In 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 heat, cold and rain,Donate so that Maitri can provide shelter, food, clothes and medical support to abandoned elderly mothers now. Give generously.Lt Gen (Retd) Bhopinder Singn and his wife Winnie Singh and have witnessed many cases of widow mothers being abandoned on the streets of Vrindavan, one of the holiest places in India. “Children leave their mothers as soon as they become widows. The children start feeling the burden. This has become a practice in today's society that money comes first and everything else later,” says Winnie whose Maitri India, rescues widowed mothers from the streets of Vrindavan.Many widowed elderly mothers often end up living a lonely life and begging to survive on the streets. And Maitri aspires to take care of every widow in need of help, but because of lack of funds, Winnie and Maitri are in a position to do it. Gen Bhopinder Singh is like a brother to many widow mothers."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 Gen Bhopinder Singh.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />Maitri aims to:<ul><li>Provide shelter and nutritious 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 and engagement around the struggles of abandoned widow mothers</li></ul>Why donate to MaitriWinnie needs your support to help those in need of food, healthcare and well-being. “Maitri urgently needs your support to provide nutritious food, clothing and healthcare to sustain these widow mothers who are prone to more illnesses as they age,” appeals Winnie. “You can become the family they were denied. Hold their hands so they don't need to beg ever again,” says Gen Bhopinder Singh. Let’s rescue abandoned widows mothers from the streets of Vrindavan and give them a better future. Donate now.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.

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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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A period or menstruation is a natural, biological process of the female body. Unfortunately, it has become a source of suffering and illnesses for women and young girls from poor families as they can’t afford sanitary pads. “Proper menstrual hygiene is every woman’s right but has become a curse for many. No one should be denied this right, and sanitary pads should not be a luxury. Just for the sake of a ₹5 sanitary pad women and girls are putting their health and even their lives at risk,” says Khyati Gupta founder of Pinkishe Foundation. Khyati and her NGO are committed to ensuring that no woman or girl is deprived of something as basic as sanitary napkins.Pinkishe Foundation has identified 4,000 women and young girls from acutely poor backgrounds who need to be supported with monthly sanitary napkins. Without this support many girls might be forced to use unhygienic alternatives, putting at risk their health and wellbeing. Donate now to protect the right to safe menstruation.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).The shocking truth“In villages and tribal areas, girls cannot afford sanitary pads and therefore are forced to use things like dirty cloth, ash, hay, old newspapers, or even cow-dung cakes, to manage their period blood. Because of this, girls suffer various illnesses such as rashes and urinary tract infections, and these illnesses at times turn into cancer as well. Out of all the cervical cancer cases in the world, almost one-fourth of them occur in India. A major reason for that is that women are unable to maintain hygiene during periods, shares Khyati.According to Khyati, lakhs of girls are even forced to drop out of school after their first period because of their inability to manage their periods.Your donation can ensure that the health and future of women and girls from poor families are not compromised because of their inability to afford sanitary pads. Donate generously to give every woman and girl her right to safe menstruation.Donate to this fundraiser on Give.do, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help young girls and women from poor families receive free sanitary pads.NGO's 80G number: AADTP3680QF20218NGO's 12A number: AADTP3680QE20178

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The Hindu Women's Welfare Society runs Shraddhanand Mahilashram at Matunga, Mumbai in India. The institution has forged bonds between the girls of our ashram and society at large in the form of adoptions, marriage, etc.At the Special Care Centre, children with fragile health are cared for by a staff, comprising of doctors and nurses who see them through their first few years, during and after which most of them are put up for adoption. For those who turn out to be physically and /or mentally handicapped, the Ashram provides shelter and loving care but also trains them through Physiotherapy, speech therapy.The girls lives under the care of House Mother (Grihmata) in houses having separate dormitories. There is regular routine of school, college, vocational training, etc to ensure that girls are well-equipped today to take on responsible roles in society tomorrow. Embroidery, stitching, cooking and various handicrafts are taught to inculcate virtues of self -respect and self- reliance.In the Mahila section women between 20 and 60 years of age are provided with shelter and training in various skills to encourage economic self reliance through gainful employment. Many of them are even married through the Ashram. At Vasai, elderly women who have no one to look after them are taken care of. They are provided with nutritious food and regular medical check-up. At Kurla, the B. J. Mulji Working Women Hostel is a safe shelter for immigrant working women belonging to the lower income group. At Matunga, M.P.V.V. Hostel for those girls parents residing at native place and girls higher education in Mumbai.Future Plans: Currently we have redeveloping Working Women's Hostel at Kurla and hostel for students in the adjoining building at Matunga M.P.V.V. premises.

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We are starting the construction of extension of our working women hostel. We have an existing Working Women's Hostel where 100 hostelers stay. Provision for about 70 hostelers shall be made in the new building. 
 The new hostel building will be of 19000 sq. ft., of which 14,000 sq. ft. shall be for hostel, approximately 5,000 sq. ft. will be leased commercially preferable to bank. This shall provide sustenance to organisation.Hostel location is about 2 km from Bandra Kurla Complex, the new commercial hub in Mumbai. Our aim is to raise funds for the same. We have started spending from our reserve funds and plan to raise at least 2 crores for the year 2019-20 and 2020-21 each. These funds can come through private donors/ trusts and CSR initiatives and by corporate in Mumbai and around.So far we have raised Rs. 2,11,000/- through private donations. The Saraswat Bank has committed Rs. 7,00,000/- for sponsoring a room. We approached LIC Housing Finance, Mondlez, Indian Oil Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation. Soon we are sending our proposal to ONGC for CSR funding . 
 Mumbai being a safe and secure place. Many ladies come to Mumbai for living and equally high numbers come for students. We already providing a safe dwelling place with healthy breakfast and dinner, so this facility we can extend. We are constructing 6 dormitories where 25 to 30 lower income group working women's and earn while you learn facility. We will provide to economically weak section of women's / students folk.Ashram kanya's who leave our orphanage at Matunga, in their early 20's with meager income shall certainly be benefited by the above facility.

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