There are some causes doing great things and having an impact in a wide variety of fields that deserve our support all year round. This festive season, here are some organisations to consider supporting (by giving your time or by donating to help financially). 

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Women Empowerment 

MALALA FUND

The Malala Fund focuses on girl’s education, “working for a world where every girl can learn and lead”. With the Malala Fund there are more than one ways to give back, including corporate giving, donating crypto, donating by mail, or donating in the currency of your choice. They accept stocks, appreciated securities, checks, bank and wire transfers. Link to Donate: https://malala.org/donate

GOONJ 

Goonj helps rural women get access to sanitary pads and makes the urban masses aware of rural women's basic need for menstrual hygiene. Through its 'Not Just a Piece of Cloth' initiative Goonj has distributed more than 4 million cloth pads across India and organized thousands of awareness meetings among the most backward communities. When you donate to this program, you help women and girls in underprivileged communities get access to reusable cloth pads to manage their periods. Link to Donate: https://www.giveindia.org/program/help-poor-women-get-access-to-sanitary-pads

NAVACHETANA HOME BY ASHADEEP

The Navachetana home run by Ashadeep supports women with mental health issues. The home provides them with shelter, food, and medical care. They also assist in their reintegration with their families wherever possible. Navachetana was started as an attempt to rehabilitate the mentally affected homeless women living on the streets of Guwahati. 355 women have been rescued and rehabilitated by Ashadeep till now. Sponsor quality food for mental health patients in the rehabilitation center https://www.giveindia.org/program/sponsor-sanitary-napkins-for-rural-women

ACTION AID ASSOCIATION 

Action Aid through Gauravi provides support to victims of sexual and domestic abuse. Gauravi is the 24X7 one-stop crisis center of ActionAid. The center caters to domestic and sexual violence victims of any age, as well as minor boys under POCSO Act. The victims are provided with counselling, intervention, legal help, medical help, shelter home as well as social rehabilitation. Help an abuse victim fight for justice https://www.giveindia.org/program/help-an-abuse-victim-fight-for-justice#

SWASTHYA SWARAJ

Swasthya Swaraj works in the Thuamul Rampur block of Odisha and aims to reduce maternal and newborn mortality due to preventable causes. Donations to this program will contribute to a fund that will cover the salary of nurses who will provide maternity and emergency support. Help women in remote villages of Odisha get access to maternal health care https://www.giveindia.org/program/help-women-in-remote-villages-of-odisha-get-access-to-maternal-health-care#

WOMEN OF WORTH

Running everything from mental-health talks to self-defence workshops, this Chennai-based charity is leading young women into a new era of empowerment, enabling girls to use their voices, learn about their rights, stand up for themselves and become leaders in the workforce, ready to take their place in modern India. Link to Volunteer: https://womenofworth.in/volunteer/ Link to Donate: https://womenofworth.in/give/

AHAM BHUMIKA

Aham Bhumika is a platform created exclusively to sell the hand embroidered products made by rural women. It works closely with the women artisans of Ahambhumika an NGO based in Bhopal which works in two villages on the outskirts of Bhopal wherein rural women artisans do hand embroidery. These women are proficient in hand embroidery. The core aim of this initiative is to enable rural women to earn a livelihood. Link to Donate: https://astitva.net.in/

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Animal Rescue 

CHARLIE’S ANIMAL RESCUE CENTRE

Charlie’s Animal Rescue Centre believes that every animal deserves the best, whether they live in our homes as pets or on the street. Supporting them will allow them to continue to provide injured, abused or neglected street animals with a safe place to receive the best medical attention that often only house pets have access to. Their goal is to provide animals with even better, state of the art medical attention so that many more precious lives are saved. Link to Donate: https://www.instamojo.com/charliecare/care-emergency-fund/

BESANT MEMORIAL ANIMAL DISPENSARY 

Donations are crucial to sustain BMAD's operations by helping to cover the myriad costs of providing good care for our animals- from the costs of medicines and surgical material, paying our vets and animal caretakers, running the ambulance, to feeding, lodging, post-op recovery, rehabilitation and keeping the lights on and electricity running in their operation theatre! Link to Donate: Donate to BMAD! 

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Community Stability 

AKSHAYA PATRA

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is an NGO headquartered in Bengaluru. The organisation strives to eliminate classroom hunger by implementing the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in the government schools and government-aided schools. Alongside, Akshaya Patra also aims at countering malnutrition and supporting the right to education of socio-economically disadvantaged children. Link to Donate: Online Donations - Sponsor a Child and Help a Life Change Today

BAREFOOT INTERNATIONAL

The Social Work and Research Centre (SWRC), widely known as the Barefoot College Tilonia, is a voluntary organisation in India working in the fields of education, skill development, health, drinking water, empowerment of women and electrification through solar power for the uplifting of rural people. Link to Donate: https://www.barefootcollege.org/donate/?cc=inr

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Education

FOREVER FOUNDATION

Forever Foundation is an NGO with a mission to provide free education to all and enhance their skills to make them capable to earn. Learn more: http://foreverfoundation.in/about/ Link to Donation Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/158r5WdALEfYuFeKB3ebT_ybSNSBuuNGfvX8dRvtGOmk/viewform?edit_requested=true

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Independent/Unbiased Media Houses 

NEWS MINUTE

The News Minute needs your support to survive in the current economic climate – and to grow in the years to come. Learn more: https://www.thenewsminute.com/membership?utm_source=TW&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=INM 

The mission of The News Munites’s Membership Programme is to build a community of readers who will support their journalism by paying for it. Their journalism will remain free– always, for everyone. But for those who value journalism enough to pay for it, they intend to make it worthwhile, with added benefits like: Specialised newsletters, Advertising-free journalism, Access to an exclusive TNM Digital Community, Access to exclusive online events. If you want to gift a membership, or buy bulk memberships for your friends and family contact: dhanyarajendran@thenewsminute.com 

ALT NEWS

Independent journalism that speaks truth to power and is free of corporate and political control is possible only when people start contributing towards the same. Alt news has been in operation since February 2017, and it has been a completely voluntary effort for the past 9 months. To continue and expand this endeavour, they have formalised their efforts and have registered a not for profit (Section 8) company called Pravda Media Foundation (CIN: U93030GJ2017NPL099435). Link to Donate: https://www.altnews.in/donate/ 

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