"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

“What will happen to them after me? I am 80+. I spend sleepless nights,” worries ex-Air Force officer, Group Captain AC Barua while talking about the future of the 28 destitute women under his care. “They have nobody in this world, sometimes they don’t remember their own names. They are absolutely alone,” he informs us as he goes from one room to the other meeting all the women who live at Seneh, the only home where they are loved and taken care of. After fighting for his country all his life, this octogenarian is now fighting to rescue homeless and abandoned women from dying on the streets. But he cannot do it alone. “Everyday I keep on getting calls from here and there. ‘Oh! there’s a woman lying here. Can you help?’ But I don’t dare to go and help because I don’t have the money. I don’t have the resources, our resources are very limited,” explains Gr. Capt. Barua who is lovingly called ‘Sir’ and ‘Deuta’ (father in Assamese) by the residents of Seneh. With your help, 80-year-old Group Captain Barua can fulfill his mission of rescuing abandoned and homeless women from dying on the streets, alone. Donate nowDonate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. All 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).Seneh- a home filled with love, care and hopeThe residents of Seneh often don’t remember who they are, where they have come from. Many times these are women with mental health conditions and considered being a witch due to superstitious beliefs and beaten up as a result. They are victims of domestic abuse or widow mothers who are considered to be a burden on the family. Group Captain Barua has not only rescued them from critical conditions, he has provided them with urgent medical care, food and above all, a free safe shelter where they can live with love and care. Among these residents is Sarala Kalita who fled to save herself from the tortures of her alcoholic husband only to face neglect and trauma from her brothers- and sisters-in-law. “Both my brothers and their wives urged my father to leave me somewhere as they didn’t want to take care of me anymore. One day my brother’s wife didn’t even let me have food at home. She just wanted me to leave and go away. So that’s why, my father got in touch with Seneh through someone, and handed me over to Sir to take care of me,” says Sarita who has found joy in living at Seneh. “Coming to Seneh, it felt like I got a new life altogether. Sir has given me a harmonium. I love singing. It makes me forget everything and takes me to someplace else entirely,” she adds. More women like Sarala can find their way to a loving home like Seneh. All they need is a little bit of your kindness. “It is difficult to make both ends meet”To sustain their daily expenditure, Capt Barua needs approx ₹3 lakh a month and arranging the funds is a mammoth challenge for the NGO. “Our expenses are growing day by day. Residents are growing older, their sicknesses are increasing. At times we have to give them special food. They require more care so we have to get more employees. About half of them require leading around, 1-2 has to be fed also. It will be very difficult to sustain it unless we get help,” he added. One act of your kindness can save these abandoned women, with no one in this world, from struggling on the streets to survive. At 80+ Gr. Capt. Barua cannot sustain Seneh on his own. “With folded hands, I appeal to all. Please come and please help us. Let us help these people, these old people who have nobody in this world. They are dying. They will die on the streets,” he urged. Donate to this fundraiser by Give.do to support retired Air Force officer, Group Captain Barua in his mission to rescue abandoned and homeless women from dying on the streets.

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Cattle, bred for profit and abandoned after they stop producing milk, are often found malnourished, injured or sick on city streets. Many face bitter winters, starvation and death in road accidents - a sad fate for cows in a country where they are revered by lakhs of people. To save cows from such a sad end, Swami Ishwar Das started Shree Krishnayan Desi Gaushala, currently home to 18,000+ abandoned cows. But with the rising costs of fodder and medicines, he is struggling to provide the quality of care such mistreated animals deserve. “It was in 2010 when I witnessed abandoned cows from the streets in Uttarakhand being transported in a truck. The cows were administered anesthesia and stacked one above the other like lifeless goods. When me and a few of my acquaintances brought the cows off the truck, two of them died before my eyes and that sight shook me to the core. It was then that I started Shree Krishnayan Gaushala with 11 abandoned cows in a small donated land,” says Swami Ishwar Das.Swami Ishwar Das is unable to bear the rising cost of nutrition and medical care for injured cows and needs support to continue to save these voiceless animals. Donate now. All donations on this platform are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India), &amp; 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (USA).<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/ead01668-6b4d-4a8c-85de-30b43e174f22.JPG" />Every life matters“Here at Shree Krishnayan Desi Gaushala, it is our resolve to leave no stone unturned in caring for helpless cows. No matter what the cost of treatment may be, we make every possible effort to aid ill and injured cows. Our only objective is that a cow should not lose its life for the want of medical care, food or water,” says Swami Ishwar Das. In order to provide the best quality of care and treatment to its adopted cattle, three well trained veterinary doctors attend the gaushala 24/4. The NGO - Shree Krishnayan Desi Gauraksha Avam Golokdham Seva Samiti - spares no expense in providing nutrition either. From jaggery and grains to a healthy mix of green and dry fodder, cows are given meals best suited to their needs.With cost of fodder on rise the Gaushala needs help<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/93e7eafe-4438-40d6-ae40-6972feaf0988.jpg" />Swami Ishwar Das and his team, however, are struggling to keep up with rising costs of nutrition and medical care for cows. “The cost of fodder has risen by almost three times in the last couple of years. From food to medicines everything has become expensive. And we will never compromise with the quality of care and love that we want to give to our cows,” says Swami Ishwar Das. Help Swami Ishwar Das provide the best care and love to abandoned cows while saving them from a desperate life of starvation and suffering on the streets.

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Rise Against Hunger India - RAHI envisages a world without hunger. The organization provides food and other life-changing aid to communities in crisis. Our program revolves around 4 key pillars: Nourishing Lives (providing safety net support to vulnerable groups)Community Empowerment (helping families with tools, skills and resources to achieve sustainable livelihood security)Disaster Relief (food and essential items, rehab and livelihood security support)Growing the movement (engaging youth and others in participating our hunger action activities)We work in partnership with organizations who have ongoing programs for the vulnerable groups and where our support will add value. With such organizations, we engage regularly to provide them packaged meals (dry uncooked packets of rice, dal, dehydrated vegetables and a sachet of 23 micro-nutrients and minerals)

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The short term and long term issue is the lack of adequate income in the villages of Bargarh, Odisha that needs to addressed. The incidences of farmers’ suicide are infamous in Bargarh. The farmers, entirely dependent on monsoon for irrigation, face myriad problems such as limited affordability to expensive fertilizers and pesticides, loans at high interest from private moneylenders and frequent production failure due to problems such as Brown Plant Hoppers (BPH) which has been destroying paddy crops leading to huge crop loss by farmers. The small and marginal farmers used to heavily supplement their agricultural income by working in nearby towns as daily wage workers, a choice no longer available due to COVID19 crisis. Few farmers used to work in petty shops, small hotels, road side businesses which have been severely affected in the lockdown. Also, markets of agricultural outputs have been disrupted and produce had to be sold at meagre rates. Families are overly dependent on migrant income from towns and cities which have taken a severe hit during COVID19 crisis. The small and marginal farmers are left with very little resources to carry out agricultural activities for Kharif season 2020.  
 In line with the philosophy of Rise Against Hunger India to build solution around  microenvironments, RAHI is working with 600 farmers of 4 FPOs to create millets value chain. Millets have been strategically chosen as the crop for intervention as the area is drought prone ad millets are drought proof. Millets are not totally alien to the farmers as they used to grow millets but had moved to paddy and maize with the hope of earning more income. Major issues that need addressigna are non-affordability of fertilizers, farm machinery and agricultural inputs. RAHI is helping farmers build organic fertilizers by methods such as vermicomposting. Custom Hiring Centres and Tool Banks are being set up where common machinery shall be provided which can be used by farmers by paying minimal rent. Seed banks is also being set up for provision and preservation of seeds. The rent collected shall be used by the FPO for maintenance of machinery and purchase other requirements. Provision shall be made for production units to create millet products such as millet powder and biscuits that fetch higher price in the market. 
 The expected impact is to build resilience to overcome systemic and idiosyncratic shocks that arise in future. RAHI is expecting a growth of 80-100 percent in production and 100 percent in income of farmers. This shall help in the overall growth of standard of living of small and marginal farmers in Bargarh. This shall reduce their dependence on migrant income and create opportunities within the village.  Migration creates immense vulnerability for the migrants as was highly visible at a national scale during the COVID19 crisis. With adequate income available in villages, the need for migration can be stopped and the cycle of poverty reversed. With additional income, the dependency on money lenders shall also reduce. With reduced economic vulnerability, the farmers shall also achieve more confidence to take part in socio-political issues and overall welfare of the village. The environmental impacts are also significant as millets consume much less water than other crops and can help improve the water table of the villages.  Millets are also rich sources of phytochemicals and micronutrients and shall also improve nutrition levels of villagers.

Stop Migration - Increase Income in villages (Bargarh, Odisha)

India, with a population of over 1.3 billion, has seen tremendous growth in the past two decades. Gross Domestic Product has increased 4.5 times and per capita consumption has increased 3 times. Similarly, food grain production has increased almost 2 times. However, despite phenomenal industrial and economic growth and while India produces sufficient food to feed its population, it is unable to provide access to food to a large number of people, especially women and children.State of Hunger in IndiaAccording to FAO estimates in ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2018” report, 195.9 million people are undernourished in India. By this measure 14.8% of the population is undernourished in India. Also, 51.4% of women in reproductive age between 15 to 49 years are anaemic. Further according to the report 38.4% of the children aged under five in India are stunted (too short for their age), while 21% suffer from wasting, meaning their weight is too low for their height. Malnourished children have a higher risk of death from common childhood illnesses such as diarrhea, pneumonia, and malaria. The Global Hunger Index 2017 ranks India at 100 out of 119 countries on the basis of three leading indicators -- prevalence of wasting and stunting in children under 5 years, under 5 child mortality rate, and the proportion of undernourished in the population.Food Loss &amp; Food WasteOn the other hand, it is estimated that nearly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year gets lost or wasted. 40 percent of the fruits and vegetables, and 30 percent of cereals that are produced are lost due to inefficient supply chain management and do not reach the consumer markets. While significant levels of food losses occur upstream, at harvest and during post-harvest handling, a lot of food is lost or wasted during the distribution and consumption stages. Some food is also wasted on the shelves and in the warehouses of food businesses either due to excess production, introduction of new products, labeling errors, or due to shorter remaining shelf life. Such food could be salvaged by timely withdrawing it from the distribution network, aggregating it and then redirecting it to the people in need.Key facts about hunger in IndiaLargest India is home to the largest undernourished population in the world14.9% of our population is undernourished195.9million people go hungry everyday21.0% of children under 5 are underweight38.4% of children under 5 years of age are stunted1 in 4 children malnourished 
 Driving Rise Against Hunger India’s work is the recognition that ending hunger is more than just feeding people. Our efforts are therefore directed towards expanding the hunger-fighting programs beyond meal packaging and distribution. Our mission is directly aligned with the SDG 2 i.e. Zero Hunger by 2030. Our programs in India aim to achieve the following:<ul><li>Vulnerable populations have the capacity to be food source</li><ul><li>Supporting meal, nutrients awareness and health program</li><li>Facilitating sustainable agriculture development</li><li>Promoting micro-enterprise &amp; Income Generation</li></ul><li>Food System are equitable</li><ul><li>Argo-ecosystems are sustainably managed</li><li>Inclusive Market System are strengthened</li><li>Civil Society and local Institutions have the capacity to support the food security</li></ul><li>Enabling Policy environment promotes food security</li><ul><li>Volunteer engagement activities to create hunger champions</li><li>Food and nutrition safety through hunger education programs</li><li>Right to food advocacy</li></ul></ul> 
 <ul><li>Lives Nourished</li><ul><li>Total: 7,76,557</li><li>2018: 2,69,827</li></ul><li>Meals Packed</li><ul><li>Total: 61,44,879</li><li>2018: 28,46,929</li></ul><li>Volunteers Engaged</li><ul><li>Total: 28,904</li><li>2018: 12,881</li></ul><li>Local Partners</li><ul><li>Total: 140</li><li>2018: 100</li></ul></ul>

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<ol><li>More than 3 billion people (almost 40 percent of the world’s population) cannot afford a healthy diet.</li><li>Almost 2 billion people are overweight or obese due to a poor diet and sedentary lifestyle. </li><li>More than 33 percent of the world’s foods are produced by smallholder farmers</li><li>Yet, ironically smallholder farmers and agri-food systems workers suffer the most from food and nutrition insecurity.  </li></ol> 
 On this Hunger Action month, RAHI action statement is "Our Actions are Our Future: Better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life." We will extend our hands to the people we serve, especially to Children and Farmer this month. 
 Rise Against Hunger India planned to feed 20000 Meals to people we serve i.e. Children, and Agri Equipment &amp; Seeds to 10 farmers to improve their livelihood. This is important to me because I believe "One cannot sleep well, dream well, and achieve well if he/she has not dinned well" and I have taken this challenge to change multiple lives in this hunger action month.

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The second wave has thrown additional challenges and has created distress on sections of society that were not considered to be in dire distress and were not catered to earlier by Rise Against Hunger India. This is the community of crematorium workers. Due to second wave of COVID-19, there is immense pressure on the crematoriums and the workers are working night and day to meet the ongoing demand. These workers have very little wages and require support so that they can continue to carry on the immense service to mankind. These workers are continuously exposed to people who have died due to COVID-19 virus. The workers and their families need to be provided adequate nutrition so that they can maintain strong immunity against the virus. The need continues to be high and we are in a tough situation to meet the ongoing needs of the families of crematorium workers. 
 i.  Rise Against Hunger India shall provide meals to crematorium workers and their families in Bangalore, Delhi, and Mumbai. Each family shall be provided 1296 dry, uncooked, fortified meals each month for a period of three months (432 meals for each month).ii.  100 families in Bangalore, 50 families in Delhi, and 80 families of crematorium workers in Mumbai shall be provided support by Rise Against Hunger India.iii.  Meals provided by Rise Against Hunger India contain essential nutrients: Vitamin A, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Niacin, Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus, Iodine, Magnesium, Zinc, Selenium, Copper, Manganese, Chromium, Molybdenum, Pantothenic Acid, Folic Acid. Consumption of fortified meals provided by Rise Against Hunger India shall mitigate the issues of food security and food diversity.iv.   An amount of 5000 rupees shall be provided to each family so that they can purchase nutritious food items during these stressful times. 
 The primary outcome is that the beneficiaries will have enough food to eat and sustain themselves for 3 months and can develop