Tag Archive: India

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SRW Annual Report 2022

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Give a Little, Help a Lot: COVID-19 Relief in Assam, India

A little generosity goes a long way… The Problem: Hospitals in Srikona, Assam, operate on very small budgets. They are able to provide medication for patients being treated for COVID-19, but these facilities do not provide food. Frequent natural disasters also make it difficult to give or receive adequate care in this region.  The Solution: […]

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Fully Funded: Sisters’ Program to Empower Women to Overcome Poverty With Trade Skill

Your donations helped empower women to overcome poverty through trade skill training. Higher education is a distant dream for migrated children living in the slums of Odisha, India. Young women in the Odisha slums are often deprived of learning and earning opportunities making them extremely vulnerable to human trafficking, severe poverty, and gender discrimination. Many […]

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Fully Funded: Sisters’ Program to Empower the Poor Through Business and Skills Training

The generosity of kind donors has helped marginalized women break cycles of poverty and overcome systemic injustice through entrepreneurial empowerment. The women in 30 rural Indian villages face crucial problems including systemic disempowerment, deadly human trafficking, heavy substance abuse, and severe poverty. The Sisters of St. Joseph’s Social Service Center have been living and working […]

Crisis Alerts

Help People Who are Suffering from COVID in India

***Campaign Update: We did it! Thanks to our amazing donors, we were able to raise more than $2,500 for Sister Remya’s community. Those funds will be used to purchase much-needed basic living resources such as food, clothing and toiletries. A thank you message from Sister Remya: Program Details Sister Remya Thomas of St. Joseph’s Sevasadan […]

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Program Empowering Disadvantaged Women Fully-Funded

Thanks to our wonderful donors, we were able to fully-fund the SRW program in Tamil Nadu, India.  The program, which will help intensify program offerings promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women in 30 villages, was seeking $7,940 in funding to help offset the costs of initiatives such as human trafficking prevention, violence against […]

Program Updates

Striving for the Good of All

Vicki Hale, Virtual English Language Fellow for St. Joseph’s College for Women in Visakhapatnam, India, sent us this wonderful video about her time with the Sisters and students. Thanks to Sisters Rising donors, this school is able to help girls gain the skills necessary to find employment so they, as Ms. Vale states, “can be […]

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Program Follow Up: Visakhapatnam, India

We continue to get wonderful updates from our recent fully-funded program in Visakhapatnam, India.  Thanks to our donors, Sister Anitha and her team were able to purchase a van that provides girls at their school with a safe transportation option to get them to higher-level internships, allowing them to avoid human-trafficking as they prepare for careers […]

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Sisters COVID-19 Response: Final Report

Facing an unprecedented moment, and with the support of GHR, SRW teamed up with Alight to reach over 1,300 Sisters and 54,000 people in their communities across 37 countries, getting them the tools they need to keep their communities safe. The Approach From mid-April through July 2020, we convened hundreds of Sisters, helping protect those most […]

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Thank You from India

After recovering from COVID-19, Sister Anitha in Visakhapatnam, India, sent us this “thank you” video for fully-funding her recent program that provides girls at her school with a safe transportation option to get them to higher-level internships, allowing them to avoid human-trafficking as they prepare for careers that will help them escape poverty. Here is another […]