"My son used to kick me when he was in my womb. Why make an issue when he kicked me in my old age?" reasons a very forgiving Shakti Dasi. The widow travelled 2300 kms from Tripura to Vrindavan after her only son violently beat her with a burning plank of wood and broke her knee one evening. She had to leave behind the business she had built with her husband who had died a few years back. Shakti ended up on the streets of Brindavan begging for food and shelter. But when Winnie Singh of Maitri saw Shakti in a frail state in tattered clothes, she brought her to the shelter home where Shakti gets food, care and medicines. What more, with Maitri’s intervention, Shakti reconciled with her son - and daughter-in-law, and now travels home to Tripura twice a year to spend time with her grandchildren. But she is not leaving Maitri, as this has become her family.Not every elderly widow who comes to Vrindavan after being abandoned by her family gets as lucky as Shakti. Many of them often end up living a lonely life and begging to survive on the streets. Maitri aspires to take care of every widow in need of help.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/ce101369-528c-4d37-bc1d-1118b9925af3.jpg" />Maitri’s Project Jeevan to the rescueAbandoned, elderly widows are the amongst the most vulnerable in India. After being thrown out of their often abandoned by their own children and are forced to beg for food and shelter. “Through Project Jeevan, Maitri houses aging widow mothers in two ashrams in Vrindavan and Radhakund (Mathura), providing them with wellness and well-being. The programme also reaches out to widow mothers beyond the ashrams with fruit, milk and healthcare services,” explains Winnie Singh, co-founder and executive director, Maitri India.Save homeless elderly widows from begging on the streetsMost widows who make their way to Vrindavan are abandoned by their families, often after years of abuse. They come here hoping they will spend the rest of their days in prayer and devotion. But most live in impoverished conditions on the streets and in dingy rooms. Since poor living conditions often cause a wide range of health ailments, including respiratory infections and chronic conditions, Maitri comes to their rescue through its Project Jeevan.The project aims to:<ul><li>Provide 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 on and engagement around the struggles of abandoned widow mothers</li></ul><img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />Project Jeevan needs your support to help those in need of food, healthcare and well-being. Donate now.“Maitri urgently needs your support to provide food, clothing and healthcare to sustain these widow mothers who are prone to more illnesses as they age,” appeals Winnie.Maitri believes in a woman’s right to dignity in life and death, more so a mother. 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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“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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“I used to be sexually abused repeatedly, and when I screamed in pain, they hit and threatened me with more violence,” says Priya (name changed), a rescued child sex worker. Priya was abducted by traffickers and sold into a red-light area house before she was rescued by Guria led by Manju. For over two decades, Manju has been rescuing young girls forced into prostitution across the country. She has been shaken to the core seeing some of the most horrifying crimes that young girls have to undergo. “You can’t imagine the state of girls forced into sex work. The girls are given electric shocks and burnt with cigarette butts just to get kicks out of it. And if they get pregnant, the "owners" kick them repeatedly in the womb so that the child inside dies…If you want to see hell, it is here on this planet where young girls are sexually abused,” says Manju.Manju needs your help to rescue more young girls from forced prostitution and reunite them with their families. Donate now.Guria’s work over the yearsBased out of Varanasi, inarguably the holiest place in India, Manju and her organisation Guria, fights the sexual exploitation of girls, especially minors, by taking on the traffickers head-on, and rescuing and rehabilitating them.Started in 1993, Guria has rescued over 5500 persons from slavery, sex trafficking, and child prostitution so far. It has also been instrumental in shutting down hundreds of places that housed trafficked girls and putting scores of traffickers out of business and in jail.For instance, in 2005, a Guria-led rescue operation in Varanasi's red-light area led to the freeing of 49 women and girls, including minors. Many of them were kept against their will. Some of the traffickers were also arrested and tried. Since then, Guria has rescued thousands of young girls.Manju and her husband, Ajeet Singh began rescuing girls from Varanasi’s red-light areas and then working to stop the sex-trafficking of young girls within Uttar Pradesh and outside. The organisation’s aim is to eliminate the sex trafficking of women, especially minor girls, end second-generation prostitution and child prostitution, and rehabilitate women and girls who are rescued from the trade. Manju has faced violent backlash from the traffickers and other vested interests, but it has not deterred her from carrying on rescuing young girls from trafficking. Rescue and rehabilitationBesides rescuing girls trafficked for sex, mostly from low-income families, from across the country, Guria fights on their behalf in courts and also provides education, food, vocational training, and other facilities until they are united with their families. But because of a lack of funds, Guria is finding it difficult to rescue more girls and also take care of them once they are away from the clutches of the traffickers. Take the case of Sameena (name changed), who was abducted from Uttar Pradesh all the way to Telangana. Guria took it upon itself to rescue the girl with the help of its own work and also the authorities. After months of rehabilitation, Sameena went back to her family and even completed her education. With your support, Manju can rescue many more young girls from trafficking and help them live the life of their dreams.

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Vihaan, registered as Waste Management Society has been working at the grassroots level in anti-human trafficking since 2012, with the aim of making all forms of human trafficking and commercial exploitation a rarity. We support women, men and children who are victims of trafficking and exploitation including bonded/child labour, commercial sex work, child marriage and domestic servitude.<blockquote>Our Vision:</blockquote><blockquote>To make all forms of human trafficking a rarity by saving lives and breaking the cycle of crime.</blockquote>Our Objectives: <ul><li>Preventing trafficking in 'at-risk' vulnerable communities</li><li>Dismantling and disrupting criminal networks</li><li>Rebuilding lives and reducing risk for survivors</li><li>Being the leading voice on anti-human trafficking</li><li>Strengthening institutional capacity for evidence-based outcomes</li><li>Achieving organisational excellence and sustainable resources</li></ul>Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transfer or obtaining of an individual through coercion, abduction, fraud or force to exploit them for a profit. It is a modern-day form of slavery, which grievously violates basic human rights of nearly 40 million people worldwide who are compelled to exist as slaves[1] .The Asia and Pacific region house the highest number of victims across all forms of modern slavery, accounting for 73 percent of victims of forced sexual exploitation, 68 percent of those forced to work by state authorities, 64 percent of those in forced labour exploitation, and 42 percent of all those in forced marriages.[2] The United Nations projects that the trafficking of women and children for forced prostitution in Asia has victimised more than 30 million people.[3]<ul><li>[1] http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_574717/lang--en/index.htm</li><li>[2] https://downloads.globalslaveryindex.org/ephemeral/GSI-2018_FNL_190828_CO_DIGITAL_P-1597046117.pdf</li><li>[3] https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/12/28/human-trafficking-in-south-asia-combating-crimes-against-women/</li></ul>

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To everyone who donated and helped us raise funds for this cause, thank you and congratulations! Because we've collectively raised a total of Rs. 2,63,141 which is more than 50% of our goal. It's unfortunate that we couldn't meet our goal, but I didn't want to let this deter me, because I know for these vulnerable women, children and their families, every little bit helps. As a thank you to everyone who donated over Rs. 1,000, I will be sending you a digital copy of my cookbook 'A guide to Indo Chinese Cooking' on the 10th of July. We are just putting final touches to the cookbook, and adding a few more recipes. Thank you once again,Richa

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“I want to forget all my pains and torture. I want to live again and earn my living” – Shikha (name changed), 15 years old. Every day, vulnerable men, women and innocent children like Shikha are bought and sold like commodities, abused and forced into commercial sex work, domestic servitude, organ harvesting and bonded or child labour. This is the reality of millions of Indians who are caught in the snare of human trafficking – the buying and selling of human beings for a profit. It is a form of modern-day slavery that has trapped around 8 million people across our country. India is also among the top ten countries with the largest estimated absolute number of people in modern-day slavery. Those victimized are brutally exploited and abused, find themselves enslaved to their captors and robbed of their fundamental right to live a life of dignity and freedom. There is a devastating impact on their physical and mental health leading to them struggling to cope with life in mainstream society, if they are rescued. 
  WMS has been working relentlessly at the grassroots to tackle human trafficking since 2012, with the aim of making all forms of human trafficking and exploitation a rarity.We use a victim centric, end to end approach to ensure rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of survivors of traffickingand prosecution of the accused. Every survivor’s right to survival, development, protection, justice and participation is ensured through our programmes facilitating diverse multi-stakeholder interventions and partnerships.Our end to end services for survivors include individual care plans, counselling, medical care, education, vocational training, social security and legal assistance. The approach is based on the unique individual requirements of each survivor. 
 Since our inception, by instituting comprehensive and sustained reintegration efforts through multifaceted and long-term process enabling survivors to rebuild their lives and empower them to reclaim their rights, we have:<ul><li>Rescued 4,753 victims of trafficking across destination points in India </li><li>Supported 3,257 survivors through our comprehensive care and protection program</li><li>Aided in the arrest of 1150 accused, handled 437 prosecution cases, secured 126 convictions, thus disrupting the criminal network</li><li>Facilitated rescue, rehabilitation and repatriation of international trafficked survivors from Bangladesh, Nepal and Turkmenistan</li><li>Successfully reintegrated 70% survivors by restoring them to the community, connecting them to alternative livelihood options, helping them settle down in life and live independently</li><li>Trained 44,200+ frontline professionals including law enforcementofficials, government and non-government stakeholders</li></ul>Today, we’re appealing to you to support us in this cause because we cannot fight this horrific crime alone. Help us support these vulnerable women and children - who have already been to hell and back – in reclaiming their lives!

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India is among the top ten countries with the largest estimated absolute number of people in modern slavery (Global Slavery Index 2018). We’re talking about some of India’s most marginalized communities that are now more vulnerable to victimization than ever before.<blockquote>We need targeted action to protect women, men and children at risk and work against traffickers who are taking advantage of their vulnerability to exploit them.</blockquote>At Vihaan, we use a victim centric, end-to-end approach to ensure rehabilitation and reintegration of survivors of trafficking. Every survivor’s right to survival, development, protection, justice and participation is ensured through our programs facilitating diverse multi-stakeholder interventions and partnerships.Our aftercare services include: Immediate support: Health check-ups, placement in safe custody/shelter homes, trauma assessment, counselling and legal support for the first 3-months.Short term support: Continued medical, legal and psychological support. Individual care plans are initiated. This includes assessment of interests/aptitude, supporting the survivor’s family and facilitating the compensation process for a 6-month period.Long term support: Once individual assessments are carried out, survivors are admitted into our exclusive Foundation Course and Skills Training program. Job assessments and government scheme facilitation is provided. Reintegration and complete restoration support are given to survivors and their families. Follow-ups are carried out over physical meetings/ calls by Vihaan’s trained counsellors and social workers. The legal team continues working towards conviction of the accused and assurance of getting justice and compensation for survivors. While the above support is provided for up to a year, it takes several years to close most cases. Across India, Vihaan continues to support more than 3400 survivors through aftercare. We have rescued more than 5000 victims of trafficking from destination points across India. The interest of each survivor is a critical aspect in all we do with and for them. Through our aftercare support program, Vihaan provides extensive guidance to reintegrate survivors in the best possible way. The program encompasses recovery for health, economic and social status, which includes<ul><li>Settlement in a stable and safe environment,</li><li>Access to a reasonable standard of living,</li><li>Mental and physical well-being,</li><li>Opportunities for personal, social and economic development,</li><li>Social and emotional support, and</li><li>Justice and fair compensation</li></ul><blockquote>We are on a mission to make trafficking a rarity and create a world where there is justice and equity for all! Come, help us bring hope and freedom to survivors.</blockquote>

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