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Project Type	Special Needs
	Special Needs Children From Socially Disadvantaged Backgrounds These are for children who have special problems created by the lifestyles they are forced into such as prostitution, rape, drugs and living on the streets. These children face great social disadvantage because of their backgrounds. They often represent extremely disadvantaged urban communities such as those of street children, sex-workers' children and children addicted to drugs. In most cases the children are often without any kind of parental support. The schooling for these children typically includes appropriate education and vocational training. Where relevant, treatment, therapy and group counseling is also provided. Some groups work with the children for many years till they are ensured placement in jobs.

Project Type

Special Needs

Special Needs Children From Socially Disadvantaged Backgrounds

These are for children who have special problems created by the lifestyles they are forced into such as prostitution, rape, drugs and living on the streets. These children face great social disadvantage because of their backgrounds. They often represent extremely disadvantaged urban communities such as those of street children, sex-workers' children and children addicted to drugs. In most cases the children are often without any kind of parental support. The schooling for these children typically includes appropriate education and vocational training. Where relevant, treatment, therapy and group counseling is also provided. Some groups work with the children for many years till they are ensured placement in jobs.

#	Project	Chapter(s) Funding	State
1	Asha Trust - Education and Self-Reliance for Farmer Scholarships for children affected by the suicides of the farmers in the Nizamabad area.	Dallas, Toledo	ANDHRA PRADESH
2	Ashraya - Kerala Ashraya is a home for the residential rehabilitation of mentally and physically challenged girl children hailing from economically broken families.	Atlanta, CentralNJ, Purdue, San Diego, Work an Hour	KERALA
3	Asmaan This is a project, which is implemented through a collaboration between two NGO’s Saathi And CCDT. The team of project Asmaan works with a community living on the streets of Morland Road, near Kamathipura, the oldest red light area in Mumbai.	Proposal or no funding info available	MAHARASHTRA
4	Challenge Project Challenge is a project that aims at funding a school for the deaf-mute children residing in and around the remote South Indian village of Dharmapuri.	Toledo	TAMIL NADU
5	Cheshire Homes Cheshire Homes is an organization aiming to support physically and mentally challenged people providing various kinds of programs ro rehabilitate both children and adults in Kodagu district.	CentralNJ	KARNATAKA
6	Dakshinya Institute for the Mentally Handicapped The sole aim of " DAKSHINYA" is to dedicate itself for the welfare of the persons with Mental Retardation, Cerebral Palsy, Autism and associated Multiple disabilities by scientifically training them to be self reliant and socially productive.	CentralNJ	ANDHRA PRADESH
7	Gnana Deepam Gnana Deepam, school for mentally challenged children, identifies children from low income families and imparts free training to make every child self-reliant and reduce the burden for their parents.	Madison	TAMIL NADU
8	Lokmanya Seva Sangh, Child Parent Guidance Centre To help Lokmanya Seva Sangh with funds for effective functioning of Child Parent Guidance centre (CPGC)	Proposal or no funding info available	MAHARASHTRA
9	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
10	MGM Rotary Special School for Mentally Retarded Children	Dallas	KERALA
11	People First Educational Charitable Trust - Rescue Junction/Gaya Rescue Railway-Children Rescue: Care and education for street-children living on the platforms of Gaya station, Bihar, India.	Silicon Valley	BIHAR
12	Prayas (Vocational Institute for Mentally Handicapped) Prayas runs inclusive schools to cater to children of any background facing economic, social, physical or mental challenges. It also runs a home based program to reach out to kids with profound disabilities.	Atlanta, Portland, San Francisco, UIUC, Work an Hour	RAJASTHAN
13	Rahul Multidisciplinary Research Center Delhi based agency working with slum children.	Cornell	DELHI
14	Rajasthan Mahila Kalyan Mandal - Pahla Kadam An inclusive school and community based rehabilitation for mentally challenged children in Ajmer district	Austin	RAJASTHAN
15	Reconstruction for Tsunami Affected Schools - Suyam Reconstruction of schools in tsunami affected Nagapattinam region	Seattle	TAMIL NADU
16	SCD Rotary Project Provide one-time funding to purchase equipment required to develop a school curriculum framework for mentally retarded children.	Arizona	DELHI
17	Setu Project	NYC/NJ	GUJARAT
18	Shartul Foundation Shartul Foundation is for children with special needs. Any child of any age with a temporary or permanent special need can join. As non- profit organization, they aim at helping maximum number of such children through their activities; special ...	Dallas	MAHARASHTRA
19	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
20	Shristi Special Academy Provide quality services and structured intervention programs for children with mental retardation, autism or any other intellectual impairment.	Austin, Silicon Valley, UIUC, Work an Hour	KARNATAKA
21	Society Undertaking Poor Peoples On us for Rehabilitation - SUPPORT SUPPORT is a group dedicated to fighting AIDS and Drug Abuse among street children in Mumbai.	Princeton, Seattle	MAHARASHTRA
22	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
23	Srividhya Center for special children Enabling mantally challenged children to become independent and self-reliant	Minnesota, Silicon Valley	ANDHRA PRADESH
24	The Banyan The Banyan strives to rehabilitate mentally ill destitute women and reunite them with their families.Asha austin will be invoved in the support and bring up of the vocational training/occupational therapy units.	Austin	TAMIL NADU
25	Tomorrow's Foundation - Street to School A number of children living on the streets and slums of Kalighat, Kolkata were provided with resources for basic education. The school offers curriculum and vocational training and mid-day meals to about 150 students enrolled.	Burlington, Cleveland, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Seattle, Toledo	WEST BENGAL
26	Vishwa Jeevan Seva Sangha Community Based Rehabilitation for Disabled Students	San Francisco	ORISSA
27	VOICE - Voluntary Organization of Community Enterprise VOICE is a project that teaches children at rail stations in India.	Boston/MIT, Carbondale, Colorado, London, Seattle, Silicon Valley, St. Louis, Work an Hour	MAHARASHTRA


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