Project Title:      Gram Mangal

Project Description:
This project is to support GRAM MANGAL to provide alternative education to children in rural areas. GRAMMANGAL is a registered non-government organization working in the field of education. It was established by Anutai Wagh, the well-known educationist in Maharashtra, in 1982. For the past more than twenty years, GM is working in pre-primary and primary education.

Funding Status:
2007 - $14000 sent
2008 - $16373 sent (including support-a-project donations)
2009 - $2160 sent (support-a-child donations)
2010 - $3090 sent (support-a-child donations)

Site Visits:
Latest report (November 2009)

Project Title:      Vidya Vanam - Bhuvana Foundation

Project Description:
This project is to support part of educational costs associated with Vidyavanam school led by Bhuvana Foundation.The Bhuvana foundation has put in place the infrastucture that will mee the needs of 50 students. The educational objectives of the school are to ensure that the chidren are able to read, write and be competent in computational skills

Funding Status:
2010 - $1000 sent

Site Visits:
Latest report (May 2010)

Project Title:      RN Basu Girls' High School

Project Description:
This project is to support part of the cost for creating an infrastructure facility for RN Basu Girls' High School in Haora district, West Bengal.The school is required to have a complete own building of its own.

Funding Status:
2008 - $5250 sent
2010 - $1650 sent

Site Visits:
Latest report (October 2009)

Project Title:      Humana People to People India -- Academy of Working Children -Bhabapur

Project Description:
This project is to provide partial support to HPPI for their academy of working children in Bhabapur Village,Sahibabad Industrial Area, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.The goal is to provide basic education up to 3rd grade and life skills training; then to facilitate the working children to get admission in nearby government school for further study, and at the same time, to raise awareness among the parents.

Funding Status:
2008 - $2000 sent
2009 - $2000 sent

Site Visits:
Latest report (June 2009)

Project Title:      Cyclone Aila Relief

Project Description:
Hundreds are dead and more than 3 millions people are displaced from their homes in southern WB by Cyclone Aila in May 2009.This project is to provide financial support to Mukti and BTS, two NGOs active in those areas (already supported by mutltiple Asha chapters) so that they can provide food, water, shelter and medical helps to people in worst affected ares .

Funding Status:
2009 - $3100 sent; Support educational rehabilitation efforts.

Site Visits:
AID volunteer visit (1st June 2009)

Project Title:      Parijat Academy

Project Description:
Parijat Academy is a school for underprivileged children. Location village -Pamohi, Guwahati, Assam.Parijat Academy is covering 7 tribal villages namely Pamohi, Maghuapara, Deosutal, Mainakhorong, Dhalboma, Nowagaon, Garoghuli. It is a long term project.

Funding Status:
2008 - $4000 sent

Site Visits:
Latest report (December 2007)

Project Title:      Vidyarambam

Project Description:
Asha is currently supporting about 50 Balawadis and 50 remedial centers in the Nagapattinam district, Tamilnadu. While the balwadi provide literacy to pre-primary children, the remedial centers serve as a bridge classes for older children who are enrolled in Govt. schools. In wake of the Tsunami, a mobile toy center to boost the morale of the affected children is also supported.

Funding Status:
2008 - $1650 sent

Site Visits:
Latest report (April 2008)

Project Title:      Maintenance of Book Bank

Project Description:
To provide resources for maintenance of a book bank in West Bengal, led by rural development unit, Ramakrishna Misson Ashrama, Narendrapur. This book bank will provide education materials to the needy as well as meritorious students from rural and urban areas.

Funding Status:
2008 - $2000 sent

Site Visits:
Latest report (January 2008)

Project Title:      Anandadhara- SPAN

Project Description:
Society for People's Awareness (SPAN) runs education centers at nine slums of Kolkata and Suburbs. Wherein the children in difficult circumstances are motivated to drop in these centers, get the nurturing through joyful learning and mainstreamed in government schools. All these centers are under the name of Anandadhara Shikshayatan. Thus it so conceptualized that SPAN's intervention in the area of education is known by Anandadhara.

Funding Status:
2008 - $2125 sent

Site Visits:
Latest report (January 2008)

Project Title:      Prajnalaya, Assam

Project Description:
Prajnalaya strives to give knowledge of self-reliance through manual labor and involvement of local people.By giving vocational education, it will help the pupils to find out the way of livelihood and also will give the ability to cope with the competitive world. We are planning for a number of initiatives including to extend and open fishery in the premises of the school, opening training for handloom with a target group of village women, a offset and DTP training center and organic fertilizer.

Funding Status:
2008 - $1500 sent (For storm support)

Site Visits:
Latest report (February 2008)

Project Title:      Vivekananda Kendra - Rural development programme

Project Description:
The goal of this project is to build a pre-primary school at Chekkarakudi , Thoothkudi District in Tamil Nadu, India. The main objective of the Vivekananda Kendra which is a spiritually oriented service-mission based on Swami Vivekananda's famous pronouncement "each soul is potentially divine", shall be to undertake the program of Rural Development for promoting the Social and Economic Welfare of, or the uplift of, the public in any rural area.

Funding Status:
2006 - $1760 sent

Site Visits:
report for 19th Oct 2006

Project Title:      Sahyog - Mumbai, Maharashtra

Project Description:
Sahyog is a school for girls in the Jari Mari Basti in Mumbai. It caters to the needs of adolescent girls who have had to drop out of school due to various societal pressures.

Funding Status:
2005 - $2500 sent
2007 - $4000 sent

Site Visits:
Dec 2005 - Sathyan Subbiah - report available
Latest report (June 2007)

Project Title:      Rehabilitation Center for Blind Women

Project Description:
The institution is the first of its kind in south India, which aims at providing rehabilitation, vocational training and placement services to adult blind women particularly for women who are completely blind, deprived blind, below the poverty line and from the remote villages in Tiruchirappalli District, Tamil Nadu.

Funding Status:
2003 - $2020 sent
2004 - $2400 sent
2005 - $2400 sent
2006 - $2400 sent

Site Visits:
Jan 2005 - Sathyan Subbiah - written report available
Jan 4th 2006 - Sriram Subramanian - written report available

Communications:
September 2006 - Email from Hon. Director - written report available

Project Title:      Door Step School, Mumbai District, Maharashtra

Project Description:
Doorstep School operates in the slums of South Mumbai (Ward A). The population is migrant and most of the adults and the children work in the docks, at construction sites and as hawkers.

Funding Status:
2005 - $2000 sent
2006 - $2250 + $1125 sent

Site Visits:
2004 - Amar Atre - report is available

Project Title:      Vanavasi Ashram

Project Description:
Establsihed in 1997, the Vanavasi Ashram project has established a new facility for students in the backward Kerala district of Wayanand. The goal is to teach basic trades including vegetable and fruit gardening, stitching, tailoring, basket weaving, clay modeling, music, archery and yoga. Today, classes are held in the newly constructed facility (begun in 2001) and there has been a significant improvement in children's education and health in the village.

Funding Status:
2006 - $4250 sent

Site Visits:
2006- report is available

Project Title:      CCD (Centers for Communication and Development)

Project Description:
About 10 schools are under the direction of the CCD and funds are needed for teachers, staff, books and computers.

Funding Status:
2006 - $3,000 sent

Site Visits:      n/a