ASHA: Meeting minutes (1st April)

[Subramanya Sastry <sastry@cs.wisc.edu>]

Minutes for meeting on Thu, 1st April, at Union South 215 Jane Adams B:
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Attendees: Chandru, Charu, Kamal, Param, Subbu, Vidhi, Vineeta, Vinod, Vishal

- Vineeta checked our mailbox at Red Gym.  Donations have started coming in.
- Vineeta volunteered to work on the article (about Asha) that would go in the
  Badyer Yearbook.

Little Stars School:
- Vidhi read out a letter that she received from Asha Pandey of the
  Little Stars' school.  The letter was accompanied by a cute drawing by
  one of the students of the school.  The building for the school has been
  going on the they hope to move in to the new building by June/July this
  year.  She is also planning to start a vocational training programme around
  the same time.  Vidhi also informed us that Asha-Berkeley has issued a check
  for $6K to Asha-India who will then route the funds to the school.  Vishal
  provided us with an update about the current funding requirement.  Another
  $7K was required for completing the construction of the ground floor.  It was
  decided that Asha-Madison will issue them a check for $2K towards the same.
  Param will contact Pankaj Gupta about the same.  We'll also talk with
  Asha Pandey over the phone on Saturday morning to get answers to some other
  questions that we had - primarily about her running expenses.

Asha Conference:
- Vidhi & Vidya will be attending the Asha Conference at Boston this May.
  Others (Subbu, Vineeta) might go, but are yet unsure.  As of now, one of
  Vidhi/Vidya will be representing Asha-Madison at the conference.

T-shirt:
- We decided to get together on one day during the weekend of April 10th
  to work on a T-shirt design of our own.  During that weekend, we will also
  check out on T-shirt samples from suppliers of T-shirts.

Stalls at Press House (on April 15th) and India Nite (May 1st):
- We'll be setting up a stall at Press House on April 15th after the talk
  organized by "Students for a Free Tibet".  Vinod volunteered to be at the
  stall on this day.
- Charu will be talking with Rohan Parikh (ISA president) about us setting
  up a stall during India Nite (and possibly a presentation, it possible).
- In general, it was felt that we need to monitor the events on campus when
  we could set up awareness booths.