Pictures from the Ankur school where the Support A Child program is planning to send select children. These children were first identified by another of Asha's projects called Akshardeep that reaches out to children in the urban slums of Pune. Five Akshardeep children have already made a transition to Ankur with encouraging results. 14-year old Vithal,for instance started out as a loner who had difficulties completing his work. In just a few weeks, he developed liking for school to a point where he felt sorry about missing a day.

Pictures from different group activities on Ankur Day. The children did a play on pollution in English.

Asha SV volunteers visited the Ankur project in February 2006. They were happy to see the excellent teaching environment maintained by Ankur. The students at Ankur receive close attention from their teachers owing to a high teacher to student ratio.

Photographs from Ankur received during 2006. Photographs are taken during Deepawali, the festival of lights.

Another Asha SV volunteer stopped by at Ankur.

Visit to Sinhagad. During 2007, Ankur took their students to Sinhagad, a fort located outside the city of Pune.

A surprise-visitor dropped by at Ankur.

How the students spent the summer camp. Full-size images