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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Mission: Shiksha Construccion 2011
Children Beyond our Borders (CBOB) and Gators for ASHA are excited to present Mission: Shiksha Construccion – an awareness week to promote and facilitate education for children. This educational awareness week includes several fun and inspiring events, including panel discussion, education workshop and movie screening.
This event begins on Thursday, April 7th 2011 and will end on April 12th. The activities will make an attempt to create awareness among the local community about the lack of educational facilities in developing/developed nations and to motivate them to rise up to the situation and contribute to the cause.
So please come out and help make this event a success! Your participation and support will go a long way in transforming the hope of education for these children into a reality.
Entry is Free for ALL Events!
The schedule for the week is as follows:
1. Thursday, April 7th: Panel discussion on “Issues plaguing education - A global perspective”, Turlington Hall, L011 at 6:15 pm, refreshments will be served.
Panelists :
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Linda Jones (Professor, department of Education at UF)
- Meera Sitharam (Professor, department of Computer Engineering at UF, faculty adviser to Gators for Asha)
- Angie Brice (Teach for America recruitment director at UF)
In this event each panelist will present their work for 5 minutes and then there will be a question-answer session. This discussion will specifically focus on obstacles that youths in developing/developed countries face with regards to receiving a proper education, and the benefits that a proper education can provide to these youths.
2. Monday, April 11th: Workshop on global education entitled, “ Education workshop” by Marta Hartmann (Professor, department of Agriculture Education and Communication at UF), CSE E222 at 6:15 pm. The purpose for having this workshop will be to increase awareness about international education (primary and secondary) and to discuss ways by which students and faculty can contribute to solving the global educational issues. In this workshop, Dr. Hartmann will present her views on global education for 15/20 minutes and then the audience will form small groups and discuss topics relevant to education.
3. Tuesday, April 12th: Movie show in collaboration with Teach for America (TFA),"Waiting for Superman", Reitz Union Theater, 7 pm. There will be a short discussion after the movie.
For more information, please visit our websites, or find us on Facebook!,
Children Beyond our Borders - UF Chapter, http://www.chbob.org/
Gators for Asha - UF chapter, http://www.ashanet.org/uflorida/
Penny and Book Drive, 2010
Donate your spare change and book.
When: November 14th 2010 - December 14th 2010
Contact: Akshay Anugu (akshaykumaranugu@gmail.com,256-651-6397) and Kriti Khurana (kriti.khurana@ufl.edu). You may also leave a post on the Event wall or message us on facebook. We will be happy to collect your donation from you.
Visit us on Facebook: Asha UFlorida Penny and Book Drive
About the Event: Counting the digits individually 0,1,2,... the numbers never surpass 9. When put together, however, digits even cannot express how many numbers are there. There are not many ways you can use a penny. Put enough pennies together, however, you will be surprised to see the ways you can use it. One such noble use is for education. Asha for Education has been working to catalyze socio-economic change in India through education of underprivileged children. On the occasion of Children's Day and Thanksgiving, it is hosting Penny and Book Drive in Gainesville from November 14, 2010 to December 14, 2010. You can donate your pennies from penny box or old books from book shelf at any location (School or Apartment complex). As Asha UFlorida abides by zero overhead policy, 100% of the book donation proceedings and pennies will be used for the education of underprivileged children.
Event in Highlight--Gate River Run 2011
When: March 12th, 2011
Where: Jacksonville Municipal Stadium,Jacksonville,FL
About the Event: The gate river run is one of the top running events
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And now its time again to march ahead for GATE RIVER RUN 2011
The 33rd Annual Gate River Run promises to be the biggest and best ever. Last year over 18,000 runners and walkers participated in one of the three featured events. The 15K is the main event with over 14,000 runners and walkers.
Annual cultural Fest- PRAHARSHA 10
BECOME ENCHANTED WITH ASHA MAGIC
When:Saturday, August 28th 2010, 5:30 p.m.
Where:Rion Ball room, Reitz Union, UF
Free entry!!
About the Event: PRAHARSHA is the annual cultural Fest conducted every year by the Asha UFlorida chapter-Gators for ASHA.The aim of this cutural fest is to raise awareness among the community members about the cause supported by ASHA aimed at providing education to under-privileged children in India.It is a festival of HOPE AND HAPPINESS.This year,let us make it special and drown ourselves in Asha Magic-the magic of hope.Let us unlock the doors to new world where the sparkle in eyes and brightness of smiles outshine every other light!!
Event in Highlight--Work An Hour 2010
Take a minute. Donate an hour. Change a life.
Work An Hour, or WAH, as it is popularly known, is a simple concept.
We ask you to symbolically contribute one hour of your time towards the cause of children's education by donating an hour's worth of your salary or more.
What is Work An Hour?
Each year, people from around the world come together in a demonstration of great human spirit, to help educate underprivileged children in India. Work An Hour, or WAH, as it is popularly known, is a summer-long, global, online fundraising campaign based on a simple concept:
" Participants are asked to symbolically Work an Hour towards the cause of children's education by donating an hour's worth or more of their salary."
Timeline
This year, the event begins on July 15 and concludes on September 15 spanning through India's Independence Day on August 15 and Teachers' Day on September 5.
How does it work?
Thirteen projects across Asha have been showcased in this year's WAH. Donors will have the ability to give to a project of their choice.
Asha's project partners selected for WAH support, typically require larger sums of money, more than what a single Asha chapter can raise, in order to facilitate fixed expenditure on items such as infrastructure, construction and other one-time costs and recurring expenses. WAH aims to help such projects by this worldwide campaign to raise funds across all projects.
All Asha projects are closely monitored by Asha project coordinators to ensure that the funds are being properly utilized and the proposed benefits are actually being realized by the children in the project.
History
The first WAH campaign started in 1998, raised over $30,000 from close to 700 donors. Last year, WAH raised over $146,000 with a donor base of over 900 participants.
Projects chosen in the past included a wide range of education initiatives, such as educating slum children, improving quality of education in schools, educating children of sexworkers, and empowering rural and tribal communities. This year's campaign addresses the challenges that come along the path of almost every project that Asha receives. These range from physical and mental disabilities, child labor, remote un-develeoped locations, to extreme poverty. This year's projects showcase how they work to overcome all the challenges that come their way and keep up the motivation to succeed.
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To donate, please click here.
Event in Highlight--Gate River Run 2010
When: March 13th, 2010
Where: Jacksonville Municipal Stadium,Jacksonville,FL
About the Event: The gate river run is one of the top running events
in
And now its time again to march ahead for GATE RIVER RUN 2010
The 33rd Annual Gate River Run promises to be the biggest and best ever. Last year over 18,000 runners and walkers participated in one of the three featured events. The 15K is the main event with over 14,000 runners and walkers.
Event in Highlight--Mission: Shiksha Construccion – An Awareness Week
When: February 8th, 2010 to February 12th, 2010
Where: University of Florida Campus, Gainesville, FL
Free entry!!
About the Event: Gators for ASHA and Children Beyond our Borders are excited to present Mission: Shiksha Construccion – an awareness week to promote and facilitate education for under-privileged children. This educational awareness week includes several fun and inspiring events, including movie screenings, a photography exhibition, panel discussions and edifying talks by eminent personalities.
The week long event begins Feb. 8th 2010 with an activity each day until the 12th. The activities will make an attempt to create awareness among the local community about the lack of educational facilities in developing nations and to motivate them to rise up to the situation and contribute to the cause.
So please come out and help make this event a success! Your participation and support will go a long way in transforming the hope of education for these children into a reality.
Facebook link : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=319137544391&ref=nf
Orkut link: http://www.orkut.com/Main#Event?cid=17254606693100808193&ect=1264874673836247000
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.
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