Every year Danish students choose next year's projects at the annual general assembly.

The board invites project proposals from recognized solidarity and aid organizations. Projects have to meet a number of basic requirements: They have to be submitted by a local, independent and democratically-minded organization.

The organization has to work for better educational opportunities and social justice and it has to respect cultural and ethnical diversity. The project must have elements of gender equality as well as it has to have focus on education.

The funds that Operation Dagsvaerk raise are spend on building schools, educating teachers, producing teaching materials and other means to aid the education of young people. Up-to-date reports and submission of accounts by the recipient country and the local partners ensure that the project progresses according to the original objectives.

For 23 years Operation a Day's Work has been supporting educational projects in the following countries: