DELHI Asha Projects: 46 Population: 13.78 million Density: 9294 per sq. km. Urban Population: 93.01% Literacy Rate: 81.82% Male Literacy: 87.37% Female Literacy: 75.00% Sex Ratio: 821 (females per 1000 males)

#	Project	Chapter(s) Funding
1	Akshay Pratisthan	Austin
2	Amba Foundation Education center for slum children, and medical center for slum population	St. Louis
3	ANK To run learning centers to educate 70 at risk children who are out of school in the Saidualazab ,Saket area of South Delhi for a period of one year with aim of joining them in mainstream schools.	Frankfurt
4	Astha This center works with children with mental retardation and multiple disabilities such as Cerebral Palsy and Autism. They produce materials - both audio visual and printed - in the field of disability.	Boston/MIT, Seattle
5	Beena Handa Project: A center run by Ms. Beena Handa and others. The children from the nearby slum come and learn to spin the wheel. Classes are held off and on. On friday afternoon they all go to the Gandhi samadhi at Rajghat and do prathana bajans. Other even...	Dallas
6	Bhopal Gas Crime: March to Delhi Providing food and other expenses (such as toilets) for Bhopalis in Delhi fighting the Indian government for their basic rights.	Seattle
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
8	Concern for Humanity Providing basic education to poor, deprived and vulnerable children in slums of Delhi	Delhi
9	Concerned Action Now (CAN) CAN runs vocational training centers and a pre-school for disabled persons in the slums of Delhi. Asha funds are used to support the centers and the pre-school.	San Francisco
10	Delhi Govt 20% school reservation clause We are generating and utilizing funds for the implementation of the Delhi Government 20% reservation clause in Private schools for the students who come from economically backward section.	Delhi, Los Angeles, Munich, Seattle
11	Fellowship: Aheli Chowdhury To use RTI to understand and review the different schemes and projects of the Delhi Government for elementary education.	Los Angeles, Silicon Valley
12	Fellowship: Saurabh Sharma To train college and university students in the use of RTI to initiate campaigns and do advocacy on issues related to students.	Silicon Valley
13	FODRA - Fountain Of Development Research and Action The community development initiative of FODRA was started in Pratap Nagar(a low-income unauthorised cluster in north-east Delhi) during 1996 with a strategy of gradually expanding activities to adjoining low-income clusters and other areas in Delhi.	Princeton
14	Helpline by ASTHA A Helpline [An Information, Communication And Counselling Unit] for persons with disabilities and their families. In the past three years this unit has been supporting the work of Astha's community programmes as well as the centre for children.	Irvine
15	Katha Project Katha has a school, Katha-Khazana, and is an ongoing project in New Delhi to help educate urban children who currently do not have the financial means to receive a proper education. The overall school has over 1000 children. Our current proje...	Indiana
16	Manzil Welfare Society Manzil is a grassroots organization created to give free math, English, and computer classes to children from low-income and illiterate families.	San Diego
17	Masoodpur MCD Primary School Adopt the MCD school, take up the administative matters and resolve those	Proposal or no funding info available
18	Nav Jagriti Collective (Nizamuddin Railway Project) Asha NYC/NJ will be supporting the Day Center for Nizamuddin Railway Project. It is run by Navjagriti. Navjagriti is a youth organization working in the field of youth development for the social action	Proposal or no funding info available
19	Nav Jagriti Collective (Nizamuddin Railway Project)	Stanford
20	Nav Jagriti Collective (Nizamuddin Railway Project)	Proposal or no funding info available
21	Navjagriti Providing formal education for street children through informal technique so that they are better equipped to pursue the schooling.	NYC/NJ, Stanford
22	Peace Education Conference A conference of groups working towards conflict resolution. The aim is to explore various forms of conflict, its impact on schooling and identify positive methods and tools which can be used by teachers to promote diversity and tolerance in schools.	Stanford
23	Planet Why Planet Why - A place where children's home, women's shelter and guest house synergize to make the project sustainable	Seattle
24	Prayas Institute of Juvenile Justice Asha-Prayas Life Skills Workshop	Princeton
25	Progressive Literature for the Sightless The Indian Association for the Special Education and Rehabilitation (IASER) is planning to star this project. Using a computer, a scanner and an OCR program, college level books will be scanned and made available through CD�s to the blind students	Cleveland, NYC/NJ
26	Project WHY Project WHY is an attempt to achieve community transformation through education, serving 600+ students from urban slums in New Delhi.. ASHA Seattle supports Project WHY to enable sustained growth and planned expansion.	Canada, Dallas, Seattle
27	Project WHY (We Help Youth) WHY is a youth outreach program helping slum children in New Delhi. Asha Dallas has initiated a Support a Child program to help children in this project.	Canada
28	Rahul Multidisciplinary Research Center Delhi based agency working with slum children.	Cornell
29	SAC: Project Why Support the residential schooling for four children from disadvantaged background	Canada, Seattle
30	Sadbhav Mission Objective of the mission: To assist children in Maths, Hindi, English, and social science To teach Maths and Hindi to drop out children To set up a rapport with the parents To develop creative and handicraft skills among children ...	Colorado
31	Saf Kerna Pilot Program for Sanitation Education	Delhi
32	SAKSHAR Sakshar Project by Vigyan Vijay Foundation for providing basic education and addressing health and hygiene issues among the weaker section	Delhi, Seattle
33	SCD Rotary Project Provide one-time funding to purchase equipment required to develop a school curriculum framework for mentally retarded children.	Arizona
34	Shruti The Shruti Information Centre, which came into being in 1998, seeks to facilitate blind and print-disabled professionals and students in higher education in accessing reading materials and information.	Proposal or no funding info available
35	SSrishti Learning Center Srishti Learning Centre caters to children in Kishangarh and slums near B-5/6 sectors of Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. The students are children of migrant laborers and domestic help in the area.	Berkeley, Silicon Valley
36	Train and Educate Adolescents with Community Help (TEACH) run by ABHAS Project aims to empower girls in the urban slum community of Kacchi Colony, Tughlakabad. Adolescent girls in the age of 14-18 years will be provided with either basic literacy, computer training or vocational training.	Silicon Valley, Stanford
37	Udayan Shalini Fellowship Udayan Shalini Fellowship Programme supports girls from lower socio-economic milieu in Delhi, Kurukshetra and West Bengal by providing monetary as well as mentoring support	Madison
38	Vidya This particular project proposal is regarding one Pre-school centre (creche) and one Women's Educational centre. VIDYA runs a number of such pre-school and women's educational centres. The Pre-school (Creche) programme was first established in II...	Silicon Valley
39	Vidya and Child A programme to prepare children of migrant workers for entry into formal schools.	London
40	Vivekanand Resurgance Foundation Vivekananda Resurgence Foundation (VRF) is trying to unfold itself to serve the interests of neglected section of the society, particularly the children of unskilled and semi-skilled labourers who are living in unhygienic slums, which is our own crea	Munich
41	WADA Resources for Jhugi Jhopdis in New Delhi	Boston/MIT

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