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ASTITVA is a registered, non-profit, voluntary organization has been active in the rural and tribal development along with health of special targeted groups. It is established with the specific objectives to solve the livelihood, health and educational issues, consumer awareness programs which are greatly interlinked. Organization is working since last 8 years with most ignored, socially and economically oppressed communities to achieve the sustainable development with transgender community,MSM, hijras, female sex workers for their health and other services.
This sudden announcement of pandemic situation of COVID-19 was not taken well by many vulnerable groups, including migrant workers, daily wagers including sex workers, and the hijras, a third- gender community in India.
Members of the hijra community typically earn money by asking for voluntary donations in exchange for their blessings. Most hijras undergo castration, and the absence of penis and testicles is believed to give them the power to confer fertility. Newlywed couples and pregnant women often seek hijras’ blessings, which they bestow during flamboyant performances of singing and dancing at public functions like weddings and baby showers. Some hijras also beg at traffic intersections and on public transportation. These ways of self-employments are totally the opposite of “social distancing,” a public hygiene practice the Indian government has already adopted in its fight against the global pandemic. Performing at weddings, begging, and engaging in sex work are now no longer available to the hijras as primary sources of livelihood.
And hence organization delivering life-saving supplies like Soaps, gloves, masks, Groceries and access to clean water are a lifeline to high risk groups and their families. You can give them a fighting chance with access to the basics but now your donation help communities recover COVID-19. It isn’t just attacking under-resourced fragile health systems This is a community right’s crisis. Right now, ASTITVA ngo's staff is on the ground doing everything in organisation's level to ensure that community don't feel the impact of this crisis for decades to come. But our organisation needs your donation Help us REIMAGINE a world that is fit for every person from the community.
The world's largest lockdown stripped them of these crucial months, profoundly affecting the way they saved, earned and lived for the rest of the pandemic. These wounds had hardly begun to heal as they, along with India’s 1.38 billion population, now face another slew of lockdowns in the wake of the second wave of Covid-19. The transgender community continues to experience discrimination in health care services, and which are more implied during public health emergencies like COVID-19. Eventually their right to healthcare is neither respected, protected nor full filled.
Hence Help ASTITVA ngo to fight & overcome COVID-19 Situation for Transgender Community, Hijras, MSM, FSW, migrant workers.
Your donation helps ASTITVA ngo deliver life-saving supplies & health services to them.
This sudden announcement of pandemic situation of COVID-19 was not taken well by many vulnerable groups, including migrant workers, daily wagers including sex workers, and the hijras, a third- gender community in India.
Members of the hijra community typically earn money by asking for voluntary donations in exchange for their blessings. Most hijras undergo castration, and the absence of penis and testicles is believed to give them the power to confer fertility. Newlywed couples and pregnant women often seek hijras’ blessings, which they bestow during flamboyant performances of singing and dancing at public functions like weddings and baby showers. Some hijras also beg at traffic intersections and on public transportation. These ways of self-employments are totally the opposite of “social distancing,” a public hygiene practice the Indian government has already adopted in its fight against the global pandemic. Performing at weddings, begging, and engaging in sex work are now no longer available to the hijras as primary sources of livelihood.
And hence organization delivering life-saving supplies like Soaps, gloves, masks, Groceries and access to clean water are a lifeline to high risk groups and their families. You can give them a fighting chance with access to the basics but now your donation help communities recover COVID-19. It isn’t just attacking under-resourced fragile health systems This is a community right’s crisis. Right now, ASTITVA ngo's staff is on the ground doing everything in organisation's level to ensure that community don't feel the impact of this crisis for decades to come. But our organisation needs your donation Help us REIMAGINE a world that is fit for every person from the community.
The world's largest lockdown stripped them of these crucial months, profoundly affecting the way they saved, earned and lived for the rest of the pandemic. These wounds had hardly begun to heal as they, along with India’s 1.38 billion population, now face another slew of lockdowns in the wake of the second wave of Covid-19. The transgender community continues to experience discrimination in health care services, and which are more implied during public health emergencies like COVID-19. Eventually their right to healthcare is neither respected, protected nor full filled.
Hence Help ASTITVA ngo to fight & overcome COVID-19 Situation for Transgender Community, Hijras, MSM, FSW, migrant workers.
Your donation helps ASTITVA ngo deliver life-saving supplies & health services to them.
