“There isn't a drop of water in our village. I leave home at 3 a.m. to fetch water. Even the water I can get is so dirty that sometimes we feel like vomiting while drinking it but we have no other option. It's been 30 years since I have been walking day and night for water. My legs don't have strength anymore but I still need to do it for my family,” says Ajiya, one out of thousands of women in villages around Jodhpur, Rajasthan, who have suffered for decades without access to water.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/5e97abc2-b235-4d39-b7fd-6e1092c43fb8.webp" />The solution to their problems is simple. Digging and de-silting of village ponds can help thousands of families collect rainwater, which can last them throughout the year. But today, something as basic as clean drinking water is becoming a distant dream. Karunalaya Social Welfare Foundation is on a mission to help over 30,000 villagers get access to clean drinking water. Your contribution can ease the suffering of women and children who are forced to walk for hours to get water. Donate now to transform their lives.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).The nightmare of life without water“Pregnant women have to travel 15-20 kilometres just to fetch water. This sometimes leads to miscarriages, too. The groundwater level here is 700-800 feet deep and it becomes very difficult to bring it to the surface through hand-pumps and the water is brackish, which makes it impossible to drink. When we don’t get potable water, we are often forced to do with brackish water,” says Poonam Singh, Founder of Karunalaya Social Welfare Foundation while narrating the plight of women in the area. <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/b3709a74-bc4b-4d0b-a117-afc3beca04e2.webp" />According to Poonam despite walking for hours women do not know if they can find water during peak summers. Unfortunately, there are times when entire families go without a drop of water. “Many times women walk 3-4 kilometres in the hot sun with empty vessels on their heads in search of water and then they come to know that there is no water. They have to return home with their empty vessels,” she says.  Your contribution can help thousands of women from walking in the scorching desert sun to fetch water. Donate now to give them access to clean drinking water.A solution to decades of suffering“There is water in the pond for only three-four months and there is no water after that. As the ponds are not very deep, the water doesn’t accumulate (during the rainy season). We would like to dig deep and take the mud out so that enough water can stay in the pond during the rainy season”, Poonam says. <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/6e804bba-e3a2-40fb-9d3a-85ef1167be10.webp" />“I would like to request that you donate in large numbers so that we can rejuvenate ponds that have gone dry and help people with safe drinking water,” she appeals.Donate to this fundraiser by Karunalaya Social Welfare Foundation on Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to provide access to clean drinking water to over 30,000 people from water-starved villages of Rajasthan.

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Neither 8-year-old Sarita (name changed), nor her parents had ever seen the inside of a school until recently. And had it not been for our NGO partner Turnstone Global, yet another generation of the family would have followed in the footsteps of those before. And Sarita would be left with no other option but to remain trapped in the cycle of poverty and illiteracy. Not just Sarita but a large number of children have had no access to education in the extremely backward areas of Purulia district in West Bengal. Turnstone Global’s Daulat Public School has brought in winds of change for countless children like Sarita who are the first in their families to receive formal education. Visually impaired, Dr Kanchan Gaba, head of Turnstone Global, noticed the transformation that education can bring in the lives of the less privileged and started Daulat Public School. Its sole objective is to usher in a brighter future for children of Purulia. But she can not do it alone.Dr Kanchan, strapped for funds, is struggling to expand her school to meet the vast need in the region. Join her in this mission and enable hundreds of children to start their educational journey today. 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). Staggering scale of poverty“Poverty in these areas is such that families are struggling for two square meals a day. Most families are surviving on just rice and salt which is provided by the government. Proper education, which can be the only beacon of hope for children to come out of generational poverty, is well out of reach for tribal families here, Dr Kanchan says. The scale of poverty in these villages is staggering and the need for education is immense. Turnstone Global and Dr Kanchan cannot tackle this challenge alone. With a little support, the NGO can be a catalyst of change for generations to come. Donate generously to make Dr Kanchan’s dream come true. Generations trapped in illiteracyAccording to the head of the nonprofit organisation, not a single member of several families has ever set foot in a school. When ground level workers of Turnstone Global began surveying the area and spoke to families, they were astonished to see that even the concept of education was foreign to many. However, today Turnstone Global is providing quality English education and nutritious meals to over 250 students. “We want to open the door of education for hundreds of more children but the biggest hurdle for us is the paucity of funds. We are in urgent need to expand the capacity of our school so that many more can grow up to become capable and successful members of society”, Dr Kanchan says.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online giving platform, to support Turnstone Global in giving children from tribal communities and first generation learners quality education and empower them to break the cycle of generational poverty.

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The second wave of the pandemic has hit all sections of the society but the migrant and other daily wage workers who are still coping from the first wave's effects on their livelihood and family's health are still struggling. 230 million people have slipped back under the poverty line, years of progress done by the families have been reversed by a few months of the pandemic and the lockdown followed by it. This has resulted in most migrant workers struggling to reach home or provide safe shelters for their families. The families are living hand to mouth and some are not sure when they would receive their next meal. Along with this most workers are living in stress and uncertainty in this health crisis and do not have the necessary protective tools to ensure the safety and well-being of their families, practice Covid safety methods or detect early signs of Covid infection and find timely medical help. 
 Indus Action and Bhumi aim to support the most vulnerable families of migrant workers &amp; daily wagers through cash transfers to support<ol><li>Home isolation - Ensuring they have access to nutritious meals for their family - provide dry ration kits that will sustain them for 4 weeks</li><li>Enabling Covid-19 appropriate behavior- Provide face masks, soap, and thermometer to monitor any fever during the early stages of the infection.</li><li>Educating the families of migrant workers through our Helpline - We will raise awareness regarding safe community practices, vaccination, and its benefits and reduce reluctance towards vaccination. Our helplines will enable us to identify the unique needs of each family we reach out to and give them customized support and access to locally available resources.</li></ol> 
 Through this effort, Bhumi and Indus Action will provide stability and ensure no migrant worker or daily wager family sleeps hungry or is uninformed, or is unable to protect their family in these times. Our work on the ground will help us map the specific needs of each vulnerable family and build interventions required to support them until they can rebuild their livelihoods and protect their families. We aim to support 5,000 migrant workers' and daily wagers’ families so that they can survive the anticipated lockdowns and lack of livelihoods.

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V-Excel Educational Trust is a public charitable trust set up in 2001. It is a professionally run NGO committed to providing lifespan services for individuals with special needs and ensuring resource development for their benefit. V-Excel offers numerous opportunities for growth and economic independence of its participants under the vocational training program and youth empowerment services. V-Excel’s goal is to empower individuals with developmental disabilities to become dignified, independent, and contributing members of aninclusive society.

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As part of our aim of imparting vocational training and building the capacities of the young adults with special needs, they are being trained in the areas of cooking and hospitality. While doing so, we have also noticed a deep interest in cooking among them and observed that they derive a sense of accomplishment from it, along with learning new social skills, measurements and concepts of money. Hence, we have decided to turn it into a livelihood opportunity with Café Samarth. 
 Cafe Samarth is a concept which has been in operation at our V-Excel Sreyes Centre in MG road for the past three years. It has been demonstrated that young adults with challenges who participate in extensive training in a commercially viable project like this, can transition into open employment (like trainees being included in Sangeeta bakery) or in starting a commercial venture of their own with support from their families ( like a trainee's parents starting a cafe called Mitra).This project Cafe Samarth- Cafe on Wheels is being proposed at Sharada building in Mandavelli where we want to start a mobile kiosk which comes up two/three times a week for the beginning at peak snack time hours between 3-6 p.m. Students will prepare, serve, take orders; pack delicious, local, healthy, and multi cuisine snacks for the walk-in customers. Two benches which are foldable can be placed around the kiosk for some customers who might want to sit down and eat. A menu for the day will announce the hot snack, a food -on -the- go snack, and a freshly mixed salad or snack. This will be served or packed by the trainees at Cafe Samarth. Hand-holding and mentoring support will be extended to these individuals who would be employed in this project. 
 This model is based on our four pillars of vocational education and impact the lives of the young adults with special needs. It would uphold:Individuality: Students have chosen this vocation out of their own interest based on their own set of skills. So, we have the master chefs who will be doing the actual cooking, the hospitality team which will be looking after serving and packing services for customers, the “busy hands” who will assist the master chefs in chopping, cutting and mixing and the housekeeping team who will look after the cleaning, storage and stock taking of the items. Inclusion: An opportunity for the community and the persons with special needs to come together and celebrate food, a natural social equalizer. Independence: The cafe with a difference will be run by differently abled persons who will work with a little facilitation in the beginning but slowly work towards total independence in all the sub chores. Productivity: students will be engaged in a useful, commercial venture, which, even if it begins with a not-for-profit aim will slowly blossom into a good opportunity for trainees to become earning members of society in the time to come.

Cafe Samarth – A Café on Wheels

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