Projects

Current Projects

Project Name and Web Page	Asha Contact	Status	Comments
Srividhya Centre for Spl Children	Aditya Bidrukontham S	Seeking Donations	The goal of this project is to help Srividhya center move into its own premises in about 3-4years. Srividhya has been very successful in its fund raising efforts and would continue its efforts. Asha Toledo is planning to help them in providing them permanent building for the school. This will reduce the expenses of rent and other utilities for the school and hostel facility for the students. The building will be near the city to support growing needs of children and it will help accommodating more differently abled students. Earlier Asha-Silicon Valley has handled this project and helped them to cover recurring expenses for 2-3 years. It helped the organisation to support more number of disabled children who had to be turned back earlier due to lack of financial support.
Arogyaseva	Sreenath Rao S Amruta N	Seeking Donations	Asha for education in collaboration with Vanvasi Vidyarthi Vikas Yojana aims to provide basic education to the children and also provide health education to the young people.
Deaf and Mute School, Jawhar	Amruta N Sreenath Rao S	Seeking Donations	Asha Toledo in collaboration with Pragati Pratishthan aims to provide hygienic food & basic education to the deaf and mute children from Junior K.G. to 4th standard through residential education. We also help them to admit into normal schools for further studies.

Past Projects

Project Name and Web Page	Asha Contact	Status	Comments
Project Muskan	Noureen Faizee Vasudev G	Completed	The goal of this project is to provide basic health care and education to physically challenged children in Varanasi, UP. These children after getting the primary education are eventually admitted to Government schools. Asha Toledo in collaboration with Mahila Swaraj Samithi (MSS) aims for the accomplishment of this project.
DWAB Blind School	Deepa Peddireddy Sri Kalyan Ram P	Completed	Surdas bhavan is the school run by DWAB organization, there are more than 140 visually challenged kids in this school. DWAB provides free education and boarding facilities to visually challenged kids (who are totally blind or partially blind). The Surdas Bhavan is a three stored full fledged functioning school which has basic infrastructure but still they don't have labs and auditorium. Asha Toledo is planning to build auditorium on the top floor of the building. This new auditorium is used for providing new labs (science lab) and classes like music and yoga for the kids. This place can also be used for the daily assembly sessions.
Aswathy Scholarship	Srikanth Pilla	Seeking Donations	To bring the dreams of a girl to reality. Asha aims to support her education (partially or fully-based on the needs) till she finishes engineering.
BCT-Confidence	Binal Shah Srikanth Pilla	Seeking Donations	Confidence is aimed at generating self-employment in 100 villages through providing meaningful training program to 400 hundred young adults enabling them to be self-sufficient and remain in their villages, thereby generating Confidence.
Challenge	Sarnath	Fully Supported	This project is aimed at providing group hearing aids since most schools for the deaf-mute need to be equipped with these devices. The group hearing aid is a tool which has individual earphones, microphone and a volume control meter for each student, and one for the teacher.
Fellowship Siddamma	Srikanth Pilla	Fully Supported	Siddamma is a grassroots volunteer in India who works to provide a life of dignity for the Irula Tribals. Her work with the communities includes freeing bonded laborers, organizing the communities into cooperatives and mainstreaming the children into the education system by providing motivational educational centers.
Freedom	Gayathri Raj Gosavi	Seeking donations	Asha in collaboration with Bharathi Trust intends to create a Child Friendly Center wherein children will be trained with basic skills and education like counting numbers, reading alphabets, craft work, drawing etc.
Irula	Srivatsan Kannan	Completed	The goal of this project is to help the Irula children become part of mainstream schooling system with the aid of motivational centres. About 530 children (between the ages 5-15) are expected to benefit. Our hope is that after 3 years most of these children will start attending government schools.
Vision	Srikanth Pilla	Completed	This Project intends to support the highly effective education facilities for the blind students at Lakshmipuram by providing more accommodation for female blind students.

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