Minutes for Asha Berkeley Meeting 2/24/08
(Barnali, Puneet, Pankaj, Milla, Amit, Lakshmi, Sangi, Ann, Anil, Sapan)
- Sshrishti Learning Center (Delhi) – Pankaj and Puneet
- Sshrishti.org
- Project contact : Sanghamritra Bose
- reassessing project
- Asha Delhi site visits, wants to hear back in March about poss. Of Asha Berk funding
- January site visit by Puneet
- urban area
- formal school
- main language Hindi, also learn English
- morning and evening classes
- KG through standard 3rd, then transfer to gov’t school
- Two sites (Shaheed Bhawan (institutional area) and Kishangarh (-an urban village)
- @ SB
- 2 teachers, one staff
- 5 computers
- @ K
- 4 teachers, 2 staff
- 4 computers
- SB- library, sm. kitchen
- children in slums of migrant workers (age 4-14 yrs)
- student/teacher ratio 1:20
- 200 reg. students, 75 remedial students
- long term-vocational
- FCRA status applied
- parents involved
- parents do contracted work –construction and domestic
- some food and medical
- Budget
- 4 teachers, 3,000(IR)/mo=144000
- School bus, 10000(IR)/mo=110000
- Uniform, (80) 875(IR)/student = 70000
- $8200
- teacher’s salary,
- transportation,
- High transportation cost
- Have bus
- uniforms
- sent $4000 (USD) in Sept 2006
- min. priority – 324,000 (IR)
- Challenges
- Migrant pop
- High cost of transportation
- rented property (high cost and lack of space)
- half of the amount sounds reasonable, but waiting for FCRA clearance, also want to know how long children are there for, Bala’s approval, Asha Berk’s financial assessment
- Western Conference
- (getting to know people from other chapters, group discussions, Asha wide issues, expertise)
- end of May after finals
- Barnali will send out e-mail
- need to:
- get room
- find out who will be in attendance
- set up agenda
- make pitch
- food (where to get it from)
- guest speaker?
- $250 for IOI ?? being processed
- Funds for clubs, we need to find someone ASUC and apply
- Sid’s Peddling for Hope-
- summary about Asha needs to be fine tuned
- issue about his return trip cost
- how money raised whould be disbursed
- IOI 2008 - Oct 18th!
- need to talk to I House (reserve date and get $ quote)
- other venues in Berkeley (new venue Berkeley Community college)
- send courtesy e-mail to Indus and 3rd Eye
- investigate afternoon show kids show (kids performances, storytelling)
