Anand Charity

Anand Charity was founded by Indians representing stellar academic institutions such as IIT, Kellogg, Wharton, Johns Hopkins University and multi-national companies such as Qualcomm, Shell, and McKinsey & Company. Anand Charity was founded with the aim of identifying and providing need based financial support to organizations involved with health care, primary education and disaster management in India. Anand Charity is having six active projects in different parts of India. Some of Anand Charity's current projects include providing assistance to:

• A school that offers vocational training to mentally challenged students in Rajasthan
• A school in Uttar Pradesh for building a kitchen that serves 250 students
• A village in Andhra Pradesh for building a well to ease drinking water problems

Anand Charity is currently running a fundraiser (called “Change for $5”) to help them support more development projects in India. Anand Charity believes that $5 can go a long way – it can buy textbooks for a student for one year or provide food and drinking water for a person affected by a disaster or buy a daily meal for children in a school.

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Why Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness

Newsweek published a nice article to explain why money can't buy happiness. Here are the highlights of the article.

-For when economists tackled the question, they started from the observation that when people put something up for sale they try to get as much for it as they can, and when people buy something they try to pay as little for it as they can.

-Wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class but that it does little to increase happiness thereafter.

-According to standard economics, the most important commodity you can buy with additional wealth is choice.

-Since World War II the gross domestic product per capita has tripled in the United States. But people's sense of well-being, as measured by surveys asking some variation of "Overall, how satisfied are you with your life?," has barely budged.

-Although economic output has risen steeply over the past decades, there has been no rise in life satisfaction … and there has been a substantial increase in depression and distrust.

-If money doesn't buy happiness, what does? Grandma was right when she told you to value health and friends, not money and stuff.

-Curiously, although money doesn't buy happiness, happiness can buy money. Young people who describe themselves as happy typically earn higher incomes, years later, than those who said they were unhappy.

Read the full article at NewsWeek.

Happiness is actually a state of your inner mind which is not dependent on how much Money you have. I do agree with the fact that money can't buy happiness, but donating money to charities is one of the best way to buy happiness. Charity makes you happy and feel good.