You will see the results of your efforts to
eradicate illiteracy very directly: Take responsibility for the
education of just one underprivileged child you, or your family,
know—your servant maid's child or your car driver's child or the
child of a rag-picker in your street or a wandering child from a
slum nearby... In essence, you are pledging that you'll do your part
to eliminate illiteracy from your own backyard. This is the vision
of Asha-Akshar - very simple personal
responsibility yet you make a profound difference.
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Project Vision
Provide an opportunity for everyone to contribute
positively and tangibly to India’s socio-economic development by
involving families and local communities in a simple yet profound
activity.
Project Mission
Support the basic education of children of maidservants
that work in urban households.
Plan of
Action
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Reach out to Asha volunteers in India first before
reaching out to enroll the general population.
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Demonstrate proof-of-concept by enrolling 10 ASHA
volunteers to examine their own households and reach out to the
children of their maidservants.
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Document results, successes/failures and experiences
from the pilot project. Maintain journal of communications.
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Implement constructive feedback and expand scope of
project to cover all ASHA volunteers.
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Repeat and expand scope of project to cover all of
India.
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Task#
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Tasks
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Who?
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1
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Identify
10 committed volunteers and their respective project hosts in
India.
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Coordinator
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2
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Identify
potential social/economic obstacles to project implementation
and possible solutions.
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Coordinator/Volunteers
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3
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Prepare
families/hosts in India regarding obstacles, financial needs,
ASHA funds match-up etc.
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Volunteers
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4
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Gather
ground reality data (ages of children, schools available to go
to, expenses needed etc.)
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Volunteers
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5
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Facilitate
discussions amongst host families and maid servants and make
them equal partners in the education of the children.
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Coordinator/Volunteers
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6
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Prepare
tuition payment plan and implement.
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Volunteers
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7
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Monitor
children’s progress and establish feedback mechanism for
improvement.
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Coordinator/Volunteers
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8
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Document
experiences, results, successes and failures and maintain a
journal of communications.
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Coordinator/Volunteers
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9
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Report
findings to ASHA-USA to begin next phase of the Project.
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Coordinator
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