WHAT CAN A $5 DONATION DO?

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FOUR MONTHS WORTH OF SANITARY PRODUCTS FOR ONE WOMAN –

Working with NISHTHA, The Pad Project, and Trotula Fund, Yoga Gives Back’s Pad Project provides Sister Aid groups with a new business opportunity while also improving sanitary hygiene.

In April 2022, Yoga Gives Back was able to install two pad production machines at NISHTHA in West Bengal. The group now produces 3000 pads per month under their brand name, NIRMAN, which means ‘to start something new’. The next step is to make the project sustainable and profitable.

ONE YEAR OF EDUCATION MATERIALS FOR ONE YOUNG GIRL –

YGB helps support Project Shaale, which provides enriching learning resources, especially in science and math, to over 800 students at eight poorly funded government schools in Karnataka, South India.

ONE WEEK’S WORTH OF MEALS FOR ONE WOMAN –

During the long shutdowns in India, many families could not afford to eat. YGB helped over 500 families of its scholarship students with basic human necessities until the worst of the crisis passed.

Microloans are one of the first ways that YGB began supporting women in India. It is often impossible for women who want to operate small businesses to get start-up loans from traditional banks. Working with NISHTHA, an NGO in West Bengal, Yoga Gives Back established Sister Aid in 2010 to finance the microloans that allow women to gain financial independence, send their daughters to school, and support their families.

ONE TEEN GIRL TO STAY IN HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE FOR ONE WEEK –

Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) allows young people to continue their educations beyond the high school level, which prepares them for more skilled, higher-paying careers.

One of Yoga Gives Back’s latest campaigns is to fund a Girls Digital Center at NISHTHA, because women and girls need access to technology and a reliable internet connection for education and better employment opportunities. The centre is serving up to 600 girls with 7 desktop and 6 laptop computers.

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