{"id":1418,"date":"2016-04-06T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-05-03T20:56:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:56:33","slug":"gophil-funded-tuk-tuk-for-womens-shelter-is-blessed-before-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gophilanthropic.org\/gophil-funded-tuk-tuk-for-womens-shelter-is-blessed-before-use\/","title":{"rendered":"GoPhil funded tuk-tuk for women’s shelter is blessed before use…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“What are your critical needs right now'” we had asked Anuradha Bhosale (Founder of AVANI\/ WCRC) on a Friday evening skype call in late December. \u00a0We knew the focus over the course of the year had been on opening a much needed shelter for women in distress. \u00a0And in rural India, graphic examples of this “distress” \u00a0are all too common in a day–dowry deaths, bride burnings, rape, abandonment, the list goes on. \u00a0Anuradha humbly explained that their most critical need was a tuk-tuk (auto-rickshaw) so that they could react immediately to women in need.<\/p>\n\n\t\t