Listed below are the Charities Indus International will support this year. Please donate generously to these worthy causes and if you would like to support a particular organisation, please let us know when you give us your cheque. All cheques to be made in favour of Indus International.

1)   SPRJ KANYASHALA TRUST

The Kanyashala Trust is a charitable educational institution providing free/subsidized education from play-school to post graduate studies to more than 7000 underprivileged girls. They also provide free books, uniforms, food, clothes and medical care to their needy students.

The Founders of this institution were spurred by the belief that there cannot be a cultured society without educating women and this institution was set up in 1924 with an initial enrolment of just 5 girls.

Since the last 9 decades the Trust has worked determinedly in the spheres of education and women welfare activities, especially for needy, underprivileged women.

2)    DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION EMPOWERMENT OF THE DISADVANTAGED IN SOCIETY (DEEDS)

DEEDS is an NGO that supports the deaf, providing education, vocational training as well as job placements, thus empowering the deaf and enabling them to live with dignity. In Mumbai, DEEDS has 8 vocational training centres including a catering institute and centres where students are trained in computer literacy, English literacy and tailoring.

All DEEDS projects are conducted free of charge for the students.

3)   QUEEN MARY’S TECHNICAL INSTITUTE (QMTI)

QMTI is the only institute in India, which imparts vocational training to differently abled soldiers who have been retired from the Indian Armed Forces. The main courses offered to the soldiers range from diplomas in the following areas:

n• duIstrial Administration & Services Management e•b CWreation, Computer operating & Programing

< >Electrician FiQMTI has been acclaimed world over for its outstanding contribution in the field of rehabilitation of the disabled members of the Indian Armed Forces.

4)    KHERWADI SOCIAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION’S YUVA PARIVARTAN

KSWA is an NGO working to train rural women in the agricultural and animal husbandry best practices as well as basic tailoring, house painting and other livelihood related skills.

KSWA has appealed to Indus to support the cost of 3 sewing machines and their transportation in the Palghar district. The women are given training in basic tailoring, after which they become self sufficient by selling their products on’market days.’ The sewing machines are circulated among the Palghar villages.

5)   PASSAGES

Passages has requested support for their Cancer Health Programme where awareness is created about Breast Cancer Early Detection and financial aid is extended to needy cancer patients for chemotherapy/radiotherapy through their Medicine Bank initiative.

6)   ASIAN CANCER FOUNDATION

ACF is a non-profit charitable organisation dedicated to providing help & inspiration to those affected by cancer through research, education, early detection, treatment, rehabilitation and support services. They firmly believe that a patient’s inability to afford treatment should not restrict him/her to access treatment & care of the highest quality.

7)   V CARE FOUNDATION

V Care Foundation is a voluntary support group dedicated to providing free help, hope, awareness and education to cancer patients and their families through outreach programs and services that improve the quality of their lives. The support is –

< >Finance towards treatment n• KiInd (providing prosthesis, wigs etc) a•lliaPtive

8)   WE CAN FOUNDATION

We Can Foundation provides a support system for vulnerable children living around the railway platforms/tracks.

They have requested support to enable them to buy 3 solar fans.

9)   MANAV FOUNDATION

The Manav Foundation is committed to adult mental health care through therapy, counseling and rehabilitation.

10)   FAMILY HOME- GUILD OF SERVICE

Guild of service has a vision to take care of underprivileged boys and children who were abandoned and/or orphaned by providing security and develop learning skills through basic educational activities.

11)   NAIGAUM SOCIAL SERVICE SOCIETY

This 78 year old organisation is devoted solely to the upliftment & benefit of the under privileged young generation. With this view in mind, the Society has been running a tailoring institute and a Bal Wadi which looks after children of the age group 3 to 5 years.

12)   CHABAD OF INDIA TRUST

Nariman House, in Colaba, was a victim of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. It has been turned into Nariman Lighthouse, which will be an education center,, open to all communities, religions, nations & ages, not only to commemorate the past but to enlighten the future.

The Chabad House Trust requests for donation towards this resurrection of Nariman Lighthouse.

13)   THE NSD INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR THE BLIND

This institution provides vocational training and rehabilitation   of the visually impaired. The blind are trained in trades like weaving, brush making, assembly work, cane work, simple tailoring, agarbatti making phenyl making and basic computer courses. After successfully completing their training, they are thus rehabilitated by way of employment or by providing them with a vending stall, HPCO booth, dispensing machines etc so that they can earn their livelihood.

14)   JEEVAN SACH

This organisation looks after the 28 female children, ages from 6 to 18 years, of the prostitutes from the red light area of Kamatipura.

15)  D Y PATIL CLEFT & CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH CENTRE

This organisation offers free and all-encompassing care to

children and adults with cleft palate & facial deformities.