Yoga Gives Back
Organization background
Yoga Gives Back (YGB) is an organization focused on supporting women and children in West Bengal and Karnataka in India. Since 2006, they have partnered with three NGOs in India to carry out YGB's programs: Sister Aid and SHE. Sister Aid is a microfinance program that provides microloans to impoverished mothers and primary education for their young daughters. Funds from Sister Aid also goes towards supporting a residential home for abandoned children. SHE (Scholarship for Higher Education) provides disadvantaged youths with five-year college scholarships.

Project background
YGB partners with Shaktidhama, a women's shelter in Mysore that houses children, between the ages of 8 and 20, who come from very poor and socially oppressed communities in Central and Northern Karnataka. Since 2018, through its Sister Aid program, YGB has been supporting 50 girls by providing shelter, food and education in an effort to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and oppression.

GKF contributions to YGB