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Welcome to Work An Hour 2006, the ninth edition of Asha's largest worldwide
event!
Each year volunteers from around the world come together in a show of
great human spirit, to help educate underprivileged children in India.
Work An
Hour, or WAH, as it is popularly known, is a simple concept. We ask you to
symbolically contribute one hour of your time towards the cause of children's
education by donating an hour's worth of your salary or more.
The event
symbolically begins on July 4, the American Independence Day, reaches an apex on
August 15, the Indian Independence Day, and finally culminates on September 5,
which is celebrated as Teachers' Day in India.
Asha's project partners chosen for WAH support, typically require larger sums
of money than what a single Asha chapter can support, in order to facilitate
fixed expenditure on items such as infrastructure, construction and other
one-time costs.
The projects are chosen based on a
set of
guidelines. A WAH projects working group thoroughly studies the candidates
and narrows the field to about 10 potential projects. Asha-wide review is sought
in which Asha volunteers everywhere discuss the candidates and eventually rank
them. The top few projects are selected for WAH funding.
Like all Asha projects, they are closely monitored by Asha project co-ordinators
to ensure that the funds are being properly utilized and the proposed benefits
are actually being realised by the children at the project.
Previous WAHs:
1998 | 1999 |
2000 | 2001
| 2002
| 2003
| 2004
| 2005
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