Please make sure the foreign aid recipient Rotary Club or District has "FCRA Registration". In many cases recipient Rotary / Lions and other Clubs or Districts are not aware of this Indian law. Many charities in India have been under investigation as violation of FCRA can attract severe penalties, which could be as under:

(a) Seizure and confiscation of foreign contribution receipts.

(b) Fine up to 5 times the value of the foreign contribution spent.

(c) Inspection and seizure of accounts and records.

(d) Compulsory prior permission requirement even if the NGO is registered under FCRA.

(e) Imprisonment up to 5 years and/or fine.

(f) Prohibition on accepting foreign contribution for 3 years for persons convicted twice.

Why FCRA Registration is a 'must' in India?

This statutory provision is Under Section 6 of FCRA, it is clearly provided that any organisation having a definite cultural/ social/ educational/ religious/ economic object shall only accept foreign contribution after satisfying two conditions:
(i) It must register itself with the Central Government.
(ii) It must agree to receive foreign contribution only through one specific bank account.

What is FCRA Registration?

The statutory Provisions
under section 6(1) and 6(1-A) are as follows:-
Certain associations and persons receiving foreign contribution should give intimation to the Central Government: No association having a definite cultural, economic, educational, religious, or social program shall accept foreign contribution unless such association

(a) Register itself with the Central Government in accordance with the rules made under this Act; and

(b) Agree to receive such foreign contributions only through such one of the branches of a bank as it may specify in its application for such registration, and every association so registered shall give, within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed, an intimation to the Central Government as to the amount of each foreign contribution received by it, the source from which and the manner in which such foreign contribution was received and the purposes for which and the manner in which such foreign contribution was utilized by it.

Click here for more information and to know about this law.

TRF is your Charity

The Rotary Foundation is the charitable arm of Rotary, what you contribute is best utilised to make this world a better place to live. Giving $2 a week and in fifty Weeks (approximately in a year) it multiplies to $ 100. A $ 100 contribution to The Rotary Foundation has helped the following:

	4 new wells for rural villages in Zimbabwe
	Text books for one elementary school in Zambia
	Hearing aid for a deaf child in Pakistan
	Training materials for 500 people in Vallampadgai, India to promote awareness about organic gardening
	Two sturdy bicycles and maintenance equipment to help teenagers in remote areas of Thailand to travel top school
	Supply six desks for a school in Mexico.
	A contribution of $500 to the Rotary Foundation has helped:
	Cataract surgery for 20 people in India
	Provide a watch repair mini business for six disabled workers in the Philippines
	Pay for tuition and books for one year of secondary school education for 7 students in Kenya
	Provide prosthetic limbs to twelve disabled people in Thailand and Cambodia.

There are many more projects, the Foundation has helped; and would be helping. Every dollar you give to our charity will make a big difference to the less fortunate people of the world. Make the Rotary Foundation your first charity of choice.

For further information please be free to contact the members of the District Foundation Team whose contact details are given in the District Directory and in the District web.

Let us support Every Rotarian Every Year (EREY) and make people Happy.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Prepared by:
PDG Mani Seneviratne
Past Chairman
The Rotary Foundation
(M) 0409 123 292

Our main computer hardware is supplied and maintained by:

The Rotary name and logo are the exclusive property of Rotary International
and are used here under Rotary International Internet Policy Guidelines.

Special thanks to Tord Elfwendahl of the Stockholm Strand Rotaryklub (Sweden) for
his incredible Rotary graphic images which we have used throughout this web site.

Material on this site is Copyright
Rotary International; Rotary International District 9790 Inc; Tony Ladgrove, Phil MacDonald and Robin Chapple
and may not be reproduced without permission