For a mother who has spent her entire life loving and raising her child, being beaten and mercilessly thrown out onto the streets by her own son is too heartbreaking to overcome. But this is a common story among the elderly residents of the Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram. “I’ve seen mothers in old and torn clothes, their bodies smelling and their hands and feet rotting and covered in maggots,” shares Dr. G.P. Bhagat, founder of the ashram. These abandoned elderly men and women lay starving on the streets hoping for someone to rescue them from their suffering. But most people walk past them without a second glance. “Like this”, Dr. Bhagat explains, “many elders die on the roads.”Since 2003, SHEOWS (Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphans Welfare Society) has rescued over 10,000 elderly people from the streets and given them a home with care and support. The elderly staying at the ashram have all been abandoned by their families and have nowhere else to live. Your support can give them comfort after their abandonment. 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). Safe and loving homeFor 20 years, SHEOWS has been providing free shelter, nutritious food three times a day, clothing, medical care, recreation activities and emotional support to abused and disabled elderly people rescued from the streets of Delhi. The Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram has a dedicated rescue team that saves the elderly from the streets and gives them immediate medical care upon their arrival at the home. To tend to the multiple health complications of the seniors, the home has a medical facility with doctors and nurses, a physiotherapy unit, a pathology lab, a digital X-ray monitoring machine and a pharmacy to provide 24-hour care to older adults anytime they require assistance, even during emergencies. Dr. Bhagat prioritizes the health of the seniors and ensures that they receive three balanced meals a day based on their precise health requirements. Need for the fundraiserThe humanitarian mission of SHEOWS is making an impact in the area, as more and more people are being rescued and brought to Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram. To meet the financial costs of running the home, SHEOWS needs support to continue providing the residents with all the facilities that they need. This includes constant care and round-the-clock medical attention, nutritious food and maintaining a hygienic environment to keep the seniors in comfort and good health. Dr. Bhagat explains that as the number of residents is increasing, SHEOWS needs support for food and medicines. “I request you to help these elderly parents lead a peaceful life.”Donate now to help Dr. Bhagat continue caring for the 500 destitute elderly and giving them shelter, food, medical care and the will to carry on living despite their tragic abandonment by their families. Your support will enable SHEOWS to keep serving abandoned senior citizens and help them recover from the trauma of abandonment and life on the streets. “I have been serving these elderly as if they were my own parents”, shares Dr. Bhagat. “I want only one thing - their tears should vanish and they should have a smile on their faces.” To help Dr. Bhagat achieve this dream, your support is critical. Donate now to help SHEOWS care for more abandoned elderly. Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest online donation platform, to support SHEOWS in their mission to rescue the abandoned elderly from the streets and give them shelter, food, medical care, recreational activities and emotional support.

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In the dark and dingy alleys of red light areas, injustice, pain and suffering run rampant. And the worst affected are the children who grow up in red-light areas and are subjected to constant abuse and violence. “The sight of a 12-year-old girl being gang-raped by a group of men near a house l haunts me to this date. I was filled with anguish and resolved to do something,” says Girish Kulkarni who has made it his life’s mission to rescue children from red light areas and give them a safe and secure childhood. In the last 3 decades Girish has saved over 1100 girls from a life of abuse in red-light areas, giving them a loving home, education and medical care. He has further supported over 20,000 children with a better life.Sadly, 250 of the children rescued from abuse and exploitation are HIV positive. The high cost of medication has left Girish struggling for funds. Your support can help him provide these children with 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), &amp; 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (USA). A movement to protect vulnerable children“Growing up in Ahmednagar, the experiences I had as a child witnessing the horrors of sex trade defined the path of my life. I had even seen my friend’s 15-year-old sister and 70-year-old grandmother being forced to do sex work for the price of a cup of tea”, recalls Girish. “I started by merely feeding and teaching children of sex workers initially with the intention of giving them some respite from the horrors of life of abuse in red-light areas. Gradually more and more mothers started coming to me and asked me to take their children away, even if it was just for a couple of hours,” he further adds.The work that Girish started in his youth gradually grew to become a movement, with many more joining his cause. His NGO Snehalaya to date has transformed the lives of millions. Girish’s work is crucial for the survival and safety of vulnerable children of sex workers. Snehalaya is almost entirely dependent on donations from the public and your support can strengthen his mission to save children most in need. Donate generously.The horrors of life in red light areas“The cruelty and abuse that children as young as 6 or 7 years of age face is something that I can’t explain in words. Young daughters of sex workers are made to watch their mothers being raped, are brutally assaulted and forced into sex work. No child deserves to grow like this, Girish says in anguish.Sad reality of life for children growing up in red light areas is that they are deprived of even the most basic needs like proper food, safety and education. Moreover, a majority of children rescued by Girish are diagnosed HIV positive. The task of securing medication, providing them quality education and much needed nutrition is one that requires constant support from donors. Moreover, the increase in healthcare cost has left Girish struggling to keep his home for children going. But your support can enable him to give his children a loving environment and save many more who still remain trapped behind closed doors.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help Snehalaya give hundreds of children rescued from red-light areas a life away from violence and abuse.

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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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CHILDLINE (1098) is the national emergency helpline for children in need of care and protection. Children who call 1098 for help are visited within the hour to ensure that their needs are taken care of and their issues addressed. This could involve rescuing them from abuse or exploitation, restoring them with their families, finding them a home, giving them access to food, medical care and education, and generally ensuring that they are safe and happy. CHILDLINE receives over 5-6 million calls and attends to 400,000 rescues annually through a network of 830 collaborative partner organisations. As of October 2021, CHILDLINE services are available in 602 districts with 1,085 intervention units (including Child Help Desks at 144 railway stations and 10 bus stands). The long-term goal is to set up CHILDLINE services in every district, to ensure that children from all walks of life have access to care and protection.CHILDLINE is supported by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD), and is mandated as a critical 'care and rehabilitation service' under the WCD's Child Protection Services Scheme. CHILDLINE India Foundation has been appointed as the ‘mother NGO’ by the WCD to initiate, implement and monitor CHILDLINE services across the country, and links the government, child protection service providers, allied services, corporates and the community to create a robust and effective child protection ecosystem.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of millions across the globe. The effects of the crisis have been felt deeply, especially by vulnerable groups living on the fringes. Caught amidst the socio-economic fallout of the disease and the all-pervasive sense of uncertainty and anxiety, children face heightened threats to their safety and well-being. 
 CHILDLINE (1098) is the national emergency helpline for children in need of care and protection. Children who call 1098 for help are visited within the hour to ensure that their needs are taken care of and their issues addressed. This could involve rescuing them from abuse or exploitation, restoring them with their families, finding them a home, giving them access to food, medical care and education, and generally ensuring that they are safe and happy. To this end, CHILDLINE works in close coordination with district administrations, child protection bodies, health departments, law enforcement, and civil society networks to extend emergency relief and rescue for children and families affected by the crisis, strengthen local child protection mechanisms, disseminate information about child rights and safety, distribute hygiene kits, food and medical supplies, and more.  Since April 2021, CHILDLINE has answered over 3.3 million calls and assisted/rescued over 2.5 lakh children. The CHILDLINE network today extends across 602 districts, with 1,085 intervention units (including Child Help Desks at 144 railway stations and 10 bus stands) and 830 collaborative partner organisations, and will continue to remain steadfast in its mission to address the needs of children in distress, and bring them under the framework of child protection mechanisms. CHILDLINE needs your support to keep up this work and to ensure that teams have the resources to reach every child in distress. Funds that we raise will go towards meeting the following expenses. - Programme expenses for keeping the CHILDLINE Contact Centres operational 24x7- Creating awareness on issues of child protection- Capacity building of CHILDLINE personnel- Providing emergency relief and support to children and other vulnerable groups 
 We appeal to you to donate generously. Your support can ensure that CHILDLINE is capacitated to aid children and other vulnerable groups in distress during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

Immediate COVID-19 relief for vulnerable children

India’s railway network spans a distance of over 1.2 lakh kilometres, and ferries around 22.7 million people traveling across 7,300 railway stations, every day. It is among the cheapest modes of transportation in the country. It is estimated that 1,20,000 children arrive unaccompanied on railway platforms every year - this includes children who have run away from home, children who have been separated from their families and more. For many of these children, railway centres become their first point of contact with an urban centre. A sizeable number of runaways and street children also end up living in and around railway stations. Then there are those who are kidnapped or trafficked; many are transported through the railway network, and many others are abandoned at railway stations. All these children can be categorised as children in need of care and protection. They are constantly at risk and are vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, violence, substance addiction and more. Therefore it is imperative that efforts are made to identify and rescue vulnerable children in and around railway stations, and bring them under the child protection system.  
 Railway stations are key transit points from where vulnerable children can be brought under the safety net, before they fall into the hands of abusers. CHILDLINE with part-support from the Ministry of Women and Childline and the Ministry of Railways has set up Child Help Desks (CHDs) at Railway Stations to provide immediate assistance (food, medical care, temporary shelter) to vulnerable children found in and around railway stations. The Program for Children in Contact with Railway Stations (PCCRS) was instituted in April 2017, in partnership with Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives, to create an enhanced model of the Child Help Desk at key railway stations where daily footfalls are especially high. This enhanced model aids in identifying and rescuing a larger number of vulnerable children, and also create provisions for the following: <ul><li>Restoration of rescued children </li><li>Open shelters that provide immediate shelter to children who are rescued </li><li>De-addiction services for children under the influence of substances</li><li>Sensitisation and training programmes for station-level stakeholders including Railway Protection Force, ticket collectors, porters, vendors, even passengers</li></ul>The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai was adopted as a PCCRS station in September 2018, and has since rescued 1,531 children in need of care and protection. 
 PCCRS looks to ensure that children in need of care and protection, who are found in and around railway stations are brought under the safety net, before they set out into the city, where the risks and dangers that they face are innumerable.  Expected outcomes of PCCRS include: <ol><li>Children in distress or danger in and around railway stations can be brought under the child protection system  </li><li>Children who have been separated from their families can be restored </li><li>Children living in and around railway platforms would be provided shelter and care at child care institutions and at open shelters </li><li>Children who are addicted to substances would be referred for de-addiction </li><li>Station-level stakeholders ranging from porters and cleaners to ticket collectors and other railway staff, would be equipped with the knowledge and skills to identify vulnerable children, and this would increase the chances of a child in distress being brought to the notice of CHILDLINE </li></ol>At CST, we have thus far been able to rescue an average of 95 children every month. Of the total children rescued at CST, 340 have been restored with the families. 66% have been provided shelter at child care institutions.

Program for Children in Contact with Railway Stations (Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai)

India’s railway network spans a distance of over 1.2 lakh kilometres, and ferries around 22.7 million people traveling across 7,300 railway stations, every day. It is among the cheapest modes of transportation in the country. It is estimated that 1,20,000 children arrive unaccompanied on railway platforms every year - this includes children who have run away from home, children who have been separated from their families and more. For many of these children, railway centres become their first point of contact with an urban centre. A sizeable number of runaways and street children also end up living in and around railway stations. Then there are those who are kidnapped or trafficked; many are transported through the railway network, and many others are abandoned at railway stations. All these children can be categorised as children in need of care and protection. They are constantly at risk and are vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, violence, substance addiction and more. Therefore it is imperative that efforts are made to identify and rescue vulnerable children in and around railway stations, and bring them under the child protection system.  
 Railway stations are key transit points from where vulnerable children can be brought under the safety net, before they fall into the hands of abusers. CHILDLINE with part-support from the Ministry of Women and Childline and the Ministry of Railways has set up Child Help Desks (CHDs) at Railway Stations to provide immediate assistance (food, medical care, temporary shelter) to vulnerable children found in and around railway stations. The Program for Children in Contact with Railway Stations (PCCRS) was instituted in April 2017, in partnership with Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives, to create an enhanced model of the Child Help Desk at key railway stations where daily footfalls are especially high. This enhanced model aids in identifying and rescuing a larger number of vulnerable children, and also create provisions for the following: <ul><li>Restoration of rescued children </li><li>Open shelters that provide immediate shelter to children who are rescued </li><li>De-addiction services for children under the influence of substances</li><li>Sensitisation and training programmes for station-level stakeholders including Railway Protection Force, ticket collectors, porters, vendors, even passengers</li></ul> 
 Case study - A girl child saved from being trafficked Meena, 14-year old had been trafficked from Gurugram to Itawain Uttar Pradesh. CHILDLINE team Aligarh received a call from Gabhana Police Station that a girl child was found. Project Coordinator and CHILDLINE team member reached the spot and met the child. On interrogation, it was revealed that a man named Kallan, who works nearby her home and was known to her parents had brought her there to show her a temple. But he had some other intentions as after their temple visit, he took her to an Ashram where they stayed a night and in the morning boarded a bus. The girl questioned the man but was scolded and made to stay silent. As the bus passed by Gabhana area, the man misbehaved with the child and she started crying. This alerted the bus driver and other passengerswho asked the girl and stopped the bus at Gabhana Police Station. They handed over the child and the man to the police. Gabhana Police arrested the man, called CHILDLINE team and handed over the childto the team for care and protection. CHILDLINE team Aligarh then searched for the child’s address and informed the concerned Police Station of Badshapur in Gurugram. It was found that child‘s father had already filed a missing person FIR. Then CHILDLINE team co-ordinated with Badshapur Police and contacted the Gabhana Police. The Badshapur Police arrived with the parents to Aligarh. They arrested the man and took him under their custody. CHILDLINE team presented the child and her parents to Child Welfare Committee (CWC) Aligarh. For the best interest of child, the CWC restored the child to her parents and transferred her case to Gurugram CWC for further trial and investigation.Case study - Lost child found at railway platform CHILDLINE team received a call from a Railway Police Force (RPF) PSI, who informed them about a missing child and asked for help. On the same day CHILDLINE team reached RPF Valsad, where they were informed that they found the child alone in an Ahmedabad passenger train. On enquiry, the child informed them that he was travelling with his uncle to Ajmer from Surat station, but his uncle had left him in the train. When asked for his Surataddress, he gave an address of Kadodra Char Rasta, Bhavani. CHILDLINE team Valsad immediately informed CHILDLINE team Surat to locate the address given by the child. CHILDLINE team Valsad along with RPF Valsad started the documentationprocess and presented the child to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC). The child was shifted to Children Home Dharasana with RPF protection on orders of the CWC. CHILDLINE team Valsad also got involved in locating the child’s home. Further coaxing resulted in the child sharing his brother’s contact detail with the superintendent of the Children Home. The CHILDLINE team called the number on the same day that they received it from the superintendent and informed his brother of the situation. They were also able to get their father’s contact number and address. The child’s father was contacted. The father expressed his inability to come to Valsad and requested that the child be handed over to his brother. This information was shared with the CWC. The brother took custody of the child after his documents were verified.(*Name and details changed to protect the child)Your support will help us rescue many more such children in the need and give them a better life.Reunite lost children with their families, give them a better life. Don’t let them disappear forever, donate now.

Rescue children on railway platforms from abuse and trafficking

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, CHILDLINE has answered over 53.09 lakh calls from children in distress and rescued over 3.95 lakh children. When the pandemic locked everyone in to protect them from the spread of Coronavirus, for many children this became a source of uncertainty and anxiety as their safety and protection got compromised. Your contribution of ₹1,000 can help CHILDLINE support a child in distress by covering for expenses incurred in rescue and providing children with care facilities and basic amenities.The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of millions across the globe. The effects of the crisis have been felt deeply, especially by vulnerable groups living on the fringes. Caught amidst the socio-economic fallout of the disease and the all-pervasive sense of uncertainty and anxiety, children face heightened threats to their safety and well-being. 
 Since March 20th 2020, CHILDLINE has answered over 53.09 lakh calls and assisted/rescued over 3.95 lakh children.For CHILDLINE, the past year has also been a year of growth. The network which covered 569 districts and 129 railway stations in March 2020, has expanded. CHILDLINE services are now operational in over 81% of the country - across 598 districts, through a network of 1,070 intervention units, Child Help Desks at 141 railway stations and 5 bus terminals, and nearly 11,000 child protection personnel.CHILDLINE has also been at the forefront of the COVID-19 response, and has been working closely with district administrations, child protection bodies, health departments, law enforcement, and civil society networks to disseminate information about COVID-19, distribute hygiene kits, food and medical supplies, and extend emergency relief and rescue for children and families affected by the crisis. Read about how CHILDLINE has been responding on the ground here. You can also refer to our COVID-19 Resources page for relevant information on the COVID-19 crisis - links to government advisories, care and prevention measures, tips on communicating with children and keeping them engaged, accessing mental support and moreCHILDLINE needs your support to keep the 1098 emergency helpline operational and ensure that teams have the resources to reach every child in distress. Funds that we raise will go towards meeting the following expenses. 
 We want to ensure that every child in distress receives assistance. We hope to rescue or assist about 4 Lakh plus children during this year and provide assistance to many more