Current Projects
Summary
STOP, A non-for profit located in Delhi, India that focuses on the eradication of Trafficking and Oppression against Women and Children. STOP conducts rescue operations for the victims followed by providing safe accommodations, trauma counselling services, medical assistance and legal aid for the victims. STOP takes it a step further with self-help groups to empower and assist the survivors in gaining access to employment opportunities as well. Their goal is to advocate for a safe environment and educate for a self-reliant society; making women more vigilant and to break the supply channel of human trafficking at the grass root level of vulnerable migrant majority areas. MCN Foundation has teamed up with STOP to help with their cause and to advocate and act to eradicate human trafficking.
Our Support
- Building awareness about STOP and their work.
- Funding for the repatriation of victims that have been rescued. We have this year managed to raise funds in order to repatriate 5 Bangladeshi girls’ back to their families. There are several girls still waiting for the opportunity to go home to their loved ones.
- Raising Funds Through SPA (add link in for new page for more info) : Scarlet Poppy Arte was created to support the work of STOP INDIA in their efforts to rescue and rehabilitate the women and children who are victims of trafficking in India.
- STOP provides job training for the rescued victims. Some of these women are currently operating a catering service and a garment production workshop. We are working to promote their work to a number of influencers and potential clients
- We are developing a program to teach basic nursing education for those who are interested jobs in healthcare.
Goal
To repatriate 40 girls
(It should cost approximately 280USD per person to repatriate)
Summary
A Non-Profit located in Kenya, Africa focusing on the improvement of livelihood for rural women and children for sustainable development. The current program includes children’s education, women’s development, and sexual and reproductive health and family planning. The organization sponsors 56 children with 34 boys and 22 girls. Many children are orphans and picked up on the street by the police or taken from a physically abusive home.
Our Support
MCN foundation has teamed up with Women Without Borders to support nine children who are attending school now at various locations with school fees, books, and living expenses. Click here to see the children we are supporting. MCN also covers the cost for personal items which include: sheets, bed nets, shoes, socks, textbooks and body wash. We are achieving this by raising $400 per child (total $6,000USD). We are very excited to have the opportunity to work with Women Without Borders and we hope to fulfil the needs these children desperately deserve.
Goal
6000 USD
Summary
Ficciflo, the non-for profit arm of Ficci is supporting educational efforts in a number of rural areas in India. We have teamed up with them to support a girls’ school provide students with bicycles to help them get to and from school (no buses or other transport available in this area).
Our Support
We are raising funds to buy as many bicycles as we can for the students portrayed. The cost of each bike comes to 30USD. The bikes will remain as school property for the next generation of girls post graduation.
Matching Funds
MCN will do matching funds for all bike donations. For every $15 donated, MCN will donate a matching $15 to purchase a bike.
Goal
50 bikes – We did It! MCN Foundation, FICCI-FLO And YOU raised enough money for 50 bikes on December 14th, 2018!
Check back soon for updates on another Fundraiser. Thanks all!
Summary
FICCIFLO, the non-for profit arm of FICCI is providing throughout India machines with female hygiene/menstruation products. The lack of know-how, and affordable and available solutions, is a big problem for girls and women in poor and rural areas.
Our Support
We have teamed with FICCIFLO to bring awareness and education by adding educational inserts to their menstrual products/machines to teach girls and women about female reproduction and best hygiene practices. We are developing the written content as well as directions in pictorial form. The cost of content development is covered by MCN Foundation. We are raising funds to be able to produce the educational content in small packages so that we can deliver it through the FICCI-FLO vending machines and Women’s Happiness Kits that provide personal hygiene products for girls studying in government schools and shelter homes.
Goal
Summary
At MCN Healthcare/Learning- the for profit arm of MCN- develops educational material for hospitals and medical professionals. We have decided to offer some of the more relevant courses for free to support the improvement of health globally.
Our Support
MCN Foundation offers for free a number of courses developed and hosted directly by the non-for-profit arm of MCN. Please see the main page for further information and for access to the courses. We are grateful for any support you might give us so that we can continue investing our resources to developing more relevant content.
Goal
Summary
Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) is a grassroots movement that catalyzes large-scale transformation in urban slums by providing critical services for all, community advocacy platforms, and education and leadership development for women and girls.
for more information visit – SHOFCO.org
Our Support
We provided Shofco with numerous items for the school and kids: from computers to graphic material; from paints to books; from magnetic boards and letters to jump-ropes amongst other items. We also offered free education from our infection control courses and courses to educate the public on Malaria prevention. We hope to continue to provide Shofco with such support and are grateful for any donation towards that goal.
Goal
Summary
We have been asked to provide basic healthcare, menstrual and culturally appropriate sex educational information by other international organizations. While we are a technology company, many of these project recipients do not have access to computers or affordable internet.
Our Support
We are writing and illustrating small booklets and simple one page information sheets for distribution. The cost to develop each book is:
Goal
Summary
Scarlet Poppy Arte began as a need to address the problems the world faces with the trafficking of children and women around the planet. Through this mission they developed a brand that would empower, elevate and support the women and artisans that live in the remote towns and villages throughout India. As a result, the artisans of weaving, embroidery and tailoring, which were also at risk, became an integral part of the art that Scarlet Poppy Arte created.
Our Support
SPA’s founder donated the entire collection of SPA to MCN foundation to help us raise funds for our projects. All SPA proceeds got to MCN Foundation.
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