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BackgroundSowbhagya
Educational Trust, founded in 1992, is based in Neelankarai, a coastal
town off of Chennai, in Tamilnadu. The Educational trust was originally
formed to provide education to the children of the fisherman community of
the villages in and around Nilankarai. Over the years the target
population has expanded to include the daily wage laborers and
construction workers in the neighboring areas.
The trust supports
formal education for the underprivileged children from the surrounding
villages. The children are supported from Class 6 through
Polytechnic or Higher Education. Once the children graduate, the trust
helps them in finding gainful employment.
Asha Silicon Valley has been supporting Sowbagya Trust
for a few years now. Please see the web
page
for this project at Asha Silicon Valley's website.
Some of the children from the Sowbagya trust have come
to the college going age in the last couple of years and they needed help
from Asha Chennai in disbursing the funds to and mentoring these
children.
Project Goals
- To help Sowbagya Trust continue the program they have into the
college education stage.
Current Focus Items
(updated on 12th June 2003)
The project has started this academic year. Asha Chennai has had
several meetings with Sowbagya Trust and the children. We have provided
English language training for all the college going children. The current
focus items are,
- Help the children in making the college
and course choices.
- Make disbursements to them for the academic year 2003-2004.
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