How to Help India’s Disappearing Daughters
EmailThere is hope for girls and women living under the threat of gendercide in India. Learn more about two organizations making a difference.
The mission of Unique Home in Punjab, India is the ”Moral, Social, Cultural and Economic uplift of orphan children without any distinction of Caste, Creed and Religion.” The woman who founded the orphanage, Prekash Kaur, cares for 60 girls, some just days old. “My goal is to shelter the unwanted, to give them love,” she says. U.K. Friends of Unique Home is a Leicester, U.K.-based charity dedicated to supporting Unique Home. Learn more here.
**UPDATE 12/11/11, 4:45 p.m. ET: U.K. Friends of Unique Home has received hundreds of inquiries from viewers looking to offer help. The group said they will reply to every message but due to the large volume of messages, responses may be delayed.
The anti-sex trafficking group’s mission is “to increase choices for at-risk girls and women in order to ensure access to their rights, and to deter the purchase of sex through policy and social change.” Founded by Ruchira Gupta in 2002, the group has offices in New Dehli as well as New York. Learn more here.
Watch the full story tonight on “20/20″ at 10 p.m. ET.
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You still don’t say how to help this charity.
Posted by: Dana | December 9, 2011, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm
I don’t see any links on how to help the girls in India.
Posted by: Cyndi | December 9, 2011, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm
I would love to help out this orphanage by donating clothes necessities anything I can do. How can I get things to them, that story broke my heart, I just want to help those sweet girls!!
Posted by: Paige | December 9, 2011, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm
If you click on “learn more” at the end of each paragraph, it will take you to either the Unique Home or APNE AAP Women Worldwide website. Both have links for donations.
Posted by: Lea | December 10, 2011, 12:02 am 12:02 am
It frustrates me that India is making it harder and harder for non-Indians to adopt Indian children! There are obviously so many children in need of forever families in India, and yet they want Indian children to remain in India. I understand wanting Indian children to retain their culture, but this just seriously frustrates me. I’ve always wanted to adopt from India, but being a white American, it is becoming increasingly hard. And now to see this story…I would gladly take home on of those baby girls!! And so many others would, too! Infuriates me. Im so happy to see the Unique Home for girls is thriving, though. Very wonderful!
Posted by: Shawna | December 10, 2011, 1:44 am 1:44 am
I would like to help. Is there a phone number to contact in the US?
Posted by: Raj | December 10, 2011, 11:04 am 11:04 am
Very sad! I would love to help these girls.
Posted by: Neetu | December 11, 2011, 1:11 am 1:11 am
Can somebody please pass a law in India that requires the BOYS to pay dowry instead?….(Becoz passing the law to abolish dowry is obviously not working as can be seen !! )
Love to all the girls of India.
Posted by: Roli Chauhan | December 13, 2011, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm
bless prekash kaur, for dedicating her life to those little girls. I wish i could bring some of them here so they wouldnt have to suffer
Posted by: Supreet Kaur | December 13, 2011, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm
CBS forgot to mention that if the girls are not killed they are sold into prostitution as young a 4 or 5 years old. Those poor girls. I believe that India is not the only place that has no respect for girls or women. Girls in Yemen are also sold as “Child Brides” to men who are the same age as their fathers. Where is this world coming too? It just breaks my heart!
Posted by: Shelly | December 13, 2011, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm
Oops, sorry, I meant to say ABC news not CBS.
Posted by: Shelly | December 13, 2011, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm
I have swtiched on ABC in New York right now and its on on TV…..where is this coming?
Posted by: ROLI CHAUHAN | December 13, 2011, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm
Why not,instead of killing the girls, adopt them out!
India,you are going to regret killing off all those girls.
For who will marry your sons years from now?
Your men will have to go to other countries to find wives,
then what will become of India?!
As the news of your gencide and hatred of women becomes more known.
What mother in her right mind would let their daughters marry your men?
The fact that your government seems not to care and shares the same views,
just shows how stupid the men of India are.
I see India diappearing within the next 20-30 years,with no women to marry and bear children.
India’s men will die off with no ,children.For Mother Earth will put things back in balance.
The men will start to die off from sickness,world disasters, etc…
And to the women that choose to murder your children,better that you all be barren than to continue this senseless genocide, you are killing your future!
Posted by: Marty | December 14, 2011, 10:42 am 10:42 am
I would like to help these girls please let me know what I can do to help them. It is a shame that these defensless children and young women must suffer.
Posted by: Rose Gordon | December 14, 2011, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm
MARTY….Those men could care less about the situation becoz they are the ones getting the dowry at the time of marriage. I dealt with the pushes and pulls of the marriage system there myself and thank God that I didnt get married there!!…I then came back to my home in New York and now I REFUSE to marry an Indian guy. I REFUSE to deal with the marriage system there. Nobody should marry such men who demand a lavish wedding.
Posted by: ROLI CHAUHAN | December 14, 2011, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm
We will like to help those children please let us know their contact number or address in india.
Posted by: Darshan and kulwant | December 15, 2011, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm
I would love to adopt one of the baby girls in the video, how can I do this.
Posted by: sophie | December 16, 2011, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm