The Zones
We recently submitted proposals for Asha's annual Work An Hour (WAH) fundraiser. The following projects were submitted for consideration:
Overall proposal
FAQ for the WAH proposal
North: Helpline by Astha (Delhi) - focuses on providing information and counseling for people with disabilities (Proposal, More info)
East: Empowering the tribals (Manipur) - focuses on educating tribal children with disabilities (Proposal, More info)
South: Lead to light (Chennai, Tamil Nadu) - focuses on producing and circulating a multilingual magazine with Braille and audiotape versions (Proposal, More info)
West: Look ahead (Jaipur, Rajasthan) - focuses on providing equipment and software for computer training (Proposal, More info)
Centre: Sambhavna (Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh) - focuses on providing medical help to survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster (Proposal, More info)
Three reasons to support Trigger
- Facilitates connected action for large scale impact eg. greater than 2260 disabled children will be impacted in the first year alone
- Demonstrates for the first time, disabled and tribal volunteers of Asha in leadership position eg. More than being funding agents, Asha volunteers inclusive of 4 visually impaired volunteers and 1 tribal volunteer, are actively driving projects for socioeconomic change in India
- Mainstreams the disabled, through sustainable solutions eg. empowering through education and employment generation
Megavision
Read Professor Vileen Shah's megavision for improving the lives of children with disabilities.
Tribal voice of Asha
Read about the friendship between two of our volunteers, Joy and Jagdish, in "A Friendship Between a Tribal Boy and a Visually Disabled Person".
Text-to-Speech Technology
The International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) has created text-to-speech technology for Hindi and Telugu. Read more about it at the IIIT website (opens in new window).
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