Three young boys in a classroom
Varanasi · 34 schools · since 2011

₹2,500 is not
a number. It is three children,
for a year.

Most donation pages ask for money and tell you nothing. Move the slider below and DAAN converts your amount into the exact thing it buys — notebooks, a scholarship, a trained teacher — works out your 80G tax saving as you go, and shows you last year's audited accounts before you decide.

See what my amount buys Where the money goes
4,180children in school
82%spent on programmes
80Greceipt in 48 hours
0Children in school
0Government schools
0Teachers trained
0Years in Varanasi
The signature: give and see

Pick an amount.
We will tell you what it buys.

No vague promises about "supporting education". Every rupee here maps to a line item we actually purchase, at the price we actually pay, and your 80G saving is worked out while you type.

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₹080G deduction, worked out live.

We need a PAN for the 80G receipt — that is an income tax requirement, not a marketing one. Nothing on this page is stored or sent anywhere; it is a demo.

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Thank you, Ritu.

₹2,500

This is what the real receipt looks like. In production it is emailed within 48 hours, reported to the income tax department in Form 10BD, and appears in your AIS at the end of the year.

Your impactOne-time gift
₹2,500 is a year of school supplies for three children in a Varanasi government school.
SuppliesScholarshipsTeacher trainingRunning the organisation
Signature two: the accounts

The page serious donors
scroll down to find.

Eighteen paise of every rupee does not reach a child — it pays field staff salaries, an audit, rent for a two-room office in Sigra and the bank charges on your own donation. We would rather print that than hide it.

82%Programmes
Fund utilisation, five yearsAll figures in ₹ lakh · audited
Financial yearIncomeProgrammesAdminFundraisingChildren reached
Five documents, all public. On the real site these are PDFs; here the buttons explain what each one contains.
Audited by Agarwal & Rastogi, Chartered Accountants, Varanasi

Same firm since 2016, unqualified opinion every year. The trustees take no remuneration. Our highest-paid employee — the programme director — is on ₹7.8 lakh a year, which is printed in the annual report next to her name because donors are entitled to ask.

Read the FAQ
80G(5)(vi)AAATD4471QF20214
12A registrationAAATD4471QE20219
FCRA136580021 · renewed 2024
Darpan IDUP/2011/0043118
CSR-1CSR00019427
From the field

Four things that happened
this academic year.

Written by the people who were there, not by a copywriter in a different city. Two of them did not go the way we planned.

Give time instead

We need four kinds of help,
and none of them is money.

Be honest about your hours. A volunteer who shows up twice and disappears costs us more than one who never came, because a child was told to expect them.

What you can do
Pick at least one thing you can doThe field team in Sigra reads every message. Expect a reply in two working days.
Send this to the volunteer desk
1You will be police-verifiedAnyone working directly with children goes through it. It takes about two weeks and we pay for it.
2There is a three-hour inductionClassroom conduct, what you may not photograph, and what to do if a child tells you something serious.
3Minimum commitment is one termRoughly four months. Children read a disappearing volunteer as one more adult who left.
4We will say no sometimesIf your skill does not match a live need we will tell you rather than invent a role for you.
Last year 74 people signed up, 31 completed induction and 19 stayed the full term. Those 19 taught 1,140 hours between them.
Before you give

The questions we get
every single week.

Eighty-two paise in the rupee, on last year's audited accounts. Eleven paise pays administration — salaries for the four field staff, the office in Sigra, the audit fee — and seven paise pays for fundraising, which includes the payment gateway charge on your own transaction. Any organisation claiming a hundred percent is either subsidised by a founder or not counting something.

Donations to DAAN qualify for a fifty percent deduction with no upper qualifying limit. So a ₹10,000 gift creates a ₹5,000 deduction; at the thirty percent slab that is about ₹1,560 off your tax including cess. The calculator above does this live. Cash donations above ₹2,000 do not qualify at all, which is why we only take bank transfers.

Within 48 hours by email, with your PAN on it. We also file Form 10BD with the income tax department every quarter, which is what makes the donation appear in your AIS. If the two do not match, tell us and we will refile — that is our error to fix, not yours.

Yes, and we would prefer it. We run visits on the second and fourth Saturday of every month, in Ramna and Chiraigaon blocks. Message the number below and someone will meet you at the school gate. We ask that you do not photograph children's faces without the headmaster's written permission.

No, and we will not pretend otherwise. Of the sponsorships we started in 2019, seventy-one percent are still in school today. Children move when a parent finds work elsewhere, families marry daughters early despite our efforts, and some children simply stop coming. When a sponsorship ends we tell the sponsor why and offer to move the money to another child rather than quietly reassign it.

Both. Our FCRA registration was renewed in 2024 and foreign contributions go into the designated SBI New Delhi Main Branch account required by law. We are CSR-1 registered, so a company can route its two percent obligation here; the CSR reporting pack we send back is the one your compliance team will ask for.

One decision

A notebook costs ₹38.
Not deciding costs a year.

Give once, give monthly, sponsor a child by name, or come and teach on a Saturday. All four are useful and only one of them takes money.

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DAAN Shiksha Foundation · Sigra, Varanasi 221010 · 80G and 12A registered
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