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Current Projects
| # | Project | Chapter(s) Funding | State |
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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. |
NYC/NJ, Work an Hour, Yale | WEST BENGAL |
| 7 | Mukti - Coaching Program
Remedial Coaching centers to improve performance in school |
NYC/NJ, Yale | WEST BENGAL |
| 8 | Popular Education and Action Centre - Navjagriti
Providing formal education for street children through informal technique so that they are better equipped to pursue the schooling. |
NYC/NJ, Stanford | DELHI |
| 9 | 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
| # | Project | Chapter(s) Funding | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. |
NYC/NJ | WEST BENGAL |
| 6 | Child Aid Foundation - Shri Vijaya Bharati School
Child Aid Foundation : Shri Vijaya Bharati School |
NYC/NJ | ANDHRA PRADESH |
| 7 | 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 |
Athens, Atlanta, Berkeley, Cornell, Dallas, DC, General Funds, NYC/NJ, Portland, UFlorida, Yale | WEST BENGAL |
| 9 | 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 |
Cleveland, NYC/NJ | DELHI |
| 19 | Institute of Leadership and Instituitional Development
ILID guides social entrepreneurs and strives to realize their goals by helping create a robust organizational structure and develop and improve leadership skills. |
NYC/NJ | KARNATAKA |
| 20 | 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. |
NYC/NJ | WEST BENGAL |
| 39 | Sarvodaya Parivar Trust- Khadkee school for Tribal Children
Residential school in Khadkee a village in remote, tribal area on Gujarat-MH border. See p=161 for more details. |
NYC/NJ, Stanford | GUJARAT |
| 40 | Setu Project
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NYC/NJ | GUJARAT |
| 41 | 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. |
Berkeley, NYC/NJ | KERALA |
| 42 | Society of Door Step Schools - Dattawadi Study Centre (Pune)
Door Step School runs study classes for children going to school to try and improve the levels of the children. |
NYC/NJ, Silicon Valley | MAHARASHTRA |
| 43 | 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. |
Boston/MIT, NYC/NJ | KARNATAKA |
| 46 | Summer Training Programs of IHRE (Institute Of Human Rights Education)
Supporting summer programs for IHRE - (Institute Of Human Rights for Education) |
NYC/NJ | TAMIL NADU |
| 47 | 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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