Berkeley

BerkeleyBerkeley, CA, USA
Current Projects:13
Previous Projects:13
Established:0
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1Abilities
ABILITIES is a Registered Charitable trust, that provides services to children/people with disabilities.
KARNATAKA
2Agragami
This project provides food, housing, and non-formal education for about 100 children between the ages of 5-14.
MADHYA PRADESH
3AHEAD
AHEAD is an organisation working for education and rehabilitation of the mentally, autistic severely disabled children coupled with economic handicap as well.
WEST BENGAL
4Amar Seva Sangam
Setting up of a series of Respite Centres for disabled children
TAMIL NADU
5ARPAN Society - Awantika Vidya Bhawan
Awantika Vidya Bhawan is a Nursery and KG1-12 school run by the ARPAN Society. The school imparts formal education to poor children in villages ~30km from Bhopal. ASHA is currently funding teachers at the school.
MADHYA PRADESH
6Asha Trust - Asha Center - Ballia
This is the Asha Center in Ballia.
UTTAR PRADESH
7CAST - Community Action for Social Transformation
Located in a dry, drought-prone and economically marginal region southwest of Tirunelvelli district, these crèches would help the mothers to be able to go to work. It will also encourage the elder siblings (particularly the girl children) to be...
TAMIL NADU
8Dhaturi Tola (Ballia)
Asha will be helping to improve the infrastructure of the school in Dhaturi Tola.
UTTAR PRADESH
9Fellowship: Sanju Kumar
Poverty alleviation through Micro Credit Program
KARNATAKA
10FWERW - Foundation for Women's Education in the Rural World
 
UTTAR PRADESH
11Guria Swayam Sevi Sansthan
Formal/Non formal education of children from red light communities
UTTAR PRADESH
12GVVS - Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti
Education Center For Destitute Children - In the desert villages of Jodhpur and Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan there is great poverty and suffering. Agricultural productivity is low, incomes small, health facilities almost non-existant.
RAJASTHAN
13Helen Keller Insitute, Vijaya
Hellen Keller Institute for Blind Deaf and Dumb Girls in Bhadrak.
ORISSA
14Jamghat - A Group of Street Children
Jamghat aims to help children living and working on the streets of Delhi re-join society by offering opportunities for street children and society alike to make changes. ASHA is supporting the 24 hour shelter with uniforms, tutors and books.
DELHI
15Jhansi Project
Provide a school for girls in the town
UTTAR PRADESH
16Joint Womens Programme - Mera Sahara
Mera Sahara, a project implemented by the Joint Womens Programme, a Delhi based NGO runs a school for slum children of Nithari village in NOIDA, UP. ASHA is helping them open another center which will enable up to 100 more children to attend school.
UTTAR PRADESH
17Kabir in the Schools (in alliance with Eklavya)
Pilot project on using the singing and discussion of Kabir poetry to promote tolerance and nonsectarianism
MADHYA PRADESH
18Kaithi Beekeeping
To set up a Research-Documentation-Training Center in the area of bee-keeping and cultivation and processing of medicinal and aromatic plants.
UTTAR PRADESH
19Khairachati - Prabhat English High School
The village located near the cosmopolitan region near Kharagpur. The other schools located in the area are costly and it is often difficult for the village children to go to school. This school provides primary education for 30 students.
WEST BENGAL
20Kokila Vikas Ashram
To enhance the running condition of nine venture schools in Assam which are being run by contributions from local people.In this project it is proposed to provide some furniture, reading and playing materials to two such schools run in the area.
ASSAM
21Library Storage Project
Schools supported by Asha Chennai need to buy bookshelves to house donated books
TAMIL NADU
22Maharashtra Sewa Samiti
 
MAHARASHTRA
23MSE Trust
Creches for children of parents who work at construction sites.
TAMIL NADU
24Nevre - Dhamanase Secondary Education Society
The school located in a rurual area caters to 500 boys and girls, 300 of whom are from backward classes. The money requested is to be used to construct class-rooms for the students and procure other essentials for running the school...
MAHARASHTRA
25Rishi Pragatisheel Shikshan Sanstha - Little Stars School
School for 900+ children from a slum area in Varanasi, nursery to Class 11.
UTTAR PRADESH
26SAC - Ballia
Schools educates about 400 students in and around Reoti town and 60 in Bhainsaha village. There are 41 underprivileged students are getting supported through the Support a Child Program.
UTTAR PRADESH
27Sahityaratna Lokshahir Annabhau Sathe Bahuudeshiya Samajik Sanstha - SAKHI
Sakhi provides slum girls with resources to improve their literacy and numeracy skills and builds social confidence for girls in professional settings.
MAHARASHTRA
28Samanvay Ashram
The Samanvay Ashram is conducting a program of alternative basic education based on Ghandhian lines. Along with education, the 100 children initially involved will be provided with food, clothes and medicine on a long-term basis. ...
BIHAR
29Samarpan Foundation - Injustice of Justice (Support for Prisoners)
Injustice for Justice Project seeks to provide educational and vocational training to inmates, especially teenagers, at Tihar Jail.
DELHI
30SANGATI
For more information on the Sangati kit and the Avehi-Abacus project you can write to avcab@vsnl.com
GUJARAT
31Sevalaya
Sevalaya is a non-profit organization that has been working to provide free education to orphans and disadvantaged children in the community. They need funding for notebooks from us for this year.
TAMIL NADU
32Soligha Sangha
 
KARNATAKA
33Spastics Society
 
KARNATAKA
34Sreenarayana Sevika Samajam
An all-girls orphanage in Aluva, Kerala.
KERALA
35SURP - Society for the Upliftment of Rural Poor
Basic Education Centers Objectives: to provide education to under-priveliged children, to liberate children from burden and ties and make them independent and respectable citizens to create oppurtunity for children to reveal hidden talents t...
TAMIL NADU
36Udayan Care - Shalini Fellows Summer Program
The Udayan Shalini Fellowship program provides support to girls from 11th grade till the end of graduation. It is normally a 5-6 year program. Asha is supporting a summer school training program for 50 fellows.
DELHI
37Vidnyanvahini
The MSL runs a bus equipped with a science laboratory. The bus visits schools in the rural and backward areas with no laboratory facilities. Science experiments are demonstrated for the students while explaining natural phenomena from a scientific pe...
MAHARASHTRA
38VMGSPS - Ved Mata Gayatri Shiksh Peeth Samiti
This organization provides one-to-one sponsorship in Ballia, UP, and is run by Mr. Upadhyay. The expenditure per child per month is $10, and this project has been sponsored by Asha since Fall, 1991. The money provides for basic education at school, b...
UTTAR PRADESH
39WAYSS
WAYSSS Asha School in the Turakapalem Village, Guntur conduct classes through 5th grade for children of local labourers. In addition a vocational training is being run to teach sewing to the women folk in the village
ANDHRA PRADESH