Asha for Education: “Prepare, Help, Empower – Work an Hour”

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 began on July 15 and concludes on September 15 spanning through India’s Independence Day on August 15 and Teachers’ Day on September 5. Thirteen 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. WAH aims to help such projects by this worldwide campaign to raise funds across all projects.

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 $146,000 with a donor base of over 900 participants.

To learn how you can “Prepare, Help and Empower”, click here.

Asha is one of NetIP’s Alliance Partners.  NetIP is interested in creating long-term mutually beneficial relationships with organizations that are dedicated to the growth and advancement of the South Asian community.

For more information about our Alliance Partners, or to become a NetIP North America Alliance Partner and gain access to reach over 350,000 people, please email Kanika@NetIP.org

Republished with permission from: http://blogs.workanhour.org/2010/08/hour-for-independence.html