Asha for Education's Projects

Asha for Education raises awareness of issues and supports projects concerned with the education of underprivileged children in various parts of India. Asha works with several non-governmental and governmental organizations in India to bring about positive socio-economic change. Our interventions include infrastructural support such as classrooms, teacher's salaries, meal programs for children, providing learning aids, and promoting socially-meaningful curriculum development and child-centered learning techniques. Asha also is actively involved in campaigning for innovative education techniques in government schools and is closely involved with other organizations in reviewing the government's curriculum framework.

The projects we partner with are aware of and sensitive to the special learning requirements of groups such as street children, children of prostitutes, children with speech, vision and hearing impairments, slow learners and physically and mentally challenged children. In addition, they also attempt to provide educational resource centers and teacher training facilities. Asha is also sensitive to preserving the culture of the groups we work with (for instance, many of India's indigenous tribes have their own unique culture). The groups supported by Asha are diverse in their location, target population and approach to education. However, in one way, they are all similar. Asha supports only groups that demonstrably have no political or religious affiliations.

A look at some of our projects Overview of three projects PDF (120K), Word DOC (34K) Slide Shows Asha Ashram ( HTML, Powerpoint 1.1M ) Manaviya Shiksha Sanskar Sansthan ( HTML, Powerpoint 820K ) Navjyoti Swawalamban Sewa Sansthan ( HTML, Powerpoint 270K )       Asha's Project Funding Profile [Click on image for bigger graph]

The volunteers of Asha for Education play an active role in identifying, reviewing, approving and monitoring the projects that we fund. Individual volunteers from each chapter do a site visit of the project to study it before funding is approved. Currently Asha for Education supports 152 projects all over India. Volunteers often have a non-monetary personal involvement with projects, so that they can work in close partnership with the project. Asha's aim is not just to improve access, but to make education a more meaningful experience for children and their communities.

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