Asha Samajik Vidyalaya Gonwara

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ASV Gonwara is a community school in Samastipur district of Bihar. The local communities are Mushar and Chamar (Dalit groups). Currently 52 children are enrolled in this school and are the first generation from this community to go to school.

Samastipur, Bihar

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Aasra Sewa Sansthan

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Asha works with Aasra Sewa Sansthan to bring education to the children of the marginalized communities in the village near Varanasi. Asha also plans to build small libraries for the village schools.For this a list of books as well and funding is provided.

Varansi, UP

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Right to Information and NREGA Campaign

The Right to Information and NREGA Campaign strives to achieve delivery of government services and resources. The citizens intervene in the implementation of schemes through public pressure on the local government, awareness campaigns and camps for right to information applications.

Current emphasis of RTI campaign includes improvements in many government schemes and programs such as NREGA, Mid-day Meal and teacher attendance at government schools, ICDS (Baalwadis), PDS (Ration shops), and general disbursement of government funds. These goals are achieved primarily through creating and supporting public demand for implementation of these programs.

Many of these activities have grown from rural community efforts in UP and also in Bihar supported by multiple Asha for Education chapters. Association for India's Development supports 20 RTI Fellows at minimal level since 2007

Uttar Pradesh

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Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha

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Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha provides service to 87 children who fall under 5 levels of mental disability - ranging from borderline to profound. Children with severe disablities need 1-on-1 attention for them to do their daily tasks (like brushing their teeth, eating, etc.). More than 13 children in SSS fall under this category.

The Institute provides a range of services to the children, depending on their needs. These are: Special Education, Speech Therapy, Physiotherapy, Music Therapy, Parents and Sibling Training, Learning through cultural programs, Sports and Yoga, Home-based training, Public Awareness, Vocational Training Rehabilitation, Parent Relief Center. The institute has a full time staff of over 30 making the staff to student ration higher than 1:3. Higher number of teaching & non-teaching staff is needed as lot of students need one on one attention. Also, many children have physical disabilities which makes it necessary for the institute to have more non-teaching staff (helpers) who take care of every detailed need of the child while the child is at the institute.

Nagpur, Maharashtra

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Urur Kuppam is one of 4 villages located in South Chennai along the coastline. About 550 children reside in these 4 villages. Now UrurKuppam got the government recoginition to have u pto 8th standard.The school is run by the local community with meager support from the government.

The school was inaugrated in 1939 by none other than Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The noon meal scheme was inaugrated by none other than Kamaraj . the school is in shambles severely und er-staffed, unhygenic surroundings, cramped conditions for kids to study in. With asha constant support the school now offers upto class 8th. Having provided better teaching aids, a library and a com puter class, high nutritional meals and richer school campus. The school now has a healthy educational environment.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Vikahar Project

In the Vikahar Project, the Philadelphia chapter was sponsoring a class of 75 children from very low income families in Vikahar village. We were providing for all the basic education needs, such was books, tuition, lunch food, healthcare, etc, from class I-IV. The children were identified by women from local Self-Help Groups who knew families that were willing to send their kids to school, but were unable to provide the money. The children attend Jhil Mil Nursery and Primary School runs by ERDS until class IV, and then will be encouraged to attend the government school to continue their education.