Asha for Education presents Work An Hour (WAH) 2006 Ninth annual global event to raise $160,000 and impact 11 projects in India
Released on = September 4, 2006, 7:15 pm
Press Release Author = Asha for Education
Industry = Education
Press Release Summary = Houston, TX - September 5th, 2006 -- Asha for Education (Asha), a non-profit action group that works towards socio-economic change in India through education, announces Work An Hour (WAH) 2006. WAH 2006, held between July 4 and October 2, is an online global event where individuals symbolically work for the children of India by contributing an hour's worth of their salary towards Asha's project partners. The event begins on July 4th, the American Independence Day, covering August 15th, the Indian Independence Day, and September 5th, celebrated as teacher's day in India, and culminating on October 2nd, Gandhi's Birthday. Asha's project partners chosen for WAH support have a history of working with one or more Asha chapters, and funds are given for both infrastructure costs and operational expenses. After a review process, 11 partner groups all over India have been selected to receive WAH 2006 funds.
Press Release Body = WAH is Asha's largest fundraising event and brings together all 66 Asha chapters, more than 1,000 volunteers and many more supporters across the globe, to jointly raise over $160,000 to support over 4000 children in India this year. In 2005, Asha raised more than $97,000 to support 18 partner groups through WAH. Says WAH 2005 co-coordinator, Sanjeev Ranganathan, "From developing meaningful curriculum, supporting a school for the blind and working with government schools to improve the quality of education, WAH 2005 truly represented the diversity of Asha and the many approaches of working towards socio-economic change through education."
Asha is committed to empowering underprivileged children in India by enabling them access to education, health care, social justice, and equal opportunity in their daily lives. Work An Hour 2006 promises to help Asha achieve that goal through close collaboration with the chosen project partners. Asha has a simplified and secure online donation process for online credit card and check payments. The WAH website www.workanhour.com provides a user-friendly interface for online donations and provides detailed project information.
About Asha for Education Asha for Education (Asha), a non-profit, non-partisan, and secular organization, is committed to improving the quality of education for underprivileged children in India. Founded in 1991at the University of California, Berkeley, Asha has grown to include over 1,000 dedicated volunteers from all walks of life in 66 chapters across the world. Over the past 14 years, Asha has collaborated with more than 416 project partners in India to disburse approximately $5,000,000. Asha was recently awarded the top 4-star rating by Charity Navigator (www.charitynavigator.org) among all charities in the area of International Relief and Development. Asha is a zero-overhead organization and 100% of all donations go to projects in India. Asha functions with less than 2% of all funds raised as operational expenses, all of which is borne by contributions from volunteers or bank interest. Asha for Education is federally registered as a tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization in the United States and any donation to Asha is fully tax-exempt per the country\'s law.
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