Asha Silicon Valley Projects in Tamilnadu
TRUWDES School for Tribal Children, Kodaikanal, Dindigul District, Tamilnadu
Trichirapalli Rural and Urban Welfare Development Educational Society (TRUWDES) in Trichy, TamilNadu has been running a school for tribal children in Manjampatti village, a tribal hamlet in Kodai hills, for the past five years targeting tribal children from 3-5 hamlets nearby. Asha SV has been supporting this schools since 2007. There are no link roads, electricity (except some solar lamps), shop or medical facilities in these villages. The only way to reach the villages is by trekking about 3-4 hours through reserved forests, with permission from the forest department.
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Olcott Memorial High School, Chennai, Tamilnadu
Olcott Memorial High School has 550 children from the poorest sections of society. The school caters to children of fisher folk from Urur Kuppam, Olcott Kuppam and Odaikuppam( Kuppam= fishing village), children of coolies, daily wage earners, house maids, auto rickshaw drivers small business hawkers of flowers and eats on the Besant Nagar beach from Damodarapuram, Lakshmipuram, Dideer Nagar, Mallippu Nagar, Kakkan Colony, the pockets in around Besant Nagar where the poor live in close proximity to the rich, elite owners of Besant Nagar�s well designed, modern apartments, houses and new cars; and distant new outskirts like Thoraipakkam and Neelankarai where some of the families displaced from places like Mallippu Nagar and Dideer Nagar have been settled by the Chennai Corporation authorities. With classes one to ten and two divisions in each class it offers education totally free to the children.
Learn more about project 'Olcott School' | Visit website of Olcott Memorial High School
Isha Vidhya, Thoothukkudi District, Tamilnadu
Isha Vidhya's vision is to transform the quality of education for the rural population by providing high quality school education so that the native intelligence of rural children has the opportunity to bloom. Isha Vidhya is a grass root level endeavor towards this vision.
These schools will be designed to deliver confident, well-educated students on par with students from good urban schools, who will be equipped to pursue higher education and fully utilize opportunities available in the modern economy.
Isha Education runs four rural schools in Sandegoundenpalayam (Coimbatore), Peruma Palayam (Erode), Sirupadu (Tuticorin) and Kurandy (Nagerkovil). This Asha Silicon Valley project supports 80 children in the school in Tuticorin district.
Learn more about project 'Isha Vidhya' | Visit website of 'Isha Vidhya' Non-Profit Organisation
