Hunger and malnutrition have become a reality for thousands of elderly parents abandoned by their own children, in villages and slums across India. Seeing the rampant distress among the elderly, a team of selfless heroes from our NGO partner Mitti Cafe, though disabled themselves, have taken up the responsibility of providing cooked meals and dry rations to over 5,000 elderly in urgent need of support. Setting aside their own struggles, Mitti Cafe’s team, led by Ayesha Alam has been relentlessly fighting to free elderly from hunger and malnutrition through its Karuna Meals initiative. The need for nutrition support is growing with each passing day and Mitti Cafe is struggling to fulfill this enormous need. With your support, the NGO and its team of persons with disability can put food on the plates of hundreds of more elderly parents. 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), &amp; 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (USA). Elderly deserve love, not neglect and hunger“There have been countless senior citizens, in extremely backward villages of the Sundarbans in West Bengal, who had not had a proper meal in days when we found them. We have seen people picking food from the garbage out of extreme hunger.”, recalls Ayesha of Mitti Cafe, while talking about the extent of hunger faced by senior citizens. According to Ayesha, there are thousands of elderly who have been either chucked out of their homes or have been left behind in villages by their children. “Our elderly don't deserve this life and it is our responsibility to come to their aid. If we come together we can ease the suffering of hundreds of people battling hunger and starvation. Donate now Our heroes’ war against hungerPersons with disability who were once discriminated against by society are today at the forefront of the fight to save abandoned elderly and children from hunger. The Karuna Meals team, comprising only of persons with disability has been able to cook and serve over 10 lakh meals. They have also distributed over 1 lakh packets of dry rations. ”They overlook their own struggles and suffering just to reach the elderly and provide them with the food they need,” says Ayesh. But their job is not yet done. “There are still many villages which have many malnourished and hungry seniors and we have not been able to reach them. But with your support, we can collectively end starvation,” she says. Donate now. Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help the elderly fight hunger and malnutrition.

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“A blind child is seen as a curse or as a burden to the family. These children are left on the street. I have picked up children from roadsides myself. I also lost my eyesight as a child but today I am a senior officer in a public sector company. What would I have done, had I not been taken care of?” asks Veena Mehta Verma who was once a beneficiary of National Association for the Blind, Delhi (NAB) and now works with the NGO to protect and care for blind children like herself.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1c273b6d-eee3-4799-98aa-74efcde92177.webp" />Today, hundreds of blind children supported by NAB, Delhi have found something that they never had before–hope for a better tomorrow. Without Veena and NAB, many of these children would be at the risk of going back to the streets or spend a life of neglect and even abuse. Your support to the NGO is crucial. Donate generouslyDonate 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 life of uncertainty &amp; sufferingEven if a blind child is not abandoned they are often trapped in their homes deprived of education or any way of making a living. According to the nonprofit leader, “For a blind kid, employment is impossible without education. The (blind) kids need to learn Braille or they need ‘talking computer’ aids. Many of these kids are deprived of such facilities”.  <img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/7bfa3cb2-b09d-4518-862f-a0bbf653cbe8.webp" />Illuminating young lives “At NAB Delhi there are around 200-250 blind kids. There are around 180 kids in the hostel of NAB. We teach Braille, we teach arithmetic Taylor frames. To work towards a brighter future for the blind, we need your support. Please come forward and donate towards our mission”, says Veena. Students for whom NAB Delhi has cared for are today placed in some of the most prestigious organisations across the world. While some have gone on to make a name for themselves in the corporate world, others have taken up art and music as a profession too. Many blind children are bright, academically gifted, and waiting to shine, all they need is an opportunity. And your donation can give them just that.Donate to this fundraiser on Give.do, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help the blind children get shelter, education, care and a shot at a future full of opportunities.

Visually impaired Veena, loving mother to 180 blind kids, needs your support in caring for them

“A blind child is often seen as a curse or a burden to the family, leading to abandonment. I’ve picked up children from roadsides myself. I too lost my sight as a child, but today I’m a senior officer thanks to the National Association for the Blind, Delhi (NAB). What would I have done without their help?” asks Veena Mehta Verma, a beneficiary turned advocate for NAB and its mission to protect and care for blind children like herself.The state of young blind girls abandoned by their families and without education is even worse. “Blind girls have no future without education. Education is crucial to their future. Without it, they face neglect and limited opportunities, ignored not just by their families, but by society at large. What I am today is only because of the education I received. But sadly, every blind girl is not as fortunate. Most visually impaired girls are deprived of any care and even something as basic as education, leading to a difficult life,” says Asha Bhola, President, Blind Welfare Society (BWS).Both NAB and BWS work for the welfare of blind children and young girls by providing them with shelter, education, and care. This Diwali, they need your support to help many more youngsters in need.Donate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. Charitable donations to this fundraising campaign are tax-exempt under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India).A life of uncertainty &amp; sufferingEven if a blind child or young girl is not abandoned, they are often trapped in their homes deprived of education or any way of making a living. “For a blind kid, employment is impossible without education. They need to learn Braille or use ‘talking computer’ aids. Many of these children are deprived of such facilities,” says Veena.Young kids and girls for whom NAB and BWS have cared for are today placed in some of the most prestigious organisations across the world. While some have gone on to make a name for themselves in the corporate world, others have taken up art and music as a profession too.But many blind children who are bright, academically gifted, and waiting to shine, are often neglected or abandoned by their own families. And with your donation, NAB and BWS can give them the future they deserve.As we celebrate the festival of lights, donate to this fundraiser on Give.do, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help blind children and young girls get shelter, education and care and a shot at a bright future.

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Arvind Foundation is a charitable organization for special needs children (children with cerebral palsy, Autism, ADHD, ADD, Down's syndrome, muscular dystrophy, mental retardation, epilepsy, hydrocephalus, microcephalus, spina bifida, chromosomal disorder, neurological disorder, dyslexia).Inspired by their son Arvind who is blessed to be a Cerebral Palsy child, Arvind Foundation was started by his parents in 2004 with the aim to help special needs children and their parents from underprivileged backgrounds. Our mission is to enable children, young adults, and adults with special needs to become independent through curative education, therapies, vocational training &amp; livelihood programs. From a humble beginning with 2 special needs children in 2004, today we serve about 140 such children and young adults through our 5 centers in Tamilnadu : KK Nagar - Chennai (2 centers) / Kolappancherry - Poonamallee / Chengelpet / Mannavanur ( Kodaikanal ).

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ARVIND FOUNDATION (a charitable organisation for children with special needs)

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Our society, including the parents of economically underprivileged special needs children lack awareness about mental disabilities. The acceptance of such children in society and in families is low due to lack of awareness. We have noticed that such children also do not receive a balanced diet due to poverty. Lack of education and poverty also hinders the capacity of parents of such children to carry forward the training and education back home. The drive to send or bring such children to our centers is also very low. Therefore, in order to build up awareness, to keep our students healthy and to bring them to our centers and provide them with education, therapies, training and livelihood, we are in need of regular financial support. 
 Our key actions include:-Identify children and young adults with special needs and train them to be independent. -Focus on prevention as part of awareness building, early intervention, rehabilitation, vocational training and provide economic support by creating livelihood opportunities. - To provide curative education to underprivileged special needs children and young adults. - To provide age and capacity specific vocational training to our students - To develop contributory talents like field sports, cultural eventslike dance, stage play etc - To provide training on livelihood projects like kitchen masala products,toiletries, jewelry making, tailoring, gardening (which are also healing and therapeutic); restaurant training in cooking, selling and serving dishes at our internal restaurant – Arvind’s café. - To generate revenue for our young adults through our various livelihood projects 
 1. Changes like independence, acquiring tailoring, cooking, carpentry, gardening, socializing skills, sports, placements in jobs are regular schools are few of our achievements.2. Our students conduct a CAFE program exhibiting their culinary, administrative and social skills through our ARVIND'S CAFE, exclusively organized for them in their Institute.3. Our special needs children regularly participate in special sports activities and win several medals. 4. They make ornaments and sell them for a living.5. Few of our young adults have found jobs with Chennai Corporation &amp; Corrugated factory. They have been trained in telephonic communication and visitor handling.6. We have budding tailors and they have started stitching clothes for their family members.

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The special needs young adults at Arvind Foundation make and sell products such as arecanut plates and cups, agarbathis, fancy jewelry, masala powders among others. We sell them at various stalls at corporate events and other public events. We also have opened a store recently to display and sell these products made by them. Now, we are trying to reach out to many more people who will be willing to buy these products. To achieve this we are looking forward to more avenues for the sale of products made by our special needs young adults and provide a livelihood to them. We therefore want to have a ‘store on wheels’ which will be stationed at various areas to sell the products created by our special needs young adults. 
 Our special needs young adults and children are provided with vocational training with the goal of making them independent. We have established Arvind Store in (month 2019) in K K Nagar, Chennai. We also try to reach to more people at every opportunity that presents itself. However, this is not sufficient for us to sell enough to provide the stipend that we promise our special needs young adults. We are trying to make our children as self-sufficient as possible and Arvind Store on Wheels is one of our projects towards reaching that goal. The institution provides them with the requisite skill to take on the challenges that they face with being independent. With the help of vocational skills that they are being trained in, they gain self-confidence and their self-esteem boosts up that ultimately provides them security. 
 The “Arvind Store on Wheels” project will benefit 35 special needs young adults and adolescents for now and will continue to benefit many more as and when our younger children grow up to be adults (we have about 120 children at our centres). Our young adults have undergone necessary training to produce the products that the store on wheels will be selling. The mobility of the store will also enable our children to meet many people and build the confidence in them to interact with others. It is a good source of engagement as repetitive work calms down hyperactive and autistic students. The outcome of the Arvind store on wheel will be a beautiful integration of self-confidence and self-esteem in our special needs young-adults that will ultimately push them to be independent. The store will also become a good source of livelihood in the future for them.

ARVIND STORE ON WHEELS

As special needs children grow up into young adults, their abilities increase and also their restlessness and hyperactivity. They are unable to focus and sustain themselves in specific activities.A healing and rhythmic creative world is what is the need of the hour. The self – satisfaction that they derive from producing things which can be made use of by others and the feeling of being a part of the society gives immense joy to them and helps them to move on further.As they move into adolescence and later into adulthood, the frustration of the family members become more pronounced as their needs are more demanding and behavioral issues crop up and meeting it especially in an under privileged family becomes very difficult. A sustained vocational skill provides them a day-to-day work and to top it all a decent remuneration (stipend) based on their productivity in something which can help them to get settled in life. This method alone can help alleviate the problems that arise out of the adulthood development of special needs people.The ECO-FRIENDLY PAPER PENCIL MAKING PROJECT of Arvind Foundation is thus a unique one which serves as a boon to special needs people. 
 The covid and post covid scenario is very difficult for our underprivileged special needs students ‘s family as many of them are daily wage laborers. With no fixed family income in sight, the parent’s feel the responsibility of the special needs people as burdensome.Enrolling the special needs students in a project that will fetch them a reasonable income will help mitigate the grave situation back home to a certain extent.Arvind Foundation’s dream project ‘PAPER PENCIL MAKING’ aims to target such students who have the ability to do things under guidance and also keep their hyper activeness and restlessness under check.This unique project is not only Eco-friendly (thereby contributing to the wellness of the society) but also a simple and learners friendly one. This project also aims to target self-help group for mothers of special needs students who are not employed anywhere.Raising a team of responsible special needs youth who can find a meaning to their life is the main focus of this project.Hand holding them and taking them step by step to achieve fulfillment is the road to success. 
 The impact that this project will have is something unique.·        It imparts the requisite training in an easy and simple manner.·        Provides stipend to the participants.·        Gives a boost to their confidence·        Helps them to earn respect in the family and society.·        Help in physical fitness and mental alertness. ·        It’s a healing activity which helps calm them down·        They derive immense self-satisfaction and joy·        Identifying themselves as a team of sharing and caring for each other·        Gives them the much-needed focus and attention to a certain extent·         Learning of task completion which will help them in their day-to-day life·        It provides employment opportunities for special needs adults

Arvind's Eco Friendly Pencil Making Unit

Livelihood opportunities for many special needs young adults are minimal and unreachable in spite of acquiring certain skills after years of intervention and training. Safe, conducive and viable projects to use their training for productive livelihood are minimal and inaccessible to many of them.THE ISSUE is linking trained and prepared young adults to sustainable livelihood opportunities through viable projects. 
 As a SOLUTION, we provide such livelihood opportunities through our 3 vocational training projects (Arecanut-leaf products / Masala powder / weaving) and one in the pipeline (Sanitary napkin)45 of our young adults undergo vocational training under these projects and 20 of them earn a stipend under our livelihood scheme. We plan to include another 20 young adults under this livelihood scheme during 2020 - 2021.For this to run successfully, we are in need of uninterrupted supply of raw materials and a dedicated project coordinator. 
 All our students involved are mentally challenged young adults from economically poor familiesIMPACTOur Projects<ul><li>are therapeutic</li><li>they induce skills like - planning, counting, quality controlling, packing, accounting and accountability</li><li>teach our children self-discipline, team work, time consciousness</li><li>train young adults to make high quality end-products</li><li>help us to sell these products and fetch stipend for our young adults</li><li>these multiple projects ensure continuous production and thereby steady income</li></ul>

Arvind's Livelihood Project

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