In the dark and dingy alleys of red light areas, injustice, pain and suffering run rampant. And the worst affected are the children who grow up in red-light areas and are subjected to constant abuse and violence. “The sight of a 12-year-old girl being gang-raped by a group of men near a house l haunts me to this date. I was filled with anguish and resolved to do something,” says Girish Kulkarni who has made it his life’s mission to rescue children from red light areas and give them a safe and secure childhood. In the last 3 decades Girish has saved over 1100 girls from a life of abuse in red-light areas, giving them a loving home, education and medical care. He has further supported over 20,000 children with a better life.Sadly, 250 of the children rescued from abuse and exploitation are HIV positive. The high cost of medication has left Girish struggling for funds. Your support can help him provide these children with 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), &amp; 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (USA). A movement to protect vulnerable children“Growing up in Ahmednagar, the experiences I had as a child witnessing the horrors of sex trade defined the path of my life. I had even seen my friend’s 15-year-old sister and 70-year-old grandmother being forced to do sex work for the price of a cup of tea”, recalls Girish. “I started by merely feeding and teaching children of sex workers initially with the intention of giving them some respite from the horrors of life of abuse in red-light areas. Gradually more and more mothers started coming to me and asked me to take their children away, even if it was just for a couple of hours,” he further adds.The work that Girish started in his youth gradually grew to become a movement, with many more joining his cause. His NGO Snehalaya to date has transformed the lives of millions. Girish’s work is crucial for the survival and safety of vulnerable children of sex workers. Snehalaya is almost entirely dependent on donations from the public and your support can strengthen his mission to save children most in need. Donate generously.The horrors of life in red light areas“The cruelty and abuse that children as young as 6 or 7 years of age face is something that I can’t explain in words. Young daughters of sex workers are made to watch their mothers being raped, are brutally assaulted and forced into sex work. No child deserves to grow like this, Girish says in anguish.Sad reality of life for children growing up in red light areas is that they are deprived of even the most basic needs like proper food, safety and education. Moreover, a majority of children rescued by Girish are diagnosed HIV positive. The task of securing medication, providing them quality education and much needed nutrition is one that requires constant support from donors. Moreover, the increase in healthcare cost has left Girish struggling to keep his home for children going. But your support can enable him to give his children a loving environment and save many more who still remain trapped behind closed doors.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help Snehalaya give hundreds of children rescued from red-light areas a life away from violence and abuse.

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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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TYCIA Foundation stands for “Turn Your Concern Into Action”, a non-profit community-based organization working on creating equal opportunities through education and livelihood. Over the last 10 years, we have worked with the marginalized population in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand and served more than 10,000 beneficiaries last year.We have been supported by number of reputed corporate organizations in our previous endeavors such as KPMG Foundation, Club Mahindra, ICICI Foundation and Cleartrip, among others. TYCIA Initiatives:Child and Youth:PathShala: Started in 2011 to teach children of 6-18 years of age, who were never enrolled in schools.1000andyou: vision to support 1,000 Korku girls in Madhya Pradesh for education in any school yearTribal Rights:SocioFarm: Launched in 2015 to support Korku tribe (MP) to attain a sustainable livelihood.Asha Kiran: Started in 2016 at Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, focused on school drop-outs, and helps them back into the mainstream education system. Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) supports the project and won 3rd Innovative Practices Awards 2019 by GCNI with TYCIA. It was covered by HuffingtonpostPrison Rights:BetterLife Prison School: Started in Tihar Jail in 2017, for the reformation, rehabilitation and reintegration of ‘Youth at Risk’ – young offenders of the age group 18-21.Second Chance: Improves alternate education and livelihood of prisoners through classes &amp; workshopsProject Unlearn: developing context based educational and life skills material for prison inmatesTYCIA Foundation is registered as a NGO/Trust and any donation is exempted under Section 80 (G) of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

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Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to everyone who has donated to this campaign. With the funds from this campaign, plus international donations to another site, we have been able to meet our fundraising goal.&nbsp; Thanks to your generosity, we have not only been able to distribute cylinders to families in critical need, but also we have been able to purchase several oxygen concentrators, which will be arriving in a few days, and which provide a sustainable situation to those who need them in that they do not need to be refilled.&nbsp; Thanks to your generosity, we now have a solid supply of concentrators and cylinders which we are circulating free of charge between the families that call our hotline. Once a family is no longer in need, we refill the cylinder and take it to the next one. We have also started an initiative where families can donate the cylinders they no longer need to our supply, and we will circulate those too.&nbsp; For those who wish to see testimonies and footage of our oxygen deliveries and our other initiatives, please check out our instagram @tyciafoundation https://www.instagram.com/tyciafoundation/&nbsp; In addition to our oxygen distribution efforts, TYCIA Foundation is also engaged in: <ol><li>Operating and managing an automated hotline for oxygen cylinder donation, plasma donation, and oxygen delivery</li><li>Providing trained Human Resources to volunteer in hospitals and other government facilities&nbsp;</li><li>Distributing PPE and masks to those accompanying their loved ones to hospitals and other government facilities</li></ol> If you are interested in continuing to be involved in our COVID Relief efforts in any way, or in hearing more about the work we are doing, please reach out to us at tyciafoundation@gmail.com We cannot thank you enough for coming together in this time of crisis.&nbsp;

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Daily wage earners, slum residents and the impoverished community lost their livelihood due to the nationwide lockdown, and facing money shortage were not able to stockpile ration for the entire lockdown period. A significant portion of such workers are migrants, and are not included in the Public Distribution System (PDS), and are underserved by the government. Such scarcity is also being seen in villages where the supply chains have completely come to a stand-still with links severed from the neighboring town / city. The families of daily wage earners in the cities are quickly running out of ration, and finding it difficult to survive the lockdown. This situation is now magnified with the lockdown extended for another 15 days, until May 3, 2020.  
 TYCIA, along with its network of enablers (coordinators) and volunteers under India Against Corona (IAC) initiative, are trying to identify families who are running out of ration, collating their request on ration requirement, verifying the sanctity of such requirement, mobilizing personal funds and donation, and then providing ration to the people in need. Each ration kit is worth INR600.We are heavily leveraging technology through the website (www.indiagainstcorona.com) to crowd-source information about daily wage earners, who are in desperate need of ration. People in need / any individual can directly engage and send the request either by uploading a photograph, excel, word or pdf document, which contains the requirements of people in need on the website. The website is being enhanced to serve dual purpose of supporting enablers to monitor and execute situations on the ground, and help the donors to directly provide support to the listed people in need. In summary, we wish to: <ul><li>Identify beneficiaries facing acute shortage of ration – not under PDS or CSO support</li><li>Promote an e-Platform to support enablers and volunteers to reach out to the beneficiaries.</li><li>Provide immediate relief either by providing ration or monetary relief to enable purchase of ration</li></ul>		 
 Since the inception, our team with the help of 15 enablers and 30 volunteers, has already supported 13,500 families with ration kits in 16 districts across 4 states.Based on our contribution on the ground within such communities, we have started to receive thousands of new requests.The challenge remains where resources of our networks (personal or donations) are getting saturated and more than 2,500 requests are still pending. We are also observing a steep rise in urgent requests, where the remaining ration is for only 1-3 days. We are prioritizing such requests from the families due to the urgency, but we are facing an uphill task to complete such requests under constrained resources.Hence, we are seeking funds from GiveIndia to support our operations. The funds will be used to ensure that we can provide logistics support to the enablers who are working on the ground and to enhance e-Platform where enablers and the beneficiaries can reach simultaneously.Based on our evolving experience and the escalating situation, we foresee 30-35 more enablers joining our network and we are confident to swiftly expand our base to support 25,000 families with ~1,00,000 beneficiaries if we are able to secure funds.

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Imagine walking into a classroom with twenty boys, but only one girl. This is a reality in many Korku villages.Here only 1 out of 300 girls complete 12th standard while most of them are prone to dropping out early or are forced into child marriage. The teacher to child ratio is over 1:100.To make matters exponentially worse, the COVID 19 pandemic has affected lives drastically. The pandemic has caused the school year to be disrupted thus putting many children behind. It has also increased the risk of young girls being out of school or dropping out altogether because it is often seen that girls don't require an education. Even before the pandemic, it was common here for the role of girls to be limited to taking care of younger siblings, fetching water, and never receiving an education. With the pandemic, the limitations are set and it is almost certain that they might not see a life outside of that. 
 1000andYou will target Korku girls aged 6-16 years, in grades between 1 to 10, who are out of school or dropped out due to COVID19. We plan to support 1000 girls through this program and successfully mainstream them over a period of 3 years, deepen our understanding of the effect COVID 19 has had on these communities, and create resilient strategies to ensure receive a quality education and remain in school. Through our extensive work in this area in the past, we have set up intervention centres and infrastructure in place along with field staff and project coordinators who have in-depth knowledge and training to work in these areas.We aim to:<ul><li>Mitigate the effects of COVID19 on the girls of the Korku community</li><li>Promote the rights of girl children by empowering them and increasing their access to learning opportunities, ensuring family and community participation to help them grow in a secure environment (physical, emotional, social &amp; educational).</li><li>Catalyse change by developing innovative and proven stakeholder partnership models for improved learning quality. Promote integrated learning with an emphasis on the application of life skills in daily life along with academic education.</li><li>Create opportunities to promote health, hygiene, leisure and recreational activities for girls, enabling them to develop their personal, physical, mental and social abilities along with leadership skills.</li></ul> 
 <ul><li>A sustainable model of multi-stakeholder participation in schools and Community Learning Centres along with benchmarking of success rates.</li><li>Development and implementation of a school development plan through active multi-stakeholder participation.</li><li>Demonstration of an effective leadership model through the participation of 15 school principals who will spearhead the development, implementation and quality standards of the program.</li><li>Improved awareness among the community on health and education.</li><li>Increased retention rates in high schools.</li><li>Increased academic certification in Community Learning Centres and government schools.</li><li>Girl student opting to pursue further education or vocational studies to improve their career prospects.</li></ul>

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