Skills and vocational training
A certificate that no employer recognises is worse than no training at all. Every course we run is built backwards from a job that exists in that…
दयाDayacompassion
दुआDuablessing
दानDaangiving
Twenty-six ways to be useful, across India
We train people for jobs that exist, keep cattle nobody else will, take elderly pilgrims on the journey they never managed alone, reach families first when the water rises, and bury the unclaimed with their own rites. Registered as a Section 8 non-profit, run on audited accounts.
Section 8 company, CIN U88900MH2026NPL475133 · 80G [status] · CSR-1 [number] · Works across India
26programmes, from skilling to last rites
All Indiawe are not limited to one state
100%of restricted gifts reach the named programme
Annualaudited accounts published here
What we do
Twenty-six programmes in six groups. Several of them — assisted pilgrimage, certifying informal workers, recycling construction water, dignity in last rites — are barely done by anyone else in India, which is exactly why we took them on.
Learning and livelihood 5 programmes
AI and IT training centres
The gap is not talent. A student in a district town has the same capacity as one in a metro and none of the access — no lab, no fast connection, no…
Scholarships and student support
Most students who drop out of higher education in India do not fail. They run out of money in the second year, usually over something small — a…
Certifying informal workers
A mason with twenty years on site has more skill than a fresh diploma-holder and no paper to prove it. That single gap keeps him on daily wages, out…
Enterprise and self-help groups
Self-help groups fail far more often at selling than at making. The training ends, the loan is disbursed, and nobody helps with the part that decides…
Health and wellbeing 5 programmes
Yoga, AYUSH and wellness
Yoga became an export before it became accessible. A month at a wellness retreat costs more than most Indian families earn in a year, while the…
Health camps and medical care
Most rural health emergencies are late-stage versions of something that was cheap to treat a year earlier. Screening is unglamorous and it is where…
Mental health and counselling
India has roughly one psychiatrist for every hundred thousand people, almost all of them in cities. For most of the country, help is not expensive so…
Disability support and assistive devices
An assistive device is not charity, it is infrastructure. A tricycle is the difference between a man who cannot leave his lane and one who runs a…
Blood, platelet and organ donation
Platelet shortages kill people in India every week, and the reason is almost never that no compatible donor exists nearby. It is that nobody could…
Workers and vulnerable groups 5 programmes
Mathadi and worker welfare
A mathadi worker carries loads that would be illegal for a machine to lift without certification, and often does it in rubber slippers. The equipment…
Migrant worker support
A worker who moves from Jharkhand to Surat leaves his entitlements behind at the district border. His ration card does not travel, his children lose…
Women's dignity and health
Girls leave school over menstruation more often than over fees. The cause is usually a toilet that does not work and no way to manage a period with…
Senior citizens
The fastest-growing group of Indians living alone is people over seventy whose children moved cities or countries. Most of them are not poor. They…
Legal aid and documentation
A very large share of Indian poverty is administrative. The pension exists, the scholarship exists, the compensation exists, and the family cannot…
Animals and environment 4 programmes
Gaushala and cattle protection
A cow stops producing milk long before she stops needing food. That gap is the whole reason gaushalas exist, and it is why the ones that survive are…
Stray animal care
Culling does not reduce stray populations and it is illegal. Sterilisation and vaccination do, and the arithmetic is unforgiving — a programme has to…
Water, trees and environment
Millions of litres of clean groundwater are pumped out of construction excavations in Indian cities every day and run straight into storm drains, in…
Community buildings and shelter
Programmes that run out of borrowed rooms stop when the room is needed for something else. Owning the building is what turns a camp into a…
Faith, culture and pilgrimage 5 programmes
Assisted pilgrimage (Yatra Sahayata)
Almost every Indian family has an elderly relative who has wanted to make a particular journey for thirty years and will now never make it — not for…
NRI and overseas devotee yatra
Families settled abroad for two generations often want to bring elderly parents on yatra, or to find the village their grandfather left, and have no…
Festival immersion for visitors
A visitor who watches a Ganesh visarjan from a hotel balcony sees a crowd. A visitor who spends the ten days with a mandal — helping build the…
Festivals and community celebration
Festivals are the one time of year when an entire neighbourhood is already gathered, organised and willing. Almost nobody uses…
Heritage, crafts and artisans
Crafts do not die because people stop wanting the objects. They die because the artisan earns less than a construction labourer and does not pass the…
Emergency and dignity 2 programmes
Disaster rescue and relief
The first six hours of a flood are decided entirely by what was already in the district. Equipment despatched from a state capital after the water…
Dignity in last rites
Every large Indian city has bodies that nobody claims. They are handled as an administrative matter, which is lawful and entirely without…
Ways to give
Give once or every month, to any of the 26 programmes. Restricted gifts stay in a separate ledger and are reported against that work alone.
- ₹1,000A month of fodder and care for one cow
- ₹2,500A full safety kit for one mathadi worker
- ₹6,000An elderly pilgrim's assisted yatra, or a student's term fees
- ₹25,000A health screening camp for around 200 people
- ₹4,50,000A rescue boat stationed in a flood district
Companies can route CSR funds under Section 135. See CSR partnerships.
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Indian donors can claim a deduction under Section 80G once our approval is issued. Foreign donations are accepted only after FCRA registration. We never sell or share donor details.
Questions people ask
What does Daya Dua Daan Foundation do?
We run 26 programmes across India in education and skilling, health and wellbeing, worker welfare, animal care and environment, assisted pilgrimage and cultural exchange, disaster relief and dignity in last rites.
Is my donation tax deductible?
Once our approval under Section 80G of the Income-tax Act 1961 is issued, Indian taxpayers can claim a deduction, subject to the limits in the Act. You receive a receipt and Form 10BE for every donation.
Does the foundation work all over India?
Yes. We work across India rather than in a single state, with programmes chosen for each region according to local need.
Can I choose which programme my donation supports?
Yes. Select any of the 26 programmes when you donate and the amount is held in a separate ledger for that work alone.