Meeting Minutes 09/21/08

Attendees: Jith, Bharath, Itisha, Ganesh, Murali, Karthik, Ranga

I. Update from High School Club - Jith
    - Archie met the Westlake High School Principal
    - No fundraising possible inside the school premises
    - Name to be changed from "Friends of Asha" to "Friends Helping Friends"

II. Uday Pathshala - Murali
    - New budget available for July08-June09
    - The initial plan is to transfer the schools to the community after 10 years, concern was brought up about how the State/politicians may interfere with the model later.

    Q. What is the expectation for the school after 10 years?
    Q. Mainstreaming children: Why Rajasthan State Board? Can they use NIOS option for mainstreaming?
    Q. Why is there a big difference between teacher and project manager salaries?
    Q. What are the individual teacher work-ex and salaries?

III. Khushboo Welfare Society - Ranga
    - Discussed answers from project
    - Outreach program is more about awareness and information, differing from the CBR program that RMKM has.
    - Kids with a mild disability may be attending other schools but use the OPD services

    Q. What do they do in the awareness camps?
    Q. Why is the ratio of those successfully employed after training so low (1%)?
    Q. What is the size of the corpus? Adding stock, cash, fixed deposits etc.
    Q. If approved, will funds sent from Asha be indirectly contributing to a corpus fund?