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, Of the 250 the children rescued from abuse and exploitation, around 70 of them 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 Ahilyanagar, 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 good number 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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“I saw a girl, barely 7 or 8, being pushed into flesh trade. Her cries for help still echo in my ears. There were men as old as 60 r*ping the innocent child. That was the day I knew my mission in life was to get these children out of the hell-like conditions in red-light areas. They are nothing short of hell and no child deserves to grow up in this environment” says Vinay Vasta, founder of Social Activities Integration, an organisation committed to freeing children trapped in red-light areas.Vinay and his NGO have been able to provide education, medical care and nutrition to over 2,500 children. But his dream to provide safe shelter to children remains unrealized. “We do our best to keep these children safe during the day but sadly they are forced to go back to the red light areas at night as we don’t have a home for them. Your donation can help us build a safe home for children of sex workers and prevent them from being pulled into prostitution. Donate to make this dream a realityDonate 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).Life in red light areas“S*x workers use their homes which are barely 6 feet by 4 feet for their business. They invite customers in the presence of their children. Their children not only witness abuse but experience it too. Just imagine a child being told that all she can ever become in life is a pr*stitute”, Vinay shares as he explains the extent of abuse children face in red light areas.This is a life that thousands of children are forced to live behind closed doors where they suffer abuse and exploitation morning, noon and night.A ray of hopeVinay has been relentlessly trying to give children the care and education they deserve. He has provided quality English education to thousands of children, enabling them to secure a livelihood out of red-light areas. Several children taught by Vinay are today leading successful lives as professionals and Government employees. However the sad reality is that Vinay and his NGO, in the absence of a permanent shelter home, are unable to provide round the clock safety to these children, which is essential for their well-being.Your donations can enable SAI to build a shelter home for the children of sex workers and usher in a new tomorrow for them, away from the horrors of red-light areas.Donate to this fundraiser on Give.do, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to provide safe shelter for children of sex workers and save them from abuse and second generation pr*stitution.NGO's 80G number: AACTS0408EF20216NGO's 12A number: AACTS0408EE20028

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“I used to be sexually abused repeatedly, and when I screamed in pain, they hit and threatened me with more violence,” says Priya (name changed), a rescued child sex worker. Priya was abducted by traffickers and sold into a red-light area house before she was rescued by Guria led by Manju. For over two decades, Manju has been rescuing young girls forced into prostitution across the country. She has been shaken to the core seeing some of the most horrifying crimes that young girls have to undergo. “You can’t imagine the state of girls forced into sex work. The girls are given electric shocks and burnt with cigarette butts just to get kicks out of it. And if they get pregnant, the "owners" kick them repeatedly in the womb so that the child inside dies…If you want to see hell, it is here on this planet where young girls are sexually abused,” says Manju.Manju needs your help to rescue more young girls from forced prostitution and reunite them with their families. Donate now.Guria’s work over the yearsBased out of Varanasi, inarguably the holiest place in India, Manju and her organisation Guria, fights the sexual exploitation of girls, especially minors, by taking on the traffickers head-on, and rescuing and rehabilitating them.Started in 1993, Guria has rescued over 5500 persons from slavery, sex trafficking, and child prostitution so far. It has also been instrumental in shutting down hundreds of places that housed trafficked girls and putting scores of traffickers out of business and in jail.For instance, in 2005, a Guria-led rescue operation in Varanasi's red-light area led to the freeing of 49 women and girls, including minors. Many of them were kept against their will. Some of the traffickers were also arrested and tried. Since then, Guria has rescued thousands of young girls.Manju and her husband, Ajeet Singh began rescuing girls from Varanasi’s red-light areas and then working to stop the sex-trafficking of young girls within Uttar Pradesh and outside. The organisation’s aim is to eliminate the sex trafficking of women, especially minor girls, end second-generation prostitution and child prostitution, and rehabilitate women and girls who are rescued from the trade. Manju has faced violent backlash from the traffickers and other vested interests, but it has not deterred her from carrying on rescuing young girls from trafficking. Rescue and rehabilitationBesides rescuing girls trafficked for sex, mostly from low-income families, from across the country, Guria fights on their behalf in courts and also provides education, food, vocational training, and other facilities until they are united with their families. But because of a lack of funds, Guria is finding it difficult to rescue more girls and also take care of them once they are away from the clutches of the traffickers. Take the case of Sameena (name changed), who was abducted from Uttar Pradesh all the way to Telangana. Guria took it upon itself to rescue the girl with the help of its own work and also the authorities. After months of rehabilitation, Sameena went back to her family and even completed her education. With your support, Manju can rescue many more young girls from trafficking and help them live the life of their dreams.

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Peepul is an education-focused non-profit. We dream and work towards creating an education system in India that enables ‘every child to realize his/her potential.’ We work closely with governments at the national, state and corporation levels to transform government schools and government systems. We partner with government school systems in India so that the poorest of the poor in India have the opportunity to become strong leaders and successful citizens. Peepul works intensively across the Indian states of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.India has a large education system with over 250 million children, of whom nearly two-thirds go to the 1.5 million government-run schools. The poorest of the poor in India depend on the public education system to realize their dreams of a better future. This system being free of cost is a lifeline for them, and the government expends immense resources towards enabling learning for these children. However, The 2022 ASER survey indicates that only 21% of the students in Grade 3 had basic reading ability while only 26% had basic arithmetic ability. For Grade 5, the number stood at 43% and 26%, respectively. If left unaddressed, this crisis in education will leave a large section of the future generation without essential life skills, critical thinking abilities, and core human values.Peepul, together with teachers, principals and government officials, works on government school system transformation in India so that the system can begin to shift from a focus on school administration to a focus on classroom learning. Peepul closely partners with national, state and local governments to creating meaningful engagement between students and teachers to improve learning outcomes, and create exemplar education ecosystems that help every child achieve their potential. Peepul’s approach to creating exemplar education ecosystem has four critical pillars.(1) creating model demonstration schools to build belief that high-quality education is possible in public schools(2) teacher skilling to build cadres of high-quality teachers(3) strengthening mentoring and coaching of teachers, by school principals, block and cluster-level academic officials, to ensure a supportive ecosystem that sustains and(4) constructive monitoring and administration to ensure data-based support and enablement that builds accountability within the systemAt a programmatic level, we run systemic education programmes that, together, ensure that we adopt a holistic view towards improving state education systems:<ol><li>Exemplar Schools, Delhi – we run three Exemplar schools in New Delhi, catering to 1000+ students, under a public-private-partnership model with the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, deploying a whole-school-transformation approach that caters to students from the poorest of the poor backgrounds. These schools are ‘bright-spots’ in the system and act as lighthouses for the possibilities within it, setting a benchmark for what great looks like in the system. The schools' exhibit exemplar results – 85%+ of our children meet or exceed grade-level expectations while showing ~ 2-3x better performance in foundational literacy and numeracy compared to other government schools in the same municipality. </li><li>Teacher Development programme, Delhi - We run capacity-building workshops for government school teachers in New Delhi to build the capacity of the system to deliver high-quality education. We use a three-pronged strategy of – (1) bite-sized modular training sessions, (2) professional learning communities, and (3) in-classroom observations and support to build the capacity of teachers. As a result, 95% of trained teachers have implemented classroom management techniques from the workshops while 77% of were able to fulfil their intended lesson objectives. This program will train 2,500 teachers and 48 Master Trainers over the coming three years. </li><li>MCD School Education Transformation Programme, Delhi - Peepul is driving a 3-year holistic system strengthening programme, towards improving learning outcomes across government schools under Municipal Corporation Delhi (MCD). This project reaches out to 8,00,000+ students and 17,000+ teachers across 1500+ MCD schools. The programme design has two primary objectives: (a) Improve the learning outcomes of students in the state school system, (b) At a system level, develop the capacity of the state to support and further improve its education system after the conclusion of the programme. ​</li><li>Chief Minister’s CM Rise programme, Madhya Pradesh - CM Rise is a flagship program of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh for which Peepul is the chief implementation partner. The program aims to build the resilience of the government education system to nurture a holistic student learning ecosystem. The program currently has 275 CM RISE schools and aims to build a total of 9200+ schools in the state that will offer high quality education to children from economically and socially weaker sections of the society.</li><li>CM RISE Teacher Professional Development, Madhya Pradesh - We have partnered with the Government of Madhya Pradesh on the CM Rise Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programme— a state-wide effort to support 300,000 government school teachers in improving their pedagogical and academic interventions. We took on the challenge of training all teachers in Madhya Pradesh by building upon existing digital public infrastructure— the DIKSHA Platform. We made national assets by rolling out digital bite-sized modules across the state and monitored teacher's participation. In addition to digital training, we diversified our interventions to include in-person training and supporting mentor teachers in conducting classroom observations.</li><li>Digital Literacy, Delhi - The Digital Literacy Programme was introduced to provide 21st-century skills to children from underprivileged communities. Peepul and Amazon Future Engineer (AFE) have collaborated with a mission to set up digital labs and incorporate a computer science-based curriculum to impart coding and computational skills. The Digital Literacy Programme in Delhi aims to bring a systemic change by creating space for a computer science curriculum in MCD schools for grades 3, 4 and 5. The programme aims to provide early access to digital learning and develop 21st-century skills through block-based programming. Peepul has scaled the digital literacy programme to 47 MCD schools and 9400 students by providing in-person training to teachers who can provide a minimum of 1 hour of digital access per week to students. </li><li>Digital Literacy, Madhya Pradesh - The Digital Literacy programme in Madhya Pradesh aims to equip teachers and master trainers to build computational skills among their peers and students. We are supporting the School Education Department to pilot a curriculum in 80 schools to teach computers in grades 6th, 7th, and 8th. As per the curriculum, 42 periods (40 minutes each) have been assigned to teach computers comprising topics like Fundamentals of Computers, Block-based coding (Scratch Jr.), and Digital Citizenship in one academic year.</li><li>LIFT-Ed: Assessment Reforms, Delhi - LIFT-Ed is a programme funded by the FLN-focused Development Impact Bond (DIB). This multi-year project focuses on “Assessment-informed Instruction” to drive improvement in student learning outcomes in MCD. This outcome-focused programme aims to lay a strong FLN foundation among the primary students of government schools. In LIFT-Ed, our theory of change is that embedded government partnerships and capacity-building of stakeholders will lead to the strengthening of systems at all levels and data-driven shifts in classroom practices, thereby improving SLOs in the long term. As part of the programme, we are building the capacity of: (a) teachers to conduct formative assessments and improvise instructional practices, (b) school heads (HoS) to provide mentorship to teachers and make data-based decisions, and (c) officials to drive systemic data-based decision-making.</li></ol>

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750 families will be getting their first supply of rations within this week thanks to all the generous donations from everyone here. We have already procured the material and are having them delivered to the schools where we work. The ration is being provided to the families of our exemplar school students. The families will come to school in batches and collect their ration supply. Our community officers will be present to ensure a smooth and safe process. We are currently providing 2 weeks supply in the first round of provisions. It's been a tough time for our communities and thanks to each and every donation we received we have been able to start with the ration distribution. Please spread the fundraiser within your networks to enable us to do more for our communities.

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