Poll Question:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ashasv-vol/surveys?id=2998933

Do you approve Asha SV supporting Gramin Shiksha Kendra for the year from July 2010-June 2011 to the tune of Rs 1423500 to be spent on teaching materials, teacher salaries, capacity building for staff, consultant support, school library and administrative costs. Budget and other details are available at http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=603

Choices Votes 	% 	
No 	0 	0 	
Yes 	10 	100 	

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Chapter mtg minutes:


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ashasv-vol/message/7851

Asha 08/11/10 Meeting Attendees:

GSK renewal: Murali (Austin)
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- in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan
- Asha-SV support from 2008
- To provide model of high quality education that can be replicated in different places
- Population is Gujjar/Meena communities in villages about 15-16 kms from Sawai Madhopur
- School operations are child-centric.. every child has activity for each day and at the end of the day they are evaluated what activities they had done and activities for next day are planned
- GSK supports upto class 8 (Rajasthan has class 8 board exams)
- Most of the teachers have mastaers in education and they all go through training workshops
- Children get to do lot of autonomous activities..
- 250 children in Jaganpura and Bodal (Asha-SV) a self sustaining school in Sawai Madhopur (40 students). New school in Katar-Faria started last year on community demand (Yatra foundation funded, 120 students) teacher training workshop from May 16- June 30 . all teachers from GSK attend this workshop and some from other schools
- a creative journal ‘Morange’ is being publiched by children.
- Trying to get local IT comissioner to generate some money (4-5 laks Rs.)
- SDTT proposal is on hold because of RTE bill (waiting to see implication of bill)
- Zankhana, Vibha’s employee in India visited GSK in Dec 2009
- Old staff have come back now due to more stable funding
- Jaganpura school has got affiliation from Rajasthan Education Board
- Teachers have weekly workshop on Saturdays
- Faria school was started on community initiatives. They got the land for the school.
- Yatra foundation is associated with a sports equipment company in India,. All these schools have new sports equipment and clothing
- They have started working with govt. schools to get their child-centric innovative education system incorporated. they have a 5 year, 100 school mission
- GSK wants to enhance responsibility of Jaganpura and Bodal schools as
resource centers
- Teacher support for attitudinal issues, behaviour patterns and approach, link up with ISABS (Indian institue for attitude and behavioral science)
- Communities are made aware of difference in teaching methods in GSK
schools and govt. schools, classroom atmosphere etc.
- Awareness about student-teacher, student-student, teacher-treacher and school-community relations
- Importance of fine arts in education

Funding

- overall budget: Rs. 54.1 lakhs
- community liason: Rs 6.36 lakhs
- Asha-Austin ~ Rs. 10 lakhs (only 5 lakhs have been communicated to project)
- Vibha ~ Rs 6.8 Lakhs
- Yatra ~ 2.65 Lakhs
- Unsupported ~ Rs 28 Lakhs
- Have applied for from Edelgive: ~ 10 Lakhs
- Asha-SV support (2009-10): Rs 14.6 Lakhs
- Budget for Asha-SV (requirement is 18 Lakhs): chapter policy not to increase funding from last year’s. Asha-Austin doesn’t have funds right now.. that’s why they have only promised 5 lakhs.

Q: What’s their core basic requirements? Madhu asked Murali/Pankaj to
come up with a reduced budger based on priority requirements and present it to the chapter.. No 6 month budget approval