This winter, as the biting cold descends on Vrindavan, thousands of elderly widow mothers face the harsh reality of abandonment and suffering. With no one to turn to, many are left begging on the streets, exposed to freezing winds and sleepless nights. A warm blanket could mean the difference between despair and hope.Donate warm clothes and blankets to abandoned elderly mothers now. Give generously."Elderly widows don't have shelter. They sleep in cowsheds over sacks. They don't have a blanket. Nights are really difficult for them," shares Winnie Singh, the founder of Maitri. "Since they are abandoned, they don't have a home or family. They have no means to care for themselves or their nutrition. Winters are extremely painful for them, and many eventually pass away. Without thermals, it's not possible to survive winters in Vrindavan."<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />This heartbreaking reality is why Maitri is committed to providing blankets and warm clothing to these abandoned widow mothers. Your contribution can help shield them from the piercing cold and offer them a lifeline during this harsh winter season. "Maitri also provides food, shelter, and healthcare to abandoned widow mothers. Your funds will help them reach and support many more widow mothers in need.

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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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About DVAS: Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti (DVAS) founded on 18th June 1992 is working towards empowerment of marginalized communities and group’s i.e. Dalit’s, Women, Children and other economically and socially deprived sections of society, over the last 30 years in Bihar through addressing factors of exclusion and advancement of their entitlements. The organization believes in its developmental model attenuated for increased participation of marginalized communities through various enabling strategies and programs such towards ensuring socio- economic transformation and dignity through access to quality education, health services and livelihood options. The organization believes in organic and inorganic growth of an individual and the community through increased exposure and development of core competency thereby leading to the development of intrinsic skill and managerial capabilities. . OUR VISION: To build the capacities of discriminated groups to raise their voices and represent themselves in activities to combat Factors leading to exclusion, socio-economic discrimination and inequalities.OUR MISSION:To empower the Dalits and underprivileged community people to maximize their potential and enable them to become independent and self-reliant through fostering a conducive environment to enable the less privileged to assert their rights and live-in dignity.GOAL: To build the capacities of discriminated groups to raise their voices and represent themselves in activities to combat Factors leading to exclusion, socio-economic discrimination and inequalities. Guiding Principle: Ø To promote a egalitarian society for the less privileged – self reliance and access to their rights and entitlements.Ø To  increase participation of marginalized communities through various enabling strategies and programs such as knowledge building, community capacity building, participation and partnerships and networking .Ø To ensure Self Governance and Self-reliance among the weaker and oppressed section of the societyØ To Work in partnership with coordinated approach with local stakeholders, Community, Government , NGOs and other thematic organization.Thematic Programs ; Realizing that Inclusive Education, Health &amp; Nutrition ,Sustainable Livelihood Promotion ,Gender Equality ,Climate Change ,Women and Child Initiatives and Urban Poverty&amp; Homeless are powerful drivers for overall development and a strong instrument to address and minimize the socio-economic inequities and exclusion across the society DVAS has been working on thematic Programs areas:  KEY STRATEGY:The methodology adopted by the organization for the attainment of its goal is one of a harmonious blend of the twin approaches of activism/struggle and development. The way to effective empowerment is one hinging on and oriented towards evolving autonomous community based organizations endowed with capabilities required for the actualization of a spirit of self- determination and self-reliance. Further community based organizations have strategic networking relationships in all the target areas under the banner of BCHR and DVAS facilitators to work as per Executive Committee Resolutions and direction. A frontal organization with an avowed aim to facilitate issue based interventions from time to time. We educate, we organize and we struggle for our rights.WORKING METHODOLOGY OF DVAS:Director is taking care of and is responsible for the success of the programmes assigned to each staff member. He conducts one to one meeting and monitors the ongoing project. A monthly meeting is held where all staff members are required to be present. From a volunteer to a field worker to programme coordinator to director there is close interaction and all the members of DVAS are well aware to there responsibilities. Since we work for our people there is total involvement and sincerity. Work responsibility is explained to all concerned staff by director and programme coordinator and monthly evaluation helps us find solution to all assigned task.

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Due to COVID 19 pandemic there was a phase-wise lockdown across the country leading to large-scale social, economic and political instability. A large number of migrant workers returned to their villages. With the closure of schools and Anganwadi centers, the challenges of children's health and education had further increased. All these challenges hampered our work in all the project areas. The Government delayed its response due to its political compulsions in taking a decision on return of migrant workers to their homes. This led to spread and unplanned responses resulting in huge crisis to the poor and the vulnerable, lower caste-class population, widows, daily wage earners and migrants. Since then, the livelihood issues have been critical for these communities as they have consumed the food with them as well as exhausted the assets available with them. The farming communities have been the most badly affected section which has resulted in nutritional deficiency of women and girls in the farming communities as they continue to serve better and adequate food to men and male child in the patriarch society as of rural Bihar.   
 Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti is organisation a dally long sensitization program for women of farming communities and Scheduled caste to orient them on cash crop and vegetable cultivation for nutritional supplements as well as to generate additional income in small plots and kitchen garden with seasonal vegetable with local demand as, lady figure, potato and Onion cultivations, Pumpkins and bitter guard a few to name . These women are also being provided with high quality tested seeds and macro – micro nutrients to promote quality cultivation. As these produces have good demand locally and are also fetched by big vegetable vendors they are easily marketed in the locality. Same part of the produce is also being utilized for household consumption. these interventions are well taken by the community and there is a huge demand for the same in this crisis situation.  
 With the livelihood promotion program, 500 homeless marginalized families will be self-employed and self-reliant with self-employment by operating a shop locally.

Livelihood and nutritional support program for rural women:

In India, particularly in rural India, there exists a large gap between the ratio of literate boys to girls. Young girls face a lot of obstacles in their education. Often, they have to leave the studies due to lack of finance. The marriage of girls is another important factor in their education. Additionally, lack of sanitary facilities for girls in schools is a great challenge for adolescent girls in schools. Lack of supervision and personal guidance, and the need to work when they should be in school, are also the major education inhibiting factors for young women. 
 Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti aims to support girl child education in the Samastipur district of Bihar. Our aim is not only to provide education to young women, but to focus on the quality of education they are receiving. Supporting young women's education makes them an independent and integral part of the society. The education of girls and women is an integral part of national development. 
 Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti has managed to support 20,000 girls get quality education through their admissions into school. We have an education centre in the Samastipur district of Bihar. We have 100 small campaigns running to support young women's education. We have made small clubs of young girls who are volunteering to impart value education to other girls and persuading them to study. We are working to help the school dropout girls to continue their education through their re-admission.

You educate a man, you educate a man. You educate a woman, you educate a family.

The pandemic has affected the education of children in Bihar and is adversely affecting their growth. Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti is bridging the gap by providing educational competencies and resources to children in government schools, according to their age and level of learning (class from I – V Std) for next six months. The organisation is setting up 20 Supplementary Education Centers (SECs) for remedial classes of 40 children each thereby positively impacting at least 800 children. They are also working on a back to school campaign.The schools have been closed for almost 1.5 yrs since March 2020 with COVID 19 pandemic. The digital education as promoted by national and state governments have barely made heir reach to 12% of children as an outcome of very poor internet connectivity in rural areas and poor android mobile phone accessibilities. This has not only stopped the learning process of children but has resulted in de- learning and keeping them outside the teaching – learning process i.e the learning loop. Besides due to government policy these children have been promoted to the next level of classes and would be facing the subject knowledge gap due to non-studies in previous academic year in Schools. Further this will result in low confidence and gap in reading, writing comprehension making it uncomfortable for the child to retain in schools and large scale drop out among children of the educationally most backward Mahadalit communities.  
 The project will address the gaps in educational competencies of children according to age and level of class from I – V Std in government schools expected to be reopened in next 15 days. ·        Operationalizing Supplementary Education Centers (SECs): Remedial courses will be administered at village level supplementary education Centre through volunteers for 2 hours every day to fill gap in class appropriate learning among children for next three months so that the child is able to comprehend the subject matter on the current class to which she/he has been promoted. This will be followed with supplementing the educational process of current learning level as per class enrolled. Each SEC will support 40 children and 20 such centres will be run for next six months (15th feb 2022 - 15 August 22) under the proposed project. ·        Back to School campaign will be organized to bring the children back and retain children in School’s post CoVID pandemic. ·        Capacity Building of SEC volunteers on inclusive teaching methodology to address the learning outcomes of the children. ·        Promoting Covid safety protocols in schools and villages among children through: Behavior change communication, sensitization of govt. schools’ teachers and community.  
 The project will impact in improving the educational competencies of the children of the mahadalit communities enabling their retention in the schools and improved learning outcomes. This will also promote the inclusive educational process in schools and also motivate parents to send their children to schools. To capacity building initiatives of the volunteers will not only develop a cadre of resource groups to support the supplementary education in villages but also support the home-based learning among the larger group of children. The cadre of volunteer will keep on raising the educational issues at various platforms for improvement of educational services in schools. Promoting covid safety protocols through Behavior change communication and vaccination drive to promote the safety cover for children in the age group 6-18 yrs against covid infections thereby reducing mortality and morbidity among children.

Back to  Schools – An intervention to ensure the progressive learning outcomes of children from Mahadalit communities in Tajpur block of Samasitpur, Bihar

The growing urbanization in bihar has resulted in a development of over 165 informal inhabitations of Urban poor and homeless residing in temporary shelters, slums spread across the city of Patna and as temporary housing for over 4500o families. Most of the families work as daily wage earners or run petty trading activity for earning a livelihood. In adequate income of majority of these families exert pressure on children to earn and support household works especially girls in hazardous occupations, rag pickers etc. resulting in large number of school drop outs and adversely impacting the educational processes.  
 Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti (DVAS) has been promoting home based learning approach in 14 urban slums of Patna through its cadre of Volunteers to address the learning loss of such 432 girls and enhancing their learning levels with engagement of their parents in the teaching learning process. Further the organization is also sensitizing such families to bring the girl child back to the folds of the schools and have been successful in enrolling around 86 girls in the government schools in the vicinity of the settlements in cooperation with the school teachers enabling the children to pursue their primary and secondary education. DVAS has also linked over 800 urban poor and homeless families with different social security schemes of government to reduce the pressure on children to earn thereby encouraging parents to send their child especially girls to schools.  
 The impact of the program would be enhancement of about 400 girls in the formal education process. In 20-21 around 400-450 girls were provided education support (expense of books, copies, shoes, water bottle etc) .The program will also make marked difference in instilling confidence of the children enabling them to pursue their education and completed their formal education in primary and secondary levels.

Livelihood and nutritional support program for rural women:

You educate a man, you educate a man. You educate a woman, you educate a family.

Back to Schools – An intervention to ensure the progressive learning outcomes of children from Mahadalit communities in Tajpur block of Samasitpur, Bihar

Providing Educational and Nutritional Support for Girl child of Urban Poor and Homeless Families

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