Each year, people from around the world come together in a demonstration of great human spirit, to help educate underprivileged children in India. Work An Hour, or WAH, as it is popularly known, is a summer-long, global, online fundraising campaign based on a simple concept. Participants are asked to symbolically Work an Hour towards the cause of children's education by donating an hour's worth or more of their salary.

    This year, the event begins on July 15 and concludes on September 15 spanning through India's Independence Day on August 15 and Teachers' Day on September 5. Fifteen projects across Asha have been showcased in this year's WAH. Donors will have the ability to give to a project of their choice.

    Asha's project partners selected for WAH support typically require larger sums of money, more than what a single Asha chapter can raise, in order to facilitate fixed expenditure on items such as infrastructure, construction and other one-time costs and recurring expenses.

    All Asha projects are closely monitored by Asha project coordinators to ensure that the funds are being properly utilized and the proposed benefits are actually being realized by the children in the project. The first WAH campaign started in 1998, raised over $30,000 from close to 700 donors. Last year, WAH raised over $140,000 with a donor base of over 1,250 participants. Projects chosen in the past included a wide range of education initiatives, such as educating slum children, supporting schools for the disabled and non-formal education centers, educating children of sexworkers, mitigating child labor etc. This year's campaign addresses the empowerment of rural and tribal communities. This year's campaign addresses the empowerment of rural and tribal communities & centered around

    Asha for Education's mission is to catalyze socioeconomic change in India through the education of underprivileged children. In pursuit of this goal, Asha primarily focuses on education in the belief that education is a critical requisite for socio-economic change. We collaborate with several non-governmental and governmental organizations in India to empower individuals and provide them with access to education, health care, equal opportunity, social justice etc. Asha for Education's interventions fall within the broad categories of community based interventions, disabilities, formal schools, non-formal education, supplemental education, fellowships, orphanages, residential schools, resource centers, and curriculum development to name a few.

The objectives of this group are:

1. To provide education to underprivileged children in India.
2. To encourage the formation of various local groups across the world to reach out to larger sections of the population.
3. To support and cooperate with persons and groups already engaged in similar activities.
4. To raise the required human and other resources to achieve the group objectives.
5. To provide opportunities to individuals living outside India who wish to participate in Asha activities in India.
6. To address, whenever possible, other issues affecting human life such as health care, environment, socio-economic aspects and women's issues.