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Assam Center for Rural Development (ACRD) |
Location: Kampur, Assam |
Supporting Chapter: Asha Stamford |
The Kampur district of Assam, a largely poor farmer community, is marked by scheduled castes and scheduled tribes . Many children of these poor, farmer families help their parents tend to the farm, thus becoming agricultural child laborers. In the 1990's, ACRD opened two schools in the Kampur district - Nartap High School and Bonpura Primary School - to target these agricultural child laborers. Both schools tend to the various educational needs of over 370 students. Past Asha for Education support has helped to pay for teachers' salaries and to construct the school buildings. In addition, the schools, along with the funding provided by Asha, has created greater community involvement in ensuring that the children remain in school.
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| WAH Budget |
Amount ($) |
| Salaries & Honorariums |
$ 5,610.00 |
| Other Recurring Expenses |
$ 450.00 |
| Other Expenses |
$ 5,075.00 |
| Total |
$ 11,135.00 |
WAH donations will help fund teachers salaries, cost of stationary and other recurring expenses.
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Aralu Belaku |
Location: Bidar, Karnataka |
Supporting Chapter: Asha Chicago |
Aralu's "Prasanthi Kuthir" in Bidar, Karnataka is a residential home for about 25 children between the ages of 4 to 10 who may be orphans, abandoned or victims of child labor. The center aims to provide basic necessities, rehabilitate them into young and independent children, and motivate them into joining and staying in mainstream schools. Aralu Belaku not only takes the children to a nearby government school but also provides a tutor at the residential home who further helps the children in their studies. The children's educational scores are above the average performance of other government school children, indicating the positive impact the residential home has had on its young residents. Aralu Belaku is also developing a small dairy farm on-premise, completely nurtured by the staff and the children themselves. The goal of the farming project is to foster self-sustainability and to impart the young residents with skills they can use after their schooling finishes.
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| WAH Budget |
Amount ($) |
| Salaries & Honorariums |
$ 3,405.00 |
| Other Recurring Expenses |
$ 9,658.75 |
| Other Expenses |
$ 100.00 |
| Total |
$ 13,163.80 |
WAH donations will help fund teacher's salaries, meals & other recurring expenses for the children at the residential home.
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Baikunthapur Tarun Sangha (BTS) |
Location: Kultali Islands, West Bengal |
Supporting Chapter: Asha DC |
Baikunthapur Tarun Sangha or BTS has an important mission - to enroll every child in each of the six island villages of Kultali Islands in West Bengal into its creative and science based school. Founded in 1983, the school currently teaches over 200 children and has extracurricular activities such as dance, drama, botany and fishery. The school also aims to save children from the perils of child labor and specifically targets children working in prawn collection and agricultural industries. One method BTS employs to ensure that its students stay in school is by keeping the teacher-student ratio high (1 teacher: 13 students, higher than government schools). They also cater to 22 dropout girls by teaching them a condensed version of the curriculum.
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| WAH Budget |
Amount ($) |
| Other Expenses |
$ 9,308.00 |
| Total |
$ 9,308.00 |
WAH donations will help fund the construction of a computer center and a library and the installation of solar lighting for the facility.
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Institute of Social Work Primary Education Project (ISW) |
Location: Kolkata, West Bengal |
Supporting Chapter: Asha Cornell |
In the slums of Kolkata's docks, the Kiddipore School, run by ISW, aims to provide vocational training to destitute girls as well as teach school dropouts. ISW's other educational center, in Barasat, is a transit school that helps dropouts from government schools reenter the educational system. The Kiddipore School caters to over 50 adolescent girls and Barasat School teaches over 300 children. The school very recently had its first student take the Madhyamik (10th standard board exam) and has several more students scheduled to take it the next time it is offered. Recently, the schools have added computer education to its curriculum.
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| WAH Budget |
Amount ($) |
| Salaries & Honorariums |
$ 3,804.72 |
| Construction Costs |
$ 487.80 |
| Other Expenses |
$ 1,560.96 |
| Total |
$ 5,853.48 |
WAH donations will help fund teachers' salaries at the two schools and the construction costs of a library.
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Khajurdaha Nabankur United Club - LTTO |
Location: Hugli, West Bengal |
Supporting Chapter: Asha Princeton |
The Learn Together Teach Other program of Khajurdaha Nabankur United Club teaches children of agrarian families living below the poverty line in West Bengal. The project covers an area of 30 villages. Of the 8,780 children in the 5-14 age group in the villages, only 1,645 children are served by the 11 government-run primary schools and an additional 570 are severed by the only government-run secondary school in the area. By providing schooling, LTTO addresses the basic educational needs of children and helps to mainstream their education, thereby fighting the scourge of child labor.
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| WAH Budget |
Amount ($) |
| Construction Costs |
$ 24,974.00 |
| Total |
$ 24,974.00 |
WAH donations will help fund the construction of LTTO school run by KNUC.
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Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE) |
Location: Narasaraopet, Andhra Pradesh |
Supporting Chapter: Asha Hyderabad |
In many rural communities in India, government schools often do not offer a proper standard of education or vocational training. Many children dropout of these schools and migrate to bigger towns or cities to earn a living. NICE aims to counter this problem by providing a residential school around the Mynampadu Village in Andhra Pradesh for children who dropout from school. The free school offers a high standard of formal education until 10th grade followed by vocational training for 2 years (12th grade). They also plan to provide low cost loans after high school to allow these young adults to setup their own businesses in the local community. In addition, NICE works with parents of child laborers to liberate their children and get them enrolled in school.
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| WAH Budget |
Amount ($) |
| Salaries & Honorariums |
$ 11,800.00 |
| Total |
$ 11,800.00 |
WAH donations will help fund teacher and staff salaries.
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Sankalp Welfare Society |
Location: Gurgaon, Haryana |
Supporting Chapter: Asha Dallas |
In the urban landscape of Gurgaon in Haryana, the number of unskilled migratory workers flocking to this rapidly growing city is large. Children of these migratory workers are often left unattended or accompany their parents to hazardous work places such as construction sites. Sankalp, which means a pledge, created a free, non-formal school that provides education, nutrition, medical facilities and clothing to children of migratory workers. Older students are also taught vocational skills such as candle making and tailoring. In addition, they have set-up a mobile school for the children who cannot commute to the schools from the slums.
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| WAH Budget |
Amount ($) |
| Other Expenses |
$ 28,000.00 |
| Total |
$ 28,000.00 |
WAH donations will help fund a 40-seat school bus to transport graduated students from the mobile and outreach schools to the main Sankalp school.
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Team for Education and Action (TEA Trust) |
Location: Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu |
Supporting Chapter: Asha MIT/Boston |
In the entire Karambakkam village in Tamil Nadu, only one school exists. The Little Flower School, run by TEA Trust, targets the many children of nearly 5000 families who migrate to this village to work in the brick kilns. Often, many of these children will accompany their parents to the brick kilns, engage in child labor and not attend school. TEA Trust's school caters to over 150 children from grades 1 to 6 and houses 50 children in their residential school. In addition to their basic academic needs, the Little Flower School also organizes science camps, environmental education, health and nutrition camps, and alternate vocational training for the children. TEA Trust and the Karambakkam community recognize the importance of schooling in reducing the child labor problem. Says one TEA Trust coordinator, "From our work with child labor we have come to understand that most of the children drop out of schools because of the irrelevant education systems and not because of poverty. Once a child drops out of school and stays at home, the parents take the child to work and that is how most children end up working."
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| WAH Budget |
Amount ($) |
| Construction Costs |
$ 6,702.50 |
| Total |
$ 6,702.50 |
WAH donations will help fund the repair and maintenance of the Little Flower School.
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Timbaktu Collective |
Location: Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh |
Supporting Chapter: Asha London |
In the Ananthapur district of Andhra Pradesh, the largely agricultural region is poor because of an unreliable rainy season and the degradation of land due to flawed farming techniques. Timbaktu Collective, a voluntary organization, started an alternative education program that targets the school dropout children of poor farmers who help their families tend to farming. The program consists of a day school in each of six villages and a residential school in Timbaktu, the land the organization bought to practice permaculture on. The schools incorporate academics, skill-training, nutrition, healthcare, arts and crafts, games, sports and culture. In addition to running the schools, the Timbaktu also organizes residential children's camps that integrate various activities like arts and crafts, developing stories, and nature walks.
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| WAH Budget |
Amount ($) |
| Other Expenses |
$ 87,873.00 |
| Total |
$ 87,873.00 |
WAH donations will help fund sanghas (informal unions) dedicated to child development in up to 30 villages.
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To Reach You (TRY) |
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu |
Supporting Chapter: Asha Purdue |
In the burgeoning metropolis of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, commercial sex workers often have to leave their children unattended. Many of these children do not go to school and are left to either on the streets of the slums or they fall victim to child labor. TRY has created a home for children of sex workers, where they are given full-time care and sent to school. Currently, the home houses 12 children of sex workers. The organization also provides counseling and vocational training to the mothers and organizes community events to raise awareness about the sex sector. TRY recently celebrated an important accomplishment - on of its oldest students, Mani [name changed], has reached the 12th standard at first ranking.
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| WAH Budget |
Amount ($) |
| Construction Costs |
$ 36,318.80 |
| Total |
$ 36,318.80 |
WAH donations will help fund the further construction of the residential home.
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Vikasana Bridge School for Child Labour Rehabilitation |
Location: Shimoga, Karnataka |
Supporting Chapter: Asha UFlorida |
Vikasana is a bridge school that caters to a cluster of 10 villages in Shimoga district in Karnataka. Despite the prevalence of various industries such as farming, coffee estates, hotels and steel factories, the wage rate for the local workers is very low. Adults are often forced to migrate to this area in search for employment and this has led to an increased dropouts from schools. Many children are forced to work with their parents, some of them working in coffee plantations, brick-making or as agricultural / domestic workers to supplement income for the family. The Vikasana bridge school helps such children to catch up with their education and transition into formal schools. One of the directors of Vikasana now has judicial authority to get the police to conduct raids to rescue child laborers. Asha for Education has helped over 50 former child laborers to return to school over the past two years.
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| WAH Budget |
Amount ($) |
| Other Expenses |
$ 27,500.00 |
| Total |
$ 27,500.00 |
WAH donations will help fund the purchase of farm land for the school.
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