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Project Highlight:Santiniketan Shishutirtha
Over the past two years Asha has helped Santiniketan Sishutirtha construct a new school building for children attending classes six through eight. Prior to the construction of this building, despite high demand for classes six through eight, the school was only able to accommodate classes one through five. The total funding supplied by Asha over the past two years is a total of $11,140.
Fellowship: Ashis Panda Working together with members of the Bhil community, who are largely small land-holding farmers, towards strengthening livelihoods and food security of participating farmer members, by work on soil and water conservasation, and collective marketing
DC, NYC/NJ
RAJASTHAN
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HUT : Human Uplift Trust - AIDS Orphans Education Project Founded in 1983 HUT helps community members access their basic human rights. The only way to lift rural people of Tamil Nadu out of the grip of poverty is through providing basic education and healthcare for all community members, regardless of gende
NYC/NJ
TAMIL NADU
3
Kaivalya Trust - Kedi Residential High School for Tribal Girls Our dream for these tribal girls is not only to give them an opportunity to enhance their self-esteem by intellectual and mental progress but also to empower them to lead a self-reliant and fulfilling life.
NYC/NJ, St. Louis
GUJARAT
4
Mahila Action Asha NYC/NJ is supporting a Bridge School Project "Pragathiki Baata - Way to Progress" run by Mahila Action of Vishakapatnam. The goal of the project is to help children get back to mainstream schools. This project supports 50 children/year.
DC, NYC/NJ, Portland
ANDHRA PRADESH
5
Mahila Sworojgar Samiti - Project MUSKAN Project Muskan is for the education of physically challenged children (mainly affected by polio) from villages around Varanasi. These children have never gone to school because of the long commute to go to Govt. school. Since these children didn't ha...
London, NYC/NJ, Toledo
UTTAR PRADESH
6
Mukti Charitable and socio-economic development trust MUKTI was established in 2003. Their book bank project provides text books to students from Grade 5 and above who currently attend local government schools in Purbasridharpur region in West Bengal.
Sahayog Apang Bahuuddeshiya Sanstha - Abhinav Balak Mandir It is a kindergarden school running since last 14 years for children from lower middle class families around. The school provides opportunity to start learning at right age and also helps/encourages parents to send children for further education.
NYC/NJ
MAHARASHTRA
10
Sarada Kalyan Bhandar School providing remedial education and health camps to children in rural communities of landless farmers, daily laborers, coolies and brickfield workers. Asha focuses on higher education of girls and helped fund building of an educational center.
General Funds, Los Angeles, NYC/NJ, Yale
WEST BENGAL
11
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
12
Seva Chakkara Samajam The Seva Chakkara Orphanage houses a residential school for children from grades I to V. After grade V children continue their education in local schools. They continue to be provided for by the orphanage till they are able to stand on their own.
Austin, CentralNJ, Cleveland, Mid-Hudson Valley, NYC/NJ
TAMIL NADU
Previous Projects
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Project
Chapter(s) Funding
State
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AHEAD AHEAD is an organisation working for education and rehabilitation of the mentally, autistic severely disabled children coupled with economic handicap as well.
Berkeley, NYC/NJ, Seattle
WEST BENGAL
2
Aralu-Belaku The project is envisaged to bring overall development in the target group of children through rehabilitation, education, skill development including learning, training and production for self-sustenance - residential home for orphans and street kids
Chicago, NYC/NJ, Seattle, Work an Hour
KARNATAKA
3
Asha Trust - Navjyoti Swawalamban Sewa Sansthan The organization provides primary education in 2 main centers and non-formal education in about 8 centers. The organization also runs vocational training centers and supports various social causes.
Athens, Chicago, NYC/NJ
UTTAR PRADESH
4
Auroville This project is intended to support the construction of two classroom in New Creation in Auroville, Pondicherry. This school caters to the a few surrounding villages and has over 250 children.
Indiana, NYC/NJ, Yale
PONDICHERRY
5
Bustee Welfare Center The BWC is a non-governmental organization that tries to improve the lives of bustee children and give them a better future through education.
Chintan Chintan is an environmental research and action group which also undertakes non-formal education of children from the wastepicking community in Delhi, helping them qualify for formal schooling. Asha helps support these educational programs.
NYC/NJ
DELHI
8
Cyclone Aila Relief in WB This project is to support the rescue efforts led by Mukti and BTS for the people affected by Cyclone Aila in West Bengal
Dhamma Dipa School An educational project for disadvantaged children of poor tribals in South Tripura
NYC/NJ, Stamford, Work an Hour
TRIPURA
10
Door Step School (Mumbai) Doorstep School operates in the slums of South Mumbai (Ward A). The population is migrant and most of the adults and the children work in the docks, at construction sites and as hawkers.
Houston, NYC/NJ
MAHARASHTRA
11
Educational Video CDs from AID-India and Tamil Nadu Science Forum To prepare educational and science videos that can be used in schools, by NGOs and by Science Movement activists in villages using existing TVs and a VCD player (rented@Rs.50/day) or computers. Local cable operators also help spread awareness.
NYC/NJ
TAMIL NADU
12
Eureka Learning Center To adopt existing schools, improve the learning quality significantly and provide a child friendly learning environment to children from poor families.
NYC/NJ
TAMIL NADU
13
Eureka Makkal Noolagam The Eureka Peoples Library seeks to set up a network of village libraries. It also seeks to develop and produce appropriate materials for neo-literates in local languages.
CentralNJ, DC, NYC/NJ
TAMIL NADU
14
Fellowship: Meenakshi Working on regenerating land and increasing livelihood, and reducing migration.
NYC/NJ
TAMIL NADU
15
Fellowship: Siddamma Siddamma is working on creating a community resource center to document community based knowledge and provide a base for communities to test eco-friendly alternatives in agriculture, pottery, dairy, herbs and energy.
Austin, NYC/NJ, Silicon Valley, Toledo
TAMIL NADU
16
Forum for Womens Rights and Development Trust (FORWORD) FORWORD aims to tackle one of India's most challenging socio-economic problems - the oppression of under-privileged members of society - through an evening school designed primarily for Dalit children. The project intends to dev
DC, NYC/NJ, UFlorida, Work an Hour
TAMIL NADU
17
Gram Vikas Gram Vikas is a voluntary organisation working amongst the rural (and poor) areas of Orissa.
NYC/NJ, Silicon Valley
ORISSA
18
IASER - Progressive Literature for Sightless The Indian Association for the Special Education and Rehabilitation (IASER) is planning to start this project. Using a computer, a scanner and an OCR program, college level books will be scanned and made available through CDs to the blind students
Institute of Leadership and Instituitional Development ILID is an NGO that caters to the leadership and institutional development needs of social organizations; it is an umbrella organization that helps social entrepreneurs improve and innovate on the effort and strategy fronts.
NYC/NJ
KARNATAKA
21
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
22
Jagriti Bal Vikas Samiti This is an Education Project for Economically Disadvantaged Migrant Workers' Children. These children are deprived of even the traditional health and education avenues, which they could have availed in villages.
Arizona, NYC/NJ, Seattle, Silicon Valley
UTTAR PRADESH
23
Little Stars School School for few hundred children from a slum area in Varanasi, nursery to Class 6.
Berkeley, Madison, NYC/NJ, Seattle
UTTAR PRADESH
24
Manav Mandir Establish an alternative school for working children while giving them economic incentives to attend classes. The proposed school will run for 2 to 3 hours in the evenings in a building that is already established.
NYC/NJ
MADHYA PRADESH
25
MS3 - Manaviya Shiksha Sanskar Sansthan Provide basic education to the children of migrant laborers and establish an institute with 3-yr participatory courses that promotes education with humanistic values.
Dallas, NYC/NJ, Seattle, Silicon Valley
UTTAR PRADESH
26
Nabarun Seva Niketan - Balwadi Project Nabarun Seva Niketan known as NSN is a non-profit organization established in the year 1971. Asha NYCNJ is evaluating to support 14 Balwadi's education at Pulshita
NYC/NJ
WEST BENGAL
27
Namgyal Institute for People With Disability The Namgyal Institute for People with Disability (NIPWD) give individuals with mental and physical disabilities as well as other marginalized communities access to education.
NYC/NJ, Stamford
JAMMU AND KASHMIR
28
National Association for the Blind - Valsad The National Association for the Blind, Valsad, works with the visually impaired. Asha supports assistance to the students and procurement of special educational material. NAB project is one of the Silicon Valley "Support A Child", SAC Projects.
Berkeley, NYC/NJ, San Francisco, Silicon Valley
GUJARAT
29
New Modern School - Nandgad The New Modern English Medium School was started by some local residents with the hope of making learning more fun and imaginative.
NYC/NJ
KARNATAKA
30
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
31
Pasumai Trust - Build Non-formal education centers for children of migrant brick kiln workers.
Birmingham, Houston, NYC/NJ, Portland, Work an Hour
TAMIL NADU
32
Pratham Support of Pratham initiatives in Mumbai slums
NYC/NJ
MAHARASHTRA
33
Pravah Pravah is an organization based in New Delhi, India that works with young people to impact issues of social justice through youth citizenship action. Pravah became a registered organization in 1993.
NYC/NJ
DELHI
34
ReAD Facilitates the continuation of education of girls in the Deomai block of the district.
NYC/NJ
UTTAR PRADESH
35
Sahyog - Anusandhan Trust A holistic, community based educational programme for adolescent girls in Jari Mari and Dindoshi and children with disabilites in JariMari.
Atlanta, Berkeley, NYC/NJ, Work an Hour
MAHARASHTRA
36
Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha is an institute dedicated to serve mentally disabled children, whom the organization refers to as "differently-abled" children. Supporting Asha chapters - Athens, NYCNJ, Silicon Valley.
Athens, NYC/NJ, Philadelphia, Silicon Valley, Work an Hour
MAHARASHTRA
37
Sankurathri Foundation Higher Elementary School from Grade1 to Grade 7 with 97 students, and 8 teachers.
Arizona, NYC/NJ, Seattle
ANDHRA PRADESH
38
Santiniketan Shishutirtha Santiniketan Sishutirtha is an orphanage and a school providing both traditional and craft-based education. The school currently has grades 1-5. Asha is supporting the extension of the school to support grades 6-8.
Shilpa Society for the Mentally Handicapped The most important short term goal of the Society is to focus in its Early intervention program by setting up a nodal Early Intervention unit.
Solidarity and Action Against The HIV Infection in India - SAATHII SAATHII began as an international movement to bring together the HIV/AIDS community in forming a unified voice and taking collective action against HIV/AIDS in India. Asha is supporting SAATHII for the first time.
CentralNJ, NYC/NJ
ANDHRA PRADESH
44
Sri Sarada Sangha The aim of the group is to provide an ideal environment for children from the tribal areas of the chotanagpur area to become educated and take on the challenges of life with more confidence.
Athens, NYC/NJ
JHARKHAND
45
Sumangali Seva Ashram Sumangali Seva Ashram is a nonprofit organization consistently working for rural development with an emphasis on women and children.
Timbaktu Collective The objective of the Timbaktu Collective is to make a lasting improvement in the lives of the people of the area.
Bangalore, Chicago, London, NYC/NJ, Stanford, Work an Hour
ANDHRA PRADESH
48
Udbhas The objective of the group is to encourage the children in various educational and social activities, to reward the deserving ones, to provide facilities for the betterment of their life pattern, and to guide them to become better citizens.
NYC/NJ, UFlorida
WEST BENGAL
49
Vanvasi Ashram Trust Wayanad, a district of Kerala, is considered the most backward district of Kerala. It is the district where backward tribals namely Paniya, Nayikar, Adiyar, Kuruma and Kurrichias are living. They are living with the means which they get from the fore...
Atlanta, NYC/NJ, Silicon Valley, Stanford, Work an Hour
KERALA
50
VESC - Vivekananda Educational Society for Children TheVivekananda Educational Society for Children (VESC) wasfounded in January 1996 to address the problem of child labour in the South24-Parganas district of West Bengal, India.
Arizona, Berkeley, Colorado, Cornell, Mid-Hudson Valley, NYC/NJ, Seattle, Stanford, Work an Hour
WEST BENGAL
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