Asha-MIT Projects
Current Projects
| # | Project | Chapter(s) Funding | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deen Bandhu Trust
Deena Bandhu runs a school and summer camp program for underpriviledged children in the community. |
Arizona, Boston/MIT, Silicon Valley | KARNATAKA |
| 2 | Jaher
Residential school for the Santhali tribal children - to be supported partly by the community through the fishery project |
Boston/MIT | JHARKHAND |
| 3 | Kamalakar Memorial Trust
Vikas Bharati School run by Kamalakar Trust is a charitable school that imparts free education for poor children. |
Boston/MIT | ANDHRA PRADESH |
| 4 | Natpurwa
Natpurwa is a village of the Nat caste, whose main profession is prostitution. Two youths from the community are working towards ending this practice in this village. |
Boston/MIT, Silicon Valley | UTTAR PRADESH |
| 5 | Navsarjan
Navsarjan was started to conscientize the community to fight the social and economic exploitation of Dalits. |
Boston/MIT | GUJARAT |
| 6 | Sahanivasa
Special tuition classes for underprivileged students taking class X exams. |
Boston/MIT, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Work an Hour | ANDHRA PRADESH |
| 7 | Seed in Madurai
Seed provides study centers in Karumbalai slum with volunteers teaching evenings and weekends. There are numerous clubs and extra-curricular activities to bring out the potential of every child |
Boston/MIT | TAMIL NADU |
| 8 | Seed Narpanigal
Seed Narpanigal is an organization started by youth in the Karumbalai (a slum) to run a variety of programs, such as education (with a strong emphasis on bringing the potential of each child), youth clubs, library for all of Karumbalai and so on. |
Boston/MIT | TAMIL NADU |
| 9 | SPRAT
CARAVAN - Network of empowerment centers, offering informal education, formal coaching for SSC/HSC, vocational library and workshops. TALEEM 3-4 month basic literacy course, working with Gujarat Vidyapeeth. Focused on women & children |
Boston/MIT | GUJARAT |
| 10 | SVYM - VTCL (Viveka Tribal Centre for Learning)
The SWAMI VIVEKANANDA YOUTH MOVEMENT is a registered, voluntary, non-political, non-religious, social service organization committed to community development through community participation. |
Boston/MIT, Canada, Silicon Valley | KARNATAKA |
| 11 | TEA - Team for Education and Action
Supplementing the Govt. school education in 15 villages in the outskirts of Chennai. Attempting to improve the quality of elementary education to prevent children from becoming labourers. |
Berkeley, Boston/MIT, Chennai, Work an Hour | TAMIL NADU |
Previous Projects
| # | Project | Chapter(s) Funding | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AALI - Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives
Girls were moved to a boarding school |
Boston/MIT | UTTAR PRADESH |
| 2 | Aarambh
Aarabh is an NGO that works to improve the health and educational standards among several slums in Mumbai. |
Boston/MIT | MAHARASHTRA |
| 3 | Asha 2000 - Shanmuga Subramanian
Visiting over 80 Asha projects to evaluate and understand impact of Asha's work |
Boston/MIT, DC, General Funds, Seattle, Silicon Valley | TAMIL NADU |
| 4 | Asha Center - Lalpur
Asha has set up a full-fledged centre called Asha Ashram for carrying out social change and development in Lalpur and surrounding villages of Hardoi district. A new Ashram at Bharawan will work as Public information and resource center. |
Boston/MIT, Cornell, DC, Seattle | UTTAR PRADESH |
| 5 | Astha
This center works with children with mental retardation and multiple disabilities such as Cerebral Palsy and Autism. They produce materials - both audio visual and printed - in the field of disability. |
Boston/MIT, Seattle | DELHI |
| 6 | Aviram
Aviram is running 6 NFE centers in 5 villages of Lohardaga district, Jharkhand with the help of Asha-MIT. |
Boston/MIT | JHARKHAND |
| 7 | Bhoomi Heen Sewa Samithi
Bhoomiheen Sewa Samiti is a voluntary service society whose primary aim is the upliftment of the poorest and most oppressed members of our society. |
Boston/MIT, Seattle, Work an Hour | UTTAR PRADESH |
| 8 | Chamarajnagar District Resource Centres
The National Institute of Advanced Studies is working on bringing to functionality Block and Cluster Resource Centres in Chamarajnagar district of Karnataka |
Boston/MIT | KARNATAKA |
| 9 | Concern for Working Children
CWC is working towards a total eradication of child labor in all sectors and seeks to empower children so that they can gain control over their lives and be self reliant. |
Boston/MIT | KARNATAKA |
| 10 | Dr. MVR Prathamika Patasala, Gollaprolu
Request for partial funding for the construction of one classroom which will serve to conduct classes for the school children. |
Boston/MIT | ANDHRA PRADESH |
| 11 | Duvva
The school in West Godavari district caters to 10 villages nearby with about 400 students from classes 6 to 10. The project was referred by Dr. K.V.Rao of the India Network Foundation who visited this school and was impressed. |
Boston/MIT | ANDHRA PRADESH |
| 12 | IHDUA
Asha-MIT disbursed funds for a one-time purchase of school benches. |
Boston/MIT | KARNATAKA |
| 13 | IOI - International Ocean Institute (Anawim)
Anawim is dedicated to the socio-economic development of coastal Dalit villages. Together with Asha, Anawim has set up eight Asha Junior Centers to provide educational support and enrichment activities for the children in these villages. |
Berkeley, Boston/MIT, NYC/NJ, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Singapore, St. Louis, Stanford, Work an Hour | TAMIL NADU |
| 14 | Jeevan Gnanodaya
Jeevan Gnanodaya School for the Deaf is a wing of the Jeevan Gnanodaya Charitable Trust. It has been functioning in Chengalpattu since 1989. The schools shelters and educates speech and hearing impaired kids from poor, rural backgrounds. When childre... |
Atlanta, Boston/MIT, Cornell, Seattle, Silicon Valley, UIUC, Work an Hour | TAMIL NADU |
| 15 | Katkari Educational Centers
SAC runs NFEs for the Katkaris - one of India's most backward communities |
Boston/MIT | MAHARASHTRA |
| 16 | Malarchi
Malarchi is a home for children from families that have been deserted, or seriously abused, by the father, and where the mother is unable to provide for them. The children are educated in local schools. ... |
Boston/MIT | TAMIL NADU |
| 17 | MIPS - Madurai Institute of Peace Science
Study centre for after school study for children of SC/ST landless agricultural labourers. |
Boston/MIT, Colorado | TAMIL NADU |
| 18 | Nutanhat Development Society
The project falls in the Mangalkot Block which has about 52 villages. Lack of education, health facilities, unclean environment is the ultimate cause of misery. |
Boston/MIT, St. Louis | WEST BENGAL |
| 19 | Odanadi Seva Samsthe
Odanadi Seva Samsthe aims to empower and rehabilitate sexually-exploited women and children. |
Boston/MIT, CentralNJ, Cornell, Dallas, DC, Irvine, Los Angeles, NYC/NJ, Princeton, Seattle, Silicon Valley, UIUC | KARNATAKA |
| 20 | Poorna
Poorna FCRA was used to route funds to the Katkari project in Poone |
Boston/MIT | KARNATAKA |
| 21 | Prerna Niketan
Prerna Niketan is working towards upliftment of rural women in Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand |
Boston/MIT, St. Louis | JHARKHAND |
| 22 | Rehabilitation of Tsunami victims in Tada Mandal
Sahanivasa is actively involved in the rehabilitation process of Tsunami victims in Andhra Pradesh. This project aims at rehabilitating 12 villages in Tada Mandal which have not received any support from the govt so far. |
Boston/MIT, Tsunami Relief & Rehab | ANDHRA PRADESH |
| 23 | Samuha
SAMUHA is an NGO that runs the educational resource group SUVIDYA. |
Boston/MIT | KARNATAKA |
| 24 | Sarvodaya Parivar Trust
Sarvodaya Parivar Trust started an elementary school in 1994. It is a residential school for tribal children on a remote mountain plateau where they teach geography, science, and music in addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic. |
Berkeley, Boston/MIT, Cornell, NYC/NJ, Silicon Valley | GUJARAT |
| 25 | SEED - Society for Economic and Educational Development
SEED helps children from the socially, educationally and economically deprived segments. SEED provides primary & high school education to the children of prisoners, murder victims, leprosy patients and prostitutes. |
Berkeley, Boston/MIT, Cornell, Santa Barbara, St. Louis, UIUC | TAMIL NADU |
| 26 | SHARE - Self Help Association for Rural Education and Employment
This is an after-school tutorial program for poor children in five villages/ |
Boston/MIT | TAMIL NADU |
| 27 | Sikshana
Sikshana is all about improving the quality of education in the state-run schools so as to provide an opportunity for children from the lower strata of the society to raise their living standards. |
Boston/MIT, Seattle, Yale | KARNATAKA |
| 28 | SLADS - Singhbhum Legal Aids Society
Sustainable Education for Poor Tribal and Backward Children |
Boston/MIT, DC | JHARKHAND |
| 29 | SODWAC - Society for Development of Women and Children
SODWAC works in the areas of health, social development and non-formal education of women and children. |
Boston/MIT | KARNATAKA |
| 30 | Sugandha
Provide education, training and care to underprivileged children. |
Boston/MIT | UTTAR PRADESH |
| 31 | Sumangali Seva Ashram
Sumangali Seva Ashram is a nonprofit organization consistently working for rural development with an emphasis on women and children. |
Boston/MIT, NYC/NJ | KARNATAKA |
| 32 | Sutradhar
A resource center doing interesting work in the area of designing and dissemminating education materials and toys throughout the country. |
Boston/MIT, Seattle | KARNATAKA |
| 33 | Swanirvar
Swanirvar has the broader goal of making the villages in the District North 24 Parganas self-sufficient. Asha funds 3 primary schools with around 500 children. |
Boston/MIT, Los Angeles, Madison, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Stanford | WEST BENGAL |
| 34 | Sweekar
Sweekar is a rehabilitation institute for the Handicapped (both physically and mentally handicapped) located in Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It started in 1977and currently has a 75 room facility, 150 staff members and 750 resident people . |
Boston/MIT | ANDHRA PRADESH |
| 35 | Thulir School
Thulir is an experimental primary school that focusses on pupil-friendly joyful learning techniques |
Boston/MIT, Cornell | TAMIL NADU |
| 36 | TNSF - Tamil Nadu Science Forum
Initial funding for library setup in 1500 villages. |
Boston/MIT, Seattle | TAMIL NADU |
| 37 | TRY - To Reach You
Shelter for children rescued from trafficking |
Boston/MIT, Dallas, General Funds, Purdue, Silicon Valley, Syracuse, Work an Hour | TAMIL NADU |
| 38 | UDAVI
Tutorial classes for slum children |
Boston/MIT | TAMIL NADU |
| 39 | UMBVS - Urmul Marusthali Bunkar Vikas Samiti
UJS runs 6 month long residential camps for young girls who have had no prior education. They are taught basic education, personal health and hygiene and awareness of women's rights. |
Boston/MIT, Seattle, Silicon Valley, St. Louis, Work an Hour | RAJASTHAN |
| 40 | VASORD
This project will have emphasis on "learning" rather than mere "teaching". Education should be a matter of pleasure for the student. It is the positive, congenial atmosphere which enables learning process. |
Boston/MIT | ANDHRA PRADESH |
| 41 | VISA - Village Improvement & Service Assoc.
Non-formal LITERACY-CUM-LIFE education for high school dropouts. |
Boston/MIT | TAMIL NADU |
| 42 | Viveka Kendra
The Viveka project aims to provide for the "all-round development" of the child to shape his/her contribution to society tomorrow. |
Boston/MIT, Silicon Valley | KARNATAKA |
| 43 | Vivekananda Foundation - Chamarajanagar
Adoption of 72 government schools in Chamarajanagar dist., Karnataka |
Boston/MIT, Madison | KARNATAKA |
| 44 | VOICE - Voluntary Organization of Community Enterprise
VOICE is a project that teaches children at rail stations in India. |
Boston/MIT, Carbondale, Colorado, London, Seattle, Silicon Valley, St. Louis, Work an Hour | MAHARASHTRA |
| 45 | Voice of People
"BODHI VIKAS"- Unfolding one's own potential. (Vocational training for dropout children) |
Boston/MIT | WEST BENGAL |
| 46 | WADA
Resources for Jhugi Jhopdis in New Delhi |
Boston/MIT | DELHI |
| 47 | WARM - Welfare Association of Rural Mass
WARM is an organization established in 1983, Tamilnadu. Their mission is to create awareness among marginalized people about their rights and make them believe they can become self-reliant. One goal is elimination of child labor. |
Boston/MIT | TAMIL NADU |
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