FAQ
How can I donate?
Whether you live in India or abroad, we have three options for you to donate to our causes.
a) Online donations
b) Donation via bank transfer
c) Donations by cheque
You can send your cheques along with your full name, PAN number, address and contact information to:
Hand in Hand India,
New No. 33, Old No. 14,
48th Street, 9th Avenue, Ashok Nagar,
Chennai,
Tamil Nadu 600083
Can I donate if I live outside India?
Of course you can! Follow our online donation link or donate directly to our bank account.
Is my contribution eligible for tax exemption?
Hand in Hand India is a public charitable trust registered in India. For donations from within India, you will receive an 80G Tax Exemption certificate posted to your address. For more information contact your tax adviser.
What are the causes that my donation supports?
While filling in the donation form, you can pick the causes that resonate with you and we will ensure that it reaches an appropriate beneficiary through one of our programmes.
If you are unsure about what you want to contribute to, we will allocate your donation to a project that is in the most pressing need of funds.
How much of my donation goes directly towards the cause?
90% of your donation goes directly towards the cause you are donating to.
I didn’t receive my donation confirmation email, what do I do?
You should receive a confirmation email within 24 hours of crediting your donation. If you don’t receive this, do get in touch with our finance team at donate@20.198.88.66
I want to support larger projects. How can I do that?
Are you looking to support a school, a village or a health camp on a large scale? Through your company, for instance? Get in touch with us at sandip.mookerji@20.198.88.66
Will I receive updates about my donation?
If your donation is over INR 20,000 / USD 300, we will send you specific updates on the causes you have supported.
I want to sponsor a specific child for his/her education. Is this possible?
This is definitely possible. It costs INR 10,000 to sponsor activities related to a child’s education for one year. You can donate online and choose the child sponsorship option. We will send you regular updates about the sponsored children.
How else can I support or work with Hand in Hand India?
Get involved with us an intern or as an employee. Find out how you can do that here.
Why Hand In Hand India?
Hand in Hand India is the only non-profit to work with seven different, but inter-related causes that form the base of poverty. We align our work with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, thereby ensuring we tackle the various aspects of poverty. Our scale, professionalism, and commitment have enabled us to bring about change right from grass root level implementation to policy level advocacy.
COVID Relief Support
Support Hand in Hand India in the fight against COVID by contributing for health care insfrastructure, oxygen cyclinders and concentrators, medical equipements, PPEs, and the sanitary workers and underprivileged people with ration kits and the poor childer with education kits.
If you are a corporate and are willing to lend us a hand in tackling this second wave that is now upon us, please do reach out to us through
Mr.Sandip Mookerjee
Let us join hands and work towards eradicating this unprecedented crisis!
COVID-19 Relief
Support Hand in Hand India in the fight against COVID by contributing for health care insfrastructure, oxygen cyclinders and concentrators, medical equipements, PPEs, and the sanitary workers and underprivileged people with ration kits and the poor childer with education kits.
3,43,037 enrolled in schools
Support a child’s education by giving them nutritious food, a library for to read, school uniforms, stationery and books.
4.4 million women employed
Empower a woman to set up her own enterprise, give her a voice, teach her to write a business plan and to be independent.
922,980 people trained through e-Literacy
By contributing to our skill development initiative, you contribute to the economy. You will ensure employment by skill training for women or youth.
8,492 medical camps held
Help supply medicines for remote rural communities, renovating women’s sanitary complexes, construction of toilets and nutrition supplements for malnourished children.
2,492,660 trees planted
Support families reclaim barren land to organic farming, reviving agriculture for tribal farmers and replenishing the groundwater table.
6,29,935 households segregate and recycle waste
Give your way to a clean India. Ensure less waste ends up at landfills, more source segregation of waste and conversion of waste to energy!
445 villages uplifted
From identifying women and youth to train to providing them credit to establish their own businesses, this program focusses on the general upliftment of a village. Help bring about a change across India.
How funds are allocated
Overseen by an eminent Board of Trustees, our commitment to transparency and accountability ensures that the end-use of funds is clearly identifiable in all activities and at all times. We limit our overhead costs to 8-10% in India.
Attention to productivity by our employees and a large 50,000+ volunteer base has helped us to keep costs low.
Click here to access our latest Annual Report, which contains an overview of our activities across our different interventions, a review of our progress, results over the year, information about our Board and other financial details.
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