Donate
Monthly, small,
and for a long time
A thousand rupees every month for three years is worth more to us than thirty-six thousand in March. It lets us sign a rent agreement, hire a teacher in June, and tell a parent the centre will still be open next year.
A plate a day
One child eats at the centre every evening you are a member.
₹650a month
₹7,800 across a year
- 22 meals — a hot evening meal
- One child's evening meals, every centre day of the month
- An 80G receipt by email within 48 hours of each payment
- One photograph and two paragraphs from a centre, monthly
- Cancel from the same email, in one click, no phone call
- Most members
A desk
A place at a learning centre, with the meals that make it possible to sit still.
₹1,900a month
₹22,800 across a year
- a year at a learning centre
- 22 meals — a hot evening meal
- A year's place at a learning centre for one child
- That child's evening meals
- Their school kit in June and their workbooks
- An 80G receipt by email within 48 hours of each payment
- An invitation to the centre, any working day, unannounced
A classroom
The room, the light and the teacher standing in it.
₹9,500a month
₹1,14,000 across a year
- a month's rent on one centre
- half a month of a centre teacher's pay
- A month's rent on one centre, plus half a teacher's pay
- The unglamorous lines almost nobody offers to fund
- A named line in the annual report, if you want one
- An 80G receipt by email within 48 hours of each payment
- A quarterly call with whoever runs that centre
- CSR
A centre
One of the eleven, entirely. Usually a company, occasionally a family.
₹34,000a month
₹4,08,000 across a year
- a month's rent on one centre
- a month of a centre teacher's pay
- 150 meals — a hot evening meal
- The rent, the teacher, and the kitchen's share for one centre
- CSR-1 registered, so a company can route CSR spend to us
- A utilisation certificate and a project report each quarter
- Your team is welcome at the centre, and usually turns up
- An 80G receipt by email within 48 hours of each payment
Before you give: ask for the 80G number. Ours is AAATP0000AF20214 and it is verifiable on the income tax portal. Any organisation that will not give you one over the phone is not one to give money to.
Work it out
What it buys,
and what it costs you
Move the amount, pick your tax position. Everything is worked from the same unit costs the accounts use, and it shows its working.
In a year, that is
₹2,500
Which pays for any one of these
- 0mealsA hot evening meal
- 0kitsA school kit
- 0passesA year's bus pass for a girl in Class 8 or above
- 0termsA term at a learning centre
- 0placesA three-month tailoring course for a mother
- Below the cost of a single unit of anything we run — which does not make it useless, it makes it part of somebody else's.
Alternatives, not additions. The same rupee cannot buy a meal and a school kit, and a calculator that adds them up is lying to you.
After 80G, it costs you
₹2,500
- You give
- ₹2,500
- Deduction from taxable income (50%)
- ₹1,250
- Tax you therefore do not pay
- ₹0
On the new regime, section 80G gives you nothing. This trust is not one of the centrally-notified funds that survive there, so the donation costs you exactly what you give.
Not sure yet
Ask first.
We would rather
you did.
Come and see a centre before you give us anything. Any working day, unannounced. The office will tell you which centres are running that evening and how to get there.
- No street fundraisers. If someone stops you in a mall with our name on a lanyard, it is not us.
- No call centre. The number on this site rings in our office.
- Cancel by replying to any receipt. No retention call.