“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.

30,000 villagers in drought-hit Rajasthan are facing a water crisis like never before. Donate now to help them

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.

Join visually impaired Kanchan in bringing 500 children from poor tribal families to school for the first time

Agriculture in India is dependent on rain while the average farm size amounts to around 2-3 acres, making farming an unsustainable source of income. According to reports, the Khandesh region of Maharashtra witnessed 1,341 farmer suicides in 2010. Those who lost their lives were mostly debt-ridden farmers affected by drought and crop-failure. 
 Our project provides loans to over 60 farmers from three villages on low interest rates. We ensure that our loans are invested in the purchase of at least two buffaloes. We also train farmers in veterinary care and provide fodder for their cattle. Our intervention ensures maintenance costs are cut while providing a secure alternative source of income in the form of dairy farming. It also gives nutritional security as the dairy provides sufficient milk for selling as well as consuming within the family. 
 In the year 2010, a sum of Rs. 7,80,000 was disbursed to 78 farmers from three villages with a 100% repayment rate within a year. Also, after a follow up of each of these families we learnt that the loans had not only enabled them to become debt-free, but the cattle had given them a stable source of income.Any donations to this project will ensure farmers and their families can live safe and secure lives in Maharashtra.

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To create sustainable and self-reliant rural communities is the mission of the NGO, Chaitanya Educational and Rural Development Society (CERDS). CERDS was created to work exclusively in the dry-land and coastal regions of Prakasam and Guntur Districts of Andhra Pradesh, to help poor communities overcome the effects of poverty and create a new future for themselves.They aim to help the poor overcome their socio-economic problems by involving them in the problem and inculcating attitudes of change. PCDP is a participatory, non-violent process of problem-solving, consciousness-raising and empowering the poor. CERDS used this approach to mobilize people to act and solve their problems. Skill Development for Women, livelihood support to disadvantaged women, nutrition support to HIV/AIDS infected people, sanitation support for disabled people and drinking water facilities for disadvantaged are a few programs undertaken by CERDS.About 12,000 families and 55,000 population belonging to tribal and other vulnerable communities in the sea-coastal villages of Prakasam and Guntur Districts have been ensured safe drinking water facilities. CERDS have been honored with numerous awards for their selfless service in uplifting the rural communities and helping them to make themselves self-sustained.

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In our society a person living with HIV/AIDS or disability or old age is destined for a life of dependency. For the poor, this burden can be extreme. These people can be a social, financial, mental or a physical burden to their families. Most of these people belong to the poor families and can not afford meeting their daily living standards. Because of HIV/AIDS or disability or old age, these vulnerable people have to face hardships to depend upon others for their living needs. Access to sufficient nutritious food is often an issue of concern to families having a member with HIV/AIDS or disabilities or old age because of poverty and unequal distribution of resources within the household. 
 People belong to HIV/AIDS or disability or old age group are physically too weak to work, and mentally drained out as well. In fact, these people, who belong to the weaker sections in the society, are unable to resolve their needs on their own sources. Keeping in view of the vulnerability of these people and based on the availability of sources, CERDS has been extending nutrition support to them in its target villages to lead normal life and counter health hazards.CERDS has been working in the target villages and had its own identity and strong rapport with all target communities by implementing various comprehensive community development programmes for the last 19 years. In every village CERDS has 5-10 committed volunteers for its programmes and also had good communications with local health departments. Apart of this members of the farmers’ clubs, which were promoted in 65 villages recently by CERDS, will also help at all levels of programme implementation i.e., beneficiaries identification and programme implementation and monitoring. CERDS purchases benefits bulky and distributes the benefits directly to the beneficiaries at nearest centres. A bag of nutrition provisions containing Raagi Powder, Wheat Rawa, Red gram dal, Ground nuts and Eggs and others essentials are provided to the target people every month. And also sensitized the people infected HIV/Aids importance of nutrition diet and to get proper health and medical support from concern linked ART Centres timely. 
 Our sponsor support helps to the targeted disadvantaged people for taking breathe some more days and relieves from the vicious circle of fatal diseases, substandard living conditions and inability to have the love, care and affection of parents. as well neighbors. Our assistance of nutrition kits containing vitamins, proteins, minerals, dietary fiber and other cereals helps these people to acquire basic nutrition values and also be a solution to resolve uncertainty conditions of food security. Also helps to lead life confidently and to improve their work capacities.

Nutrition support to HIV/AIDS, disabled and old age people

Corona virus is transmitted through direct contact with respiratory droplets of an infected person(Generated through coughing and sneezing) and touching our faces contaminated with virus. The COVID-19 virus may survive on surfaces for several hours, but simple disinfectants can kill it.As the novel corona virus spreads, more people may be put under home quarantine. As the corona virus pandemic escalates, Governments across the world putting their people in lock down or preparing to do so. In India, most of the local Governments have declared an emergency and shutdown schools, shops, and all public gatherings. As a measure of social distancing and to contain the spread of the virus, many states have announced lock down in India till 31st May 2020. This could continue until the proper vaccine has been developed.Under the prevailing circumstances the daily or contract wage earners are the worst hit because they are dependent on their daily earnings to meet the basic needs. 
 One of the most effective ways we have to protect ourselves and others from illness is good personnel hygiene. Good personal hygiene is important for both health and social reasons. It entails keeping your hands, head and body clean so as to stop the spread of germs and illness. Our personal hygiene benefits our health and impacts the lives of those around us too. Keeping in view of affect of the pathetic corona virus, all we should follow strictly personal hygiene promptly.In part of anti-corona virus measures, CERDS would like to assure basic food security ( a food supplies kit contains rice, red-gram dall, wheat flour, finger millet flour, jaggery, cooking oil, vegetables etc.,) and hygiene kit (liquid hand wash, hand wash soaps, masks) to the all target needy families, who lost their wages during this emergency period.  
 This support helps families to get great relief and to take breath during the emergency. And also helps them to stay safely at home and prevention of virus transmission to others / communities.

Nutrition support to HIV/AIDS, disabled and old age people

Dry food provision and hygiene kits to 2000 needy families during the emergency of COVID-19

30,000 villagers in drought-hit Rajasthan are facing a water crisis like never before. Donate now to help them

Join visually impaired Kanchan in bringing 500 children from poor tribal families to school for the first time

Provide villagers with a stable income by donating a buffalo

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