Asha Honor Chapter Monthly telecon Minutes
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Feb 12th Sunday, India time 8-10 AM
Feb11th Saturday, USA, EST 9:30 PM - 11:30 PM
 
By DP Prakash
 
Attendees
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Chennai - Jeba, Dhanalakshmi, Sathyapriya, Adaikalam, Robert
USA - Ranitendranath(Yale), Vatsan(Toledo), Srikanth(Toledo), DP(Vermont), Adam(Michigan)
 
I. Key fundraising target for the worldwide team - $5K to be raised by May 30th, 2006
Includes Sathya, Jeba AHA Fellowships - Rs 8K per month each - stabilizing lives of core volunteers is a mission-critical enabling factor
Asha Home telephone & internet charges - Rs 8K per month - this enables swift worldwide communication
Audit fees - as mandated at Asha India conference at Hyderabad
Need another PC to handle heavy documentation workload
 
***Upload Monthly progress reports for all projects online on last Friday of each month (Sathyapriya, project coordinators)***
 
II. Tsunami Projects
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1. Invite Tsunami Relief Commissioner to April meeting (Jeba)
386 villages midway presentation to the govt
What value has Asha provided to the govt?
What does the govt take away from Asha's work?
2. Vizhupuram District - Education materials for 25 villages covering 2500 kids
Vatsan to send to post to Tsunami-projects for ARC approval (Robert, Vinayagam, Vatsan)
3. Kanyakumari District - Children's visit to Amusement park being completed (Chandravel, Jeba)
Cost breakdown for this item and counselors to be posted by Chandravel
4. 386 Tsunami villages site visit - plan, schedule (Jeba)
Dependency on fundraising; fundraising critical to keep up momentum
5. Kancheepuram District - 15 animators to be supported as teachers in school
Vatsan to post in Tsunami-projects and send for ARC approval
 
III. General Projects
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3a. Urur School fishermen kids - Teacher's salary, children's nutrition are main focus items
After govt elections are over mid year, revisit plan to shift to government support
3b. Build brick kiln kids - FCRA application, investigate sustainability
3c. Scholarships - completed policy document (Sathyapriya, Jeba, Sumathy, Sasi)
summary for Srikumar, Shakti getting ready;
Prepare Support A Child (SAC) page for every child -> sustainable donorship
Aswathy update (Srikanth)
Tsunami Scholarships list for Asha Yale (Sathyapriya)
3d. Mosur village school 11th std upgrade - waiting for mid year govt-elections to be over for stable govt engagement
3e. Trigger - Library development by blind students. Sent to Asha Hyderabad for <$2K Asha India support (Jeba)
3f. TRY - children of sex workers. Asha Purdue (Sirisha) expressed interest. Discussion ongoing.
3g. Manipur women's empowerment - Sent to Asha Hyderabad for <$2K Asha India support (Jeba)
3h. Gypsy children project - Dhanalakshmi working on shaping this project slowly
innovative education methods being tried
 
 
IV. Other
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1. Automatic approval of Asha India projects in ARC queue (March 31, Prithvi)
2. Krishnaswamy USA visit in June - publicity in progress
3. Adam Khan summer Asha Honor intern from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - planning schedule now