“Preeti (name changed) was just six when she was brought to Mumbai and only nine when she was sold into Kamathipura’s red-light area. We rescued her a few years later, but by then, she had already endured unimaginable trauma. Her stories broke my heart. That’s when I resolved to dedicate my life to ending the trafficking and exploitation of children,” says Aaboo Varghese, who left a successful corporate career to take up this fight. “Preeti tragically lost her life years later to HIV, a result of the abuse she suffered as a child,” Aaboo sharesAaboo has dedicated his life to saving children from the horrors of red light areas, but he can not do it alone. With your support, he can bring freedom and light into the lives of many more unfortunate victims of child trafficking. Support him 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).<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/e761cdec-04ae-4d1a-be56-19669a0dc71e.webp" />A crisis of mammoth proportionsThe scale of human trafficking is something most people cannot even imagine. “Every day, about six children are trafficked. This is a fast-growing business because unlike anything else, a human being can be sold over and over again. It is alarming and heart-wrenching,” Aaboo shares.But no matter how daunting the task might be Aaboo has made it his life mission to see the fight against human trafficking till the end. Living in a hell on earth“The abuse young girls face in red-light areas is beyond comprehension,” Aaboo shares. “These young girls are robbed of their innocence and their childhood. Traffickers beat them with rods, burn them, and mutilate their private parts just to break them. Children are kept in separate apartments where multiple men abuse them and get addicted to substances”, Aaboo says. Through his NGO Purnata, Aaboo is on a mission not just to rescue the victims from red-light areas but also to rehabilitate them and give them a fresh start in life. To date, he has saved 85 children and 60 women from red-light areas, but for him, the job is far from over. Aaboo has dedicated his life to this cause. Your contribution can strengthen his efforts. Donate generously!  <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1c8534fc-4b77-4389-9b5b-3c0dba0dd4d2.webp" />What your donations can doYour support can enable Aaboo to strengthen Purnata’s on-ground outreach programmes so that they can save a child as soon as she is brought to red-light areas. The NGO will also be able to invest in their rehabilitation programme, which provides training and education to rescued victims of trafficking. You can also play a critical role in bringing to an end second-generation trafficking so that the cycle of exploitation can come to an end once and for all. Donate to this fundraiser by give.do, India’s most trusted online donation platform, to support Purnata in its mission to rescue and rehabilitate victims of human trafficking.

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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, faces severe floods and constant riverbank erosion, leaving most of its residents struggling to survive. For the children of this impoverished tribal community, education remains their only path to hope and dignity.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, and very limited access to healthcare and quality education”, 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 300 students in our school and about 90 children live in our hostel. Many of these children are orphaned or come from single-parent households, struggling each day without adequate care or resources.. 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 and build lives of dignity, hope, and opportunity.”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.

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Punjab was once widely recognised as a land of abundance and promise. Unfortunately, the state today is staring at a crisis in the making. And this time, the most vulnerable of all, the children of Punjab, are at the receiving end.Onground reports suggest a large number of children fail to complete schooling, and some others may be completely out of the education system.But our NGO partner, Sanjhi Sikhiya, has been at the forefront, fighting for the children of Punjab and ensuring their right to an education and a future ahead. But sadly, the NGO and its young founders can't do this alone. Your donation can fuel the transformation that Punjab needs. Donate generously!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).<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/a2bf52af-9220-45bc-95df-e9de6985aa45.webp" />A crisis at the gatesPunjab's children are facing an unprecedented education crisis that threatens their future and the state's prosperity. One in four young people in Punjab feels there's no future for them in their own state. The opportunities they see around them don't match their hopes and aspirations.The impact on the groundStarted by a group of well-educated youths, Sanjhi Sakhiya has already begun to make its presence felt and bring about visible change. In just a few years, Sanjhi Sikhiya has reached 1,200 schools across Punjab, trained and supported 5,000 teachers, impacted 1.22 lakh students, and empowered 94 youth leaders who are driving change in their communities.Real change happens when communities take ownership. The NGO has mobilised over 8,000 community members who refuse to accept mediocre education for their children. They have empowered 516 School Management Committees to move from paperwork to real action, and created 584 Teacher Collectives where educators support and learn from each other.When Punjab faced its toughest test, Sanjhi Sikhiya empowered youth to restore safe and joyful spaces for every child, covering 100 schools, turning flooded classrooms into Schools of Strength.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/936c73ce-abc6-49e2-a1b9-0dc24c73a134.webp" />What your support will doYour donations contribute to expanding this movement. Your donation has the power to reignite the spark of learning. It will provide materials that make abstract concepts concrete for children struggling with the basics. It will support teachers who want to do better but need resources and training to make it happen.This isn't charity. This is an investment in Punjab's future. Join Punjab's Transformation. Donate nowYour support will help the NGO reach more districts, more schools, more children who are currently sitting in classrooms where hope is in short supply.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s most trusted online donation platform, to support Sanjhi Sikhiya, in its mission to give children of Punjab the future they deserve.

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OUR MISSION: To present slum children with opportunities and help the children break barriers to make sure that they reach their full potential through education.OUR VISION: To transform a generation of slum children through education by making them a part of the mainstream society.THE ORIGIN: Both Dev and Chandni were passionate about serving the slum kids. They met and came up with the plan to start an NGO focused on helping slum kids enter mainstream society. They somehow managed to open an NGO but couldn’t go far without funding. Thanks to the active support of the mentors they connected to on social media, they were able to launch and sustain their initiative. Their mission is to get slum kids into education, train slum teenagers on vocational skills and help them fit in the mainstream society.Chandni Khan was born in a slum, a place several kids take birth and die in oblivion. But she refused to lay back and make her peace with her grim destiny as she climbed out of the darkness and is now extending her hand to pull others out of it too. Chandni recalls, “From the age of five, I used to travel along with my father to perform street magic shows and dance, even late at night”. Things further deteriorated for her when her father passed away and the onus of earning for the family fell upon her shoulders. “At the age of eight, I had shifted to rag-picking. Verbal abuses and dog bites became a part of my daily routine and in the end, I ended up in jail over false accusations of stealing. I kept changing my job, from selling flowers to corn, I was doing it all. During one of these monotonous days, I got lucky and met a few NGO volunteers who were educating children from the slums. It was then I discovered my purpose,” she narrates her story.Chandni, who is now 22 years old, was 10 when she got enrolled in an open school and began her education. She is in class 11 now. Soon after beginning her studies she realized its importance and started inspiring communities to send their kids to study. She worked intensively with the NGO and helped them impact as many kids as possible. Her contribution was duly recognized as she was appointed District Secretary and then got promoted to the post of National Secretary.She also started working for a newspaper for the slum kids called Balaknama, became a reporter for it and then, later on, became the editor. She collected stories of street children addressing issues like sexual abuse, child labor, police brutality, etc. and also narrated stories of hope and happiness. But she later left Balaknama as they did not look after under-aged kids and Chandni felt that there was a lot to be done in that area. That is when she conceived ‘Voice of Slum’.Chandni started the NGO Voice of Slum (VoS) in Noida in 2015. She wanted to prepare the slum children for a world of intimidation, mistrust and very high expectations. Chandni says, “Firstly we connect with them through basic plays, so that we spark interest and connect with them mentally, so they start listening to us. Then we slowly and gradually start providing them basic education”. To begin with, VoS takes a child under their wing and provides free education for 1.5 years. These ‘tuition classes’ are to prepare the child for mainstream education. After 1.5 years of taking VoS classes, the child is enrolled in a school. Depending upon the timings of the school, VoS takes additional classes in the morning or evening to ensure that the kids are up-to-date and their education is progressing well. Through educational, vocational activities, the NGO can ensure that young children don’t get into drugs or stealing but rather prepare themselves for a better, mainstream and respectable future. This will not only help these street kids to enter into mainstream society but also dramatically decrease the abuse of these young kids. They will know their rights, they will know what’s right from wrong, and they will eventually help and nurture the other kids who face the same challenges. Chandni has been felicitated with many awards for her work with the slum children and her work has been recognized by many organizations. Voice of Slum now works for the basic needs of these underprivileged children and organizes various activities for the same. They work towards health and nutrition, education, and shelter for these kids. “Today, we have trained about 300 students. Of these, at least 50 have secured formal education opportunities, 50 others have secured jobs, and we have rescued five girls from deplorable conditions,” says Chandni. She dreams that each and every kid in the slums of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh gets a proper education.The Need: Chandni and her team are struggling to pay the expenses of running rented premises to provide the best quality education to the slum children. They need funds to provide food, stationery and also pay the fees for the slum kids enrolled in schools. They also need to pay the salaries of 8 teachers. Your support will help Chandni and ‘Voice of Slum’ to get more children out of the slums and give them a better life.The breakup of funds required monthly:<ol><li>Salary for 8 teachers: 120000</li><li>Two women support staff for taking care of children's lunch and cleaning: 10000</li><li>1 community mobilizer - 11000 (For taking care of children's attendance and communication with parents)</li><li>Rent of the building premises: 30000</li><li>100 children's lunch every day (10 rupees per child per day): 30000</li><li>Stationery: 20000</li><li> Mainstream school fee for 100 students: 65000</li><li>Total amount - 286000 per month</li></ol>

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Food is not just meant to satisfy our hunger; it is required for the optimal growth of children. It is a distressing reality that many children often have to sleep hungry in the slums. With hope in their eyes, waiting for their next meal, they feel helpless in front of their hunger. Chandni and Dev understand the pain of hunger of children living in the slums. They have been serving nutritious meals to these children with warmth and love. They count on your unwavering support to continue giving meals to the children in severe need. During FY 2025-26, Voice of Slum has cooked and distributed over 75,000 meals to 600 children residing in slums in Noida.&nbsp;

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Hungry children need you! Without food in their stomachs, these kids struggle to play, learn, or even sleep. It is up to us to ensure they can at least look forward to a nutritious meal every day. In the period April '25 - September '25, we have provided over 29,000 meals to 600 destitute children in Noida, but we need your help to do more! Be the reason a child gets to eat nutritious meal every day. Donate now.

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VOICE OF SLUM is a youth-driven non-profit organization working to transform the lives of slum kids through education from the pre-school till graduation.The co-founders, DEV and CHANDNI, have transformed lives of 15,000 slum children so far. They were rag pickers themselves who braved the odds and have now become voice of the slums 
 Support slum children till their graduation and employment so that we can change the pathway of someone and their entire generation.  
 Create space for the slum children where they get the opportunity to be educated and to help them enter the mainstream society.Till now we have Educated 800+ Children.

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