and rice mills. The list of enterprises that employ children is endless. Such children who are forced to work are robbed of their youth, health, freedom and future. They are denied a right to live the normal life of a child: play and go to school. They are children without a future who will, by force of circumstance, perpetuate the cycle of poverty. The Mission of Project Freedom is to provide education and relevant skills to children and adolescents in vulnerable situations and collectivise them to create peer leaders’ groups to promote adolescent issues in the community and with relevant duty-bearers. 
 Overall objective: To contribute to the alleviation of poverty among the urban slum population in the city of KolkataSpecific objectives:·        To ensure access to learning opportunities for 1200 children and adolescents living in urban slums of Kolkata and engaged in hazardous economic activities through the Open School Programme, Life Skills Support, and Community Sensitization on child labour and gender equalities<ol><li> Children and adolescents will be supported to complete primary, elementary, secondary and Higher Secondary levels of education to school drop-outs and working and self-employed children.</li><li>  Life skills training forms a part of the education programme and allows adolescents participating in the programme to improve decision-making abilities about education, sexual and reproductive health, and economic and protection related issues. </li><li>  The focus will also be given to educating parents on gender issues and promoting gender equality. </li><li>  Children below 14 years of age and out of school will be mainstreamed into government formal schools</li></ol> ·        To build relevant skills among adolescents that would lead to income generation<ol><li>By 2022, children enrolled in Project Freedom will receive skill training courses. </li><li>The main purpose of these courses will be to enhance decision-making abilities and improve communication and relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship. </li><li>Ensure income generation opportunities through placement or self-employment of the candidates</li></ol> ·        To collectivise adolescents into peer leaders groups to work on child rights and child protection issueso  It is envisaged that by 2022 adolescent groups will be able to work as peer leaders o  Adolescent groups will be able to mobilise others in the communities to promote child rights and child protection issueso  Adolescent group members will engage with the urban child protection committees, local police station and other relevant stakeholders on child protection issues 
 # Children and adolescents successful in clearing formal exams at relevant levels # Adolescents able to generate income through jobs or self-employment at the end of the project period # PLGs engaging with urban CPCs and relevant stakeholders on specific child protection and adolescent empowerment issues

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Findings from ASER (2018) show that in West Bengal 36.6% Govt school children of std III can read std II level text and 35.4 % Govt school children of std III can do subtraction. The national average is more alarming as both the categories stand at 20.9 %.Notwithstanding the good number of schools present in the district, the data indicates a low learning level of students at the primary level reinforces the need for an alternate methodology of teaching. From 2020 to 2022, all the primary schools were closed due to COVID pandemic. A huge learning loss was observed throughout the country , specially to those children who are depend on Government schooling system. In our experience of 36 tribal majority areas of Dubrajpur, and Md Bazer block, we found that over 95% of the children are below their expected competency levels. The condition of the children who belong from Tribal families are alarming. As per our experience , we found 95% children are below as per their age appropriate competency level. Accessibility toward the quality education of the children from tribal families are significantly low. 
 The proposed intervention intends to deploy a multi-pronged strategy over three years which will include:<ul><li>Direct intervention with children will endeavour to improve their learning level.</li><li>Promote alternative teaching methodologies and create a new breed of teachers who will be able to think outside the box.</li><li>Training and capacity building of local youth</li><li>Engagement with the community especially parents to improve enrolment, attendance, learning outcomes and better health and hygiene practices.</li></ul>Over the years, TF has worked substantially on its methodology of activity-based learning and intends to refine that during the project period to optimise its practical use within the government structure and regulations.TF will assign the resource to train the Community Teachers, and Panchayat supervisors and oversee the training outcomes in the centre.TF will provide the teachers with teaching manual hand-holding support materials for further reference and support. 
 <ul><li>Targeted students of ST families of standards I to IV/V with direct intervention show improved learning levels (grade appropriate) in grades 1-4/5 enrolled in government primary school’s/catchment areas</li><li>All students with the direct intervention will show 75% improvement on age-appropriate levels in English, Bangla and Maths</li><li>Over 40000 Parents and community members of the targeted students would be active participants improve in attitude toward child education</li><li>450 community learning centres receive support for Tribal students through Community Teachers</li><li>Grade appropriate learn grade-appropriate students will be as indicated in the grade-wise improvement table shown above</li><li>80% retention will be maintained in all the targeted schools</li></ul>

Agamir Pathshala - Bridging Learning gaps of Tribal students enrolled in government primary schools of 19 block area of Birbhum district, West Bengal

The young adolescents between the age group of 14 to 18 years of marginalized social background are not in a mindset to take education due to various social causes. And higher studies for them is a distant dream. Statistically, this age group shows the maximum school drop-outs and getting into labor intensive work to help their parents in meeting the daily family expenses. This scenario has increased manifold after the Covid-19 pandemic, with job loses being the most common issue. Moreover, the students have lost their focus on school education due to the prolonged school closure in the Covid-19 period. And online education did not have any impact with these students. 
 We train the young adolescents on various market oriented trades viz., Mobile Repair, Robotics, Beautician, Jewelry Design, Home Appliances Repair, Conversation English, Financial Literacy, Preventive Health etc. which help them to be financially independent. Providing them with these skills-set, equip them to support their school studies, their family and give an impetus to be financially independent in their future. The grants or donations we receive are for reaching out to more and more of these students and provide a torch to light up their road to successful life. Each of these trades are delivered for 60 hours to each students and they are given certificates, post their successful class completion. 
 From 2017 till Mar'22, we have reached out to more than 6500 such students in 50 State Govt Schools. The trained students have been successful in earning decent amounts upon course completion. We want to see that the initial teachings we provide result in making them become self sufficient in their life with meaningful and decent means of earning. Their economic growth will bring a change in their immediate society and thus improve the quality of living.

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