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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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, Of the 250 the children rescued from abuse and exploitation, around 70 of them 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 Ahilyanagar, 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 good number 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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“I saw a girl, barely 7 or 8, being pushed into flesh trade. Her cries for help still echo in my ears. There were men as old as 60 r*ping the innocent child. That was the day I knew my mission in life was to get these children out of the hell-like conditions in red-light areas. They are nothing short of hell and no child deserves to grow up in this environment” says Vinay Vasta, founder of Social Activities Integration, an organisation committed to freeing children trapped in red-light areas.Vinay and his NGO have been able to provide education, medical care and nutrition to over 2,500 children. But his dream to provide safe shelter to children remains unrealized. “We do our best to keep these children safe during the day but sadly they are forced to go back to the red light areas at night as we don’t have a home for them. Your donation can help us build a safe home for children of sex workers and prevent them from being pulled into prostitution. Donate to make this dream a realityDonate 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).Life in red light areas“S*x workers use their homes which are barely 6 feet by 4 feet for their business. They invite customers in the presence of their children. Their children not only witness abuse but experience it too. Just imagine a child being told that all she can ever become in life is a pr*stitute”, Vinay shares as he explains the extent of abuse children face in red light areas.This is a life that thousands of children are forced to live behind closed doors where they suffer abuse and exploitation morning, noon and night.A ray of hopeVinay has been relentlessly trying to give children the care and education they deserve. He has provided quality English education to thousands of children, enabling them to secure a livelihood out of red-light areas. Several children taught by Vinay are today leading successful lives as professionals and Government employees. However the sad reality is that Vinay and his NGO, in the absence of a permanent shelter home, are unable to provide round the clock safety to these children, which is essential for their well-being.Your donations can enable SAI to build a shelter home for the children of sex workers and usher in a new tomorrow for them, away from the horrors of red-light areas.Donate to this fundraiser on Give.do, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to provide safe shelter for children of sex workers and save them from abuse and second generation pr*stitution.NGO's 80G number: AACTS0408EF20216NGO's 12A number: AACTS0408EE20028

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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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