MinutesSep-9-2007
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MinutesSep-9-2007 |
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Help Asha Activities/Events Internal |
Atendees: Sandipan, Bala, Jayanth, Urmila, Anand, Anil, Anitha, Nandani, Sangeeta, Anand, Anitha, Pankaj, Shashin, Puneet, Shezad
Get celebs to play – Especially Indian celebs Lincoln Center in Oakland has a room Mohini Bhardwaj, Kall Penn, Raj Mataai ICC contacts? Of celebs in India Atleast break even – Hopefully make money Would have to pay for airline tickets and hotels Must be confident that we break even Date for the event? Shashin thas envisioned December Only for 3-4 hours People will not come to watch but pay to play against the celebs Have four celebs – People will play all four Getting a supporter to cover the costs Tie up with ICC or some other organizer who is bringing a celeb over Cons: Big overhead – Have a small trial run. Ping-pong tournament with Berkeley ping pong team and people from the community Collaborate with SV Also need more time to plan, Shashin will come up with a more detailed plan of the specific and also what would be required of the volunteers to make the event successful.
Transparency: Project website is a basic requirement
Wiki based website currently working
How to enforce a good website policy
Adding more information on the project website
Sangeeta needs to update her project page
Nandani also
New Policy: Money won’t be sent to the project till the website is up
Sohuld be included on the checklist for stewards
Add more pics and maybe a 5 slide presentation to the site of every project
New Guidelines for Project Steward Stewards: Project Stewards need to attend atleast half of the meetings: Mandatory
The projects of the stewards who don’t, will be transferred of closed.
Chirag’s project needs to be taken over by another steward who is an active member
Give regular updates
Have a conference call with project partners in India every three months
Six month reports need to be timely and complete
There should be a six month transition period between stewards
We should have two stewards for each project
Project Stewards Specializing in topics: Issues such as funding/supplies for school libraries, handling of disabled children, FCRA clearance
How can we improve chances of projects getting a timely FCRA clearance and how can we track the application process – Pankaj
Need to focus of transfer of knowledge/experience among projects and project stewards
How to help projects funding for themselves and work towards the path of sustainability:
Link up projects to IT companies in the region they operate
Former IIT Professor wants to donate computers to NGOs
Projects looking for computers: WAYSSS and Gyandeep
JK will work on pursuing this further
Pankaj will work with Bala to convert WAYSSS to a support a child project
Asha-wide group summaries and conference calls
Anand will keep track of and summarize project group e-mails. Urmila will do conference calls
Need someone to summarize asha-wide chapter e-mails – Till then Anil and Adeeti will take charge of those discussions
Need a merchandize coordinator
Someone to head volunteer recruitment
Fundraising – Anitha
Treasury – Urmila
Sponsorship – Ann
Publicity – Laxmi – but only for IOI
2001 Census??
* 17 million child laborers.
* half of the working children (54%) are in agriculture,
* construction (15.5%)
* household work (18%)
* domestic duties : girls 3.15%, boys 0.3%
* Otherwise mostly equal distribution
* 73% of boys attend school, 62% of girls attend school
* ~20% of children are neither in school nor working
1991 Census
* 14 million child laborers
World Stats (ILO)
* 122m work in Asia
* 218m aged 5-17 in work
* Estimated cost of ending child labor = $760 m over TWENTY years.
* India’s Defense Budget: $20.11 billion
* Ethiopia’s Defense Budget: $2 billion
Industries/Goods that employ child labor: If you decide to make personal choices when it comes to goods and services where child labor is used, here are some potential cases you need to look out for. * Brassware Industry. Source: IndianNGOs.com * Carpet Industry Source: IndianNGOs.com * Footwear Industry Source: IndianNGOs.com * Gemstone Polishing Industry Source: IndianNGOs.com * Glassware Industry Source: IndianNGOs.com * Matches and Fireworks Industry Source: IndianNGOs.com * Silk Indusry Source: IndianNGOs.com * Jewellery Industry Source: Deccan Herald * Bidriware Source: Deccan Herald * Clothes/Fashion - Embroidery Source: The Hindu |