“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.This Christmas, you can gift these kids, through your donations, books and warm clothes.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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“We received a distress call saying that a blind girl is being held captive by a woman and is being forced to beg. Our volunteers were able to rescue that girl and bring her to the Blind Welfare Society home for girls. We cared for her and educated her. Today that girl is a senior government official”, says Asha Bhola, President, Blind Welfare Society (BWS) as she recalls how her organisation has been able to transform lives.BWS has been a ray of hope for 40 such blind girls, many of whom have been abandoned by their families owing to their visual impairment. Sadly, the care, shelter and education for blind girls come at a cost, and BWS is unable to keep its work going. Your donations can help shine the light of education upon 40 blind girls and change their lives forever. 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). Neglect, Abandonment and StigmaIn various parts of the country, a blind girl is often seen as a curse and a burden for no fault of theirs. According to the nonprofit office bearer, “Many parents neglect their blind daughters and at times even sell them off for begging, etc. Even if the girl is from a well-to-do family, they feel providing education and care to a blind girl is a waste of money”. “What is the fault of an innocent child?”, she asks.Education, the only hope “These girls have no future without education. If they don’t receive education, they will remain uncared for. They will continue to be ignored by not just their families but even by society at large. Whatever I am today is only because of the education I received. But sadly, every blind girl is not as fortunate. Most visually impaired girls are deprived of any care and even something as basic as education thus leading to a life of darkness”, Asha adds. You can be the light in the lives of these 40 blind girls who have not seen anything but darkness. Help support their education and be a catalyst for change in their lives. Donate nowPlease donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help women facing domestic violence break the endless cycle of abuse and give them safe shelter.

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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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A not-for-profit organisation started in 1992,which has been providing remedial help and support to children with learning disabilities like dyslexia, and their parents as well as spreading awareness to the community at large, helping schools to set up Resource Rooms and conduct teacher training programmes. Around 40,000 children have benefitted from various activities of MDA in the past 21 years. MDA has designed and developed a range of awareness and remedial training programs for helping dyslexic children and is ready to share all its knowledge and expertise in the areas of identification, assessment, remediation techniques, and teacher training to overcome this learning difficulty. Soon, our one week training programme will be available online in digitised format.We also offer after-school remediation help at our premises. MDA also runs a full time remediation centre called ANANYA for children who need a pull out programme. MDA has also devised a remediation programme in Tamil. Our aim is to create a dyslexia sensitive society.

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Dyslexia is an invisible disability. This means that dyslexics look completely normal to others, while they are not able to learn in traditional methods of learning. They do learn and understand, but differently.The reason is a neurological condition. In layman’s language we could say that the wiring in their brain is a bit different and therefore they perceive and process information differently. It affects primarily the area of written language ie; reading, writing and spelling and sometimes in arithmetic.Therefore there appears a gap between their potential, which they can achieve, and their performance. They often display special talents in areas that require high levels of visual, spatial, and motor integration and excel in fields of all kinds of designing, architecture, visual communication, direction, innovation, art, sculpture or even sports. It is a lifelong condition, but dyslexics, by virtue of their intelligence, learn to work their way around their difficulties. Some famous dyslexics are: Thomas Edison, Mohammad Ali, Picasso, Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs, and Tom Cruise.These children, if identified early, can be trained to learn and eventually become productive members of the society. If they do not receive remediation, with their intelligence, they are at high risk of becoming juvenile delinquents. 
 Our activities are as follows:1.	We provide remediation to children at two centres. Ananya is a full time pull out centre where children are given intensive remediation. They are also exposed to co-curricular activities and occupational therapy to develop their motor skills. We also identify their dominant streak among multiple intelligences. The other centre is an after- school remediation centre which helps children from mainstream schools in bridging their gaps which may be lesser than those who need a pull out program.2.	We also train teachers in several of our training courses to deal and help children with specific learning disabilities to learn. Training happens at our training hall or at the premises of schools which require the training course. 3.	We help schools set up resource rooms where children can be given help within school premises.4.	The one week program will soon be available as an online course.5.	We conduct academic assessments of students. 6.	We are developing a software called Avance 360, which is a process workflow software. Analytics of this data can help the remedial teachers and give deeper insights into SLD. 7.	We have developed remediation program in Tamil also. 
 Each training course can accommodate 50 trainees. Each out of these 50 can impact at least 10 children in a year, resulting in 500 children receiving remediation per year after one batch of training alone.Remediation in our existing 41 resource rooms impact 35 to 40 children each year which amounts to around 1600 children.Our full time and part time remedial centres impact around 70 children per year. In a year assessments for more than 350 children are conducted.In all in a year we are able to impact around 2520 children. We have trained nearly 1000 teachers from all over Tamilnadu and the ripple effect has begun.We have impacted over 50000 children who have had difficulties in the past 21 years.With a contribution of Rs 100/- a child can be remediated.Anand was in class 4th but was only able to identify letters. He was not able to read words and was at least 4 grades below his age. His math skills were at class 1 level. He was given intensive remediation at Ananya. Within few years, Anand was able to adjust to the mainstream school he was readmitted to. Today, Anand is a confident interior designer and is eager to help other such children.

Remediate a Child with Dyslexia and Help Him to Grow into a Productive Member of Society

Dyslexia is a neurological condition which affects a child's ability to learn. The IQ of these children is average to above average with unique potentials, but they face difficulty in learning through standard methods. It is a life long condition which implies that even in adulthood, the dyslexic would have difficulties in reading, writing, spelling and Mathematics, apart from other executive functions. According to statistics, about 10 - 15% of the school going children have this condition in India. In Tamil Nadu alone, there are about 2 million children with dyslexia.Reading is the first step towards formal learning. Children with dyslexia could have a deficit in skills required to read, but strategies can be taught in a structured manner to overcome these deficits.MDA- Avaz reader app pops-up these strategies as hints when asked for. This helpline helps narrow the skill-gap for a struggling reader and gradually helps him to become an independent reader.MDA aims at taking this app to millions of people struggling to read due to learning difficulties. Conscious efforts have been taken to keep the cost low for the end-user; financial aid would ease it further. 
 MDA is dedicated to the task of helping a dyslexic through different stages of their life, from pre-primary to adulthood. MDA identifies at-risk children, builds up skills and empowers them with coping strategies throughout their educational journey. With an aim to provide sustained support for reading, a life skill, MDA has driven the development of a cost-effective reading app. It is designed and built by MDA in partnership with Invention Labs. The app uses state-of-the-art technology, works largely off-line and is based on the time-tested reading methodologies followed at MDA. As this app uses OCR technology, it and can be used to read any printed material.Cost and access are the typical barriers for any support system. The reader is available on the simplest Android device, be it a tablet or a mobile, making it affordable to a common man. Internet is required only for a few minutes to set up the content to be read. The support from the donors would help many children with Specific Learning Difficulty to subscribe to this reading app for the entire year. With sustained use of the MDA Avaz Reader, children who struggle with print become better at processing words and eventually become independent readers. 
 MDA Avaz reader is a low cost customisable app for reading. The internet is required only for certain preparatory activities. This makes it Internet safe for the child. MDA Avaz Reader is available on the simplest Android device, be it a tablet or a mobile. These two features make it affordable to a common man, enabling children with dyslexia to become an independent reader irrespective of their economic status. Additionally, the reinforcement model which is built into the app could reduce the need for external remedial support. This could reduce the financial load on the parents. As this app uses the OCR technology to translate the picture into a readable format, a child can use this app to read any printed material – newspapers, school text books and story books. This would develop a reading habit in a child, encouraging to use the appropriate strategies on demand;thereby helping the child to become an independent reader life- long.According to the latest survey there are about 35 million school going children with SLD. Nearly 70 to 80% percent of students diagnosed with Dyslexia have reading difficulty. MDA strives to provide support to this group through this reading app .

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