About Asha Silicon Valley (SV)
Asha is a non-profit organization dedicated to facilitate primary and secondary education to under-privileged children in India. Asha's fundamental belief lies in facilitating primary and secondary education to children in under-privileged communities, and contribute to lay a foundation to change the lives of these children, which in turn can effect into our social and economic development.
Asha volunteers, donors, supporters and various other participants play a significant role in achieving this objective. Asha volunteer base numbers in thousands, spans across many countries and across many roles, performing activities towards this objective.
Our Mission: "Catalyze social & economic development in India, through education and empowerment of underprivileged children"
Asha supports more than 700 child education and empowerment projects across multiple category types, disbursing 98.2% of the donations and revenues it receives, which is a demonstrated capacity of our organization to efficiently organize and work.
Asha SV (Silicon Valley) is a chapter of 'Asha', the non-profit organization committed to improve child education and empowerment. Asha SV group of Asha began functioning with a few volunteers in 1998, to a group today with hundreds of volunteers comprising students and working professionals. The group works to mobilize the silicon valley community of the California bay area, to improve awareness of its education projects and request donations and support to its on-going projects in India.
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Asha Today
Asha's focus on children's education has galvanised a number of volunteers across the globe. Today, there are over 66 Asha chapters worldwide: 45 in the US, 14 in India, and 7 in Europe, Singapore and Australia.
Volunteers in each of these chapters take personal interest in identifying education-related projects in India, and supporting them through funds and other means.
As part of the Asha charter, all Asha chapters have a high degree of freedom in their activities including the identification, research, support and ownership of projects. However, there is also a good deal of co-operation among chapters and volunteers across chapters. This co-operation is evident in the joint ownership of projects across chapters, formation of focus groups across chapters, cross-chapter discussion on issues of interest, worldwide events like the Asha-Wide Conference, Work-An-Hour, and the Asha India Conference.
Asha's Activities
Identifying and funding sustainable child education projects has formed the core of Asha's activities till now. Asha raises funds for its projects in a number of ways: individual donations, corporate donations, sale of merchandise (T-shirts, calendars, mugs, greeting cards, etc.), fundraising dinners, Indian classical music and dance concerts, popular music concerts and many others. In the process, we also promote Indian culture over here.
Some Asha chapters also work towards raising awareness in appropriate forums about various issues affecting the people of India. This awareness-raising is accomplished by organizing discussion series, invited talks and study groups. Asha also acts as a network for various grass-roots workers and volunteers and non-governmental organizations.
If you would like to find out more about us, our activities, and, if you would like to participate and contribute to our efforts in any way, please contact members of the chapter nearest you. We want you to be part of the movement!
