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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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.This Christmas, you can gift these kids, through your donations, books and warm clothes.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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Ekta Foundation is a nongovernmental and non-profit making (NGO), based in Delhi, NCR. All our current interventions are located in Delhi, Faridabad and NCR areas along with Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bihar. Ekta Foundation specializes in implementation of CSR projects of various leading corporate in Education and Skill Development Sectors. Our ongoing projects are being supported by organisations like Time Foundation, Saswaka India Leprosy Foundation, Credai -PNB Housing Finance, CREDAI Skills, Philips, Godrej, Action Aid India etc.Ekta Foundation was established in the year 2010 to provide education to the underprivileged children, to build better livelihood opportunities for the underprivileged youths, with an intention to bridge gap between opportunities available to the potential target group and enable the student job-ready.The thought process behind Ekta Foundation is that quality education is the only medium that can improve the living standards of the people in urban poverty. It is the most powerful tool, which can equip them to make informed and intelligent choices about their lives and future. Ekta Foundation believes that education is the only weapon to fight poverty and truly empower the children who tomorrow will be the face of India. Ekta Foundation seeks to achieve a better tomorrow through the medium of education and unleash the power of knowledge that is inaccessible to millions.Remedial centres (Quality Education) of Ekta Foundation:Ekta Foundation is working tirelessly in improvement of child Education and currently has 2 schools one in Nazafgarh in Delhi and the other one at Purulia, West Bengal, where Ekta is focusing on:·        Infrastructure development keeping child psychology in mind·        Process improvement by integrating mobile app-based school management system for transparency ·        Establishing Toy libraries in schools·        Establishing libraries in the schools·        Teachers training on academy and mandatory computer education ·        Apart from above Ekta Foundation also covers:·        Giving remedial coaching to Std 1st to 8th students who cannot READ-WRITE-CALCULATE basic things. ·        Character Development for Students: Last one-year EF has started character development for students apart from remedial teaching.EF has one Remedial centre cum Primary School in Purulia West Bengal , Jhahar, Hayana and Secondary School in Najafgarh, New DelhiWe are also providing our services in strengthening the non-functional mechanisms at schools and community with the involvement of Corporate (CSR initiatives) and participation of community leaders in order to create Model infrastructure for a safer childhood. Ekta Foundation also encourages healthy living standards through its Health programs for the children and other stakeholders within the community. COVID-19: Response:- With the help of volunteers we are reaching out to more than 600 migrant labouers and truck drivers since the lockdown with cooked meals-2 times a day.

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India is home to the largest child population in the world. The Indian State guarantees all children their rights and entitlements under the Constitution of India through its various provisions. According to the Directive Principles of State Policy in the Constitution, it is an obligation of the State to ensure that children are protected from exploitation, moral and material abandonment throughout the period of growth and development. However, in India millions of children grow without any social and legal protection. One such category is that of vulnerable migrant children who are still considered as invisible and unnoticed due to their frequent mobility and fragmented location.The migratory trends into and within the Delhi &amp; NCR region and away from the source areas in the districts within the state and to other states as well as from other states reflects the state of vulnerability that the people face and especially that of children, who are dropped out or never enrolled. The children get lost in the inter generational development process along with their peers in the source area as well as in the destination areas, as they primarily loose out the opportunity of education and overall well being by being with their parents in a different work site location.As part of the right to education, every child has right to free nutritious food and compulsory education, therefore, in this context it is important to provide education to the children of the migrant populations. These children need to be mainstreamed into the formal education system in the source and destination areas, whereby they are able to attend the school regularly along with their peers and also enjoy their childhood. 
 Ekta Foundation will address these issues of nutrition, health, lack of access to basic services by young migrant children, pregnant &amp; lactating women at work sites, along with learning, growth issues and mainstreaming of school going children.Ekta Foundation will establish Care &amp; Knowledge Centre (CKC) with the support of donation received, wherein young migrant children will have access to safe and better environment for learning and development. Each CKC will have a facilitator who would be trained by Ekta Foundation for facilitating the process of child development among the young migrants. It would emphasize on ensuring: -·        A safe and protected environment for young migrants at the work site·        Quality learning and development of young migrant at work sites·        Young migrant children in the work site are linked to government supported ICDS nutritional food, immunization, health care support at the work sites·        Inculcate habit of hand washing from early childhood·        Provide access to basic sanitation·        Access to clean drinking water·        Behavior change communication through awareness and capacity building 
 This initiative is a very unique for raising the education and safety standard of the underprivileged children. This initiative consists of various components having 360-degree approach towards the problems solving. It broadly covers few thematic areas such as quality education, health &amp; safety benefits, nutrition and safe drinking water facilities at slum location for children. This project is a one year project.. Project will reach out to 1000 children by establishing 5 centers in 5 cities of Delhi -NCR, and West Bengal (Delhi, Noida, , Gurgaon &amp; Purulia) with below given border objective.·        Core CKC team of Ekta Foundation will provide technical support to Field level CKC for quality implementation through training &amp; capacity building, provide quality input through periodical monitoring and supervision, Prepare IEC materials and documenting best practices·        Shall develop best practices and key learning for policy change.·        Implement the programme at ground level by starting of CKC and coordinate day to day activities at specified locations·        Involve in mapping exercise to identify the migrant children and families and their socio economic background in their respective districts·        Coordinate with the local administration and concerned departments.·        Identify and recruit education cadre for running of the CKCs. The capacity building of education cadre shall be done by Ekta Foundation·        Mobilize migrant children and enrolment in CKCs. ·        Monitor the day to day activities of the CKCs.·        Facilitate visits of government officials and other stakeholders to CKCs.·        Maintain all documentation of the project and establish transparency and accountability mechanisms

CKC (Care and Knowledge Center) -  Quality Education & Food for - ALL  (Covid -19 Pandemic)

Ekta Foundation is working towards women empowerment by identifying beneficiaries from the lower strata of society, who are in urgent need of livelihood to support their family. Women who have faced violence in past need our support for a long-term intervention, one of the interventions proposed in to make them self-dependent. Project Atmanirbhar by Ekta Foundation is to create sustainable livelihood for our beneficiaries (women) and empower them with regular income. In order to build their skills and help them to become self- reliant we are setting up a tailoring unit, where girls will be engaged in producing masks, cloth bags and other items for local market. Ekta Foundation has developed credible market linkage for the SHGs to sale products like cloth mask, bags and other home utility products. 
 A tailoring unit is being set up in order to impart the skills to these women. Currently we have 5 machines and we need ten more machines. We also need to support them with raw materials and an instructor to train them. The income generated through this project will transferred to these women’s SHG bank accounts for their future. This will not only help them be independent but also be helping to sustain their families 
 COVID 19 has indeed brought us distress, however it has given us also some opportunities for reflection and action. The women will be empowered and made independent. Ekta Foundation shall help them to market their products. Through this training they will not only be able to change lives of themselves but also impact their families in the long run.

CKC (Care and Knowledge Center) - Quality Education & Food for - ALL (Covid -19 Pandemic)

Atmanirbhar Program on Women Empowerment

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