The COVID pandemic has led to an upsurge in on-line commerce, and Amazon has added an extremely easy way to make charitable contributions without increasing your costs. So far they have contributed over 200 million dollars to various charities and the amount continues to rise. To use this service, enter Amazon through the url “smile.amazon.com” instead of going through the regular www.amazon.com link. You can then shop Amazon as you normally do, but AmazonSmile will automatically donate 0.5% of your purchases to the charity of your choice. Of course we would like to be the charity of your choice. It costs you (and us) nothing, but you get to support Chhandayan while shopping online.

When you first enter AmazonSmile, you will be asked to choose a charity. Search for Chhandayan under the Education category or the “All” category (the full name of our organization is “Chhandayan Inc”, but searching for “Chhandayan” will bring us up). Most items that are eligible for this program are marked as such on their product pages. Some items like subscriptions and renewals don't count. To help us by using this service, you have to update your Amazon bookmark so that you enter smile.amazon.com rather than the normal amazon.com.  Shopping from within the Amazon App, Kindle or affiliate links don't count.. For more information, check out the AmazonSmile FAQs or hit the button below to get started.