Accountability
Transparency & Governance
A trust asking strangers for money owes them a straight account of how it is run, where the money goes, and how any of it can be checked.
How we're governed
Governance & transparency
A trust asking strangers for money owes them a straight account of how it is run.
- Registration
- [[Add trust registration number, date, and the authority it is registered with.]]
- Tax status
- [[State your 12A and 80G status plainly, with registration numbers and validity dates — or state plainly that you do not hold them. Do not imply 80G eligibility you cannot evidence: donors claim it on their returns.]]
- Trustees
- [[List the trustees and their roles. Names, not just titles.]]
- Accounts & audit
- [[Name your auditor and state when accounts were last audited. Link the latest statement if you publish it.]]
- Contact for concerns
- If something about this trust concerns you — how a donation was used, or how someone in our care was treated — write to us directly and we will respond in person rather than with a form letter.
80G eligibility is stated above as a placeholder. We will publish the certificate number and validity dates here once the trust's actual registration status is confirmed — not before. If you are relying on an 80G deduction for a specific donation, ask us directly before you give.
Fund use
Where your money goes
Donors are entitled to know what happens to their money. Here is our approach; for the actual audited breakdown, ask us and we will send the most recent statement.
- Programs first
- The overwhelming majority of what we receive goes directly into the three programs on this site — food, care, and education. [[Add the actual program-vs-administrative split from your audited accounts, with the financial year attached.]]
- Some overhead is real
- A trust that claims zero administrative cost is either not counting properly or not functioning. Somebody keeps the books, files the returns, and answers the phone. We would rather show you that cost than hide it inside a program line.
- Restricted gifts stay restricted
- If you give for a specific purpose — a child's school year, a month of rations for one household — it is spent on that. If we ever cannot use a restricted gift as intended, we will come back and ask you before spending it on anything else.
- You can ask, and we will answer
- Any donor can ask what their contribution funded and get a specific answer rather than a brochure. If we cannot answer that, our record-keeping has failed and we want to know.
How we verify
How we check our own work
Transparency isn't a page — it's the habit of keeping a record that a stranger could audit. Here's what that looks like in practice.
Records, not memory
Every donation, every ration kit, every fee paid is logged against the household or student it was spent on — not summarised into a round number after the fact. That is what lets us answer a specific question with a specific answer instead of a guess.
Photo and GPS verification, where it applies
For the 1 Million Palm Trees programme, guardians file monthly, GPS-tagged photo reports before payment is released — the record exists because it was required to get paid, not assembled afterward for a donor update. See the Guardian Corps for how that reporting cycle works.
External checks, not just internal ones
Trust registration, 12A/80G status, and annual accounts are matters of public record, filed with and checkable against the relevant authority — not claims that rest on our own say-so. [[Link the actual filings or certificates once scanned and available.]]
A named person you can ask
If a figure on this site or in a report looks off, or you want to know what a specific donation did, write to us directly. A trust that can only answer with a brochure has not actually kept the records it claims to.
On the numbers
We publish figures only once we can stand behind them. Rather than round numbers up for a website, this page describes what we do and how we do it. Our verified figures go out in our reports to donors and partners — ask us for the latest and we will send them.
Request our latest report →