"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

“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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MUKTI, a non-profit socio-economic organization is working in the Delta region of Sundarbans (world UNESCO Heritage site) and more than 10 other districts of West Bengal since 2003 creating impact for more than 10 lakh beneficiaries covering about 1.5 lakhs households including 30,000 SHG women and 3500 children. MUKTI is a registered Trust has all the legal compliances for example CSR form 1, 12AA, 80G, TISS empanelment, FCRA. MUKTI is collaborating with more than 80 renowned enterprises around the world.VisionTo empower and engage the largest number of volunteers to create a grassroots level socio-economic development organization that contributes to sustainable development of people in need.MissionMUKTI’s mission is to work as a HEALER - AID for our society in the area of Health (Health, Water &amp; Sanitation), Education (Education &amp; Empowerment), Agriculture (Agricultural Reforms), Livelihood (Livelihood &amp; Sustainability), Environment (Environment), Rights (Recover &amp; Resiliency) , Awareness &amp; Empowerment (A), Integrated Development (I) and Disaster Response, irrespective of caste, creed, age and gender.ReachThe organization is actively working in North and South 24 Pgs district of West Bengal and recently started our intervention through several projects in other parts of the state, including Purba and Paschim Medinipur.

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We all are witnessed an unprecedented loss of human life around us during the second wave of the pandemic. We have received immense love and support from all over the world. However, deploying these concentrators, procuring medicines, transportation, hiring staff, doctors, nurses was a huge investment for us. We used our own funds for transportation of OCs, salary of the manpower involved etc. We need your support to overcome these huge gap in funding. 
 MUKTI successfully deployed 1700+ Oxygen Concentrators under two different projects i.e Project Breathe (HelloBeta) and Supporting Health care services in Rural West Bengal at free of cost, along with free oximeter and medicine kit.Implementation of such a huge project demands funds. We are thankful to the organization who supported us in this cause, however we end up investing our own funds to pay salaries of the staff, loading-unloading charges, transportation charges, procuring medicine kits etc.We are providing all the services at free of cost and to provide a long term solution to this, MUKTI has purchased two Ambulance which are functioning in interior parts of the West Bengal. We need your continuous support to strengthen our cause.With your donation Mukti will not cater the medical need of people residing in interiors part of all over the West Bengal by establishing our medical centers, where we will provide free medical kit, oxygen support, free health checkup and ambulance service as and when needed to the under privileged people of West Bengal. 
 One Oxygen concentrator will serve around 10 patients over the next two months at least. Along with a medical kit which consist of specific medicines for Covid-19. By this we can save many lives and help people to get the required equipment's and medicine at their doorstep. Looking forward to saving lives together.

Mukti Covid Care Unit - To support the needy people

Sundarbans, a cluster of remote villages in the southern part of West Bengal, are facing the following situations triggered by COVID-19. (i) Complete disruption of the producer-retailer-seller chain leading to widely varying prices of commodities from one location to another. This is bound to have serious repercussions with the local people, who are mostly very poor.(ii) Most of them are now jobless and even struggling for a one time meal.(ii) Village markets are kept open for about a couple of hours. This creates massive footfall. Consequently, social distancing is not maintained. (iii) The twin tragedy of Covid &amp; Amphan completely devastated life of the local people. The damaged due to cyclone expected to be around 95% in Sundarbans. 
 As a response, MCS has been envisaged and activated as a pilot project to mitigate these adverse effects in the following manner. i) Delivering food and essential items door to door. Only those wearing masks are entertained. ii) Operating as a zero-margin model - selling and buying price are same. Price of items are pre-decided by members of the local village community to ensure fairness.  iii) Allowing transaction in kind. This innovative feature facilitates exchange of surplus items which can be part of home yield (farm products or poultry) with something else. iv) Employment generation for local people who have been rendered jobless because of the current scenario.v) Sale of locally produce material which will boost the confidence among people and also increase the source of livelihood for them. 
 MCS, is already in operation with 10 mobile shops/vans and is covering a geographical area housing about 7000 family. External grant support is immediately required to expand the reach of this model and sustain it over a period of time.To have a meaningful social impact over a larger region, MUKTI has set an immediate target of catering to at least 50000 families through 70 vans over the next 6 months.i) At present, MCS is covering 7000 families through 10 shopping vans. This mechanism has been put in place using MUKTI’s own resources.ii) The next immediate target is scale-up the operations and reach out to an area housing 50000 families and serve for the next 6 monthsiii) Scaling up of the operation in terms of hiring man power can be readily addressed by using MUKTI’s own resources and wide network in Sundarbans.iv) It is estimated that once the necessary financial resources are available, it would take about 2 months to scale-up the operations to 70 -80 shops &amp; leading to increase in source of income.

Mukti Community Shop on Wheels

The existence of Sundarbans is under tremendous threat due to massive deforestation on a regular basis by human being for their livelihood. The deforested land is completely barren and not suitable for traditional cultivation. Frequent Cyclones are often impacting forest, wild life and human inhabitant. The land for agriculture is mostly single-crop and dependent on rain water at monsoon time only, which is one of the reasons of people’s poor financial condition in the Deltas. Due to deforestation, Soil erosion, Cyclone, High tide, life of human and animals are facing huge challenge at the moment. 
 MUKTI has started working on this problem and has targeted to find a solution by utilizing the barren land created by deforestation. Large scale coconut and other local varieties of plants are being planted to increase forest, mitigate fuel needs of local people and increase income of inhabitant so that human dependencies on forest can be reduced. Many places of Sundarbans also do not have any electricity; we promote alternate energy like solar power. MUKTI engages school children and local people to increase awareness on global warming, and danger of deforestation. We engage Women mostly for plantation activities. 
 MUKTI Self Help Group women are engaged in plantation like coconut and mangrove, which is generating income for local people. Impact of this project is multifold like women empowerment, reforestation in deforested land of Sundarbans, as Coconut is called the tree of life and being economic crop. As a result of this, the income of local people is increasing, proper utilization of barren land are being utilized to improve the environment and livelihood. Most of the plantation is happening at river side which is protecting soil from erosion. This civil forest is protecting cyclone and is being used for disaster recovery.

Plantation and Sustainable Agriculture

Average people of Sundarbans delta are extremely poor. Their livelihood is mostly dependent on single-crop agriculture, cutting wood from jangle, catching fish etc. Women of this delta region are even more vulnerable due to economic condition and lack of proper education. That is the reason Sundarbans is the biggest source in West Bengal for women trafficking. The women of Sundarbans need to travel a long way from their home to town for their daily work and the means of transport are neither safe nor comfortable for women. The dignity of women is compromised and they often face sexual abuse at their work place. Average education on Delta is 45% where women education rate is below 30%. Women power of Sundarbans Delta is under-utilized due to lack of lack of proper social structure and lack of enough opportunity. 
 To address this challenge in Sundarbans, MUKTI has designed a unique Self Help Group (SHG) and Micro Credit model for women. As part of this model, MUKTI provides 3 skill development training, interest free loan, and a self-governed mechanism for running the groups. The success of this model can be observed by the rapid progress of this project in last few years. Around 5000+ women joined in last 3 years in the programme where 1200+ women doing business successfully after getting training from MUKTI and receiving interest free loan. The loan repayment is almost 100% as our model is designed in such a way that each SHG group ensures the repayment of their loan. Administrative cost is also very less here, as women find their leader by selection/election method and manage the whole programme on their own. MUKTI is running 6 clusters of SHGs and wish to grow up to 10 by 2017. 
 MUKTI has now successfully created an avenue for the women force of Sundarbans. Many women leaders are now moving one step forward and leading some society development activities as well. Women from these SHG groups are now earning Rs 3000 -10000 per month. A large group of women are selling their products in various exhibitions and in towns. More than 50 women have established themselves as trainer of various businesses. Women trafficking have come down and self-respect has been restored for women who are engaged with this programme. Migration to town has been reduced significantly.