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Help with Work an Hour
Questions relevant to Europe residents
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.
The projects being supported through Work an Hour 2005 truly represent the breadth and depth of the range of projects supported by Asha for education. All the projects have 1. An Asha chapter that has worked with the
NGO/registered organization for at least the past year. Donations by credit card are accepted between July 4 and September 5, 2005. If you have not sent your donation check (cheque) in yet, see below for mailing address information. Asha prefers credit card donations, but if you can only donate by check (cheque) you may do so. You can donate any amount. We encourage you to donate an hour's worth or more of your salary. 100% of all funds collected through Work an Hour go directly towards the selected projects. Keeping with Asha's long-standing policy, Asha volunteers bear all administrative expenses. In the United States, donations to Asha for Education are 100% tax deductible
under IRS code section 501(c)3. In India, donations are 50% tax deductible under
section 80G of the Income Tax Act of India.
Yes. We accept credit cards (Visa/Mastercard) as long as the bank issuing the card allows transactions in U.S. Dollars.
Yes, it is possible to do so if your credit card allows transactions in USD. However, you will need to convert the amount you are donating to USD and enter it in the amount field. Your credit card company will bill you in your local currency.
In India, crossed cheque or demand draft to be made to "ASHA", and everywhere else, check to be made to "Asha for Education" and mailed to:
If you are from any other countries, please contact us
Please email wah@ashanet.org for assistance.
Please email wah@ashanet.org for more information.
A lot of companies match donations made by their employees. A list of companies can be found at http://www.ashanet.org/workanhour/matching.html. If your employer is not on the list, please contact your HR department to find out if your company matches donations and let us know so that we can add your company's name to our list. Here's how it works
You can contact you local chapter of Asha if you would like to join Asha as a volunteer. You can find the contact details on this website. If you would like to donate to Asha on a regular basis please visit this site. If you are employed in the UK, you can ask your company to set up a payroll donation through JustGiving. This is tax-exempt, and (yes, we are serious!), upto a limit, the UK government would add a 10% bonus if you contribute in this way, nearly doubling the amount that Asha receives. See Payroll Giving section of JustGiving for more information on this. If you are not an employee, you can still set up regular donations to Asha through JustGiving.
UK tax laws allow the donations made to a registered charity (Asha is one) to be tax exempt. This means that the donors can claim the tax back on the amount they have donated to Asha, at the time of filing their tax returns. But since not everyone needs to file a tax return, it would be a cumbersome process for most users to file a tax return just to reclaim tax on donations. JustGiving streamlines this process by automatically claiming 28% tax back on any donations made to charity, so that the charity gets a higher amount. This means that donors can actually donate a smaller amount, taking into account the tax that Asha would be getting back: e.g., if a UK taxpayer wants to give £100 to Asha, they only need donate £78.25 through JustGiving for Asha to get £100. For higher rate taxpayers, JustGiving provides a donation receipt online, which they can print off and attach to their tax-return in order to reclaim the difference between tax reclaimed by JustGiving (28%), and the rate at which they pay tax. Please refer to the Donate page at JustGiving for more information.
Please refer to the Donate page at JustGiving for the most up-to-date information about payments through their site.
Yes, you can donate by check (cheque) in a variety of currencies. Please see question on donation by check (cheque) for more information.
Yes, below are listed some of the accounts you can transfer to. Please fill in your pledge as if you were making a donation by check (cheque) here and then transfer your donation to one of the accounts listed below.
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