| # | Project | Chapter(s) Funding | State |
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| 1 |
ABHAS - Train and Educate Adolescents with Community Help (TEACH)
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 |
DELHI |
| 2 |
Abhiyan
They aim to provide literacy to 80 children of extremely poor, socially outcaste community in a very remote and backward region, making them the first generation from this community to go to school. |
Arizona, Silicon Valley, Stanford |
BIHAR |
| 3 |
Ananya
The Ananya project consists of a learning center for slum children or children who run away from home, as well as a teacher training program. |
Irvine, Stanford, Syracuse |
KARNATAKA |
| 4 |
Andhjan
The main goal of this project is to provide computer technology aid for the blind students so they can convert more books into Braille script for educational purposes. The school currently uses outdated manual machines that make the process of conver... |
Stanford |
GUJARAT |
| 5 |
Bharat Vidyalam
Bharat Vidhyalayam is a non-profit school dedicated to provide quality English Medium education to the underprivileged children. Asha funded the construction of the school building |
Stanford |
TAMIL NADU |
| 6 |
BookShare India
To enable access to reading materials of all kinds to print disabled individuals. |
Stanford |
DELHI |
| 7 |
Center for Development of Disadvantaged People (CDDP)
Non formal schools for dalit children in villages in Thiruvallur district in Tamil Nadu |
Colorado, Silicon Valley, Stanford |
TAMIL NADU |
| 8 |
Fellowship: Aradhana
This is a fellowship awarded to a social worker Aradhana Padhye working in the rural areas of Kanpur |
Stanford |
UTTAR PRADESH |
| 9 |
GVVS - Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti
Education Center For Destitute Children - In the desert villages of Jodhpur and Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan there is great poverty and suffering. Agricultural productivity is low, incomes small, health facilities almost non-existant. |
Berkeley, Stanford |
RAJASTHAN |
| 10 |
Health Education and Alternative Development Service - NFE centers
This project which is run by HEALDS in Mohanur focuses on dropouts in 25 villages. NFE centers are instituted for these children where they get an opportunity to study along side school going children and keep up with the curriculum. |
Stanford |
TAMIL NADU |
| 11 |
Humana People to People- Girls education center, Virat Nagar
Humana people to people is setting up 2 education centers to provide primary education to grils who drop out of formal schools due to child marriage. |
Silicon Valley, Stanford |
RAJASTHAN |
| 12 |
HWSTVAPSS - Savidya Upasamati
The Savidya Upasamiti project has adopted 7 schools (4 primary, 2 middle and 1 vocational school) benefitting 680 children in the Champawat district of Uttaranchal. The parents of most students are agricultural workers or daily labourers. |
Silicon Valley, Stanford |
UTTARANCHAL |
| 13 |
Internship - Stanford
This project aims to provide urban Indian youth an opportunity to be more involved with the development problems facing our society. To do so, an internship program has been set up at selected NGOs where each intern will spend 1-2 months. |
Stanford |
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| 14 |
IOI - International Ocean Institute (Anawim)
Anawim is dedicated to the socio-economic development of coastal Dalit villages. Together with Asha, Anawim has set up eight Asha Junior Centers to provide educational support and enrichment activities for the children in these villages. |
Berkeley, Boston/MIT, NYC/NJ, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Singapore, St. Louis, Stanford, Work an Hour |
TAMIL NADU |
| 15 |
IRDMS: Primary Education for Tribal People in Orissa
IRDMS - Primary Education for Tribal Peole in Orissa |
Stanford |
ORISSA |
| 16 |
Jagriti Vihara
Construct a small laboratory to be used by children wanting to learn elementary science |
Stanford |
JHARKHAND |
| 17 |
Kislaya
Kislaya was established in 1988 by a few dedicated housewives who wanted to make a difference by example. The school was founded in the outskirts of the Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) campus. |
Indiana, St. Louis, Stanford |
JHARKHAND |
| 18 |
LAHRC - Legal Aid and Human Rights Center
Strengthening of People's Organizations (POs) in 7 talukas of Surat District through education, legal training, and logistical support. |
Seattle, Stanford |
GUJARAT |
| 19 |
Laubach Literacy
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Silicon Valley, Stanford |
TAMIL NADU |
| 20 |
Magic Bus
Magic Bus helps children and young adults at risk, to develop life skills through creative expression, sports and outdoor activities. Asha-Stanford funded the Explorers program for 2005-06. |
Stanford |
MAHARASHTRA |
| 21 |
Mother India Community Development Association - MICDA
The objective of the project is to provide access to basic education to the children of the poorest families who are recently settled in Vidyutsadasivapuram village, Chittor District, Andhra Pradesh. |
Dallas, Delaware, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Stanford |
ANDHRA PRADESH |
| 22 |
Nalamdana
Funding for Educational Scholarship for Leadership Program |
DC, Kentucky, Princeton, Silicon Valley, Stanford |
TAMIL NADU |
| 23 |
Peace Education and Conflict Resolution Curriculum for Highschool Teachers
Traning teachers in Jammu and Kashmir by conducting workshop covering Peace Education and Conflict Resolution curriculum. |
Los Angeles, Stanford |
JAMMU AND KASHMIR |
| 24 |
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 |
DELHI |
| 25 |
People First Educational Charitable Trust - Bodh Gaya
People's First educational charitable trust is involved in education related projects in the states of Bihar and Jharkhand. It runs 16 village schools and benefits 2000 children. Asha Stanford is funding 1 village school (Dobhi) for 1 year. |
Stanford |
BIHAR |
| 26 |
Peoples Action for Transformation (PAT)
PAT works among the children in the slums of Thiruchirapalli (Trichy), Tamil Nadu. Asha's involvement began in Aug 2005. |
Canada, Stanford, Work an Hour |
TAMIL NADU |
| 27 |
Popular Education and Action Centre - Navjagriti
Providing formal education for street children through informal technique so that they are better equipped to pursue the schooling. |
NYC/NJ, Stanford |
DELHI |
| 28 |
Pragnachakshu Mahila Seva Kunj
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Stanford |
GUJARAT |
| 29 |
Pratigya Evam Prasikshan Sansthan
The aim is to raise awareness among the group that is deprived of education and bring their children into the mainstream |
Stanford |
UTTAR PRADESH |
| 30 |
Prerana Dham
Prerana uses an innovative scheme to provide impetus to the process of setting up schools in the local villages. The idea is to first set up schools there that are modeled on Govt. schools and then pressure the Govt. into take over the running of the... |
Seattle, Stanford |
KARNATAKA |
| 31 |
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Stanford |
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| 32 |
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Stanford |
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| 33 |
Project5
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Stanford |
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| 34 |
Saathi
The organization is involved in encouraging street youth in Mumbai to gain formal education, using myriad approaches to sustain motivation such as the housing schemes, nutrition/savings program, vocational training programs. |
Cleveland, Stanford, UIUC |
MAHARASHTRA |
| 35 |
Samaj Parivartana Samudaya
Community education and advocacy on environmental and human rights issues. |
Seattle, Stanford |
KARNATAKA |
| 36 |
Samanvay Ashram
The Samanvay Ashram is conducting a program of alternative basic education based on Ghandhian lines. Along with education, the 100 children initially involved will be provided with food, clothes and medicine on a long-term basis.
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Berkeley, Research Triangle Park, Stanford |
BIHAR |
| 37 |
Sarvodaya Parivar Trust- Khadkee school for Tribal Children
Residential school in Khadkee a village in remote, tribal area on Gujarat-MH border. See p=161 for more details. |
NYC/NJ, Stanford |
GUJARAT |
| 38 |
SSUP - Sanskriti O Samaj Unnayan Parishad
SSUP, founded in 1989, is based in Malda, about 350 km from Calcutta, in West Bengal. The organization lays emphasis on working with the community people so that they take up their own development projects. |
Seattle, Silicon Valley, Stanford |
WEST BENGAL |
| 39 |
Swanirvar
Swanirvar has the broader goal of making the villages in the District North 24 Parganas self-sufficient. Asha funds 3 primary schools with around 500 children. |
Boston/MIT, Los Angeles, Madison, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Stanford |
WEST BENGAL |
| 40 |
SWEET
Establish and operate 6 balwadis (pre-schools) in the slums and rural-areas of Ambarnath. |
DC, Silicon Valley, Stanford |
MAHARASHTRA |
| 41 |
Timbaktu Collective
The objective of the Timbaktu Collective is to make a lasting improvement in the lives of the people of the area. |
Bangalore, Chicago, London, NYC/NJ, Stanford, Work an Hour |
ANDHRA PRADESH |
| 42 |
VESC - Vivekananda Educational Society for Children
TheVivekananda Educational Society for Children (VESC) wasfounded in January 1996 to address the problem of child labour in the South24-Parganas district of West Bengal, India. |
Arizona, Berkeley, Colorado, Cornell, Mid-Hudson Valley, NYC/NJ, Seattle, Stanford, Work an Hour |
WEST BENGAL |
| 43 |
Viveka Tribal Center
The Viveka Tribal Center for Learning (VTCL) is a semi-residential school run by the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM). |
Stanford |
KARNATAKA |
