AhsaAZ Update: Tue, 19 Jul 2005

By Sonu Munshi

Time for a roundup of past and upcoming events/actions at Asha. Things are hotting up (yes, yes, lousy pun totally intended!), with WAH in full swing and Notes of Hope ’05 round the corner. We need every one of you to help publicize the events and SELL TICKETS for NOH!!! When, what, where, how…? Read on…

WAH ‘05

Work An Hour 2005 is up and running and as of July 18, $9797 have been raised! The initiative is on till Sep 5. Let’s all at least send a link to all our friends/contacts to raise awareness about it and hopefully add to the donation amount. Check out this link: http://www.ashanet.org/workanhour/

NOH – Amjad Ali Khan

Now’s the time to crank up our efforts in publicizing what should be a fantastic concert with Amjad Ali Khan and his sons.

Event Date: Sep 11, 2005

Venue: Scottsdale Center for the Arts

Time: 5:30 pm

We will have a meeting THIS WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 7:30 pm to iron out the details in organizing the event. Got ideas on publicity, have contacts for sponsorships, know friends who love attending concerts? We need everyone to be a part of this BIG fundraiser to make it a success. Hope to see you all at Memorial Union in ASU!!

The next monthly meeting is on August 3^rd at ASU.

TELECONFERENCE

At the last projects meeting, it had been suggested that Asha AZ members teleconference with a project contact to get a one-on-one update and basically become more involved with all the projects in which we as a chapter are involved. Watch out for more info on this front in the coming week. In the meantime, read up about the projects on: http://www.ashanet.org/arizona/projects_newformat.shtml

TSUNAMI UPDATE

Here are some statistics sent by the Asha Honor team, which has partnered with 2 NGOs - Suyam and Bharati Trust – in concentrating on tsunami-related projects.

I.                       Number of kids reached - over 6,000

II.                   Number of Districts reached out to of 13 affected districts - 8 and counting

III.              Number of villages touched - over 90 of 386 affected and counting

IV.                  Number of worldwide telecons since the Tsunami - over 30 and counting

V.                       Number of active volunteers - over 20

VI.                  Number of chapters engaged – 14

VII.              Funds raised by Asha Honor focus group - $82,696 (Rs 35.6 Lakhs)
 Itemized breakdown posted at
http://www.ashanet.org/toledo/tsunami/docs/Financials.xls

VIII.         Number of volunteer hours - over 520 hours a week
 

ASHA-14 Conference

Missed the action at the Asha Conference in Chicago this year? You can view the minutes in their entirety here:
http://asha14minutes.blogspot.com/2005_05_25_asha14minutes_archive.html

Pictures are posted online at:
http://asha14minutes.blogspot.com/2005_07_17_asha14minutes_archive.html