"My son used to kick me when he was in my womb. Why make an issue when he kicked me in my old age?" reasons a very forgiving Shakti Dasi. The widow travelled 2300 kms from Tripura to Vrindavan after her only son violently beat her with a burning plank of wood and broke her knee one evening. She had to leave behind the business she had built with her husband who had died a few years back. Shakti ended up on the streets of Brindavan begging for food and shelter. But when Winnie Singh of Maitri saw Shakti in a frail state in tattered clothes, she brought her to the shelter home where Shakti gets food, care and medicines. What more, with Maitri’s intervention, Shakti reconciled with her son - and daughter-in-law, and now travels home to Tripura twice a year to spend time with her grandchildren. But she is not leaving Maitri, as this has become her family.Not every elderly widow who comes to Vrindavan after being abandoned by her family gets as lucky as Shakti. Many of them often end up living a lonely life and begging to survive on the streets. Maitri aspires to take care of every widow in need of help.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/ce101369-528c-4d37-bc1d-1118b9925af3.jpg" />Maitri’s Project Jeevan to the rescueAbandoned, elderly widows are the amongst the most vulnerable in India. After being thrown out of their often abandoned by their own children and are forced to beg for food and shelter. “Through Project Jeevan, Maitri houses aging widow mothers in two ashrams in Vrindavan and Radhakund (Mathura), providing them with wellness and well-being. The programme also reaches out to widow mothers beyond the ashrams with fruit, milk and healthcare services,” explains Winnie Singh, co-founder and executive director, Maitri India.Save homeless elderly widows from begging on the streetsMost widows who make their way to Vrindavan are abandoned by their families, often after years of abuse. They come here hoping they will spend the rest of their days in prayer and devotion. But most live in impoverished conditions on the streets and in dingy rooms. Since poor living conditions often cause a wide range of health ailments, including respiratory infections and chronic conditions, Maitri comes to their rescue through its Project Jeevan.The project aims to:<ul><li>Provide meals leading to improved health and wellbeing</li><li>Make physical and mental health services accessible</li><li>Offer necessary quality aged care and assisted living support</li><li>Increase awareness on and engagement around the struggles of abandoned widow mothers</li></ul><img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />Project Jeevan needs your support to help those in need of food, healthcare and well-being. Donate now.“Maitri urgently needs your support to provide food, clothing and healthcare to sustain these widow mothers who are prone to more illnesses as they age,” appeals Winnie.Maitri believes in a woman’s right to dignity in life and death, more so a mother. Our help will enable Maitri to save hundreds of abandoned widows from a life of begging, and restore the respect, dignity, and identity they deserve.

Save abandoned, elderly widow mothers of Vrindavan from begging on streets

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.

Help Dr. Bhagat care for 500+ elderly parents rescued from abuse and homelessness

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.

Help Girish give 250 HIV+ children, rescued from abuse in red-light areas a new life

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The second wave of COVID 19 attacked India with unprecedented fury. While hundreds of thousands died, millions faced acute food shortages and hunger. The common refrain was "if COVID didn't kill them, hunger would". Women and children, especially girls were worst affected. The immediate and most urgent need is to provide and secure families with a means to achieve food security and thus fight the long-term effects of malnourishment. iPartner India is implementing a project called ‘Rakshan’ in Rajasthan. Rakshan works on creating safe spaces for girls and women and aspires to create villages that are violence-free and where girls and women can exercise their agency to make their own choices. Like the whole of India, the villages in Rajasthan were also affected by COVID-19. One of the activities carried out in the villages where Rakshan is being implemented is to help families become self-sustainable. After the initial relief work, it was realised that micro-interventions like setting up a kitchen garden help families sustain during the pandemic and also in the future when livelihoods would be hit. The immediate and most urgent need is to provide families with a means to achieve food security and thus fight the long-term effects of malnourishment. 
 iPartner India is committed to empowering women to become self-reliant. The pandemic affected everyone but affected the incomes of poor families the most. Thousands went hungry during the first wave of the pandemic. As a solution, we trained women from 1,895 families to set up kitchen gardens. These could be easily maintained on a small patch of land with basic training. Women were able to produce organic vegetables which they used and sold the excess vegetables grown to achieve sustainability. Rakshan team has identified 2,040 families in the 27 intervention villages of Tonk, Rajasthan. iPartner India will provide training to these women to set up and maintain kitchen gardens and will also provide them with initial supplies/seeds etc. The proposed project will set up kitchen gardens for 2,040 extremely poor and vulnerable families in the Tonk district of Rajasthan to help them keep hunger and malnutrition at bay during the pandemic. Women will be trained and empowered to manage these kitchen gardens. We have already trained 1,895 families with food security during the second deadly wave of the pandemic as it became clear that hunger could be more deadly than COVID. This concept has proved to be sustainable and has a high impact. Therefore, we propose to train additional women farmers from 2,040 families. The aim is also to make families self-reliant and live a life of dignity. 
 We envisage the Kitchen gardens concept having multiple long-term impacts on women and their families. 1) The first almost immeasurable impact is the prevention of hunger-related deaths and an increase in nutrition levels with the consumption of healthy and organic vegetables. 2) Women will have an alternate source of income from selling the surplus. 3) Financial inclusion training on Savings and setting up bank accounts and training on reinvestment of surplus funds would ensure long-term sustainability.

Help 2000 tribal families fight hunger in Rajasthan

Women have been systematically excluded from higher education, vocational trainings and as a result remunerative work and employment. Families and households give greater priority to the education and training of boys and men, creating a vicious cycle whereby girls and women are consistently denied bettering of their work and employment prospects, their access and capacity for decision-making and the possibility of determining the course of their own lives. The last decade has seen a percentage increase of women in higher education, but a steep decline in the women workforce participation rate.One of the ways to break this vicious cycle of denying women their rights is creating the training and development opportunities for resource poor women and increasing their access to them. 
 iPartner India presents an innovative model providing livelihood with dignity to rural woman whilst also saving our environment. Women are stitching cloth bags to replace plastic bags which are now being banned due to hazardous impact on the environment. We are facing one of the most serious environmental disasters in history. Discarded plastic wrappers, cups and bags litter the streets of Indian cities and beaches and make up part of the mountain-sized landfills on the outskirts of our cities!The need of the hour is to find a sustainable replacement for the plastic bags. Seeking an alternative to plastic bags, iPartner India has collaborated with garment factories who are donating their excess fabric to these women, who then stitch simple shopping bags which are then sold to shop owners and other retail outlets for their customers to use.With over 21 billion tonnes of fabric being wasted every year, this is a pro-active step forward to reduce the 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste in India. 
 The women who will receive your support belong to the most marginalized edges of society, who experience various forms of negligence within their communities and are most often denied access to their basic rights. At home, these women encounter repeated episodes of domestic and gender based violence and are not allowed to experience freedom to choose and live. iPartner India’s experience of working with women shows that when women earn, they are able to effectively break the cycle abuse, pay more attention to nutrition and the health needs of their entire family, educate their children, and are more confident to take part in decision making for themselves and their family. Your support will help resource poor women from West Bengal, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Your support will go towards purchasing sewing machines, setting up a sewing centre and providing marketing support for selling the bags made by these women. Through you support women will be able to earn livelihood with dignity and will be paid for each bag they stitch and many of them will be able to earn between INR 8,000 - 10,000 a month by stitching up to 30 bags a day.Every donation you make will ensure that a woman is able to stand on her own two feet- offering the chance of an education to her children, making her future bright.

500 women are waiting to defeat poverty through your support!

When India was almost in the celebration mode over the arrival of vaccines and declining COVID-19 cases, the second wave of COVID-19 crushed the future plans and human lives with a raging speed. The preventive measures to control the spread of the infection and health infrastructure to treat infected people seems helpless with the surge in COVID-19 infection rate everyday.Well over 4,00,000 positive cases each day - the highest figures recorded in any country at any point during the pandemic. In cities and towns across India, the tragedy is the same. There is severe shortage of beds, medicines, and testing equipment. This time around, the situation is dire. The nation’s healthcare system is overburdened and there is an urgent need to provide medical assistance to those who are critically ill. As patients are being turned away from hospitals, there is also an urgent need to provide essential medicines and food to those struggling to survive at home. In the recent past, requests for basic food, rations from vulnerable communities we work with are increasing. 
 Through this fundraiser, iPartner India is making an urgent appeal for 280 families that we have identified from 9 villages in Rajasthan, who are inurgent need of food and medicines. These families comprise of migrants who have returned as lockdown was imposed in other states, daily wage labourers with no work at this time and returning sex workers.Most of these families are in isolation and some have reported suffering from severe illness after returning back to the village. They are in need of food, supplements, sanitation items and medicines to cope in these difficult times.It is a race against time and we need your support more than ever, TODAY. 
 iPartner India would like to ensure zero death from hunger within the targeted 280 families. We would like to be a pillar of support for those struggling in isolation without food and any medical care and support. Partner India will ensure that 280 families receives the best care, nutrition and psychosocial support to go through the pandemic.

Save 280 families in Rajasthan from hunger and preventive deaths due to COVID-19!

The second wave of Covid-19 is sweeping through India with the ferocity of an inferno and we have all sadly seen the haunting, heart-breaking images of death and human suffering that it is leaving in its wake.Well over 300,000 positive cases each day - the highest figures recorded in any country at any point during the pandemic.  Deaths are soaring and the makeshift pyres being constructed on pavements outside crematoriums are a grim reminder that the official death toll is probably grossly underestimated.In cities across India, the tragedy is the same. Desperate shortage of beds, oxygen running out, medicines are scarce, ventilators only available for the lucky few. The situation in smaller towns and villages is unimaginable. Last year, thousands of NGOs and their staff stepped in across the country to provide basic food and medical supplies to thousands of migrants and marginalised communities.This time around, the situation is dire. The sudden spike in cases has brought the nation's healthcare system to its knees and urgent funds are needed to support front line workers, migrant families and critically ill COVID-19 patients who are struggling for oxygen support. 
 With many parts of the country on lockdown, requests for basic food rations from vulnerable communities we work with are increasing. iPartner India has identified the families of migrants and other vulnerable groups across various states of India who are in the dire need of receiving basic essentials. iPartner India will provide ration support, hygiene kit and basic medicines to such families. There is also an urgent need to provide Oxygen to those needlessly dying in hospitals due to the shortage of it. As critically ill patients are being turned away from hospitals, there is a need to provide essential medicines, food and even oxygen supplies to those struggling to survive at home. We have also been forced to recognise the need to provide immediate and much needed support to our frontline workers. iPartner India will ensure oxygen support to critically ill patients and home based care, medical consultation and treatment to COVID-19 positive person from a vulnerable group or to our frontline workers from NGOs.It is a race against time. We are being flooded with cries for help. Civil society led efforts are the only ones actually reaching people in distress therefore we must not stop and continue our efforts to save lives.   
 iPartner India would like to ensure zero death from hunger. iPartner India would like to see people walking out happy and healthy from COVID hospitals.We would like to be a pillar of support for those struggling in isolation without any medical care and support be it an individual or our frontline workers.iPartner India will ensure support to 152 patients struggling for oxygen, 500 families for ration support, and 100 COVID-19 patients for home based care and treatment.