Apr 2011

Visit to Timbaktu Collective
Asha Bangalore volunteer Vijay Krishna visited Timbaktu Collective for a couple of days. He spent some time at the Children's Resource Center. Site Visit Report...

Sep 20-21, 2008

Team Asha visits Thulir
11 members of team asha visited Sittlingi village in Dharmapuri District. The trip utilized one more opportunity to learn about a project and interact with the children. The team-members ran their longest distance on Sat and intereacted and ran with the children at Thulir on Sunday.

Aug 2008-June 2010

Working with children of Chandranagar school
Asha volunteers are visiting the government school in Chandranagar layout to interact with the children and appreciate the issues of the schools better. The schedule is available here. Updates of the visits is available at on the project page.

May 2008

Chapter visit: Mushtikovilla, Ananthapur Dist, Andhra Pradesh
Asha volunteers visited Mushtikovilla to observe the updates on the work of Asha-fellow N.Mutyalappa. Here is a trip report.

Apr 2008

Chapter visit: Sita school, Sivapura Village, Bangalore
Asha volunteers coordinated a visit to Sita school. An alternative school in Silvapura village in the outskirts of Bangalore. Here is a report on the talk with the teachers at the school and some pictures. Following the visit Asha-Bangalore discussed the project in more detailed and is now supporting it.

Dec 2007

Organizing the asha-fellows conference
Asha volunteers coordinated the asha-fellows conference. The conference gave an opportunity for asha-fellows to interact and for volunteers to learn about the various social issues and solutions. Here are more details of the conference.

Sep 2007

Chandranagar government school outing
Asha volunteers along with Cisco volunteers organized an outing to the Bannerghatta Zoo for the children of the Chandranagar Government school. Details...

Oct 25, 2005

Madivala School - udate on software installation and training
The school was closed for the dasara holidays and re-opened last week. We've completed installation of Edubuntu on 8 of the 10 systems and will start off with these. It has all the educational software we would need. We are just missing some cables connecting the cpu and the monitors. Venkat is trying to get them from Philips.

I had a demo session of the software with all the teachers this morning. It was well received. One thing we have going for us in the school is the cooperation of the HM and teachers. We can start training sessions for the teachers and children by this weekend.

We are looking into some options for getting support for buying furniture (tables and stools/chairs)..If that doesnt materialize in the next few days, we will just go ahead and buy them (I have quotes for tables in the Rs. 1400- Rs. 2000 range, of which we'd need eight, and iron stools costing abt Rs. 120 each).

best,
srikanth

Oct 15, 2005

Chandranagar School - clean the school grounds
Siva, Pawan, Ram, Arathi and I went to the school at 9 on Saturday. We used brooms and digging equipment to get out small and large stones and pieces of glass, they've been dumped near the road and hopefully will be cleared by the BMC.

After working on this for an hour, large portions of the ground remained untouched, so we plan to spend a part of every visit helping the children clear the stones.

Also, people have been entering the school at night and creating a mess outside the classrooms, so we visited the Kumaraswamy layour police station and lodged a complaint. We were told that the police would include the school in its nightly patrols, a book has been placed in the school where the policeman will sign when he inspects the school. We'll be resuming our sessions at the school this Saturday (since the following saturday is diwali), so I'll send out an email midweek for those who want to join us.

Cheers,
Ira