Yoga Medicine® Seva Foundation
“Person not possession; child not commodity.” – Anonymous
Our mission is to fight human trafficking and sexual exploitation by empowering global, impoverished communities through efforts of education and entrepreneurship.
Mission
Our Goal
We need your help to reach our fundraising goal of $150,000 by 2021
The Impact of Your Donations
Your donations make a huge difference and will change the lives of so many women and children, empowering them to find employment that takes them out of the poverty cycle and allows them to support themselves and their families. With your help, these women and children can see a new future free from slavery.
Every dollar counts whether you donate $20, $200 or $2000.. See below what your donations can do
- $20 – feed a woman or child for a month
- $200 – provides materials for one to join a therapeutic arts or entrepreneurship workshop
- $240 – feed one woman or child for a year
- $400 – rescues one woman or child from slavery
- $750 – care and protection services for one girl for one year
- $900 – training stipend for a woman for one month
- $2000 – college education for two women for a year
Here's how you can get involved:
Merchandise
Purchase with purpose from our partners and a percentage of sales is given back.
Merchandise
Purchase with purpose from our partners and a percentage of sales is given back.
How The Funds Will Be Used
10 K
Provide food, toiletries, and bedding for 100 women and children for 1 year
60 K
110 K
Therapeutic arts or entrepreneurship workshops for 100 women and children
20 K
College education for 10 women and children for 1 year
70 K
Shelter care for 100 women and children for 2 years
120 K
Garden and sports playground for a shelter
30 K
Baseline education such as math and reading skills for all shelter survivors
80 K
130 K
40 K
Salaries of on-site social workers, housemothers, cooks and security staff
90 K
Rescue, legal aid, and repatriation serving 50 women and children
140 K
Shelter care for a further 100 women and children for 2 years
50 K
Education and tutoring for 200 women and children for 2 years
100 K
150 K
EVERYTHING!
Everything the shelter and survivors need for 2 full years!
What We Do
- The building of a brand new, all-purpose shelter on the outskirts of New Delhi
- Supported 20 shelters in the Red Light District and slums of Kolkata
- Funded 10 rescue missions to free trafficked women and children
- Sponsored rehabilitation programs comprising of counseling, academic education, and vocational training
- Provided direct assistance to over 500 women and children
Our Core Belief
Who We Are
- Human trafficking is a global $1.5 billion industry with over 40 million people trafficked every year. India has the highest number of people enslaved, with approximately 18 million people in modern slavery.
- Every day 400 women and children go missing in India – many remain untraced and 30% of whom are children.
- 1 child goes missing somewhere in the country every 8 minutes.
- In one red light district of India where there are around 285,600,000 women and children, these women and children are expected to entertain a minimum of 20 men per day.
- Almost 80 percent of all worldwide trafficking is for sexual exploitation, with 30% off all trafficked victims being children.
2021 Seva Trip to India
Every two years, the Seva Foundation travels to India. We have no middleman; giving us the yoga volunteering opportunity to hand-deliver funds ourselves. This ensures your donations get into the right hands and are spent on what matters most – food, shelter, and education.
During our visits to the shelters, we spend time with the women and children. Our presence lets them know that someone, somewhere cares. By immersing into their culture our desire to help and their desire to dream, multiplies.
Team members who raise a minimum of $5000 will have the yoga volunteering opportunity to join us on our 2021 trip to New Delhi. If you are interested in more details, please email our Seva Program Manager, Amanda Bonfiglio-Cunningham, at seva@yogamedicine.com.
Hear from our past participants…
“The greatest impact of my trip to Kolkata wasn’t what I expected it to be. I was focusing on the heartbreaking stories behind the project, but what I found was love and empowerment. The most important thing that I came away with after the trip is the visceral realisation that we can all make a difference and it isn’t as hard as one might think. It is only through empowering others and giving them opportunities that true sustainable change can be achieved.”
Katia Shulga
Purchase With Purpose
YM Merchandise
Liquido Active
Kira Grace
Nina Hillerstrom
20% of every purchase of the beautiful handmade, silver jewelry from Nina Hillerström’s Seva Collection will be donated to our cause of supporting women and children in India.
