Access to education is a basic human right that too many children in India are deprived of. Asha for Education is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization that has been working since 1991 to change this. Asha's volunteers work to find, develop and fund education projects in the hopes of empowering India's youth. Since its inception, Asha has raised over $4 million to help finance more than 350 projects across 24 Indian states.
Founded in 1995, Asha's Boston/MIT chapter is a group of dedicated working professionals and students in New England that has developed long-standing ties to people and organizations in India working to expand and improve education.
2013 Season information session will be on Sunday, 21 April 2:00PM-4:00PM at MIT (Room 4-163). Training runs will start the following Saturday. Please RSVP to let us know if you are interested.
Even if you are unsure about running or volunteering, join us for a few runs/events with no obligations before you decide.
Q. Want to get in shape, do something for a great cause, meet amazing people, and have the time of your life in this year?
A. Join us: Group run on every Saturday morning.
Visit Team AID Asha for questions and teams
Navsarjan, one of Asha Boston's partners, won the "Advocacy and Empowerment" Social Impact NGO award by The Times of India. Please continue to support Asha-Boston through donations, volunteering and raising awareness.
When: 2 pm, Jul 29, Sunday
Where: Room 2-132, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA
Agenda:
1. Welcome new members [10 minutes]
2. Navsarjan [90 minutes]
a. Site Visit Update
b. Internship [Priti]
c. Quality in Education Update [Ritu]
d. Video
e. General Proposal for Funding [Maulik]
f. Q&A
g. Vote
3. Discuss change to Asha.s overhead policy [Rajeev] [10 minutes]
4. IAGB Independence Day Event [Yogi] [5 minutes]
5. Open Forum [5 minutes]
2012 Season information session will be on Sunday, April 22nd 2:00PM-4:00PM at MIT (Room 4-270). Training runs will start the following Saturday. Please RSVP to let us know if you are interested.
Even if you are unsure about running or volunteering, join us for a few runs/events with no obligations before you decide.
Q. Want to get in shape, do something for a great cause, meet amazing people, and have the time of your life in this year?
A. Join us: Group run on every Saturday morning.
Visit Team AID Asha for questions and teams
Update from Melli :-
You might recall that our chapter was successful in getting a large grant ($130K) to build a "green" girls' home. The home was built at Deenabandhu a project partner. The home was successfully inaugurated, and overall Alstom is very pleased. After the initial grant Alstom and Deenabandhu developed a direct contact and Asha's role mostly came to an end (though we would have been responsible if there had been a hitch in the project).
A video summary of the opening ceremony (Alstom's officials attended this in Chamajaranagar, the town where Deenabandhu works): Video link
I have uploaded photographs and press releases at the Deenabandhu webpage
Thanks so much to all who helped make it happen. I consider this a successful project and partnership.
Location:
MIT Building 4 Room 253
77 Massachussetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02141 (click here for MIT Map)
Asha Boston/MIT chapter has decided to collaborate with Navsarjan, a non-profit social organization, and provide scholarships for the education of 44 girl students during the school year starting June 2007. Since the scholarship program was announced, the enrollment of girls at the schools increased by more than 600% from 14 to over 59. Read More
