Extending help to children of drought-hit families in Maharashtra, an Indore-based NGO has joined hands with a crowdfunding platform to raise fund for their education.
NGO Suryoday Parivar, headed by spiritual leader Bhayyuji Maharaj, and Bangalore-based crowdfuding platform FuelADream have collaborate to raise Rs 2 lakh for 31 children of an orphanage, run by the NGO in Sangola in Solapur.
"The campaign is intended to take care of food, shelter, clothing and education of these 31 children at our orphanage Suryoday Balgraha," Sunil Patel of Suryoday Parivar said.
"Many of the children are from families where not only the father (farmer), but their mother also committed suicide out of distress," he said.
Founder of FuelADream, Ranganath Thota said, "We started the campaign on June 1 through online platforms to support these children. This is a 60-day campaign to raise Rs 2,00,000 which will help Suryoday take care of them. The campaign will run till July 30."
The NGO has Section 80G certificate and gets its accounts audited every year, Patil said.
He said Suryoday Parivar has working to help farmers in drought-stricken villages through building canals, providing them seeds.
Patil also apprsied that they intend to run similar campaigns for children in other states also.
