I have been away from blogs for a while, more engrossed in twitter 
but I’m back to blogs and as there is a lot of political activity with municipal elections and controversies around it, I will be blogging more on it in the coming months.
As for the heading, sounds interesting eh. Yes, it is a real question and not a trick one. Let me explain.
Asha For Education Work An Hour (WAH)is the largest online fundraising campaign for Asha, where donors symbolically Work an Hour towards the cause of children’s education India by donating an hour’s worth or more of their salary. A great initiative that has grown in strength every year, with $146,000 raised from 900 donors last year.
This year WAH is attempting to raise $200,000 for 13 projects supporting 28 schools for 2214 children. This year is special for me. I have been involved with Asha For Education since 2004, when I was one of the co-founder of Asha For Education, Canada and has grown to be a fully registered charity with many volunteers across Canada. This year an Asha Canada project People’s Action for Transformation (PAT) is part of WAH. This is the first time an Asha Canada initiated project is part of WAH and we aim to raise $20,000 to make the project 100% self sustainable.
I have been involved with the PAT project for a while now, They run schools for children in five slums and last year I spent three weeks visiting and working with them in Trichy, India. You can see the photos here from my visit. It’s my belief that only education can bring socio-economic change to the underprivileged and money alone can not change it. There is a need for a strategic approach that Asha For Education provides.
Asha for Education has come a long way since its inception in 1991. Asha had 15 chapters in 1995, and now has over 70 chapters which consists of international chapters in US,Canada, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Asha is 100% volunteer driven and has Zero% overhead charges.
Charity Navigator, the premier independent evaluator of charities in the United States, has awarded Asha for Education with its highest rating this year and has named AFE in their “Top Ten Charities Worth Watching” and “Top Ten Slam Dunk Charities” list in the past. A lot of credit for getting here goes to AFE’s low overheads, efficiency in fund disbursement and donor privacy policy.
So the question is will you donate 1 hour of your time to change the life of a child ? Be it $10 or $100, contributions from every donor go a long way. Canadian residents click here and others can click here for details
Go ahead and tell your friends that you changed the life of a Child today.Make a donation. Be proud of it.
