Questions
The things people ask before they give.
Does Jivdaya Setu take a cut of my donation?
No. The payment settles directly into the shelter’s own bank account. We never hold the money, so there is nothing for us to take out of it.
What happens if a need is only partly funded?
Nothing is lost. Several donors can fund the same need and the amount raised is visible as it climbs. The shelter buys once it has enough, and every donor to that need sees the same bill and photographs.
What if the shelter never uploads the proof?
The requirement stays open and never closes. It does not count towards their trust score, and a low score pulls their next physical inspection forward.
Can I get an 80G tax receipt?
Yes. One consolidated certificate per organisation per financial year, generated for you and kept in My Donations, carrying the shelter’s legal name, 80G number and the payment reference.
Who checks the shelters?
Our own volunteers. One travels to the site, files a report with photographs and location data, and admin reviews that report alongside every document before approval.
What is a sangh doing on a cow shelter platform?
Jain sanghs and sansthas run seva of their own and face the same problem: real needs, no way to be trusted at a distance. They clear the same six steps and answer for the money the same way.
Can I give without picking a specific need?
Yes. Give to the organisation directly and it is allocated to that organisation’s open needs. It still ends up in the same chain of bill, photographs and report.
Something about a shelter looks wrong. What do I do?
Raise a dispute from its profile in the app. It goes to our admin team and moves that shelter’s next inspection forward to the day you raised it.
When can I actually donate?
When the app is published. The platform is built and the first organisations are in verification. No donations have been taken yet.
The app is where all of this happens.
Browse verified shelters and sanghs, fund a specific need, and follow it through to the bill. In English, Hindi and Gujarati.
Both buttons go live the day the app is published.