About Gators for Asha
Asha-UFlorida, founded in the Fall semester of 2003, is an action group formed by professionals and students at the University of Florida and the surrounding Gainesville-Ocala region. We intend to mobilize the local community to collectively support this effort. The focus of the group is to raise awareness among the students, the faculty and the local community about the need for promoting basic education in India.
The objectives of this group are:
1. To provide education to underprivileged children in India.
2. To support and cooperate with persons and groups already engaged in similar activities.
3. To raise the required human and other resources to achieve the group objectives.
4. To provide opportunity to individuals based in the U.S. who wish to participate in Asha activities in India.
5. To address, whenever possible, other issues affecting human life such as health care, environment, socio-economic aspects and women's issues.
The group will fund a number of educational projects in rural India and maintain a close personal involvement with them. 100% of the funds collected will be used to support projects in India, all administrative costs are borne by volunteers of Asha.
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Asha for Education receives top 4 star rating by independent charity evaluation agency ranking # 1 in the slam dunk category |
Event in Highlight - Movie Screening - Taare Zameen Par
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Stars on Earth - Every Child is Special Free Entry When: Tuesday, 7th April 2007, 6.00pm Where: Reitz Union Auditorium, UF About Movie: Story of 8 year old dyslexic child whose internal world is filled with colors and wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. He is forcefully sent to a boarding school where a teacher discovers his problem and helps him. For more information please call 352-642-3688 |
Team Asha UFlorida
Team Asha is a fundraising branch of Asha for Education and helps raise funds for Asha projects by running a marathon, half marathon or a relay marathon (5 members). More than 500 men and women have successfully completed various marathons and collectively raised more than $800,000 over the past five years helping educate hundreds of young children.
Running for Team Asha and raising funds for supporting education is an experience that you will cherish for a lifetime. To help you with this momentous journey, Asha UFlorida will provide free professional training and logistics support to all registered participants. Team Asha UFlorida will also help you with publicizing your participation and raising funds. In return, you must commit to the training program (which is quite flexible) and to raise a minimum contribution of $300. Click 'Read More' to know more about participating and becoming a part of Team Asha.
Rights Movement
Right to Education Bill
Supreme Court of India in a judgment in 1993 recognized Fundamental Right to Education for children upto the age of 14 and asked government to implement the same. In 2002, Govt of India amended the constitution to make Education for children in age group 6-14 as Fundamental Right. The current draft bill is meant as the mechanism through which Govt will ensure the fundamental right to everybody. In addition this bill has additional objectives to provide "equitable & quality" education for everybody.
Right to Information Campaign
The National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) seeks to empower people and to deepen democracy, through promoting people’s right to information. Through the use of this right, it seeks to fight corruption and social apathy, to make governments, and other institutions and agencies having an impact on public welfare, more humane and accountable to the people, and to promote efficiency and frugality.
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