PASI is a Christian Non-Profit Charitable organization passionate about providing social opportunities and economic empowerment to disadvantaged widows, underprivileged children and visually impaired  in Ghana and across sub-Sahara Africa through our social intervention programs – Feeding, Shelter, Education, Empowering, and Developing. We are dedicated to giving hope to those in need and providing people with an opportunity to develop emotionally, physically, socially, and spiritually. We help everyone irrespective of their gender, race, ethnicity, or religion.

We acknowledge that values cannot be authorized rather, they must be lived out. First before God and then before one another. Knowing this, we thrive through compassion with our hearts in pursuit of leaving abiding smiles on faces.

It’s hard to know who to trust these days, especially with your money, so we have a page dedicated to alleviating any concerns you might have and to highlight the reasons why your donations are safe with us.

• We identify pressing issues within Ghana and sub-Sahara Africa by consulting community leaders, religious groups, and leading organizations.
• Visit and grant support targeted high need communities, widows, and schools for the blind.
• We are committed to transparency and accountability that gives you the certainty that your money goes to where it is needed the most. 92.9% of your donations are contributed to helping the blind, widows, and underprivileged in Ghana and sub-Sahara Africa.

As a charitable organization our year end accounts are internally audited to ensure donations are properly allocated. We report to the IRS and the auditor general in Ghana to conform to local and federal regulations.

Our board of Trustees are committed to transparency and accountability and are heavily involved in overseeing the work of Pass a Smile International.

All our teams in Ghana where we operate have been given enhanced training on making sure they follow our strict financial policies and procedures and are regularly inspected by our US Head Office. We have assessed any potential risks and have strict control measures in place. We advise all our partner organizations where we work to submit annual accounts to the relevant governing bodies. We gather receipts, photographic and video evidence and a resolute member of the teams are trained in accounting. We have an accountancy program in each of the countries, that we can monitor live 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from the US.

Our partner organizations must abide by their own government and have accounts produced each year. We have collaborated with our partner organization’s for over a decade in each country and as we have strict control measures in place, we are confident that your donations are used correctly. No money is spent without direct authorization from the US Headquarters. We have steps in place to monitor all expenditure and we have a zero-tolerance approach if we ever find anything of concern.

We are not a huge organization, we have a 6-member formidable team in the US and through our partner organizations, there are over 25 staff and volunteers actively working in Ghana. This helps to keep costs lower here in the US which means more funds are spent overseas helping to turn tears into smiles.

We do not facilitate the donation of goods and services because it is more efficient to purchase supplies in the country to help boost the local economy. This also allows our partners to choose the most culturally relevant and useful resources and reduce our environmental footprint.

Our vision, aim and focus are to transform local communities and empower individuals to help get themselves out of the cycle of poverty by providing sustainable resources. 

We are guided by our partner organizations who are working in Ghana we support daily. They regularly inform us of who needs urgent help, areas that need transformation and how our programs can have the most effective impact. We then evaluate these requests, conduct further due diligence checks and research and then it is up to the senior management team, together with our partners, to see how best we can help in each individual situation.

You may update your preferences for phone, mail, and email by contacting our organization. If there are any changes that you would like to make feel free to contact us via phone +1(513) 828-9099 or via email info@pasintl.org

We do not send out cold communications to any of our donors asking for your bank details. If you have any worries or concerns whether an email is from us or not, then please do not hesitate to contact us on +1(513) 828-9099 immediately.

If you are signed up via Direct Debit or for sponsorship purposes and we have been in direct communication with each other, then it will be made very clear to you that the communication is genuinely from us.

If you would like to give online, then you can find our donate now page under the Get involved section on our website. You can make a secure donation online by debit card, credit card or via Google Pay. You can also set up a regular Direct Debit to Pass a Smile International on this page too.

You may cover payment processing fees by selecting this under your payment option. This helps us allocate your donation for where it is most needed.

If you prefer to make a donation by phone using a debit or credit card, then please call our friendly team on +1(513) 828-9099. For safety and security reasons please do not send your credit/debit card details by email or mail.

To give via check, please make your donation payable to Smile International and send it to the following address: Pass a Smile International, 19018 Whistling Duck Dr. Cypress 77433, TX.

Please see the above ways to give. We try not to encourage bank transfers for fraud prevention reasons, and we have other options available such as giving securely online or via post. If you are a church, school, club, organization or business and are unable to send checks, then we can provide bank wire details upon request.

If your gift is on behalf of someone else, please include an accompanying letter or email stating where the donation is from and who you would like us to send the acknowledgement to. Please do let us know if your gift is for a specific project and we always like to hear how the donation was raised.

Gift Aid means we can claim an extra 25p for every $1 you give and it won’t cost you any extra. All you need to do is make a Gift Aid declaration in order for us to claim. Please contact us for how you can do this.

You can include all donations from the last 4 years and tell us about any tax years where you did not pay enough tax.

Giving by Direct Debit is an immense help to all involved. It is simple and straightforward to set up, you can easily make changes, it reduces our processing costs, and means a higher percentage goes directly to helping those who desperately need to smile again.

It means we can plan well for the future because we know we can count on you as we work together to help turn tears into smiles. We can focus on working on longer term projects, invest in making a difference to the lives of those who need our support and help to transform local communities. We can spring into action as and when we need to, and we can provide continual streams of hope as we work together to alleviate desperate situations.

You can give securely through our website or via phone +1(513) 828-9099.

For safety and security reasons please do not send your credit/debit card details by email or post.

Yes, we are very grateful for every single one of your donations and if you would like to give anonymously then please do. However, we do like to thank you for your donation and for thinking of us and the work we do. If we do not know who sent the gift and there is a problem with your donation, then we cannot contact you to let you know. We are also unable to make your donation go even further if we do not know whether we can claim Gift Aid.

You can always give a gift and state that you do not want an acknowledgment, or whether we can claim Gift Aid and if you do not wish to hear from us going forward.