“My 8-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer and it left the entire family devastated. I was told the cost of treatment would run into lakhs. I was barely managing to make ends meet and there was nothing I could do to save Swaroop. But the Nargis Dutt Foundation stepped in and took care of all the expenses. I can’t even imagine the consequences had they not been there for my son,,” says teary-eyed Devendra.The helplessness that Devendra felt is not uncommon among low-income families of cancer patients. There are many who helplessly see their dear ones, including children, lose their life in the most painful manner. Nargis Dutt Foundation has ensured that thousands of families don’t see this fate. It’s been a ray of hope for thousands of cancer patients since its inception over 40 years back. You can help save many more patients with cancer. 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). The cost of each chemotherapy is as much as ₹15,000 and a cancer patient can require between 6 to 12 sessions. The hefty cost for cancer treatment is well beyond the reach for poor families that are barely surviving on two square meals a day. Help Nargis Dutt Foundation provide treatment to poor cancer patients and save them from a slow and painful death.Giving hope to cancer patients“I was just 13 when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. When I saw my mother struggling for life it left a lifelong impact on me. Her condition had deteriorated to such an extent she was almost unrecognisable. I know how it feels like to lose a loved one to cancer and I am not alone in my grief. There are thousands of people struggling to save their family members,” says Priya, daughter of noted actress Nargis Dutt, who lost her life to cancer, and in whose name the NGO has been founded. Priya has made it her life’s mission to save as many cancer patients as she can, but she can not do it alone. Nargis Dutt Foundation needs your support. Your donation can not only save cancer patients but can give life to entire families.Need for the fundraiserCancer is often seen as a death sentence. But doctors say that if detected early and if a patient receives essential treatment, the illness can be defeated and the person can return to their lives. “Treatment of cancer often depends on multiple factors including the type of cancer and the stage in which it is detected. Some patients require surgery while some can be cured with just chemotherapy or immunotherapy. “Whatever may be the need, our nonprofit supports patients till the time they are cancer free. We not only take care of the cost of treatment but even assist patients with nutrition which is vital in the fight against cancer. Moreover, we ensure that family members who are already facing immense hardships get proper accommodation and food during treatment so they don’t suffer any further,” says the NGO leader. With your support, Nargis Dutt Foundation can help patients win the fight against cancer and save their families from grief of losing a loved one.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted fundraising platform, to support Nargis Dutt Foundation in their mission to give life-saving chemotherapy and care to cancer patients who can not afford treatment.

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“The Hummingbird School is my only hope to succeed in life. I feel I am trying to swim out of this place (Majuli) and my school stands as a beacon on the other side of the river. If my school closes down, I feel I will drown in this river. Not just me but every child in villages around here and our families depend on this school”, says Roopjyoti, a bright, young student of Ayang Trust’s The Hummingbird School.Majuli Island, where The Hummingbird School is situated is shrinking rapidly, leaving a majority of its residents struggling to survive. For the children of this impoverished tribal community, education remains the only way out of suffering.Your support to Ayang Trust’s Hummingbird School can ensure that its students can have a future different from their parents who are struggling to get even two meals a day. 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).From IIT Kharagpur to Majuli“When I first visited the remote villages of Majuli I was shocked. The extent of the struggles here was beyond my imagination. These villages had no connectivity to the outside world, no healthcare, no education, there was absolutely nothing”, says Bipin Dhane founder of the school. Bipin, who grew up in the small town of Satara in Maharashtra, faced countless financial hardships. Despite his struggles, Bipin secured admission to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and then went on to take up a job in Singapore. Owing to his childhood experiences Bipin was always inclined towards helping the less fortunate, and he believed in the transformative power of education. It was in 2016 that Bipin left his lucrative career abroad and moved to Majuli, to provide the children from this inaccessible river island education they were deprived of.“Whatever little money I had saved, I gave it to my parents. I had no money to start the school. It was then that villagers came together to build bamboo huts. Each family donated bamboo, wood, and whatever little they could. It was the parents of our students who erected huts for the school to start”, shares Bipin while talking about the inception of The Hummingbird School in 2017.Help Bipin save underprivileged children of Majuli Island from generational poverty and give them a chance to succeed. Donate now.Donate to save future generations“People of the island value education greatly because they know that their children have no future without it. Parents have vested their faith in The Humming Bird School because they don't want their children to suffer the way they have been”, says Bipin. Bipin says, “Today we have over 280 students in our school and about 90 children live in our hostel. Many of these children are orphaned and have no means of survival. I urge each one of you to come forward and donate to us so we can help hundreds of children escape from the cycle of poverty.”Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help children of Majuli Island get an education and break the cycle of poverty.

For tribal children of Majuli Island, education is the only way out. Help Bipin ensure they go to school

Time stood still for 12-year-old Shrikant when he got the news that his father, a debt-ridden farmer from Beed, had taken his own life. Shrikant’s village was one of the worst hit areas during devastating drought in 2015 and his mother, a daily wage labourer, was finding it hard to feed the family of three. The family was penniless and could not feed itself, and debtors were knocking on the doors. Had it not been for Ashok Deshmane and Snehwan, Shrikant would have slipped into the bottomless pit of child labour.Deshmane needs your help to rescue the children of drought-hit farmers taking their own lives. Donate now.Deshmane, who has faced the perils of farmer distress firsthand, has made it his life’s mission to come to the aid of children affected by farmer suicides. He left a successful career in IT and founded Snehwan to provide food, shelter, and education to orphans of farmer suicides. There has been a steep rise in farmer suicides following Covid-19 and fresh droughts in Maharashtra. The number of kids that are in dire need of support is growing almost every day.Snehwan is building its second shelter home to take in 200 more children and needs your urgent help to complete it. Help orphans of farmer suicides find their feet and fresh hope in life. <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/8c3923fc-52f9-4732-9088-0174a4553718.jpg" />Ashok’s missionAshok, son of a farmer himself, braved his way through abject poverty to educate himself and build a career in IT. During a visit to his village in 2015, he was overwhelmed seeing the orphans of farmer suicides starving, and decided to take 18 children into his care.“I just could not remain a mute spectator while children starved in drought-struck villages. I had to do something” says Ashok, and Snehwan was conceived in 2015. Swami Vivekanand Dnyanalay, a ray of hopeAshok says that his responsibility is not merely to provide food and shelter to children but to provide them with holistic development. He aspires to raise them as socially aware, skilled, and responsible citizens of the country who can then carry his work forward.The shelter home which started with 18 kids is now a ray of hope for more than 50 children who call it home. Situated in a village near Pune, the Swami Vivekanand Dnyanalay not only provides food, shelter, and quality education to these kids but gives them a family. Ashok and Archana’s plea“Drought and climate change is worsening and we are in urgent need of funds to extend our efforts and expand the shelter home to bring in 200 more children under our protective wings. We cannot let these kids have a fate similar to their parents”, pray Ashok and Archana. Only you can help Ashok and Archana save the future of these children. Donate generously.

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Aarti (under the legal entity Vijay Foundation Trust) is an NGO based in Kadapa in southern state of Andhra Pradesh, and operates in a region steeped in poverty and locked in practices that are inherently discriminatory towards women and girls. Aarti Home started in 1992 when Sandhya, the founder of Aarti Home, found Radhika, a three-year-old who was abandoned on the streets of Kadapa after her mother was killed in what would typically be called a case of domestic abuse and dowry harassment. A few friends came together and formed Aarti home to take care of children like Radhika. Radhika and Aarti Home were the humble start to Vijay Foundation Trust, which can be best described as a silent crusade against injustice to women and children, a crusade that has got stronger over the last twenty-one years and has impacted over 100,000 women and children across the district. Over the years Aarti has started Aarti Home, Aarti School, Aarti Education, Lalitha Women's Centre and Lalitha Advocacy under the aegis of Vijay Foundation Trust. In addition, Aarti has built tremendous external linkages with governmental and non- governmental agencies across the world to bring funds, focus and awareness for the issue of the girl child.Aarti works to better the cause of the girl child in particular and as a result the community in general. We shelter abandoned girl children, run a school to offer good quality education for children who cannot afford fees, support financial independence of women through counseling and training courses that enhance their income-generating capacities, and strive hard to create awareness against gender discrimination and advocate the cause of the girl child.We are registered under Societies Registration Act 1860, have exemption under Income Act 1961 and also have a permanent FCRA Number that was granted in 1992.

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Aarti for Girls, under the legal entity Vijay Foundation Trust (Assn), started as a home for abandoned girls in1992, and has since grown into an umbrella organisation that works for the rights of girls and fight for gender equality. It has many components all of which are constantly growing and changing to adapt to the needs of our girls and community. Aarti for Girls also runs Aarti English Medium School for needy children who cannot afford fees 
 Aarti for Girls providing shelter, food, education, cloths, health care to the children of Aarti.Aarti English Medium School provides education and transport for under-privileged. Our School was started in 2007 with mission to provide quality education at a minimum or no fee to the underprivileged children along with our Aarti children. Aarti School is progressing with 600+ students from Nursery to X class with 24+ qualified and experienced teachers. Our library has good collection of books, mostly donated by our volunteers from India and Abroad. 
 The heart of Aarti for Girls is our village, consists of 120 number of children who call it home. We strive to provide all of the children with a community to belong in and an environment that supports their education and growth. Each of the children live in family based houses, including 15 children and a house mother. These house mothers have all been girls at Aarti and provide a source of guidance and comfort for their younger sisters, who in turn form support networks for one another. We envision Aarti Village as being a close community where women and children in difficult circumstances can prosper and find meaningful relationships.

1 in 5 children goes hungry in India. A fate that the child definitely does not deserve1 in 4 children don't go to school in India. A future that she definitely does not deserveAarti school reaches children from extremely poor backgrounds and helps them find a better today and tomorrow by giving them high quality education, three square meals, clothing, medical help and most importantly a hope for a better tomorrowIn the last 5 years, our children have shown that care can work and we have seen 100% pass rate in Grade X, with an average of 88% or higher. We have seen our children compete in volleyball and athletics at a state level. All that we needed was to give them nutrition, safety and comfort. 
 COVID has brought about immense challenges for these children as school was their safe zone for food, education and support. Our teachers realised that and have reached out to 619 children to provide them books and assignments. However, we need your help in giving them food. We see their families suffering from lack of basic amenities - food to eat, soaps and even drinking water. The families are often single mother families where the mother is unable to get any work 
 Support the children by giving the family a dry ration kit along with weekly worksheets to help them through these tough times. Each kit for a month costs Rs.3000 for the child and her family. Help feed a child! Help her have a better today and tomorrow

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Over 61% of children with disabilities aged between 5–19 years attend some educational institution (UNESCO, <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1034912X.2021.1917525#" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">2019</a>) in India. However, there is very little understanding of the challenges they face and interventions needed to support them and help improve learning outcomes. Rural India typically gives less importance to the nutritional value of the food given to the children, more so in case of girls. Such malnutrition reflects as slow learners in the children when they are at school. A child can be described as a slow learner if his or her thinking skills develop at a notably slower rate than that of his or her peers. The child will carry on through the exact same developmental stages as his or her peers but at a comparatively slow rate. Also, the child typically has below-average intelligence. Typical characteristics reflect in aspects like - <ul><li>Slow learners tend to learn slower </li><li>The social behavioural pattern of slow-learning children is mostly immature and unstable</li><li>Identification of sounds is difficult for slow learners</li><li>Slow learners with visual-motor issues prefer oral learning over visual learning</li><li>Children who are slow learners find it hard to express themselves verbally and cannot articulate easily</li></ul> 
 We will <ul><li>Design interventions to identify and support slow learners and provide tools to teachers to observe children’s behaviour in normal as well as controlled environments.</li><li>Provide tools for observations of children for different environments like the playground, at home, in group situations and understand their reaction to different stimuli. </li><li>Use the observations and information to work with psychologists as well as teaching experts to implement the best possible remedial measure. Under strict physical and medical examination, the anomalies, disabilities, and handicaps can be highlighted.</li><li>Evaluation and identification of deficiencies in school achievement would be done through psychometric, scholastic, personality tests to throw light on arithmetic, reading, spelling, composition, writing, language, and comprehension.</li><li>Complement Scholastic tests and standardised intelligence tests with understanding of temperamental traits and emotional balance.</li><li>13 students per each teacher</li></ul> 
 Facilitating the learning process through different methods, like experiential learning through hands-on activities, laboratory experiments, object handling exercises, physical activities including individual as well as group games. In order to facilitate such methodologies to impart education to the rural population, specially trained teachers with expertise in helping such children to be able to learn alongside all children.Impact to be visible in Survey and Social investigation of in the rural KadapaWe have identified 200 children with learning disabilities and difficulty in Kadapa and surrounding placesHelp their learning process and bring readiness among them to mainstream education and schoolingMarked improvement in the performance of the learning capabilities of the 200 children

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The COVID 19 second wave is wreaking havoc in the lives of children and their families and children who were previously not vulnerable are also becoming more vulnerable either because they are infected or their caregivers / family is affected. Aarti For Girls has received calls for care and protection of such children for linkages to the State government for further rehabilitation in the states of Andhra Pradesh.Swapna and Anu had a loving and caring family till the pandemic struck Jammalamadugu, a small town in Andhra Pradesh. They would go to a local english medium school, and have healthy food made by homemaker mom and grandma. One day, their father and grandfather came back from work as electricians and one after the other, both of them fell ill with COVID 19.The family ran pillar to post for help and spent the last of their savings on treatment, but to no end. Within two days of each other, both the breadwinners of the family, father and grandfather passed away.  The family is suddenly destitute with nowhere to go. This is just one case of the tragedy that COVID wrecked in rural India. 
 Aarti home has been taking care of children in need for the last 30 years and has a home for 120 children and has family based care for 565 children in and around kadapa. The children from Aarti, over the years are engineers, medical professionals, data scientists, entrepreneurs and teachers. Knowing about Aarti, Swapna and Anu’s mom approached Aarti home through the child helpline (1098) like many many others. With your help, we would like to reach 100 covid orphans and help them have a childhood and a better tomorrowImplementation plan is a five step program to pull children out of the cycle of abuse, hunger and addiction while they continue to stay with their families.Step 1: Our social workers identify at-risk children through the existing infrastructure of mandal support organizations, child helpline (1098).Step 2: Their home environment is assessed for safety, security and supportStep 3: Parents are coached to enroll child in formal education with bridge schoolingStep 4: Enroll in School with the security of sanitation (oral and body), food, clothing, medical and psychological care and education, to and fro transportation. If the child is close to kadapa, this will be done through Aarti School. If not, the families will be provided financial support to children’s family for nutritionStep 5: Monthly visits to family to check on the well being of the child and familyStem 6: Continuous monitoring of children’s wellbeing based on UNICEF’s child rights<ul><li>(https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text-childrens-versi on)</li></ul> 
 We wish to bring childhood back to 100 children by supporting them for food, education and care from a social worker. We will prevent the children from being institutionalized by helping them live with their surviving parents and counselling them to achieve their dreams despite the tragedy that befell them.